Darlene Tompkins

Happy New Year everyone, This is my Official Myspace. I will be adding alot more to it this year but right now all my time is devoted to writing my bio, a book I hope to be published later this year. Chicago-born Tompkins came from a "show-biz family," with relatives who worked in vaudeville and in plays. (Tompkins' three-years-younger aunt is actress Beverly [Old Yeller] Washburn.) A beauty contest victory opened some Hollywood doors for Tompkins, who began appearing in commercials, co-starring in Beyond The Time Barrier (at age 18) and appearing in TV series and additional features, including Elvis Presley's Blue Hawaii (1961). Marriage and motherhood derailed Tompkins' screen career, but she managed to return in the 1970s to work as an extra, a stand-in and stuntwoman(!), occasionally stunt-doubling on Charlie's Angels (for Cheryl Ladd) and in other TV series and movies.