To help pay for college, Camp trained macaws at Busch Gardens on weeknights, weekends, and then during summers performing for crowds of up to 2,000 in six shows a day, six days a week.[4] Aspiring to be an actress, Camp took private acting and singing lessons. She was noticed by a talent agent for her hour-long Busch Gardens television special featuring her and her birds, and hired for national-television commercials for Gallo wine and Touch of Sweden hand lotion.[3][5] This exposure led to small television parts in shows such as Marcus Welby, M.D., Happy Days, and Love, American Style, as well as a six-episode stint on the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man.[3]
Camp landed small early roles in films like Funny Lady with Barbra Streisand and James Caan, and Smile with Bruce Dern and Barbara Feldon in 1975.[3][4] She also appeared in the Bruce Lee movie Game of Death (1978) as his character Billy Lo's girlfriend, Ann Morris, the young aspiring singer (her scenes were shot with a lookalike as Lee had died before she became involved) performing the film's love theme "Will This Be The Song I'll Be Singing Tomorrow". Camp went on to portray a Playmate in Francis Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now (followed by an actual pictorial in the October 1979Playboy), though most of her footage was cut from the initial theatrical release. She would later feature more prominently in Coppola's Redux cut. She was also the first actress to play Kristin Shepard, the sister of Linda Gray's character Sue Ellen Ewing, in the primetime soap opera Dallas in 1979. Mary Crosby later replaced Camp in this role.[6]
In September 2025, Camp appeared in the Bi-ray music video "Butterfly (Narrative Version)" directed by Japanese rock star Yoshiki.[12]
Personal life
In the late 1970s, Camp dated Dean Tavoularis, whom she met in the Philippines while filming Apocalypse Now.[3] In 1986, she married John Goldwyn, a Paramount executive; they later divorced in 2001.
In November 2020, Camp's engagement to 34-year-old Garrett Moore, son of photographer Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda, was announced.[13] However, they never married, and Camp later described the pairing as "a joke that went too far".[14]
↑ Baum, Gary (December 9, 2024). "The Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood You've Never Heard Of". The Hollywood Reporter. In 2020, international headlines blared that Camp, then 67, was engaged to Garrett Moore, the 34-year-old son of an Irish peer, the Earl of Drogheda, whose own London-based events firm is well regarded for its private parties. ... Nuptials, though, never transpired. Camp now laughs off the May-December pairing as a joke that went too far. "We never even kissed," she says.
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