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Daria Halprin More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

30 December 1948, San Francisco, California, USA

Birth Name

Daria Schuman Halprin

Mini Biography

Dropped out of University of California, where she studied Anthropology, to make her acting debut in Zabriskie Point (1970). Following filming, she lived in the Mel Lyman-led Boston commune with her Zabriskie Point (1970) co-star Mark Frechette who, after robbing a bank, died in prison. In May 1972, she married Dennis Hopper.

Halprin studied with Fritz Perls, the creator of Gestalt Therapy, and she has a Master's in Psychology. She is co-founder (with her mother, Anna Halprin, a pioneering dance therapist/choreographer) and director of The Tamalpa Institute. Her mother was referred to as "the Martha Graham of the West". Her father, Lawrence Halprin, was a prominent landscape architect who hired former Department of the Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall into his firm.

IMDb Mini Biography By: David Stevens

Spouse

Dennis Hopper

(14 May 1972 - 1976) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Her grandmother, Rose Halprin, was national president of Hadassah, the Jewish women's organization, from 1932 to 1934 and again from 1947 to 1952.

Her father is renowned landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and her mother is dance pioneer Anna Halprin.

Mother of Ruthanna Hopper.

Where Are They Now

Teaching movement-based healing arts at Tamalpa Institute, California