Laurette Spang-McCook

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Date of Birth May 16, 1951
Age 70 Years, 11 Months, 29 Days
Place of Birth Buffalo
Country United States
Profession Actress
Horoscope Taurus

Laurette Spang-McCook is a well-known American actress best known for her roles in television series and television movies. She is best known for her role as Cassiopeia in the original 1978 version of the science fiction-drama series Battlestar Galactica.Laurette went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts to study.

How Much is the net worth of Laurette Spang-McCook ?

As of 2022, Laurette Spang-net McCook ha a estimated net worth of $2 million. Spang retired in 2007, but her more-than-three-decade career in television helped her become a millionaire. She appeared in over 50 television shows and TV movies since 1972 and retired in 2007.

Early age and Childhood

Laurette Spang-McCook (born May 16, 1951) is an American television actress. She is best known for playing the character Cassiopeia on the original Battlestar Galactica (1978). According to Astrologers, Laurette Spang-McCook’s zodiac sign is Taurus.

Relationship status of Laurette Spang-McCook

On February 16, 1980, Laurette tied the knot with actor John McCook. John was previously married two times-first to actresses Marilyn McPherson and later to Juliet Prowse. He has even fathered a child, named Seth, with his second wife, Juliet.Laurette and John are the parents of three children: Jake McCook, Becky McCook, and Molly McCook. Molly McCook is an actress in her own right, having followed in her parents’ footsteps.

Career

The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, The Dukes of Hazzard, and Magnum, P.I. were among Spang’s later playing roles. In 1984, she declared her de facto retirement from acting, however she did make a cameo in the 2007 horror thriller Plot 7, which also starred her then-husband John McCook. Spang made an appearance in the Sciography documentary series on the Sci-Fi Channel in an episode of Battlestar Galactica in 2002. She made another appearance in a Battlestar Galactica documentary in 2003, which was included as an extra feature in the series’ 25th anniversary DVD box set.

Spang was cast as Cassiopeia in the Battlestar Galactica pilot film, “Saga of a Star World,” near the end of her contract with Universal (by which time her money had almost run out and she had been evicted from an apartment she had been renting), according to People Weekly Magazine on October 2nd, 1978.

In an early form of the script, she was supposed to be killed off in the pilot film, with the reptiloid Ovions almost cannibalizing her. However, the character was saved, and she was cast in a regular part in the following weekly series, but “Standards and Practices” (network censors) compelled her to change careers. (Because the censors wouldn’t let her be a socialator any longer, Glen Larson and Donald P. Bellisario recast her as a medtech in the series, beginning with “Lost Planet of the Gods, Parts 1& 2″).