Background
Raffin, Deborah was born on March 13, 1953 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Raffin, Deborah was born on March 13, 1953 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Student, Valley College.
Raffin appeared in several 1970s Hollywood films. She co-starred with Joseph Bottoms in the Gregory Peck-produced film The Dove (1974). Her 1976 television movie Nightmare in Badham County became a theatrical hit in mainland China, making Raffin a star there and leading to her later becoming the first Western actress ever to undertake a movie promotion tour in that country.
That same year she starred in the television series adaptation of the hit 1978 film Foul Play, in which she and Barry Bostwick took over the roles played by Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase.
In 1988 she starred in James Clavell"s Noble House with Pierce Brosnan. In 1991 she appeared as Julie Vale, a telepath, in the cult film Scanners II: The New Order alongside British-born Canadian actor David Hewlett.
She later appeared as Julie Camden Hastings on the television show 7th Heaven and as Doctor Hightower in the American Broadcasting Company Family teenager series The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Raffin died from leukemia in her native Los Angeles on November 21, 2012, aged 59.
Member Screen Actors Guild.
M. Michael Viner.