DEBORAH RAFFIN

Deborah Iona Raffin (March 13, 1953 ~ November 21, 2012) was an American film and television actress, who later became an audiobook publisher.

Raffin appeared in several 1970s Hollywood films. Her 1976 television movie Nightmare in Badham County became a theatrical hit in mainland China, making Raffin a star there, and leading to her later becoming the first Western actress ever to make a movie promotion tour in that country. She was nominated for both a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama and a Razzie Award for Worst Actress for her performance in Touched by Love in 1981.

In 1988, she starred in James Clavell's Noble House with Pierce Brosnan. In 1991, she appeared as Julie Vale, a telepath, in the cult film Scanners II: The New Order. She later appeared as Aunt Julie on the television show 7th Heaven, and as Dr. Hightower in the ABC Family teenager series, The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

Raffin was born in Los Angeles, California, to Trudy Marshall, a Brooklyn-born former movie actress, and Phillip Jordan Raffin, a restaurateur and business executive. Raffin was of Jewish heritage.

She was married to movie producer Michael Viner (1944-2009) in 1974; the couple later became audiobook publishers; they had one child and divorced in 2005.

Raffin died from leukemia in her native Los Angeles on November 21, 2012, aged 59.

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