Angie Dickinson

A Golden Globe-winning American television and film actress, perhaps best known for her role as Sergeant Leann "Pepper" Anderson. An officer with the Los Angeles Police Department's Criminal Conspiracy Unit, in the successful 1970s crime drama Police Woman. Born Angeline Brown in Kulm, North Dakota. Her family moved to Burbank, California when Angie was 11. Angeline Brown acquired her professional name Angie Dickinson in 1952 when she married college football star Gene Dickinson. After finishing college she worked as a secretary and in 1953 she entered the local Miss America contest one day before the deadline and took second place. In August of the same year she was one of five winners in a beauty contest sponsored by NBC and appeared in several TV variety shows. Angie got her first good film role opposite John Wayne and Dean Martin in Rio Bravo in 1959 in which she played a flirtatious gambler named Feathers.

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