Taryn Stephanie Power (September 13, 1953 – June 26, 2020) was an American actress.

Contents

• 1 Biography
  • 1.1 Early life
  • 1.2 Career
  • 1.3 Personal life
• 2 Filmography
• 3 Award nominations
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Biography

Early life

Taryn was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1953, to actors Tyrone Power and Linda Christian. When her parents divorced in 1956, her mother took Power and her elder sister Romina to live all around the world, mainly spending their childhoods in Italy and Spain.

Career

She acted in eight films, the first two in Spanish, the rest mostly English language films. Her most notable roles were as "Valentine De Villefort" in The Count of Monte Cristo (1975), with Richard Chamberlain, Donald Pleasence, and Tony Curtis, and as "Dione" in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), starring Patrick Wayne and Jane Seymour.

Personal life

Taryn's father died in 1958 of a m*ive heart attack when she was five. In 1975, she met photographer Norman Seeff in Los Angeles, and eventually married him shortly before the birth of her first child, Tai. They split and eventually divorced in 1982. Power also had two children, Anthony Tyrone and Valentina Fox, with musician Tony Sales (son of comedian Soupy Sales) in the 1980s. She later married William Greendeer and had a fourth child, Stella Greendeer, on April 21, 1996.

She died from leukemia on June 26, 2020, after a four and a half year battle against the disease.

Filmography

Award nominations

References

External links

• Taryn Power at IMDb
• Taryn Power discography at Discogs