Donna Garrett

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Donna Garrett
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Portrays: Jamie Hamilton (stunts)
Date of Birth: November 17, 1942
Date of Death: Missing required parameter 1=month! ,
Age: 81
Nationality: USA USA
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Donna Lee Garrett, neé Funk (born 17 November 1942) is a stunt performer and actress, doubling for Robyn Douglass in the Galactica 1980 television series[1].

Garrett has also performed stunts in a variety of other genre productions between the 1960s through the 1990s, including Lost in Space (for June Lockhart, the mother of Anne Lockhart; Sheba from Battlestar Galactica), memoryalpha:Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, TRON, and Ghostbusters II.

Personal Life

While studying for her major in physical education at L.A. Valley Junior College, Donna Funk met her future husband, Ralph Garrett at a rehearsal of "Homer Garrett's Why-Knot Twirlers" (Homer Garrett was Ralph's father). Ralph had been on leave from the U.S. Army at the time, and was coincidentally in attendance to the rehearsal: "I picked Donna out of a crowd of 40 and walked right up to her to dance." The future Mrs. Garrett also recalls that "The moment he walked in, I couldn't take my eyes off him. I thought I couldn't possibly catch a man like that."[2]

They married on September 14, 1964[3]

Career

She is also known for portraying "Bambi" in the James Bond film Diamonds are Forever, a role primarily portrayed by Lola Larson.

External Links

References

  1. Douglass, Robyn (2020). Messages for the Future: The Galactica 1980 Memoirs. Chapter 8: Special Effects: Explore Multimedia.
  2. Boorstin, Paul (23 December 1974). People Magazine - A Hollywood Stunt Pair Enjoys Many Happy Landings—so Far (backup available on Archive.org) (in English). Retrieved on 08 February 2020.
  3. "California Marriage Index, 1960-1985," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V6NJ-88Q : 27 November 2014), Ralph L Garrett and Donna L Funk, 19 Sep 1964; from "California, Marriage Index, 1960-1985," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2007); citing Los Angeles, California, Center of Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento.