Deborah Iona Raffin is an American film and television actress.

Raffin was born in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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, the daughter of Trudy Marshall

Trudy Marshall

Trudy Marshall was an American actress.Marshall was born Gertrude Marshall in Brooklyn, New York...

, a Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

-born former movie actress, and Phillip Jordan Raffin, a restaurateur and meat/brokerage executive.

She appeared in several 1970s Hollywood films. Her 1976 television movie

Television movie

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 Nightmare in Badham County

Nightmare in Badham County

----Nightmare in Badham County is a ABC TV movie, starring Chuck Connors - Deborah Raffin and directed by John Llewellyn Moxey-----Plot:Two woman Cathy Phillips and Diane Emery have engine car trouble in a small town...

became a theatrical hit in mainland China

Mainland China

Mainland China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term that refers to the area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China . According to the Taipei-based Mainland Affairs Council, the term excludes the PRC Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and...

, making Raffin a star there, and leading to her later becoming the first Western actress ever to make a movie promotion tour in that country. She was nominated for both a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951...

 and a Razzie Award for Worst Actress for her performance in the movie Touched by Love

Touched by Love

Touched by Love is a 1980 drama film about a therapist who tries a novel approach with a girl afflicted with cerebral palsy; she has her charge become a pen pal with the girl's favorite singer, Elvis Presley...

in 1981. In 1988 she starred in James Clavell's Noble House

Noble House

Noble House is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963.It is a massive book, well over 1000 pages, with dozens of characters and numerous intermingling plot lines. In 1988, it was adapted as a television miniseries for NBC starring Pierce Brosnan...

 with Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan

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. In 1991 she appeared as the telepath

Telepathy

Telepathy , is the induction of mental states from one mind to another. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Fredric W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and has remained more popular than the more-correct expression thought-transference...

 / telekinetic

Psychokinesis

The term psychokinesis , also referred to as telekinesis with respect to strictly describing movement of matter, sometimes abbreviated PK and TK respectively, is a term...

 Julie Vale in the cult film Scanners II: The New Order

Scanners II: The New Order

Scanners II: The New Order is the 1991 sequel to the 1981 feature film Scanners. The sequel was written by B.J. Nelson and directed by Christian Duguay...

. She later appeared as Aunt Julie on the television show 7th Heaven

7th Heaven

7th Heaven is an American family drama television series, created and produced by Brenda Hampton. The series premiered on August 26, 1996, on the WB, the first time that the network aired Monday night programming, and was originally broadcast from August 26, 1996 to May 13, 2007...

, and as Dr. Hightower in the ABC Family

ABC Family

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 teenager series, The Secret Life of the American Teenager

The Secret Life of the American Teenager

The Secret Life of the American Teenager is an American teen drama television series created by Brenda Hampton. It first aired on ABC Family on July 1, 2008. The show was renewed for a second season consisting of 24 episodes on February 9, 2009, which began airing on June 22, 2009...

.

Raffin was married to the movie producer Michael Viner

Michael Viner

Michael Viner was an American film producer and record producer, who later shifted into book publishing and became an innovator in the audiobook field...

 in 1974, and they later became active as publishers in the audiobook field; they divorced in 2005.

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