Who is Antoinette Bower? Her Bio, Age, Height, Family, Acting Career

Quick Facts

Insufficient time for the family, public pressure, personal issues, and other challenges are some of the reasons celebrities retire from their careers. While some step away from the limelight at the peak of their career, others make an exit after one or two gigs. For Antoinette Bower, no reason was stated for her disappearance from the screen but sizing up her four-decade career, we couldn’t agree more that it was nothing short of amazing.

While her stint as a performer lasted, Bower displayed her craft in the television, film, and on the stage, which placed her above many of her contemporaries with unvaried careers. Despite her unanticipated retirement from acting, Antoinette still has loyal fans who are in love with her talent and the fact that she was one of the greatest stars the mid-1950s produced. Learn more about the former actress and other facts about her in the paragraphs below.

Bio (Age) – Who is Antoinette Bower? 

Antoinette Bower is best known to many people as a stage, film, and television actress who won many hearts with her brilliant performances in several projects on the stage and screen. In addition to her talent, she has an impressive feature that earned her many acting gigs, which were well-delivered.

Baden-Baden, which is in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is the place Antoinette Bower was born to British parents whose names are not known to the public. She was born on the 30th September 1932 and her zodiac sign is Libra. The retired actress spent part of her life in England, after which she moved to the United States and later became a citizen.

The German-born British actress who later became a naturalized American citizen may have been very popular during her active years in the entertainment community but there’s no detailed record about her family history and if she is an only child. Similarly, the names of the institutions she graduated from and where exactly they are located are yet to be publicized.

Acting Career

Before fame, Antoinette Bower featured in numerous television series as a guest actress, portraying different characters in more than ninety projects between 1958 and 1987.

Some of her earliest works include The Twilight Zone, Murder, Perry Mason, The Invaders, Star Trek, She Wrote, Ben Casey, Columbo, The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible, The Six Million Dollar Man, Combat!, and many others. Her talent has also brought her together with notable performers such as Michael Pataki, (in The Cowboy and the Ballerina), (in The Thorn Birds), Shelly Winters (in A Death of Innocence), Jean Simmons (in The Thorn Birds), to mention but a few.

Owing to her superb acting skills, Antoinette Bower was also hired to star in a slew of Canadian projects, with Neon Rider, widely acclaimed television series being the most notable. She was a regular on the series, which originally aired on CTV from 1990 to 1992 and on YTV from 1992 to 1995.

In addition to her guest appearances and roles on TV series, the retired actress had some roles in films such as Blood Song (1982), Superbeast (1972), The Evil That Men Do (1984), Prom Night (1980), Club Paradise (1986), Die Sister, Die! (1972 – not released until 1978), and Time Walker (1982) as well as uncredited roles in The Mephisto Waltz (1971), and Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).

Forty years after appearing in hit projects and rising to the industry’s ranks, precisely in 1995, Antoinette Bower decided to stop acting. While many thought she would come back to the screen after some time, it turned out, after many years that she really meant to kill off her acting career.

The actress has since been enjoying retirement, spending her days with people that matter most to her. Though the media has been excluded from full information of what she has been up to since she faded away from the spotlight, her fans are optimistic she is graciously living the rest of her lives.

Antoinette Bower’s Family

Many marriages last a lifetime while some result in divorce once love gets lost after a point in time in a relationship. Many celebrities we know today found true love after quitting previous relationships while others stayed single after divorcing their spouses. The latter is the case of Antoinette, who married and later divorced a man called James Francis Gill. The year they wedded, their marriage location and how long it lasted is not a public matter and since then the retired actress has been linked to any man.

Similarly, it is not known if Bower had kids for Gill, as there’s no report online indicating she has offsprings.

Height

Right now, details about her height and other body measurements are not readily available for public consumption but we can establish that Bower was one of the most beautiful stars that benefitted from the industry while her stint on the screen lasted.

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