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June Fairchild Biography

Birth Name:June Edna Wilson

Birth Place:Manhattan Beach, California, United States

Profession Actress

Fast Facts

  • Got her start as a member of the Gazzarri Dancers, appearing on the TV series "Hollywood A Go-Go․"
  • Spent several years suffering from drug and alcohol addiction and living on Skid Row in Los Angeles, but a jail stint in 2002 helped her to turn her life around
  • Best known as the Ajax lady in "Up in Smoke" and Gloria in "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot․"
  • Gave the band Three Dog Night its name after telling her then-boyfriend, lead singer Danny Hutton, that Australian aborigines determined how cold the night was by the number of dogs they had to sleep with to keep warm