Actress Gayle Hunnicutt died on August 31.
She is remembered for her talent in acting, both on stage and screen.
Gayle is survived by two children and five grandchildren.
Who was Gayle Hunnicutt?
Gayle Hunnicutt, the Texas-born actress who made her home in the UK and was known for her roles in TV’s Fall of Eagles, The Golden Bowl the Return of the Saint and Dallas has died aged 80. She died on August 31, 2023.
After a divorce from British actor David Hemmings, she married the journalist and editor Sir Simon Jenkins, and alongside her acting career became a fixture of the British social scene.
She is best remembered for the final three seasons of Dallas, from 1989 to 1991, in which she played Vanessa Beaumont, an English aristocrat whose long-ago affair with JR Ewing produced a son he had never known existed.
She and Jenkins divorced in 200. She made an episode of Selling London for her sale of the Primrose Hill estate that the pair had lived in for three decades. After her second divorce, she dated Richard Evans, a tennis correspondent.
Gayle Hunnicutt’s career started when she was young. She was scouted by Warner Brothers while she was in a college production at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Her first show was a comedy, Mister Roberts, which she was in at only 23. From there, she moved on to a role in Wild Angels. Notably, she made in appearance in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as Irene Adler.
Outside of film, she was also a theater actress. The Life and Loves of Edith Wharton was a personal two-hander project of hers that toured theaters for many years.
Her ex-husband, Simon, said that she identified personally with the play. She followed that role with another appearance in a two-hander, The Two Marys.
Her last role was on screen, though. In 1999, she appeared on an episode of CI5: The New Professionals.
She was also an author. Her book debut was Health and Beauty in Motherhood in 1984. About two decades later, she published a collection of love letters from her father. He had been serving in the South Pacific. She titled the book Dearest Virginia.
Gayle Hunnicutt husband
who was Gayle Hunnicutt married to?
On November 16, 1968, Gayle Hunnicutt married British actor David Hemmings, with whom she had a son, the actor Nolan Hemmings; they divorced in 1975.
Gayle Hunnicutt married journalist Simon Jenkins in 1978. The couple lived in Primrose Hill, London, where they raised their son Edward.
Jenkins was appointed a Knight Bachelor for services to journalism in the 2004 New Year honours. They divorced in 2009.
In 2010, she started dating Richard Evans, tennis correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.
Gayle Hunnicutt children
Gayle Hunnicutt is survived by her sons, Nolan Hemmings and Edward Jenkins. Additionally, she had five grandchildren: Poppy, Theo, Oscar, Dash and Nia. Nolan took on her legacy in acting. He played Charles E. Grant in Band of Brothers.
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