Lucinda Dooling

Lucinda Schiff (née Valles) (April 19, 1954 – December 30, 2015), better known by her stage name Lucinda Dooling, was a Puerto Rico-born American actor. She was best known for her roles in the films Lovely But Deadly, The Alchemist (1981), and Surf II (1984). She also appeared in several television movies and series.

Career Schiff was born Lucinda Valles in Puerto Rico in 1954 to a Puerto Rican father and an Irish-American mother. Her parents split up when she was a child, and after the death of her mother in 1969, she relocated to New York City to live with her father, who threw her out when she was 18.

She made her film debut in Steven Spielberg's 1979 film 1941, followed by a role in a television adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor. and The Thorn Birds,

Schiff dated actor Richard Dreyfuss during the late 1970s and accompanied him to the Academy Awards ceremony in 1978 when he won his Best Actor Oscar for The Goodbye Girl.

She gave up her acting career in the early 1990s, subsequently working as an interior designer. She married film executive David Schiff in 1980, with whom she had three children.

After a 15-year-long battle with recurring brain tumors, Schiff died on December 30, 2015. She was 61.