About
English-American film and television actress. Her ex-husbands included actor-dancer Russ Tamblyn of West Side Story and Don Everly of the early rock n' roll duo The Everly Brothers. In 1960, she played Nan Barlow in the movie The City of the Dead.
Before Fame
She made her acting debut in Phoenix in 1955 alongside her mother in Liliom, with the husband-and-wife team of Fernando Lamas and Arlene Dahl.
Trivia
She was a one-time Miss Los Angeles Press Club. In 1957 Hedda Hopper named her one of movie's top newcomers, along with Jayne Mansfield. In the early 60s, she had a year-long affair with Audie Murphy.
Family Life
She was born in 1938 in London, England, as Joanna Venetia Invicta Stevenson. Her parents relocated to Hollywood after her father signed a contract with David O. Selznick. Her father was film director Robert Stevenson and her mother the actress Anna Lee, labelled by American studios as "The British Bombshell." She and Everly had two daughters, Stacy and Erin Everly, both model/actresses, and a son. Erin, the ex-wife of Axl Rose, was the inspiration for several Guns N' Roses songs, including "Sweet Child o' Mine," where she also appeared in the video.
Associated With
In Tab Hunter's 2005 autobiography Tab Hunter Confidential: the Making of a Movie Star, she admitted that she was a large part of Hunter's and his then-boyfriend Anthony Perkins's social life, "acting as a 'beard' when we double-dated." She appeared in the 1959 Western Day of the Outlaw, starring Robert Ryan and Tina Louise. She also starred in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1960 alongside Burt Reynolds and Harry Dean Stanton.
