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O-Lan Jones (born May 23, 1950) is an American actress, composer, and theater producer, best known as Rose on Harts of the West (1993-1994).
- Jones Met Shepard Through Her Stepfather Johnny Dark
- She Collaborated with Shepard on Numerous Stage Plays
- Their Son Jesse Mojo Shepard Was Born in 1970
- She Has appeared in Several Hollywood Films & Television Shows
- She Is Founder & Artistic Director of Overtone Industries
Shepard met Johnny Dark in 1967, when the latter approached him and asked what drug Shepard was on when he wrote his play Forensic and the Navigators. After that, the duo become lifelong friends, as evidenced by the book Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark, and the documentary Shepard & Dark(watch the trailer above). It was ...
Jones dropped out of high school as a teenager, and spent most of her years before meeting Shepard appearing in off-off-Broadway productions. After she and Shepard got married, however, both of their careers began to improve. Jones scored her first success as a character in Shepard’s 1968 production Forensic and the Navigators. This working relatio...
Jones and Shepard had one child during their marriage, Jesse Mojo Shepard. According to the Sam Shepard website, Jesse was named after famed outlaw Jesse James. Like both of his parents, Jesse pursued a career in the arts, particularly writing, and published his first book in 2003. Titled Jubilee King, the book received positive reviews from critic...
Though her marriage to Shepard came to an end in 1984, Jones continues to find success in Hollywood. She made her screen debut in the television flick A Death in Canaan (1978), and has since appeared in a number of beloved and classic films, including The Right Stuff (1983), Married to the Mob (1988), Pacific Heights (1990), Natural Born Killers (1...
Jones and her best friend/writing partner Kathleen Cramer founded Overtone Industries in 1979. On Jones’ website, Overtone is described as “an innovative group of composers, writers and performers who have been exploring new music theatre for over 20 years. Their work has been performed in S.F., L.A., and in New York at the Kurt Weill Recital Hall ...
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O-Lan Jones. Actress: Edward Scissorhands. O-Lan Jones is an award winning composer, sound designer, writer, and actress who has been consistently involved in experimental theater, music, and opera since the age of 16.
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O-Lan Jones is an award-winning composer, sound designer, writer, and actress who has been consistently involved in experimental theatre, music, and opera since the age of sixteen. The press has referred to her as an “uncategorizable legend.”
O-Lan Jones. Actress: Edward Scissorhands. O-Lan Jones is an award winning composer, sound designer, writer, and actress who has been consistently involved in experimental theater, music, and opera since the age of 16.
O-Lan Jones. Composer, Actor, Director, Writer. BIO. O-Lan Jones is an award-winning composer, sound designer, writer, and actress who has been consistently involved in experimental theatre, music, and opera since the age of sixteen. The press has referred to her as an “uncategorizable legend.”
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Raised by a free-spirited Philosopher Queen in various ghettos across America (Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, New York) with stops in London and the jungles of Yucatan where they lived in a hut in a village of 80 Mayan Indians, Jones began her professional acting career at 16 in the hotbed of New York's off-off Broadway scene in the late '60s ...
