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This brunette beauty who was born in 1954 has had quite the Hollywood career that began five decades ago.
This gifted thespian worked with John Travolta in a smash hit movie in the 1970s that was so powerful it inspired a number of trends.
The actress, who graduated from Sheepshead Bay High School, went on to work on soap operas like All My Children and One Life To Live.
Later, she shared scenes with Shia LaBeouf on the popular TV series Even Stevens and even popped up opposite James Gandolfini on The Sopranos.
This week the star, now 71, make a rare appearance in Los Angeles as she wore a denim jacket and jeans while heading to lunch at Granville.
Can you guess who she is?
This brunette beauty who was born in 1954 has had quite the Hollywood career that began five decades ago. Can you guess who she is?
The star was seen with a friend outside a restaurant in Los Angeles
She is Donna Pescow.
The star is best known for her starring role as Annette in 1977's Saturday Night Fever. She had many scenes with Travolta.
Pescow had to 'relearn' her Brooklyn accent for the part.
Though she was overshadowed by Travolta's charismatic performance in the classic film, her part will be forever sealed in cinematic history.
The film re-invigorated the disco movement and made the soundtrack, which heavily featured the Bee Gees, a blockbuster.
The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, establishing itself as one of the best-selling albums in music history.
Pescow and Travolta reunited in 2023 when they co-starred in a Capital One Christmas ad; she was a cashier and he was Santa.
Also in 1977, Pescow joined the cast of the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, portraying Celena Arquette.
This gifted thespian worked with John Travolta in a smash hit movie in the 1970s that was so powerful it inspired a number of trends
The actress, who graduated from Sheepshead Bay High School, went on to work on soap operas like All My Children and One Life To Live
Later, she shared scenes with Shia LaBeouf on the popular TV series Even Stevens and even popped up opposite James Gandolfini on The Sopranos
This week the star, now 71, make a rare appearance in Los Angeles as she wore a denim jacket and jeans while heading to lunch at Granville
Here she showed off her black boots as she walked toward the venue
In 1978, Pescow played one of Judy Garland's older sisters in the television biographical film Rainbow.
Pescow starred in her own television series, Angie, which ran for two seasons from 1979 to 1980 on ABC. Her castmates were Robert Hays, Debralee Scott and Doris Roberts.
A role on The Love Boat also happened as she worked with Gavin MacLeod.
In 1982, Pescow was cast in the role of Dr. Lynn Carson, the first lesbian on a daytime serial, on the soap opera All My Children, which she played until 1983.
Throughout the '80s she also appeared on the hit shows of the day like Policewoman, Trapper John, M.D., Hotel and Fantasy Island.
Next she played Donna Garland in the first-run syndication children's comedy series Out of This World in 1987. The show ended in 1991.
She is Donna Pescow from the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta
Se could not parlay her fame from her biggest movie role into the kind of worldwide fame that costar Travolta enjoyed
Here the beauty and the movie icon were seen dancing
She had a cameo in the new Capital One ad as a shopkeeper who asks Travolta's Santa where he has been. He replies 'The North Pole'
A glamour shot in black from 1979
The star had her own ABC sitcom, Angie, which ran for two seasons. She starred opposite Robert Hayes
Clockwise from left, Diane Robin, Doris Roberts, Pescow, Sharon Spelman, Debralee Scott and Haye in 1979
Pescow, right, on All My Children in 1983
Then she worked on several series: She made guest appearances on the shows Clueless, NYPD Blue, Pauly and Ivory Tower, and in the 1998 television film Dead Husbands.
She was General Hospital from 1999 to 2001 as the evil Gertrude Morgan and she also popped up on the shows Partners and Philly.
Then she entered teen TV territory with Even Stevens with Shia LeBeouf.
The series aired for three seasons on Disney Channel, from 2000 to 2003. Later she was in The Even Stevens Movie.
In 2006 she was seen in Crossing Jordan. And in 2007, Pescow appeared in the series finale of The Sopranos as Donna Parisi, the wife of mobster Patsy Parisi.
Her last role was in the TV series Welcome To Chippendales in 2023.
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