  
                     Stefanie Powers began her career at   		age 15, dancing for famed Broadway choreographer, Jerome Robbins.  She   		was put under contract to Columbia Pictures in the final years of the   		Hollywood star system.  While under contract, she appeared in 15 of the   		31 motion pictures she has made, co-starring with screen legends such   		as; John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Cliff   		Robertson, Elliot Gould, Roger Moore, Donald Sutherland, Bing Crosby,   		Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, James Caan and Sammy Davis.   She recently   		co-starred with Richard Chamberlin in the critically acclaimed   		independent film, THREE DAYS OF HAMLET.  
               Her first television series, “The   		Girl From U.N.C.L.E.,” marked a milestone in U.S. television's history   		as the first hour long series featuring a female in the leading role.    		Her television career includes over 25 mini-series, over 200 episodic   		guest starring appearances, 35 movies for television and two more   		television series, “Feather and Father” and the long running “Hart to   		Hart,” starring opposite Robert Wagner. 
               She became a member of the Screen   		Writers' Guild of America in the 1980s and has produced several of the   		screenplays she has written, one of which, “Family Secrets,” was not   		only a stepping stone for the careers of James Spader and Gary Sinise   		but it garnered her a nomination for the best screenplay of the year by   		her peers in the Writers' Guild.  Her writing has extended itself to a   		memoir called, One From The Hart, published by The Robson Press.   
               Throughout her career she has never   		neglected her theatrical roots, appearing in productions of; How the   		other Half Loves, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Sabrina Faire, View from the   		Bridge, Oliver, Annie Get Your Gun, the West End debut of Matador,   		off-Broadway in The Vagina Monologues, back to the West End with   		Robert Wagner in Love Letters, which they also toured the United   		States with, becoming the cast most associated with the play after over   		500 performances.   
               She once again appeared in the UK in   		the West End production of The King and I, which also toured the   		United States for ten months.  As a result of the successful remounting   		of the musical Sunset Boulevard at the Ogunquit Theatre, a US   		revival is being planned.  She appeared once again in the UK in 2012   		co-starring opposite Richard Johnson of Royal Shakespeare Company fame,   		in the play, On Golden Pond.  She has recorded a CD with the   		legendary jazz artist Page Cavanaugh called On the Same Page,   		available online at Jambomusic.com.  Also in 2012 she performed her one   		woman show, Hart of my Heart, a tribute to the life and the   		lyrics of Lorenz Hart at the newly opened Matcham Room at the   		Hippodrome. 
               As much a part of her life as her   		career, is her devotion to animal preservation and protection, which at   		times becomes more of a vocation than an avocation.  She is founder and   		president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, established in 1982   		to continue and to further her long-time partner’s conservation work in   		East Africa after his death.    
               She was appointed conservation   		consultant to Jaguar and Land Rover after creating the Jaguar   		Conservation Trust which she has operated in Central America.  She has   		been on the advisory board of four zoos in the United States and is a   		fellow of the Los Angeles Zoo, the Explorers' Club, and the Royal   		Geographic Society.  She is active in the movement to preserve and   		protect the remaining herds of the North American wild horses and has   		received numerous international awards for her grass roots work in   		conservation which she considers a life-long commitment.  She resides   		part of the year in Kenya.  |