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Angie Dickinson (Birthday September 30, 1931) is a Golden Globe-winning television and film actress, perhaps best known for her role as Sergeant Leann "Pepper" Anderson in the 1970s crime drama Police Woman.

Dickinson, the second of three daughters, was born Angeline Brown in Kulm, North Dakota, the daughter of Frederica and Leo H. Brown.

In 1953, she placed second in a beauty pageant. Soon after her first marriage to Gene Dickinson, she decided to pursue an acting career under the name Angie Dickinson. She soon met Frank Sinatra who became a lifelong friend. She played Sinatra's wife in the film Ocean's Eleven.

Though Dickinson enjoyed a moderately successful movie career for nearly two decades, and worked with many major directors and top leading men of the 1950s and '60s, she did not rise above the status of attractive, reliable working actress - real stardom came later.

It was a western that finally propelled her into Hollywood's A-list: Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo (1959), in which she played a flirtatious gambler named Feathers who is almost locked up by the town sheriff played by her childhood idol John Wayne

Dickinson returned to the small screen in March 1974 to play a character on an episode of the critically-acclaimed hit anthology series Police Story. That one guest appearance proved to be so popular that NBC had decided to turn it into a weekly detective series to be called Police Woman, which would make her the first successful female TV police officer.

In 1987, the Los Angeles Police Department awarded Dickinson an honorary Doctorate, which led her to quip, "Now you can call me 'Doctor Pepper.'"

Dickinson returned to the big screen in Brian De Palma's thriller Dressed to Kill (1980), which earned her a 1981 Saturn Award for Best Actress. The film featured Dickinson in a 35-minute role early in the film which ends with her character's brutal murder in an elevator. Critics hailed her performance and today the film is viewed as a serious entry in the macabre genre, with her silent stalking through the maze of a New York City museum being one of the film's stylistic highlights.

Despite the career highs of Police Woman in the '70s and Dressed to Kill in 1980, Dickinson's focus as an actress now had begun to wane somewhat; in the 60s and early 70s, no one questioned her ability.

In 1981, she had been the first choice to play 'Krystle Carrington' on the Dynasty TV series, but turned down the role.

In 1982, when she was 50 and yet to undergo any surgery, a panel of Hollywood designers and make-up artists ranked her first in a list of Best Female Star Bodies

Dickinson is often referred to as an honorary member of the Rat Pack.

Angie was married to Gene Dickinson, a former football player, from 1952 to 1960.

She was romantically linked to Frank Sinatra, whom Dickinson called "the most important man in my life" (because of the power he held when they first met in the mid-1950s) and with whom she shared "a very comfortable relationship" on and off for ten years. They remained friends until his death in 1998. She was also linked to actor David Janssen, and allegedly to President John F. Kennedy, although she has chosen not to address those rumors.

She was married to musician/composer Burt Bacharach between 1965 and 1980.

Their daughter, Lea Nikki, known as Nikki, was born three months prematurely in 1966 and was eventually diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. Her problems caused Dickinson to decline many roles as Dickinson focused on caring for her daughter. Nikki spent several years at the Wilson Center, a psychiatric residential treatment facility for adolescents located in Faribault, Minnesota. Although Nikki had earned a degree in geology, poor eyesight resulting from her premature birth made it impossible for her to pursue a career in that field. Unable to cope with the effects of Asperger's, Nikki ultimately committed suicide in her Los Angeles condo in January 2007.

Angie Dickinson is referenced in the song, 'Putting The Damage On' by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos.

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