Stefanie Powers (born Stefania Zofya Paul; November , ) is an American
actress best known for her role as Jennifer Hart in the American
mystery series Hart to Hart, with Robert Wagner, which aired for five
seasons from to . Powers and Wagner later reunited for eight Hart to
Hart TV movies in the s. She is a two-time Emmy Award nominee and
five-time Golden Globe Award nominee.Powers was born Stefania Zofya
Paul in Hollywood, California, but her surname often was cited as
Federkiewicz. In her Polish-language autobiography, Powers says that
"Moje prawdziwe nazwisko to Federkiewicz" - translates to - "My real
(Polish) name is Federkiewicz". At the age of , she was put under
studio contract with Columbia Pictures, and as was the movie industry
custom in those days, the name change to the more Anglo-Saxon-sounding
'Stefanie Powers' was made a part of the deal.Her parents divorced
during her childhood. Powers was estranged from her father, whom she
barely refers to and whose name is never mentioned in her memoir One
from the Hart, in which she refers to the "tension and unhappiness
created by my father's presence". She remained very close throughout
her life to her mother, who was born Juliana Dimitria Golan (â€") in
New York to parents of Polish descent. Her mother, who died in Los
Angeles from pneumonia at years of age, was known late in life and in
local obituaries as Julie Powers. Stefanie Powers had an older
brother, Jeffrey Julian Paul (â€"), as well as a half-sister, Diane
Pascoe Hanson Baillie who died in . Powers was a cheerleader at
Hollywood High School; for a time, one of her schoolmates was Nancy
Sinatra, who graduated from University High in June . In , using the
alias Taffy Paul, Powers made the obscure independent film The Young
Sinner.
actress best known for her role as Jennifer Hart in the American
mystery series Hart to Hart, with Robert Wagner, which aired for five
seasons from to . Powers and Wagner later reunited for eight Hart to
Hart TV movies in the s. She is a two-time Emmy Award nominee and
five-time Golden Globe Award nominee.Powers was born Stefania Zofya
Paul in Hollywood, California, but her surname often was cited as
Federkiewicz. In her Polish-language autobiography, Powers says that
"Moje prawdziwe nazwisko to Federkiewicz" - translates to - "My real
(Polish) name is Federkiewicz". At the age of , she was put under
studio contract with Columbia Pictures, and as was the movie industry
custom in those days, the name change to the more Anglo-Saxon-sounding
'Stefanie Powers' was made a part of the deal.Her parents divorced
during her childhood. Powers was estranged from her father, whom she
barely refers to and whose name is never mentioned in her memoir One
from the Hart, in which she refers to the "tension and unhappiness
created by my father's presence". She remained very close throughout
her life to her mother, who was born Juliana Dimitria Golan (â€") in
New York to parents of Polish descent. Her mother, who died in Los
Angeles from pneumonia at years of age, was known late in life and in
local obituaries as Julie Powers. Stefanie Powers had an older
brother, Jeffrey Julian Paul (â€"), as well as a half-sister, Diane
Pascoe Hanson Baillie who died in . Powers was a cheerleader at
Hollywood High School; for a time, one of her schoolmates was Nancy
Sinatra, who graduated from University High in June . In , using the
alias Taffy Paul, Powers made the obscure independent film The Young
Sinner.
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