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Lara Parker
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Lara Parker (84)
Born : October 27, 1938 · Knoxville, Tennessee
Died: October 12, 2023 · Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer)
Lara Parker was born, Mary Lamar Rickey, in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Memphis. She attended Central High School in Memphis, and won a scholarship to Vassar College. At Vassar, Lara began a major in philosophy, which she completed at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College), receiving her BA. She attended graduate school at the University of Iowa and completed all course work on a Masters in speech and drama.
It was during the summer when Lara was supposed to write her thesis, she acted at the Millbrook Playhouse, in Lock Haven, PA. She did 5 leading roles in 6 weeks. Rather than returning to Iowa, she decided to try her luck in New York. During only her second week in the city, she was cast as Angelique, the witch, in the daytime horror serial, Dark Shadows (1966). It was a role she held for 5 years.
In 1972, Lara moved to Los Angeles, and began working in film and prime-time television, performing many guest starring roles, and occasionally returning to daytime television.
After retiring from acting, Lara changed her focus back to what her original interests were. She became a high school and college English teacher, and obtained her MFA in creative writing (from Antioch University).
Lara became an author, completing 4 novels based on "Dark Shadows".
Full Series List in Order
Dark Shadows
Angelique's Descent (Dec-1998)The Salem Branch (Jul-2006)
Curse of the Full Moon (Sep-2012)
Wolf Moon Rising (Aug-2013)
Heiress of Collinwood (Nov-2016)
Book List in Order: 7 titles
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Angelique's Descent
- Dec-1998
- / Horror
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Two of the most popular Dark Shadows characters, Barnabas Collins and Angelique, were eternally bound by love and hate. Now, actress Lara Parker, Angelique herself, tells you how it all began. A PASSION BORN IN ECSTASY... The dashing heir of a Ne...
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The Salem Branch
- Jul-2006
- / Horror
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In Dark Shadows: The Salem Branch Barnabas Collins, the vampire hero of the series, has recently become a human again through the efforts of his devoted assistant Dr. Julia Hoffman and is living in current day Collinsport, Maine trying to adjust to n...
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Dark Shadows
- Apr-2012
- / General Fiction
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Dark Shadows: Heiress of Collinwood is the continuing the story of the classic TV show, Dark Shadows by series star, Lara Parker.“My name is Victoria Winters, and my journey continues . . . .”An orphan with no knowledge of her origins, Victoria W...
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Curse of the Full Moon
- Sep-2012
- / Horror
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When a portrait is lost that has maintained Quentin Collins’s youthful appearance for over a century -- and has also kept his werewolf curse at bay -- Quentin begins to dread the full moon. Meanwhile, David, the sixteen-year-old heir to the Coll...
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Wolf Moon Rising
- Aug-2013
- / Horror
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When a portrait is lost that has maintained Quentin Collins’s youthful appearance for over a century -- and has also kept his werewolf curse at bay -- Quentin begins to dread the full moon. Meanwhile, David, the sixteen-year-old heir to the Coll...
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Heiress of Collinwood
- Nov-2016
- / Fantasy
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“My name is Victoria Winters, and my journey continues....” An orphan with no knowledge of her origins, Victoria Winters first came to the great house of Collinwood as a Governess. It didn’t take long for the Collins family’s many buried s...
