Taryn Power

Taryn Stephanie Power was an American actress.

Early life, family and education

Power was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1953, to actors Tyrone Power and Linda Christian. When her parents divorced in 1956, her mother took Taryn and her elder sister Romina to live all around the world, mainly spending their childhoods in Mexico City, Italy, and Spain. Power's father died in 1958 of a heart attack when she was five years old. She was educated during her later youth at boarding schools in England.

Career

Taryn Power acted in eight films. Her first two were in Spanish, and the rest were mostly English language films. The first film was the Mexican film Maria ; she was the starring role and was cast when she was 18 years old. She played Valentine De Villefort in The Count of Monte Cristo, which starred Richard Chamberlain, Donald Pleasence, and Tony Curtis; her character's father was played by Louis Jourdan. She played Dione in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, starring Patrick Wayne and Jane Seymour. On television, she acted in an episode of Matt Houston.

Personal life and death

In 1975, she met photographer Norman Seeff in Los Angeles, and eventually married him shortly before the birth of her first child, Tai. Her relationship with Seeff faded, ending in divorce in 1982.
Power lived with rock musician Tony Sales in the 1980s. They had two children together: Anthony Tyrone Sales and Valentina Fox Sales.
Power married William Greendeer and with him had a fourth child, Stella Greendeer, on April 21, 1996.
Taryn Power died from leukemia on June 26, 2020, after a -year battle against the disease.