Biography
American actress, wife directed by Roman Polanski. He starred in the films "Vampire Ball", "Valley of Dolls" and others. Killed with a special cruelty at night in his own house, where, besides her, there were guests. The crime committed by members of the Charles Manson "Family" sect.Childhood and youth
Sharon Tate was born in the Military Family, Paul Teit Colonel. Sharon was the eldest of the three sisters and as a child heard a timid girl because of the difficulties that had to communicate with other children. Teiti often moved, and Sharon because of this it was difficult to close with the peers.
Young Sharon planned after graduation to enter the university and study at the psychiatrist, but the Father once again transferred the service, and the family moved to Italy. There, the future actress for the first time managed to make friends who became students of the local American school.
Together with buddies, Teit participated in the filming of one tape in the crowd. There, Tate got acquainted with the actor Richard Bayer, who urged the girl to become an actress. The girl starred in musical transmission, and then appeared as part of the vulgarity in the film "Varavva". The role was small, but Sharon made a good impression.
After that, Sharon tried to pass the casting in Rome, and when nothing came out with this, went to look for a job in the cinema to the United States. After a while, the girl had to return to Italy under the pressure of the family, however, in 1962, the tates were moved to America to the whole family and settled in Los Angeles. There, the actress found his first agent and got a job on television, where he was shot in advertising. In 1963-64, Tate played small episodic roles in Sitkoms.
Films
Sharon Tate received the first significant role in 1965 in the British horror movie "Devil's Eye". The actress played there Odiece de Kerey - the witch who lives together with his brother in the French estate. Later in an interview with Tate responded about colleagues on the first shooting as professors with whom she was lucky to work.
To work in the film, Tate had to go to London, and after the shooting was over, the actress remained in the UK, where he met the director Roman Polansky.
Tate starred in the comedy horror movie "Vampire Ball", which directed Polanski. The actress performed there the role of Sarah Chagall, the daughter of the host yard in Transylvania, in which Alfred is falling in love - the young Assistant of the professor who came to Transylvania to study the vampires. The role of Alfred was played by the director Roman Polansky himself.
Then the actress went to the United States, where he starred in the movie "Do not drive a wave" in the role of Malibu. In 1967, the actress appeared in the drama "Valley of Dolls", where Jennifer North played, one of the main characters. In 1968, Tate fulfilled the role of a unfortunate spy named Freya Carlson in the comedian spy film "The Destroyer Team". The actress foreshadowed a bright career, but the early death of Sharon brought these prospects for no.
Personal life
In 1964, the actress met Hollywood stylist Jebe Sebring, who offered her to marry. Tate rejected Sebring, deciding that marriage would interfere with his career. Before that, Tate had a short novel with Philip Forka, an actor from France.
The story of Love Sharon Tate and the director Roman Polanski began directly on the set of a comedy horror movie "Vampire Ball". After the completion of the filming, which took place in Italy, and return to London, Tate moved to Polanski and began to live in his apartment.
In 1968, a couple played a wedding in the capital of Great Britain, and then spouses left back to California. In winter, the actress became pregnant and had to give birth at the end of the summer of 1969. Alas, Sharon Tate never appeared - the actress was killed when her pregnancy was already approaching an end and the child was about to appear.
Death
Tate was killed on August 9, 1969 aged twenty-six years. The actress was at home in the company of friends who spouse Sharon, director Roman Polansky, asked to stay next to her pregnant wife before his return. Polanski himself was at this time in London, where he worked on the film, and planned to return home, in Los Angeles, with a delay of a few days.
On the evening of August 9, Sharon goes to a restaurant in the company of friends and in half the eleventh at night returns home - to meet the death, which is not yet suspected. On the afternoon, Sharon calls sisters that are invited to visit her and stay overnight so that the pregnant actress does not miss alone, but Sharon refuses this proposal and thus saves life sisters.
At night, members of the "Family" sect, organized by Charles Manson, are broken into the house of the actress, and brutally kill people there, including the pregnant actress itself.
Sharon begged to leave the life of a unborn child, but the sectarians did not make a woman's plenty and caused her 16 knife wounds, which was the cause of death. Friends who were with Sharon in the house were also killed from firearms and knife wounds, and the word "pig" (PIG) was depicted on the inlet door.
The funeral of Sharon Tate took place on August 13 at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Kalvert City. Together with the actress in the grave laid a child.
Death circumstances caused a lot of issues from the police, which could not determine the motive of the crime and as part of the investigation asked Polanski about his friends and the late spouse. The director himself could also not find the explanation and began to suspect his own friends.
The killing of Sharon Tate stirred the wave of paranoia among the stars of Hollywood. Celebrities left Los Angeles, hid children and families, installed in the home security systems and hired security.
Paranoia began to subside, only when the killers were under arrest. The killers of Sharon Tate sentenced to life imprisonment, and the mother of the deceased actress made a lot of effort to ensure that the criminals were not released conditionally.
The house where Sharon Tate was killed at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles, California. In the 1990s, this house was demolished, and now in its place is another building that has been assigned a new address.
Filmography
- 1961 - "Varrava"
- 1963 - "Mr. ED"
- 1964 - "Village in Beverly Hills"
- 1964 - "Americanization Emily"
- 1964 - "Agents A.N.K.L."
- 1966 - "Devil's Eye"
- 1967 - "Do not drive a wave"
- 1967 - "Vampire Ball"
- 1967 - "Valley of Dolls"
- 1968 - "Command of the Destroyers"
- 1969 - "One of the Thirteen"