Ann Turkel

The actress, once the cover model for Vogue magazine, is now living with her family in Beverly Hills along with Samantha and Olivia. They were together for just eight years and had been divorced for 20, but Ann Turkel is still struggling to accept her divorce from husband, Richard Harris. Turkel, who was raised in Manhattan and is from a Jewish middle-class family, was a student at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy at the age of sixteen. She had also been learning at the same time with Sanford Meisner and Philip Burton. Knight Rider Knight in Retreat (TV Episode 1985) The character of Ann Turkel as Bianca Morgan. Ann Turkel was married for eight wild years to Hollywood Hellraiser Richard Harris. The actress admits, forty years later, to JAN MOIR, that the couple did not find true happiness apart. Richard Harris played the role as the Wizard Albus Dumbledore on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001; also released as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) as well as Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). Ann Turkel is a multi-faceted entertainer with a career that spans motion pictures, TV modeling, business and many more. Ann Turkel was born in and brought up in Manhattan has a ability to entertain. When she was 5 when she first began dance lessons, she took her first steps and continued to study art through her college period. She attributes her creativity to her maternal grandmother. Ann spent her childhood studying the arts of acting, dancing and singing. Ann started her acting education at 16 years old, working with Sandy Meisner and Philip Burton. Ann as well as a number of her classmates from high school made up a school rock and roll group. Also, she performed in a season of summer stock stage at the Berkshire Playhouse in Stockbridge, Massachusetts with plays such as The Pajama Game" and West Side Story. Ann was spotted at a Vogue Magazine fashion show by Gloria Schiff, an editor. Diana Vreeland ordered Ann to take part in her first Vogue photograph shoot with Richard Avedon within one week. Ann was among America's most popular models, appearing on the covers of top magazines like Vogue Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and many other magazines. Ann was the first model to make her debut internationally in Europe as well as Japan as a model for Max Factor Revlon.