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Anya Ormsby

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Lynn Carlin and Anya Ormsby in Dead of Night (1974)
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Anya Ormsby was a very attractive and appealing brunette actress who appeared in three movies during her regrettably short-lived career. Ormsby made a solid and impressive debut as flaky New Age hippie chick Anya in the funny low-budget horror zombie comedy cult favorite "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things." She was likewise fine as traumatized Vietnam veteran Richard Backus' concerned sister Cathy in the excellent fright feature "Deathdream" and once again good as a feisty prison inmate who escapes from jail in the entertainingly trashy exploitation romp "Thunder County." Alas, following her guest appearance on the TV show "Caribe" Anya called it a day as an actress. She's the former wife of screenwriter Alan Ormsby.
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    Universal Remote (2006)
    Universal Remote
    Video
    • Evelyn Ormstead(as Anya Liffey)
    • 2006
    Dead of Night (1974)
    Dead of Night
    6.5
    • Cathy Brooks
    • 1974
    Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
    Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
    5.2
    • Anya
    • 1972
    Mickey Rooney in Thunder County (1974)
    Thunder County
    3.7
    • Actress(as Onya Mark)
    • 1974

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    • Universal Remote (2006)
      Universal Remote
      Video
      • Evelyn Ormstead (as Anya Liffey)
      • 2006
    • Alien Nation (1989)
      Alien Nation
      6.9
      TV Series
      • Mrs. Sartre (as Anya Liffey)
      • 1989
    • Carl Franklin and Stacy Keach in Caribe (1975)
      Caribe
      6.6
      TV Series
      • Peggy James
      • 1975
    • Mickey Rooney in Thunder County (1974)
      Thunder County
      3.7
      • (as Onya Mark)
      • 1974
    • Dead of Night (1974)
      Dead of Night
      6.5
      • Cathy Brooks
      • 1974
    • The Great Masquerade (1974)
      The Great Masquerade
      5.2
      • Cookie
      • 1974
    • Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
      Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
      5.2
      • Anya
      • 1972

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      • Anya Liffey
    • Born
      • 1947
      • Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    • Spouse
      • Alan OrmsbyJuly 31, 1967 - December 23, 1983 (divorced, 1 child)

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      First wife of Alan Ormsby.

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