Ultra Violet: Ultra Violet. Actress: Midnight Cowboy. The noted outré underground celebrity Ultra Violet was born Isabelle Collin Dufresne on September 6, 1935, and a convent-raised French bourgeois heiress. A coiffured society deb in those days, she moved to New York in 1953 where she spent a decade surrounding herself with modernist artists like John D. Graham, John Chamberlain, and Salvador Dalí, the last of whom triggered her career as a painter. It...
Known For: Midnight Cowboy (The Party), An Unmarried Woman (Lady MacBeth), Hot Parts (Narrator), Dinah East (Daniela)