Holly Palance Biography
Holly Palance is a former actress and journalist from the United States. She is possibly best recognized for her appearance as Damien Thorn’s nanny in Richard Donner’s The Omen (1976).
Holly Palance Age
She was born Holly Kathleen Palance on August 5, 1950, in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Holly is 72 years old as of August 2022.
Holly Palance Height
Holly stands at a height of 5′ 9″ (1.75 m) tall.
Holly Palance Family- Parents
Palance was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She is the third-born daughter of actor Jack Palance and his wife Virginia Baker. She is of Ukrainian descent.
Holly Palance Husband- Spouse
She was married to Tomorrow Never Dies director Roger Spottiswoode from April 9, 1983, till 1997, they had two children together. She is currently married to journalist Robert Wallace since 2010.
Holly Palance Career
Palance, then 19, enrolled in a three-year acting program in London. Prior to appearing onscreen, Palance worked in theatre in England, commencing in 1971, in performances at the Oxford Playhouse and the West End of London. For the remainder of the decade, she worked largely in England. Palance auditioned for the role of Lois Lane alongside Christopher Reeve in Superman (1978). The testing comprised scenes from Superman’s balcony interview and Superman 2 (1980), in which Reeve played Clark Kent; this footage was presented to the public as an extra feature on a special edition DVD version of the picture in the early 2000s.
Palance is most known for her performance as an unlucky young nanny in The Omen (1976), with Gregory Peck and Lee Remick. Palance returned to the United States in 1979, after spending eight years working in England.[ Palance made her Broadway debut in November 1979 as Allison St. James in Bernard Slade’s Romantic Comedy. The musical was staged at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, the same venue where both of her parents understudied in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire three decades before. Palance and her father co-hosted the television version of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for two seasons in 1983 and 1984, replacing Jack’s previous co-host, Catherine Shirriff; Holly was eventually replaced as a co-host by singer Marie Osmond.
Palance’s final theatrical picture was the comedy The Best of Times (1986), in which she co-starred with Robin Williams and Kurt Russell. Before formally retiring from acting, she participated in the 1989 television film Cast the First Stone. Palance left acting to become a journalist, first as the editor-in-chief of the Santa Barbara Magazine and later as the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times’ lifestyle magazine.
Holly Palance’s Net Worth
Holly has an estimated net worth of 3 million dollars.
Holly Palance Movies and TV Shows
1989 Cast the First Stone
1986 The Best of Times
1983 Under Fire
1982 Tuxedo Warrior
1978 The Comeback
1977 The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
1976 The Omen
1973 Golf Etiquette
1983–1984 Ripley’s Believe it or Not!
1983 The Thorn Birds
1982 Bret Maverick
1976 Dickens of London
1975 Thriller
