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Chrisagis Brothers with Jennifer O'Neill Christmas Story
Chrisagis Brothers with Jennifer O'Neill Christmas Story
International film star & beauty queen Jennifer O'Neill (star of Summer of 42) tells the Christmas Gospel to the Good News Puppets created by the Chrisagis Brothers. This was a Christmas special called 'A Christmas To Remember'... It featured the Chrisagis Brothers, their puppets (like the muppet show but Christian based), it also featured handsome 70's icon Erik Estrada (from CHiP's & Surreal Life fame) who played the host. He introduced Beautiful O'Neill & lovely Christian recording artist Stephanie Boosahda. The show won an award for best family special. O'NEILL'S BIO: Internationally-acclaimed actress, film and television star, spokeswoman, composer, author, artist, proud mother of three, and noted as one of the most beautiful women in the world, by any definition, Jennifer O'Neill is one of a kind. With thirty feature films, numerous television movies and series to her credit, Jennifer recently shot her H.D.T.V. series Living Forever...More as well as premiered her play, Love Unleashed™...One woman's journey to grace. Born in Rio de Janeiro Brazil to an English mother and a Spanish-Irish father, Ms. O'Neill's career first began when her family moved from Connecticut to New York City. Blessed with great energy and beauty, Jennifer quickly entered international modeling at age fifteen while still a student at the prestigious Dalton School in Manhattan. Having developed a passion for horses while visiting her grandparents in Brazil, Jennifer saw modeling as a way to own her first steed. The world of magazine covers quickly lead to other goals, and, after auditioning, she was accepted into the Neighborhood Playhouse, New York's esteemed school of acting. It only took a short while before her unique qualities were noticed by the great director Howard Hawks, who cast her to star opposite John Wayne in Rio Lobo. Jennifer was a leading actress, married and a mother by age twenty-one. After her film debut, and against the advice of her agents, Jennifer accepted a role in the "small" film, Summer of '42. Her hauntingly beautiful portrayal of Dorothy made Jennifer O'Neill a household name, and today Summer of '42 is one of home videos' most popular titles. The film has become a true classic with Jennifer's performance hailed as legendary, not only by the public, but by her peers as well. Stimulated by creative opportunities that lie behind the camera, Ms. O'Neill soon moved to Europe and placed herself under the tutelage of master Italian director Luchino Visconti, where she turned in an award winning performance in his final film, The Innocent, co-starring Giancarlo Giannini. More importantly, with Visconti, she expanded her range as an actress and began to learn the art of film making from this world-renowned auteur. Returning home, Ms. O'Neill continued to star in a succession of profitable films such as Blake Edward's The Carey Treatment, with James Coburn, Caravans, with Anthony Quinn, The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, with Michael Sarrazin, A Force of One, with Chuck Norris, Lady Ice, with Robert Duvall and Donald Sutherland, and the David Cronenberg blockbuster Scanners. The first television Movie of the Week in which she starred, Love's Savage Fury, scored a 39 share, making it ABC's top-rated movie of the year. Her next television project, The Other Victim, co-starring William Devane for CBS, was hailed as one of the years Top 10 films, which led the way for her own series Cover-Up (CBS) with Jon Erik Hexum. And of course, we've all seen her impressive spokeswoman campaign for CoverGirl. Jennifer's unprecedented thirty-year endorsement of the product catapulted CoverGirl into the top-selling makeup line in the country. As if all this activity weren't enough to fill the day, Ms. O'Neill is the mother of daughter Aimee, and sons, Reis and Cooper. She is also a constant worker for charitable causes, having served as chairperson for the American Cancer as well as being a staunch supporter of the Retinitis Pigmetosa Foundation and the Arthritis Foundation. In addition, she remains actively involved with her childhood love of animals, sponsoring the Jennifer O'Neill Tennis Tournament to benefit the ASPCA, and fund-raiser for Guiding Eyes for the blind. To date, Jennifer successfully continues to raise, train, and show champion jumping horses in Nashville, Tennessee. As an author, Jennifer has penned her autobiography, Surviving Myself -- William Morrow Publishing, From Fallen To Forgiven -- Word Publishing, You're Not Alone -- HCI Publishing and novels A Fall Together, A Winter of Wonders and A Late Spring Frost -- Broadman and Holman Publishing. Along with her book's rave reviews have come corporate and testimonial speaking engagements that are both inspirational and practical in nature. By adding this new dimension to her roster of talents, Jennifer embraces the "one on one" sharing of life's experiences with passion and enthusiasm.
YouTube | April 14, 2008
