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Elaine Giftos
Elaine Giftos
Elaine Giftos made two guest appearances on Three's Company in different roles.
Personal Information
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Career/Family Information
Spouse(s): Herbert Wright (producer, died 2005)
Character information
Appeared on: Three's Company
Character played: Darlene / Randy Buckley
Episode appearances: "A Hundred Dollars a What?" (Season 4)
"An Affair to Forget" (Season 7)
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Elaine Giftos (born 24 January 1945,[1] Pittsfield, Massachusetts) made two guest appearances on Three's Company, first as Darlene a girlfriend of Chrissy's who turns out to be a callgirl in Season 4 episode "A Hundred Dollars a What?", then as Randy Buckley, a TV commercial producer/director friend of Janet who doesn't tell Jack, who she starts seeing when she arrives in town to shoot a commercial, that she is married in the Season 7 episode "An Affair to Forget".

Trained by George Balanchine as a member of the New York City Ballet, Giftos performed on the Broadway stage before moving to California to pursue a career in movies and television.

Her first television appearance was in an episode of I Dream of Jeannie ("Jeannie the Matchmaker") as a dating service clerk named Laverne Sadelko who sets herself up with Roger Healy. Other shows she appeared in were Bonanza, The Interns, Ironside, Adam-12, The Streets of San Francisco, Love, American Style, The Partridge Family (in a recurring role), Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Bob Newhart Show, The Six Million Dollar Man, Otherworld, Barney Miller, Three's Company, Hawaii Five-O, Quincy, M.E., Knight Rider, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Tales of the Unexpected, the cult classic War of the Worlds, Ally McBeal, Mars and Beyond, and Family Law.

Her movie credits include roles in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, The Student Nurses, Gas-s-s-s (as the female lead, Cilla), No Drums, No Bugles, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Paternity (starring Burt Reynolds), Angel, and The Trouble with Dick.

Giftos was married to writer/producer Herbert Wright until his death in 2005.

Since 1989, Giftos Wright has provided Feng shui consulting services under the name "The Wright Way of Feng Shui."[2][3]

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