Lucy Lee Flippin

Lucy Lee Flippin is an American retired actress.

Education and early life Flippin is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harrison Fitzgerald Flippin. Later she studied acting under Uta Hagen. Her attempt to work in Hollywood was rebuffed when an executive at Warner Bros. told her that she would not succeed as an actress because she was not pretty enough and was too tall. She returned to New York and worked there for 10 years.

Career She initially began her career in New York City where she eventually got several TV commercials and off-Broadway theatre work, most notably opposite Richard Gere in a Lincoln Center production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She retired in 2008.

Personal life Flippin married actor Thomas Francis Tarpey on October 26, 1975, in Douglassville, Pennsylvania.

Filmography Film

Television