Jennifer O'Neill stars in The Good News Network (A Chrisagis Brothers Production)

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Jennifer O'Neill started her incredible career when she landed a small role in For Love of Ivy in 1968. In 1970 she played one of the lead female roles in Rio Lobo starring John Wayne.Known as one of the MOST Beautiful Women in the world since theses early days.

After her success in Summer of '42 in 1971, in which she plays the young widow of a soldier killed in World War II, O'Neill became a well-known Hollywood actress and continued acting for the next two decades, including singing in the Chrysler Corporation commercial "Change in Charger" that represented the end of the Dodge Charger in 1975. She played the part of the mistress, Teresa Raffo, in Luchino Visconti's final film, L'Innocente (1976). She had more success in TV movies, including Love's Savage Fury.

In 1982, O'Neill starred in the short-lived NBC prime time soap opera Bare Essence. In 1984, she played the lead female role on the CBS television series Cover Up; the lead male actor, Jon-Erik Hexum, was killed in the studio playing with a blank-loaded gun, and the series ended after just one season (with Antony Hamilton as the new male lead).

A self-described "romantic," O'Neill has been married and divorced nine times. She has a daughter by her first husband and two sons from later marriages. A lifelong competitive horseback rider, she has suffered serious back injuries due to falls. On October 23, 1982, O'Neill accidentally shot herself in the abdomen with a gun belonging to her then-husband, John Lederer, at their Bedford, New York, mansion; she stated she was checking to see if the weapon was loaded, and police ruled it an accident. She describes many of them in her autobiography, Surviving Myself. The book recounts her life from childhood to her move to Nashville in the late 1990s.

In 2004, O'Neill wrote and published From Fallen To Forgiven, a book of biographical notes and philosophical thoughts about life and existence. The actress, who had an abortion at the age of nineteen, became a pro-life activist and born-again Christian, counseling abstinence to teens. Concerning her abortion: I was told a lie from the pit of hell: that my baby was just a blob of tissue. The aftermath of abortion can be equally deadly for both mother and unborn child. A woman who has an abortion is sentenced to bear that for the rest of her life.

Jennifer O'Neill is also a constant worker for charitable causes, having served as chairperson for the American Cancer Society as well as being a staunch supporter of the Retinitis Pigmetosa Foundation and the Arthritis Foundation. Most recently, she hosts a one hour special for World Vision shot in Africa concerning the HIV epidemic. In addition, she remains actively involved with her childhood love of animals, sponsoring the Jennifer O'Neill Tennis Tournament to benefit the ASPCA, and fund-raiser for Guiding Eyes for the blind.

In this opening segment of the Chrisagis Brothers TV series called Good News Network's "Good News Network - Jennifer meets the characters and starts to experience some jealousy from the women puppets behind the scenes. This was one of the episodes that Jennifer made her appearance in and the series won critical acclaim for a children's TV show winning a Tele-award. O'Neill plays this part very sweet and tender and brings the puppets to life that you could almost swear they were human. To find out how to buy the Good News Gang Children's Products log on to: http://www.chrisagis.org

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