Debrah Farentino
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Debrah Farentino (born in Lucas Valley, California (USA), on September 30, 1959) is an American model and actress of Irish decent. She attended UCLA and was a model for Ford before becoming an actress.
She has been an actress since 1982 when she appeared in the TV series Capitol and has appeared in numerous movies and TV shows, including Son of the Pink Panther (1993). She has guest starred in several series including NYPD Blue (1994), the revival of The Outer Limits (1996), JAG (2002), and CSI: Miami (2003). Perhaps her most famous role was as Devon Adair in NBC's short lived SciFi series Earth 2. Her most recent roles include as Isabelle Matia-Paris in the ABC series Wildfire and is currently playing Beverly Barlowe in the Sci-Fi Channel series Eureka.
| “ | "I don't know anyone else who has been on as many shows as I have at my age and hasn't had a hit, You'd think a track record like that would discourage people from hiring me. But I think it works in my favor. Because I've had the opportunity to work a lot and not be pigeonholed. Maybe there's something to this one season- and-out thing."(Farentino to Houston Chronicle September 5, 1999) | ” |
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[edit] Trivia
Was chosen as one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1995 while pregnant with daughter Sophie.
[edit] Private life
Farentino first married in the early 1980s. While still married to her first husband she met James Farentino in an acting class he was teaching in which she was a student. A year later, she had split from her husband and Farentino had separated from then-wife Michele Lee; the two started dating and eventually married.
After divorcing James Farentino who later stated that he only married her to "get over the pain" of his defunct marriage to Lee, she married Irish-born producer Tony Adams whom she met on the set of Son of the Pink Panther and the two had a daughter Molly in 1992 before divorcing.
In 1994 she married Producer/Director Gregory Hoblit, with whom she has a second daughter, Sophie, born in 1995.
[edit] Film and television appearances
- Eureka (2006) (TV)
- Wildfire (2006)
- Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005)
- The Division (2004)
- CSI: Miami (2003)
- JAG (2001 & 2002)
- The District (2001)
- Three Blind Mice (2001)
- Get Real (1999)
- Storm of the Century (1999)
- The Secret Lives of Men (1998)
- Total Security (1997)
- Sisters and Other Strangers (1997)
- EZ Streets (1996)
- Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1996)
- Wiseguy (1996)
- A Mother's Instinct (1996)
- The Outer Limits (1996)
- Earth 2 (1994-1995)
- NYPD Blue (1994)
- Dead Air (1994)
- XXX's & OOO's (1994)
- Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (1994)
- Malice (1993)
- Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)
- Son of the Pink Panther (1993)
- The Streets of San Francisco (1992)
- Bugsy (1991)
- The Whereabouts of Jenny (1991)
- Equal Justice (1990)
- Mortal Sins (1990)
- The Revenge of Al Capone (1989)
- She Was Marked for Murder (1988)
- Cellar Dweller (1988)
- Hooperman (1987)
- CBS Summer Playhouse (1987)
- T.J. Hooker (1984)
- Capitol (1982)
