Base Camp

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Lore & Background

To help pay for college, Camp trained macaws at Busch Gardens on weeknights, weekends, and then during summers performing for crowds of up to 2,000 in six shows a day, six days a week. She was noticed by a talent agent for her hour-long Busch Gardens television special featuring her and her birds, and hired for national-television commercials for Gallo wine and Touch of Sweden hand lotion. This exposure led to small television parts in shows such as *Marcus Welby, M.D.*, *Happy Days*, and *Love, American Style*, as well as a six-episode stint on the miniseries *Rich Man, Poor Man*. Camp landed small early roles in films like *Funny Lady* with Barbra Streisand and James Caan, and *Smile* with Bruce Dern and Barbara Feldon in 1975. She also appeared in the Bruce Lee movie *Game of Death* (1978) as his character Billy Lo's girlfriend, Ann Morris, the young aspiring singer (her scenes were shot with a lookalike as Lee had died before she became involved) performing the film's love theme 'Will This Be The Song I'll Be Singing Tomorrow'.

In Their Own Story

Camp went on to portray a Playmate in Francis Coppola's 1979 film *Apocalypse Now* (followed by an actual pictorial in the October 1979 *Playboy*), though most of her footage was cut from the initial theatrical release. She would later feature more prominently in Coppola's Redux cut. She was also the first actress to play Kristin Shepard, the sister of Linda Gray's character Sue Ellen Ewing, in the primetime soap opera *Dallas* in 1979. Mary Crosby later replaced Camp in this role. Camp worked steadily in film comedies like Peter Bogdanovich's 1981 comedy *They All Laughed*, 1983's *Valley Girl*, 1985's *Clue*, and the 1994 Michael J. Fox comedy *Greedy*. She played police officers in two of the *Police Academy* films and in *Die Hard with a Vengeance*. Camp was nominated twice for the Worst Supporting Actress Golden Raspberry Award – first, in 1982, for *The Seduction*, and then, in 1993, for *Sliver*. In 1999, she had a small part as character Tracy Flick's overbearing mother Judith in the film *Election*, with Reese Witherspoon as Tracy. She appeared in the episode 'Simple Explanation' of *House* in 2009. In 2013, she appeared in a supporting role in David O. Russell's *American Hustle*. The following year, Camp co-produced a Broadway production of *Love Letters* and in 2015 co-produced and appeared in Eli Roth's thriller *Knock Knock* — a remake of *Death Game* (1977, filmed 1974), which she'd acted in. In September 2025, Camp appeared in the Bi-ray music video 'Butterfly (Narrative Version)' directed by Japanese rock star Yoshiki.

Reader's Guide

In the late 1970s, Camp dated Dean Tavoularis, whom she met in the Philippines while filming *Apocalypse Now*. In 1986, she married John Goldwyn, a Paramount executive; they later divorced in 2001. In November 2020, Camp's engagement to 34-year-old Garrett Moore, son of photographer Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda, was announced. However, they never married, and Camp later described the pairing as 'a joke that went too far'.

Did You Know?

• To help pay for college, Camp trained macaws at Busch Gardens, performing for crowds of up to 2,000 in six shows a day, six days a week.
• She was the first actress to play Kristin Shepard on *Dallas* in 1979, before Mary Crosby replaced her.
• Camp appeared in *Apocalypse Now* as a Playmate and later posed for an actual pictorial in the October 1979 *Playboy*.
• She was nominated twice for the Worst Supporting Actress Golden Raspberry Award: in 1982 for *The Seduction* and in 1993 for *Sliver*.
• In September 2025, Camp appeared in the Bi-ray music video 'Butterfly (Narrative Version)' directed by Japanese rock star Yoshiki.