Sandra Will Carradine (née Will; born c. 1947/1948) is an American film and television actress. She was formerly married to actor

Keith Carradine Keith Ian Carradine ( ; born August 8, 1949) is an American actor who has had success on stage, film, and television. He is known for his roles as Tom Frank in Robert Altman's film ''Nashville'', Wild Bill Hickok in the HBO series '' Deadwood ...

, and around the time of their separation she became involved with

Anthony Pellicano Anthony Pellicano (born March 22, 1944) is a former high-profile Los Angeles private investigator and convicted criminal known as a Hollywood fixer. He served a term of thirty months in a federal prison for illegal possession of explosives, fire ...

, a high-profile Hollywood private investigator who was involved in extensive illegal

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activities. In 2006, she pleaded guilty to

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for lying under oath about her awareness of Pellicano's wiretapping of Keith Carradine's phone.

Career

She has appeared in various productions, including relatively small roles in episodes of the television series ''

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'' (1976), ''

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'' (1977), and '' The White Shadow'' (1980–1981), and in the feature films '' Thank God It's Friday'' (1978), ''

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'' (1984), '' Cocktail'' (1988), and '' Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will?'' (1990). She also appeared in television advertisements for milk and Close-Up toothpaste.

Involvement in Telluride community

She initially visited

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, in 1980 for the

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. In 1991, she and then-husband Keith Carradine founded the Sheridan Arts Foundation in Telluride to save and restore its historic Sheridan Opera House. Around the same time, she and her husband purchased a home in Telluride in 1992 from the estate of music promoter Bill Graham, who had died in a helicopter crash in 1991. On April 1, 1994, she herself was involved in a helicopter crash on a heli-skiing excursion in the Telluride area, along with her son, supermodel/actress

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, Colorado real estate mogul Richard Taubman (whom Brinkley would marry later that year), a ski guide, and a pilot. She suffered a minor injury in the crash, while Taubman was seriously injured. Two days later,

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CEO

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was killed in a similar incident in Nevada.

Personal life

She is the ex-wife of actor

. They were married on February 6, 1982, and had two children: Cade Richmond Carradine, born on July 19, 1982, and Sorel Johannah Carradine, born on June 18, 1985. They separated in 1993, and she filed for divorce on November 16, 1999.

Legal issues

Their bitter divorce dispute led to a scandal and her federal criminal prosecution in Los Angeles involving the infamous Hollywood private investigator

, who gathered evidence to help with her divorce case, and with whom she became romantically involved. On January 6, 2006, she pleaded guilty to

for testifying that she did not know about illegal

wiretaps Telephone tapping (also wire tapping or wiretapping in American English) is the monitoring of telephone and Internet-based conversations by a third party, often by covert means. The wire tap received its name because, historically, the monitorin ...

that Pellicano placed on her ex-husband's phone. Pellicano was also involved in many other cases besides that of the Carradines, and his actions became notorious. He was eventually convicted of various charges including racketeering and wiretapping, and a significant number of other people were also convicted of crimes associated with their involvement with his illegal activities, including Beverly Hills police officer Craig Stevens, Los Angeles police officer Mark Arneson, film director

John McTiernan John Campbell McTiernan Jr. (born January 8, 1951) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his action films, especially ''Predator'' (1987), '' Die Hard'' (1988), and ''The Hunt for Red October'' (1990). His later well-known films incl ...

, and others. She subsequently cooperated with investigators related to the Pellicano investigations, and was sentenced on February 8, 2010, to 400 hours of

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, two years of

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, and a $10,000 fine. She underwent some financial hardship, letting an architecturally historic apartment building she owned fall into disrepair due to lack of maintenance, and eventually defaulting on the mortgage for the building. In 2009, she offered her beach home in the Rincon Point gated community in Carpinteria, California (near Santa Barbara and Ventura), for sale for $4.29 million. She had purchased the home in 1991 after enrolling her son in a prep school in the area. In 2013, she offered her Telluride home for sale for $8 million, while the home was in the midst of foreclosure proceedings with an outstanding principal of approximately $3.5 million.

Filmography

Film

1978 Go West, young girl, Gilda

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carradine, Sandra Will 1948 births American film actresses American television actresses Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women