Dorothy McGowan

rdf:langString Dorothy McGowan

rdf:langString Dorothy McGowan

rdf:langString Dorothy McGowan

rdf:langString Mamaroneck, New York, U.S.

rdf:langString Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

rdf:langString Didier Dorot

rdf:langString Dorothy McGowan (sometimes credited as Dorothy MacGowan) was a Brooklyn, New York-born former model and actress. As a model, McGowan appeared on numerous covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Glamour, and other publications in the 1960s. She was photographed by Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Melvin Sokolsky, Francesco Scavullo, and others. A daughter of Irish immigrants Sarah (née Philbin) and Michael McGowan, and born in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, she had one sister, Mary, and two brothers, Peter, a policeman who was ordained in 1966 as a Roman Catholic priest, and James, also a policeman, whose role as lead negotiator in a hostage crisis was dramatized in the film Dog Day Afternoon. McGowan was one of photographer William Klein's favorite models. After the release of Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, in which she starred, she disappeared from public life. She was married to, and divorced, from photographer Didier Dorot, with whom she hadtwo children. In 2022, she died at age 82 in Mamaroneck, New York.