Taryn Power

Taryn Stephanie Power^{[citation needed]} (September 13, 1953 – June 26, 2020) was an American actress.

Power was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1953, to actors Tyrone Power and Linda Christian. When her parents divorced in 1956, her mother took Taryn and her elder sister Romina to live all around the world, mainly spending their childhoods in Mexico City (her mother's mother's home), Italy, and Spain. Power's father died in 1958 of a heart attack when she was five years old.^{[citation needed]} She was educated during her later youth at boarding schools in England.

Taryn Power acted in eight films. Her first two were in Spanish, and the rest were mostly English language films. The first film was the Mexican film Maria (1972); she was the starring role and was cast when she was 18 years old. She played Valentine De Villefort in The Count of Monte Cristo (1975), which starred Richard Chamberlain, Donald Pleasence, and Tony Curtis; her character's father was played by Louis Jourdan. She played Dione in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), starring Patrick Wayne (son of John Wayne) and Jane Seymour. On television, she acted in an episode of Matt Houston.

In 1975, she met photographer Norman Seeff in Los Angeles, and eventually married him shortly before the birth of her first child, Tai. Her relationship with Seeff faded, ending in divorce in 1982.

Power lived with rock musician Tony Sales (son of comedian Soupy Sales) in the 1980s. They had two children together: Anthony Tyrone Sales (born 1982) and Valentina Fox Sales (born 1983).

Power married William Greendeer and with him had a fourth child, Stella Greendeer, on April 21, 1996.

Taryn Power died from leukemia on June 26, 2020, after a 4+1⁄2-year battle against the disease.