Taryn Power


Taryn Stephanie Power was an American actress.

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, with Richard Chamberlain, Donald Pleasence, and Tony Curtis, and as "Dione" in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, starring Patrick Wayne and Jane Seymour.

Personal life

Taryn's father died in 1958, of a massive 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 in the 1980s. She later married William Greendeer and had a fourth child, Stella Greendeer, on April 21, 1996.
On June 26th 2020, Taryn Power's death was announced by sister Romina via Instagram, the actress having battled leukemia for the previous year and a half.

Filmography

Award nominations