Debrah Farentino

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Debrah Farentino
Farentino at the AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) benefit
Born	Deborah Mullowney September 30, 1959 (1959-09-30) (age 48) Lucas Valley, California
Spouse(s)	Scott Staples (1979-1983) James Farentino (1985-1988) Tony Adams Gregory Hoblit (1994 - present)

Debrah Farentino (born September 30, 1959) is an American model and actress.

1 Biography
2 Film and television appearances
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Farentino was born Deborah Mullowney in Lucas Valley, California. She attended UCLA and was a model for Ford before becoming an actress.

[edit] Career

Farentino 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.

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"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."

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She was chosen as one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1995, while pregnant with daughter Sophie.

[edit] Personal life

Farentino first married in 1979 to Scott Staples. While still married to her first husband she met James Farentino in an acting class he was teaching at UCLA 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 were re-introduced via mutual friends and started dating and eventually married in 1985 despite a 21 year age difference. Though the highly publicized marriage only lasted 3 years she adopted his last name as her professional name and has used it ever since.

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. The two had a daughter Molly in 1992 and worked together on the film Son of the Pink Panther in 1993 before divorcing.

In 1994 she married for the fourth time to another older man producer/director Gregory Hoblit, 15 years her senior with whom she has a second daughter, Sophie, born in 1995.