She played a “hippie cop” on the counterculture police series and was married to music producer Quincy Jones.
By Josh Rottenberg May 12 at 10:50 AM Peggy Lipton, a model turned actress who rose to stardom in the late 1960s on the counterculture police series “The Mod Squad” and later starred on TV’s “Twin Peaks,” died May 11. She was 72.
One of pop culture’s first efforts to reckon seriously with the counterculture — and one of the first TV shows to feature an interracial cast — the series, which co-starred Michael Cole and Clarence Williams III, dealt with issues such as domestic violence, abortion, police brutality, the Vietnam War and drugs. Over five seasons, the series earned Ms. Lipton four Emmy nominations and a 1971 Golden Globe Award for best actress in a TV drama.
Quincy Jones, Rashida Jones and Ms. Lipton in 2012. Ms. Lipton parlayed her role on “The Mod Squad” into a singing career, enjoying chart success with her cover versions of “Stoney End” and “Lu” by Laura Nyro and “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” by Donovan. “It was very scary,” she told the Times in 1993. “I had a push-pull thing inside me that I wanted to do it. . . . I had become so insulated in my world as a mother, that I didn’t know how to pick up the phone and call anybody to put myself out there.”
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