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Stefanie Powers (born Stefania Zofia Federkiewicz in November 2, 1942 in Hollywood, California) is an American stage and film actress and singer of Polish Catholic descent. Her title is ofttimes misspelled Stephanie Powers.
As an actress, a red headed Powers appeared in many motion pictures within a early 1960s in secondary roles like the 1962 comedy If a Man Answers with Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin and within 1963 in a good role when the girl of John Wayne in McLintock!. Within 1966, her "tempestuous" dependable looks led to the star role in the short-fugacious television spy thriller series, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.. Although she continued to pop up within televion guest roles & made-for-TV films, she is best known for her role opposite Robert Wagner in the 1979-1984 hit television series, Hart to Hart for which she received two Emmy and five Golden Globe Award "best TV actress" nominations. Inside 1993 she won a Sarah Siddons Award for her stage performance in "Love Letters."
Married to actor Gary Lockwood between 1966 and 1972, she began the relationship by using actor William Holden that led to their being included by owning wildlife conservation. Below his demise around 1981, Powers became President of the "William Holden Wildlife Foundation" & the director of the Mount Kenya Game Ranch inside Kenya. In a United States, she works by using two the Cincinnati and Atlanta zoos. She devotes much of instance to the stimulate & is international guest speaker in wildlife preservation.
In April One, 1993 she married French aristocrat Patrick de la Chesnais but it divorced inside 1999.
For her contribution to the television industry, Stefanie Powers has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6778 Hollywood Blvd.
Around 2003 she toured the UK around the cantabile role of Anna Leonowens in a revival of The King and I.
Powers is one of numbers of notable graduates from either Hollywood High School.
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