Life and career

Turkel was born in New York City, New York, to a Jewish family. She was photographed for American Vogue in the early 1980s. Patrick Lichfield captured images of her on location in England, the Bahamas, and Sardinia during the early 1970s, and included them in his 1981 book, The Most Beautiful Women.

After a brief appearance in the film Paper Lion (1968), her first major role was in the 1974 film, 99 and 44/100% Dead starring her future husband Richard Harris, and they also acted together in The Cassandra Crossing (1976), Golden Rendezvous (1977) and Ravagers (1979). They were divorced in 1982. Despite their divorce she and Harris remained good friends. When Harris died in 2002, Turkel was quite saddened, and said he was her mentor and a good friend.

She portrayed comic strip heroine, Modesty Blaise, in a 1982 TV pilot.

Her other film roles included Portrait of a Hitman (1979), with Jack Palance, and the horror films Humanoids from the Deep (1980), Deep Space (1988) and The Fear (1995). She also played the role of modeling agent and immortal Kristen in "Chivalry," a season four episode of Highlander: The Series.

Filmography

Filmography
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1968	Paper Lion	Susan	Feature film
1974	99 and 44/100% Dead	Buffy	Feature film
1976	The Cassandra Crossing	Susan	Feature film
1977	Golden Rendezvous	Susan Beresford	Feature film
1979	Ravagers	Faina	Feature film
	Portrait of a Hitman	Cathey	Feature film
1980	Humanoids from the Deep	Dr. Susan Drake	Sci-fi film
1988	Deep Space	Carla Sandbourn	Feature film
1995	The Fear	Leslie	feature film
1997	Touch Me	Linda	Feature film
2006	A-List	Star in bar	Feature film
2006	Deja Vu	Technichian	Feature film

Television

Filmography
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	Matt Helm	Maggie Gantry	Guest role
1978	Greatest Heroes of the Bible	Delilah	TV series
1981	Death Ray 2000	Sabina Dorffman	TV movie
1982	Modesty Blaise	Modesty Blaise	TV movie
	The Fall Guy	Shawna Ives / Kitty Ives	guest roles in episode "The Ives Have It"
1982-1983	Fantasy Island	Rowena Haversham / Leila Proctor	2 episodes
1983	Matt Houston	Maureen Flanders	in episode "Here's Another Fine Mess"
	The Love Boat	Stacy banks
1983-1985	Knight Rider	Various characters	3 episodes
1984	Masquerade (TV series)	???	1 episode
	The New Mike Hammer	Gail Storrs-Rainey	in episode "Catfight"
1985	Riptide	Denise McKean	in episode "Baxter and Boz"
	Street Hawk (TV series)	Melanie Ryan / Katherine Reese	in episode "Female of the Species"
	Hollywood Beat (TV series)	Lita	in series "Pilot"
1986	Night Court	Judge Eve Gardner	in episode "Contempt of Courting"
	Scarecrow and Mrs. King	Pam Jentry	in episode "Three Little Spies"
	Murder, She Wrote	Barbara Bennington	in episode "Stage Struck"
1987	Worlds Beyond	Helen Scott	in episode "Captain Randolph"
1991	White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd	Gloria Swanson	TV movie (uncredited)
	Silk Stalkings	Roxanne Dockweiler aka Roxy The Doxy	in "Pilot" episode
	Chance of a Lifetime	Tippi van Norden	TV movie
1992	Down the Shore	????	in episode "Waiting for Aldo"
1994	RoboCop: The Series	Louise	in episode "Money Can't Buy"
1995	Highlander (TV series)	Kristin	in episode "Chivalry"
1998	The Hunger	Woman	in episode "A River of Night's Dreaming"
1999	Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction	MRs. Richerds	1 episode

[ Source: Wikipedia ]