Watching the Olympics, in particular the women's figure skating final, made me suddenly wonder what happened to skater and actress Lynn Holly Johnson. She was decent, placing second at the novice level at the U.S. Championships (according to numerous different places), then starred as a skater who goes blind in Ice Castles, and as a skater who goes after James Bond in For Your Eyes Only. She kept acting for a decade or so. And let's face facts, she was cute. Clearly part of my recollecting was due to a passing resemblance to Gracie Gold.
Here she is at her cute peak:
Related to James Bond: Lynn Holly Johnson, dynamite as Bibi Dahl im "For Your Eyes Only" (includes some pictures during her young actress days)
It turns out that after actressing, she got married, had two kids, and last year had a stroke caused by a hole in her heart (which apparently is a LOT more common than I ever knew). Took awhile to recover, and while she might not yet be fully recovered, she's doing pretty well. Below are two articles about this event, which include pretty recent pictures of her with her kids. She's still cute.
Article 1 about the stroke and recovery
Article 2 about the stroke and recovery
And here's a fairly recent picture taken about the same time as in the article, showing how cute she still is.
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