Margaret Ann "Peggy" Lipton (August 30, 1946 – May 11, 2019) was an American actress, model, and singer. At 15, Lipton became a Ford Agency model after she and her family moved to Los Angeles in 1964, Lipton signed a contract with Universal Pictures.

When the family first moved to Los Angeles, Lipton became what she called a "Topanga Canyon hippie" who explored meditation and yoga. Lipton's father arranged her first modeling jobs in New York while her mother encouraged her to take acting lessons.

She made appearances in many television shows of the 1960s before she landed her defining role as flower child Julie Barnes in the crime drama 'The Mod Squad', for which she won the Golden Globe Award for 'Best Actress in a Television Series Drama' in 1970.

After 'The Mod Squad', Lipton married producer Quincy Jones and began a 15-year hiatus from acting, in which she raised her two children, Kidada and Rashida Jones.

Margaret Ann Lipton was born into an upper middle class Jewish family in New York City on August 30, 1946, the daughter of artist Rita Benson and corporate lawyer Harold Lipton.

Her paternal grandparents were from Russia, and her mother was born in Dublin, to parents from Latvia. Lipton was raised on Long Island with her brothers, Robert, who became an actor, and Kenneth.

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