Stephanie Zimbalist is the daughter of actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and his second wife, Stephanie Spaulding. Her grandparents were the violinist Efrem Zimbalist Sr. (born in Russia in 1889) and the opera singer Alma Gluck. Her brother, Efrem Zimbalist III, is a publishing executive.
Stephanie was raised on a ranch in Encino, California, but attended Foxcroft High, a prep school in Middleburg, Virginia. From there, she studied music and acting at Juillard, New York, for one year, but to her shock and distress Juillard would not let her stay on
… More for the second year of the course. She drifted for a while, then enrolled at the Strasberg Institute and the Dance Center West, both in Los Angeles, and a variety of roles began to come her way.Stephanie is best known as Laura Holt in Remington Steele, but in the past decade she has done most of her acting in the theater. In a tour of Sylvia, she played the title role - a dog. In February 2001, she won a Robby Award as Best Actress in Drama for her role as Lizzy Curry in The Rainmaker.
Her theater includes:
The Tempest - Mark Taper Forum
Sylvia - Sylvia - tour, 1996-97
Varya - The Cherry Orchard - Odyssey Theater, Los Angeles, 2002
Summer and Smoke - Williamstown Theatre Festival
Barbarians - Williamstown Theatre Festival
George Sand - Romantique - Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August, 2003
Stephanie is fond of reading and gardening, loves peace and quiet, hates arguments and confrontations, is left-handed and a vegetarian. In the late 1970s she was reported to be dating the actor Gregory Harrison, but since then she has succeeded in keeping her private life to herself.
She was in one of my all time favorite TV shows 'Remington Steele'. She starred as a detective named Laura Holt. She always loved adventure studied and apprentice and opened her own detective agency called 'Laura Holt Investigations' when no one knocked down her door she changed the name of her agency to 'Remington Steele Investigations'. She made up a masculine superior named Remington Steele played by Pierce Bronson. She was very talented did everything from solving cases to falling in love with her cast mate. She was also a writer and wrote two episodes of 'Remington Steele'. She in real life was a very nice person. I met her in real life when she was filming 'Remington Steele'.
Stephanie is a beautiful women. Unlike some other stars she's seems relatively low-maintenance. Someone you could hang out with. She wouldn't be too worried about her nails or mail. She was a rarity, someone who is beautiful yet utterly approachable. She helped to make Remington Steele a very funny , very exciting, and very sexy. She looks as if she enjoyed acting. The way she seemed at ease on screen makes the audience relax. I wished she did more work than just Remington. I would have loved to see her in movies. She is lovely person all around and I am grateful she did such good work.
Stephanie Zimblast, daughter of one of hollywoods biggest names, Efram Zimblast Jr. is a great actress who should have been a bigger star. She is a talented actress who got her first major role in the NBC TV Show, Remington Steele. The problem here was Pierce Brosnan also starred in this show and has just made a name for himself. The show could not support 2 major talents and forced Zimblast to step out of the spotlight. Once NBC cut Remington Steele, I fully expected to Zimblast in another series but to my surprise she faded away and has not done anything major since.
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