WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO: LYNN-HOLLY JOHNSON

Lynn-Holly Johnson was an actress whose career got off to a great start. With almost twenty years in the business, she appeared in less than twenty films and TV episodes, yet some of those films are still remembered today.

Born in 1958, she got her start in ice skating. In 1974, she placed second in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. This led to her joining the Ice Capades and her first film role.


1978’s ICE CASTLES. In this film she played a blind ice skater who falls for Robby Benson.

ICE CASTLES is a film that today is best known for its Marvin Hamlisch / Melissa Manchester theme song “Looking Through The Eyes Of Love”. (And I apologize if I've now got that song stuck in your head. I've had it in mine since beginning to write this)



In reading about this, one surprising bit of trivia I read had Lynn-Holly walking off the set when she refused to do a nude scene. I think she made the right choice as this has become something of a PG rated romance classic and such a scene would have been inappropriate.



Her next film would be the troubled Disney production THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS. This was a horror film, with Bette Davis, that was released to theatres, withdrawn, and then rereleased with a different ending.

The next year had her appearing in 1981’s FOR YOUR EYES ONLY , still my favorite Bond film. Lynn played a wannabe Bond girl that Bond rejects. She was able to skate again in the film.


There was a lot of TV work, episodes of CHiPS, MATT HOUSTON and TRAPPER JOHN M.D. before here next film, WHERE THE BOYS ARE ’84, an R-rated attempt to recreate the Beach Party films of the 1960’s. She starred with Lorna Luft and Lisa Hartman. The film was not a success.

By the late 80’s, her name was still popular enough that she was prominently billed on the movie posters of such little seen films as ALIEN PREDATOR, THE SISTERHOOD and HYPER SPACE. She acted occasionally in the 1990’s in films that didn’t see much if any release.


SO, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO HER?

Lynn-Holly was married in 1993. This coincided with her break from acting.

She has two kids.

In recent years, she has appeared at autograph conventions and done some community theatre.

Lynn-Holly is a case of someone who may have just accidentally become an actress. She was just an ice skater who got a great role. This led to more work. Maybe somewhere along the line, she just decided it wasn't for her, and she left the business.

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