Actress Gayle Hunnicutt died on August 31. She is remembered for her talent in acting, both on stage and screen. Gayle is survived by two children and five grandchildren.
Gayle Hunnicutt, the Texas-born actress who made her home in the UK and was known for her roles in TV’s Fall of Eagles, The Golden Bowl the Return of the Saint and Dallas has died aged 80. She died on August 31, 2023.
After a divorce from British actor David Hemmings, she married the journalist and editor Sir Simon Jenkins, and alongside her acting career became a fixture of the British social scene. She is best remembered for the final three seasons of Dallas, from 1989 to 1991, in which she played Vanessa Beaumont, an English aristocrat whose long-ago affair with JR Ewing produced a son he had never known existed.
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She and Jenkins divorced in 200. She made an episode of Selling London for her sale of the Primrose Hill estate that the pair had lived in for three decades. After her second divorce, she dated Richard Evans, a tennis correspondent.