Heather Locklear: a beautiful TV personality or a caring mother?

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Approximately three and a half decades ago, almost every family in the country met Heather Locklear on screen. Hundreds of thousands, millions of TV viewers turned on their TVs every night to watch the developments taking place in the Carrington family in the TV series Dynasty. A huge number of eyes flocked to a slender blonde with a lush mane of hair and big eyes, who played the niece of the main character named Sammy Jo. She got used to the role so penetratingly and truthfully that no one could have thought that this was her debut appearance on the screen. This went on for nearly ten years.

And already in the early nineties of the twentieth century, from the variety of "soap" that reigned then on the screens, another series successfully stood out - "Melrose Place", which owes its success, in particular, to the participation of Heather Locklear, who got the role brawlers Amanda.

Childhood

On the 25th day of September 1961 in California (townWestwood) Diane Tinsley Locklear and William Robert Locklear had a daughter named Heather. She became the youngest in a large family, where one brother and two sisters had already been born before her. Mother Heather Locklear was an assistant at the Disney studio, and her father served as a naval officer, and later worked at the University of California.

In the family, diligence, discipline, and respect for religion were instilled in children. While still a little girl, Heather did not even think that a few years later she would become a famous actress. She wanted to become a pilot. Yes, in fact, there was nowhere to think about an acting career, because Locklear then looked like an ugly duckling - very thin, with bad skin and uneven teeth. She constantly heard ridicule from her classmates.

New face

One day her father advised her to reveal her talents a little. The daughter listened to the advice: she began to sing in the choir and attend the drama club. Perhaps the natural data were “to blame”, perhaps the acquired skills, but by the end of school, the girl’s appearance had undergone huge changes. She even considered going into modeling.

After receiving a high school diploma, Heather Locklear, whose films after a short period of time will become mega-popular, goes to college at the University of California. She decided to become a psychologist.

One day the girl decided to take some publicity shots and videos. Despite the fact that she is not tall (only 165 cm), Hollywood producers do notonly singled her out among the rest, but even invited to films for small roles.

Road to screen

The young actress instantly became famous when the second season of the series "Dynasty" was released, where she was invited by the eminent director Aaron Spelling. It was 1981. Her character Samantha Josephine was, despite her beauty, very cunning and selfish. Aspiring actress Heather Locklear has changed a lot since her participation in the series. Now she had gorgeous blond hair, wide blue eyes, a beaming smile. Makeup now she always applied very carefully. She has retained her slender, graceful, very seductive figure for more than thirty years. But the main thing in her new look was a strong confidence in herself, in her unearthly beauty and the emerging status of a star.

Golden Raspberry for a TV star

Three years, until 1985, Heather Locklear, whose films immediately became TV hits, starred in another series. It was the police drama T. J. Hooker. She shared the set with her Dynasty aunt Linda Evans and William Shatner. The character of Lokier was a young female officer named Stacey Sheridan. Oddly enough, but the actress in the form of a policeman looked as attractive and charming as in an evening dress.

Now Heather confidently considers herself a recognized and respected TV star. She begins to work in films. True, she did not manage to achieve special heights. And for one of her films about the return of the creature from the swampof Locklear was awarded the Golden Raspberry.

A new step to fame

The next year, 1986, brought the actress a new status - her marriage to musician Tommy Lee took place. The marriage was not very successful. The divorce took place in 1993. Heather might have tried to save the relationship, but the woman was tired of her husband's constant betrayals, his alcoholism and frequent assault.

In her career, everything was going great. Despite the fact that the filming of "Dynasty" ended, the rating of the young actress not only maintained, but also increased.

1993 was marked for Locklear by an invitation to the new series "Melrose Place". Stories about the life of the New York yuppie at first did not cause delight among viewers who expected to see something like that. But the popularity of this story began to go off scale after a new character was introduced into it - Amanda Woodworth. It was this heroine that Heather Locklear embodied. The series has received four Golden Globe nominations. Everything that was connected with Amanda was perceived by the audience with a bang. The on-screen image was complemented by quite sexy outfits - very tight-fitting and bright.

In 1994, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora and Heather Locklear got married. The personal life of the actress has always interested admiring viewers, no matter how it develops. Three years later, they had a daughter, Ava Elizabeth, who adopted her mother's beauty. Unfortunately, the second marriage of the actress ended in divorce in 2007.

Gradually, Heather's career went into decline. New films and serials did not bring success. She got carried awaydrugs and alcohol, twice attempting suicide.

And yet, Locklear still retained a slender figure and a face that does not know any plastic surgery. Her daughter started her modeling career at the age of 12. Now often she and her mother pose for the same photos.