Jennifer Darling

Jennifer Darling (born Joan Darling, June 19, 1946, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)¹ is an American voice, film, and television actress whose career spans more than six decades. She is best known on screen as Peggy Callahan in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, and in animation as the definitive English voice of Ayeka Masaki Jurai in the Tenchi Muyo! franchise. She guest voiced on The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters.

Early life

Darling was born Joan Darling in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and began dancing at the age of three. At fourteen she sang and danced on The Original Amateur Hour.¹ She attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, where she met and married Paul Itkin before completing her degree. The couple have one daughter together.¹

She adopted the professional name Jennifer Darling upon entering the industry because the director Joan Darling had already registered that name with Actors' Equity Association, requiring a new stage identity.¹

After establishing herself in repertory theater in Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., and New York, Darling relocated to Hollywood in 1973.