Anulka Dziubinska
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Dziubinska worked as a dental nurse
in Preston, but found the routine too restrictive. In 1970, she was a finalist in the Miss United Kingdom beauty contest
. At the Playboy Club
in London, she worked as a blackjack
Playboy Bunny
for five months.
She spent some time in Munich
, where Pompeo Posar
photographed her for the August 1972 issue of Playboy
, in which she appeared in the "Girls of Munich" pictorial fully clothed save for a sheer white shirt.
Dziubinska also appeared as a Page Three girl, a model featured topless
on the third page of the British tabloid newspaper The Sun
.
In the May 1973 issue of Playboy, Dziubinska appeared as the Playmate of the Month. Her centerfold
was photographed by Posar.
She then became a professional actress and made her film debut in Vampyres
.
, Dziubinska met the actor Sir John Mills
. She is quoted as saying, 'I adored Hayley
, so I went over to talk to him about my favourite film of all time, Whistle Down The Wind
, which I've seen four million times. I said to him that I was an actress and that I'd been acting since I was at school and then I asked him if he had any advice, and he said, 'do everything you're offered, because everything you do will give you some experience!' The first thing I was offered the next day was Vampyres!'
Her role in that 1974
horror film
, which was directed
by José Ramón Larraz
, was as Miriam, a lesbian vampire
, opposite Marianne Morris. She then played Lola Montez in Ken Russell
's rock
musical
Lisztomania (1975
) and Dawn in the comedy
The Likely Lads
(1976
). She was credited as Anulka Dubinska in the latter.
Dziubinska's first television appearances were as a girl in an episode
of The New Avengers (1976
) and as Pavla in two episodes of The Tomorrow People
(1977
). She was credited as Anulka Dubinska in the latter.
Due to the decline of the British film industry
in the 1970s, with rampant unionism and high taxes that drove talent abroad, Dziubinska decided to move to the USA. She went to the Writers & Artists Agency
in Beverly Hills
with an 8 X 10 publicity photograph and was immediately signed.
She and American musician
Tony Sales
were married on August 20, 1978, in Hollywood
. Sales had a near fatal car accident in 1979 and was in a coma for over eight months.
Dziubinska was cast as Francis in the McLean Stevenson
sitcom
Hello, Larry
episode The Nude Emcee (1979
), in which she was credited as Anulka Fox Sales. Dziubinska played a tennis pro, Zora Korcek, opposite Tom Selleck
's casual detective in an episode of Magnum, P.I.
(1982
). She played Natasha in two episodes of the soap opera
Bare Essence
(1983
) and Sonya Louis-Dreyfus in one episode of Falcon Crest
(1984
) starring Jane Wyman
.
A mention of Dziubinska appeared in the Los Angeles Times
of September 9, 1984. Amidst the celebrity
name-dropping
in an article about the opening of a new sushi restaurant in Santa Monica
, it reads, "Nonetheless, just as we fainted into a sea of shrimp tempura we did note the too-late-for-the-lobster-teriyaki entrances of comedian
Buck Henry
with actress Anulka Dzubinski [sic]."
Her marriage with Sales ended on August 18, 1983, and they were divorced in March 1984.
Dziubinska and Japanese hairstylist
Hiroshi Kitamura (born April 4, 1948) were married on July 29, 1985, in Los Angeles
. She and Kitamura, the owner and head stylist of a Beverly Hills salon, had two children, Koichi George Kitamura (born January 20, 1986) and Takashi Justin Kitamura (born November 19, 1987).
on North La Cienega Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Now using her married name, Anulka Kitamura, she converted to Buddhism
. She also became the owner and head floral design
er of a florist shop
in Hollywood.
In 2003, she journeyed back to her native England for an appearance in the documentary
short Return of the Vampyres, which was directed by David Gregory
. She received special thanks in the credits and acknowledgment for contributing still photographs to the project, in which she and Marianne Morris share their memories of working on the 1974 film.
A practitioner of Zen
Buddhism, the origins of which are ascribed to the Flower Sermon
, Anulka Kitamura co-wrote with Brenda Berkley the book Zen Flowers: Designs to Soothe the Senses and Nourish the Soul (2006
), which was published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang. ISBN 978-1-584-79544-5
Anulka Dziubinska Kitamura lives in Los Angeles, where she is active in the floristry
trade
.
Dental nurse
Dental nurses work as part of a dental team in a variety of clinical and non clinical settings. The term Dental nurse has a defined meaning within the UK...
in Preston, but found the routine too restrictive. In 1970, she was a finalist in the Miss United Kingdom beauty contest
Beauty contest
A beauty pageant or beauty contest, is a competition that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of its contestants, although such contests often incorporate personality, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria...
. At the Playboy Club
Playboy Club
The Playboy Club initially was a chain of nightclubs and resorts owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises. The first club opened at 116 E. Walton Street in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States, on February 29, 1960. Each club generally featured a Living Room, a Playmate Bar, a Dining Room...
in London, she worked as a blackjack
Blackjack
Blackjack, also known as Twenty-one or Vingt-et-un , is the most widely played casino banking game in the world...
Playboy Bunny
Playboy Bunny
A Playboy Bunny is a waitress at the Playboy Club. The Playboy Clubs were originally open from 1960 to 1988. The Club re-opened in one location in The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas in 2006...
for five months.
She spent some time in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, where Pompeo Posar
Pompeo Posar
Pompeo Posar was a Playboy magazine staff photographer who photographed many centerfold spreads and accompanying pictures of women featured as playmate of the month...
photographed her for the August 1972 issue of Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
, in which she appeared in the "Girls of Munich" pictorial fully clothed save for a sheer white shirt.
Dziubinska also appeared as a Page Three girl, a model featured topless
Toplessness
Toplessness is the state in which a female's breasts are uncovered, with the areolae and nipples visible, usually in a public space. It can also refer to a female not wearing any clothing above the waist, which is the female equivalent to a male barechestedness.The history and even the present-day...
on the third page of the British tabloid newspaper The Sun
The Sun (newspaper)
The Sun is a daily national tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and owned by News Corporation. Sister editions are published in Glasgow and Dublin...
.
In the May 1973 issue of Playboy, Dziubinska appeared as the Playmate of the Month. Her centerfold
Centerfold
The centerfold of a magazine refers to a gatefolded spread, usually a portrait such as a pin-up or a nude, inserted in the middle of the publication, or to the model featured in the portrait...
was photographed by Posar.
She then became a professional actress and made her film debut in Vampyres
Vampyres (film)
Vampyres is an erotic and bloody lesbian vampire film directed by Spanish film director José Ramón Larraz on location in England.-Plot:...
.
Acting career
While at a cocktail partyCocktail party
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, Dziubinska met the actor Sir John Mills
John Mills
Sir John Mills CBE , born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, was an English actor who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.-Life and career:...
. She is quoted as saying, 'I adored Hayley
Hayley Mills
Hayley Mills is an English actress. The daughter of John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for Tiger Bay , the Academy Juvenile Award...
, so I went over to talk to him about my favourite film of all time, Whistle Down The Wind
Whistle Down the Wind (film)
Whistle Down the Wind is a 1961 British film, directed by Bryan Forbes, screenplay by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, from the novel by Mary Hayley Bell.-Plot:...
, which I've seen four million times. I said to him that I was an actress and that I'd been acting since I was at school and then I asked him if he had any advice, and he said, 'do everything you're offered, because everything you do will give you some experience!' The first thing I was offered the next day was Vampyres!'
Her role in that 1974
1974 in film
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horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
, which was directed
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
by José Ramón Larraz
José Ramón Larraz
José Ramón Larraz is a Spanish director of exploitation and horror fims such as the erotic and bloody Vampyres ....
, was as Miriam, a lesbian vampire
Lesbian vampire
Lesbian vampirism is a trope in 20th century exploitation film that has its roots in Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's novella Carmilla about the predatory love of a female vampire for a young woman :...
, opposite Marianne Morris. She then played Lola Montez in Ken Russell
Ken Russell
Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. He attracted criticism as being obsessed with sexuality and the church...
's rock
Rock music
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musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...
Lisztomania (1975
1975 in film
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) and Dawn in the comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
The Likely Lads
The Likely Lads (film)
The Likely Lads is a 1976 British comedy film directed by Michael Tuchner, starring James Bolam and Rodney Bewes. It's a spin-off from the popular 1960s British television series The Likely Lads, from which it takes its title, though in fact it's closer in tone to the more recent sequel series...
(1976
1976 in film
The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film...
). She was credited as Anulka Dubinska in the latter.
Dziubinska's first television appearances were as a girl in an episode
Episode
An episode is a part of a dramatic work such as a serial television or radio program. An episode is a part of a sequence of a body of work, akin to a chapter of a book. The term sometimes applies to works based on other forms of mass media as well, as in Star Wars...
of The New Avengers (1976
1976 in television
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) and as Pavla in two episodes of The Tomorrow People
The Tomorrow People
The Tomorrow People is a British children's science fiction television series, devised by Roger Price. Produced by Thames Television for the ITV Network, the series first ran between 1973 and 1979. The series was re-imagined in 1992, Roger Price acting as executive producer...
(1977
1977 in television
The year 1977 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1977.For the American TV schedule, see: 1977-78 American network television schedule.-Events:...
). She was credited as Anulka Dubinska in the latter.
Due to the decline of the British film industry
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
in the 1970s, with rampant unionism and high taxes that drove talent abroad, Dziubinska decided to move to the USA. She went to the Writers & Artists Agency
Paradigm Talent Agency
Paradigm is a full service entertainment agency based in Beverly Hills, with offices in New York, Monterey and Nashville, and is considered be one of the "Big Five" US talent agencies...
in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills is an affluent city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. With a population of 34,109 at the 2010 census, up from 33,784 as of the 2000 census, it is home to numerous Hollywood celebrities. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together...
with an 8 X 10 publicity photograph and was immediately signed.
She and American musician
Musician
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Tony Sales
Tony Sales
|Tony Fox Sales is an American rock musician. A bass guitarist, Sales and his brother, Hunt Sales, played with Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop and Tin Machine with David Bowie.-Early life and career:...
were married on August 20, 1978, in Hollywood
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Hollywood is a famous district in Los Angeles, California, United States situated west-northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word Hollywood is often used as a metonym of American cinema...
. Sales had a near fatal car accident in 1979 and was in a coma for over eight months.
Dziubinska was cast as Francis in the McLean Stevenson
McLean Stevenson
Edgar McLean Stevenson, Jr. , better known as McLean Stevenson, was an American actor most recognized for his role as Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the TV series M*A*S*H...
sitcom
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
Hello, Larry
Hello, Larry
Hello, Larry is an American sitcom which aired on NBC from January 26, 1979, to April 30, 1980.-First season:Larry Alder is a radio talk show host who left Los Angeles after being divorced and moved to Portland, Oregon, with his two teenage daughters, Diane and...
episode The Nude Emcee (1979
1979 in television
The year 1979 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1979.For the American TV schedule, see: 1979-80 American network television schedule.-Events:...
), in which she was credited as Anulka Fox Sales. Dziubinska played a tennis pro, Zora Korcek, opposite Tom Selleck
Tom Selleck
Thomas William "Tom" Selleck is an American actor, and film producer. He is best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum on the 1980s television show Magnum, P.I.. He also plays Police Chief Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on the Robert B....
's casual detective in an episode of Magnum, P.I.
Magnum, P.I.
Magnum, P.I. is an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 in first-run broadcast on the American CBS television network....
(1982
1982 in television
The year 1982 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1982.For the American TV schedule, see: 1982-83 American network television schedule.-Events:...
). She played Natasha in two episodes of the soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
Bare Essence
Bare Essence
Bare Essence is an American television soap opera which aired on the NBC network during the 1982-1983 season.Bare Essence starred popular daytime soap actress Genie Francis and dealt with the intrigues of the perfume industry...
(1983
1983 in television
The year 1983 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1983.For the American TV schedule, see: 1983-84 United States network television schedule.-Events:...
) and Sonya Louis-Dreyfus in one episode of Falcon Crest
Falcon Crest
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced....
(1984
1984 in television
This article is a list of television-related events in 1984.-Events:*January 9 – Wendy's "Fluffy Bun" ad first airs, which propels Clara Peller and her "Where's the beef?" catchphrase to national prominence....
) starring Jane Wyman
Jane Wyman
Jane Wyman was an American singer, dancer, and character actress of film and television. She began her film career in the 1930s, and was a prolific performer for two decades...
.
A mention of Dziubinska appeared in the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
of September 9, 1984. Amidst the celebrity
Celebrity
A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...
name-dropping
Name-dropping
Name-dropping is the practice of mentioning important people or institutions within a conversation, story, song, online identity, or other communication. The term often connotes an attempt to impress others; it is usually regarded negatively, and under certain circumstances may constitute a breach...
in an article about the opening of a new sushi restaurant in Santa Monica
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...
, it reads, "Nonetheless, just as we fainted into a sea of shrimp tempura we did note the too-late-for-the-lobster-teriyaki entrances of comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
Buck Henry
Buck Henry
Henry Zuckerman, better known as Buck Henry , is an American actor, writer, film director, and television director.-Early life:...
with actress Anulka Dzubinski [sic]."
Her marriage with Sales ended on August 18, 1983, and they were divorced in March 1984.
Dziubinska and Japanese hairstylist
Barber
A barber is someone whose occupation is to cut any type of hair, and to shave or trim the beards of men. The place of work of a barber is generally called a barbershop....
Hiroshi Kitamura (born April 4, 1948) were married on July 29, 1985, in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
. She and Kitamura, the owner and head stylist of a Beverly Hills salon, had two children, Koichi George Kitamura (born January 20, 1986) and Takashi Justin Kitamura (born November 19, 1987).
Floral designing
Dziubinska stated that the minute she became pregnant she gave up acting. She later worked for a while as maître d' at Matsuhisa, the original Nobu Japanese restaurantJapanese cuisine
Japanese cuisine has developed over the centuries as a result of many political and social changes throughout Japan. The cuisine eventually changed with the advent of the Medieval age which ushered in a shedding of elitism with the age of shogun rule...
on North La Cienega Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Now using her married name, Anulka Kitamura, she converted to Buddhism
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
. She also became the owner and head floral design
Floral design
Floral design is the art of using plant materials and flowers to create a pleasing and balanced composition. Evidence of refined floristry is found as far back as the culture of Ancient Egypt....
er of a florist shop
Floristry
Floristry is the general term used to describe production, commerce and trade in flowers. It encompasses flower care and handling, floral design or flower arranging, merchandising, and display and flower delivery. Wholesale florists sell bulk flowers and related supplies to professionals in the trade...
in Hollywood.
In 2003, she journeyed back to her native England for an appearance in the documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
short Return of the Vampyres, which was directed by David Gregory
David Gregory
David Gregory FRS was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He was professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford, and a commentator on Isaac Newton's Principia.The fourth of the fifteen children of David Gregorie, a doctor...
. She received special thanks in the credits and acknowledgment for contributing still photographs to the project, in which she and Marianne Morris share their memories of working on the 1974 film.
A practitioner of Zen
Zen
Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism founded by the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma. The word Zen is from the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word Chán , which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, which can be approximately translated as "meditation" or "meditative state."Zen...
Buddhism, the origins of which are ascribed to the Flower Sermon
Flower Sermon
Within Zen, and thus from an emic perspective, the origins of Zen Buddhism are ascribed to what is rendered in English as the Flower Sermon, in which Śākyamuni Buddha transmitted direct prajñā to the disciple Mahākāśyapa. In the original Sino-Japanese, this story is called nengemishō...
, Anulka Kitamura co-wrote with Brenda Berkley the book Zen Flowers: Designs to Soothe the Senses and Nourish the Soul (2006
2006 in literature
The year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Literature:*Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun*Chris Adrian - The Children's Hospital *Martin Amis - House of Meetings...
), which was published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang. ISBN 978-1-584-79544-5
Anulka Dziubinska Kitamura lives in Los Angeles, where she is active in the floristry
Floristry
Floristry is the general term used to describe production, commerce and trade in flowers. It encompasses flower care and handling, floral design or flower arranging, merchandising, and display and flower delivery. Wholesale florists sell bulk flowers and related supplies to professionals in the trade...
trade
Trade
Trade is the transfer of ownership of goods and services from one person or entity to another. Trade is sometimes loosely called commerce or financial transaction or barter. A network that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter, the direct exchange of goods and...
.