Shelley Plimpton

Shelley Plimpton (born February 27, 1947) is an American former actress and Broadway performer. She is perhaps best known for originating the role of Crissy in the off-Broadway production of Hair, a role she resumed when the production moved to Broadway in 1968. She is the mother of actress Martha Plimpton.

Early life Plimpton was born and raised in Roseburg, Oregon, to an Episcopalian family. while her mother worked as a medical researcher.

When Plimpton was fourteen, she relocated with her mother from Roseburg to New York City, where her mother took a job working as a researcher for a Manhattan fertility doctor. She and her mother moved into an apartment in Greenwich Village, and Plimpton attended Washington Irving High School in Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Plimpton also appeared in the 1969 Robert Downey Sr., film Putney Swope opposite Ronnie Dyson as one half of an interracial college couple ("It started last weekend at the Yale-Howard game") in a satire of a pimple cream TV spot.

Personal life In 1970, Plimpton gave birth to Martha Plimpton (whose father is Keith Carradine) From 1990 to 1997, she was married to theatre director Daniel J. Sullivan (who worked as an assistant director on Hair, and later directed the Seattle Repertory Theater). In September 2017, Vanity Fair reported that she resided in Oregon.

Filmography Title Year Role Notes Directed by Robert Downey Sr. Directed by Arthur Penn Short film - directed by Robert Deubel Directed by Jim McBride Directed by Jim McBride Directed by John G. Avildsen, Bruce Malmuth, Robert McCarthy & Ralph Rosenblum Season 1, Episode 3 – "Getting to Know You"

Stage credits Title Year Role NotesHair 1968–72 Crissy Broadway (The Biltmore Theatre)