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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 23, 1942
Died
February 20, 2005
Place of Birth
Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Also Known As
- Alexandra Zuck
Sandra Dee
0.9 Popularity
Biography
Sandra Dee (born Alexandra Zuck; April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005) was an American actress. Dee began her career as a child model, working first in commercials, and then film in her teenage years. Best known for her portrayal of ingénues, Dee earned a Golden Globe Award as one of the year's most promising newcomers for her performance in Robert Wise's Until They Sail (1958). She became a teenage star for her performances in Imitation of Life and Gidget (both 1959), which made her a household name. By the late 1960s, her career had started to decline, and a highly publicized marriage to Bobby Darin ended in divorce. The year of her divorce, Dee's contract with Universal Pictures was dropped. She attempted a comeback with the 1970 independent horror film The Dunwich Horror, but rarely acted after this time, appearing only occasionally in television productions throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. The rest of the decade was marred by alcoholism, mental illness, plus near total reclusiveness, particularly after her mother died in 1988. Afterwards she sought medical and psychological help in the early 1990s, and died in 2005 of complications from kidney disease, brought on by lifelong anorexia nervosa. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sandra Dee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
7.7
Connie (voice)
Frasier
1993
4.8
Penny Morrison
Lost
1983
6.8
Francesca Hamilton
Fantasy Island
1977
6.2
Police Woman
1974
6.0
Angie Cordell
Houston, We've Got a Problem
1974
5.2
Ada
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1972
6.0
Mara Bocock
The Man Hunter
1972
6.3
The Sixth Sense
1972
7.8
Ann Bolt (segment "Tell David...")
Night Gallery
1970
5.4
Nancy Wagner
The Dunwich Horror
1970
Credits
Frasier
as Connie (voice)
1993
7.7
Lost
as Penny Morrison
1983
4.8
Fantasy Island
as Francesca Hamilton
1977
6.8
Police Woman
1974
6.2
Houston, We've Got a Problem
as Angie Cordell
1974
6.0
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
as Ada
1972
5.2
The Man Hunter
as Mara Bocock
1972
6.0
The Sixth Sense
1972
6.3
Night Gallery
as Ann Bolt (segment "Tell David...")
1970
7.8
The Dunwich Horror
as Nancy Wagner
1970
5.4
Rosie!
as Daphne Shaw
1967
0.0
Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!
as Heather Halloran
1967
5.5
A Man Could Get Killed
as Amy Franklin
1966
3.8
That Funny Feeling
as Joan Howell
1965
5.9
I'd Rather Be Rich
as Cynthia Dulaine
1964
5.8
Take Her, She's Mine
as Mollie Michaelson
1963
5.3
Tammy and the Doctor
as Tammy Tyree
1963
5.2
If a Man Answers
as Chantal Stacy
1962
5.9
Tammy Tell Me True
as Tambrey 'Tammy' Tyree
1961
5.7
Romanoff and Juliet
as Juliet Moulsworth
1961
5.4
Come September
as Sandy Stevens
1961
6.8
Portrait in Black
as Cathy Cabot
1960
5.7
A Summer Place
as Molly Jorgenson
1959
6.5
Imitation of Life
as Susie (16)
1959
7.4
The Wild and the Innocent
as Rosalie
1959
6.3
Gidget
as Gidget
1959
6.0
A Stranger in My Arms
as Pat Beasley
1959
2.3
The Restless Years
as Melinda Grant
1958
0.0
The Reluctant Debutante
as Jane Broadbent
1958
6.8
Until They Sail
as Evelyn Leslie
1957
6.4
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Recipient
1956
5.6
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0