Stefanie Powers Net Worth

What is Stefanie Powers's Net Worth?

Stefanie Powers is an American actress who has a net worth of $9 million. Stefanie Powers is best known for playing Jennifer Hart on the ABC television mystery series "Hart to Hart," for which she earned multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations. She has also acted in many films, including "The Interns" and "The New Interns," "McLintock!," "Warning Shot," "Crescendo," "Escape to Athena," and "The Artist's Wife."

Early Life and Education

Stefanie Powers was born Stefania Paul on November 2, 1942 in Los Angeles, California to Juliana and Morrison. She is of Polish heritage, and her surname is often cited as Federkiewicz, which she has said is her "real name." Powers had an older brother named Jeffrey and a half-sister named Diane. When Powers was young, her parents divorced; she became estranged from her father but stayed close with her mother. She attended Hollywood High School, where she was a member of the swim team and was a pom pom girl.

Television Career

Powers began her professional acting career under the name Taffy Paul, which she used for her first television role, a guest part on the Western "Bat Masterson" in 1961. After further guest roles on "Bonanza" and "Route 66," she played the main role of April Dancer on the short-lived NBC spy series "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.," a spinoff of "The Man from U.N.C.LE." It ran from 1966 to 1967. Over the ensuing years, Powers had guest roles on such shows as "Journey to the Unknown," "McCloud," "Cannon," "The Mod Squad," and "Petrocelli." She also appeared in multiple television films, including "Paper Man," "Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You," and "Hardcase." Powers had her next main role from 1976 to 1977, starring as a young attorney on the short-lived ABC crime drama series "The Feather & Father Gang." She then appeared in the ABC miniseries "Washington: Behind Closed Doors" and the CBS television film "A Death in Canaan."

Powers began her most famous role in 1979, as Jennifer Hart on the ABC mystery series "Hart to Hart." She starred opposite Robert Wagner as Jonathan Hart, with the pair playing an affluent jet-setting couple solving crimes as unpaid detectives. "Hart to Hart" ran for five seasons through 1984, and earned Powers two Emmy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations. She and Wagner later reunited for eight "Hart to Hart" television films in the 1990s. After the end of the show, Powers starred in the CBS miniseries "Mistral's Daughter," based on Judith Krantz's novel of the same name. She has appeared almost exclusively in television films and miniseries since then, with television films including "Family Secrets," "Deceptions," "A Ring by Spring," and "Love by the Book" and miniseries including "Hollywood Wives," "At Mother's Request," and "Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun." Among her other credits, Powers had a recurring role on the British medical soap opera "Doctors" in 2001.

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Film Career

Credited as Taffy Paul, Powers made her film debut in the 1961 comedy "Tammy Tell Me True," the second film in the "Tammy" series. She went on to appear in three films in 1962: the romantic comedy "If a Man Answers," the neo-noir thriller "Experiment in Terror," and the drama "The Interns." In 1963, Powers played the daughter of Andrew Duggan's character in the bedroom comedy "Palm Springs Weekend" and the daughter of John Wayne's and Maureen O'Hara's characters in the Western comedy "McLintock!" She then reprised her role from "The Interns" in the 1964 sequel "The New Interns." In 1965, Powers was in "The Young Sinner," "Love Has Many Faces," and "Fanatic," and in 1966 she was part of the ensemble cast of the remake of John Ford's "Stagecoach." She next played a nurse in the 1967 crime thriller "Warning Shot."

Kicking off the 1970s, Powers starred in the main role as a terrorized music student abroad in the British horror thriller "Crescendo." She also starred opposite Robert Morse in the Disney comedy "The Boatniks" the same year. In 1972, Powers had a supporting role in the Western "The Magnificent Seven Ride!," the third and last sequel to "The Magnificent Seven." Two years after that, she was in the Disney comedy "Herbie Rides Again," the second entry in the "Herbie" series. In 1975, Powers starred opposite James Caan in the Western "Gone with the West" and opposite Anthony Newley in the comedy "It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time." She went on to appear in the 1976 horror film "Invisible Stranger" and the 1979 comedy war film "Escape to Athena" before stepping away from the big screen. Powers returned nearly 30 years later in the 2007 drama "Jump." After another break, she appeared in the 2019 drama "The Artist's Wife."

Stage Career

Powers has acted on stage in many regional productions. In 1978, she starred opposite Stacy Keach in a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" for the Long Beach Theater Festival. Later, in 1991, Powers co-starred with John Barrowman in the musical "Matador" in London. She reunited with her "Hart to Hart" co-star Robert Wagner in a production of "Love Letters" in Chicago in 1993, and in 1996 she toured as Margo Channing in a production of the musical "Applause." In the early 2000s, Powers toured the UK and then the US in a revival of "The King of I." Her stage credits since then have included a Florida tour of the play "Looped," a Chicago production of the musical "Gotta Dance," and a UK tour of the play "84 Charing Cross Road."

Personal Life

Powers wed her first husband, actor Gary Lockwood, in 1966. After they divorced in 1972, Powers began a relationship with actor William Holden that lasted until his passing in 1981. The two were highly engaged in wildlife conservation efforts together, and after Holden's death Powers co-founded the William Holden Wildlife Foundation. She went on to marry her second husband, French aristocrat Patrick de La Chesnais, in 1993. They divorced in 1999. The next year, Powers began dating auditor Tom Carroll, with whom she remained until his passing in 2014.

A chronic smoker, Powers was diagnosed with lung cancer in late 2008. Early the next year, she underwent surgery to have part of her lung removed.

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