- Born
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- Birth nameDeanna P. Lund
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Deanna Lund is best known for her role as "Valerie Scott" in the two-season cult series of the 1960s: Land of the Giants (1968), produced by Irwin Allen.
Irwin Allen cast Lund in the series, when he saw her in a recently made motion picture. Lund started out as the bad girl of the series, getting herself (and others) into trouble when she searched for food in the "giant land"; and another time trying to cause a mutiny in the castaway group, in the episode, The Bounty Hunter (1969).
As the 51 episode series moved forward, Valerie became more of a team player in the castaway group. Perhaps her best line in the series came in the episode, Wild Journey (1970), when she turns to the series star and says, "Captain, nobody tells me what I can and can't do".
In 1995, Lund was interviewed about her work on "Land of the Giants" and this interview can be found on the "Land of the Giants" DVD set. In the interview, Lund explains how she "felt so silly" acting in "Giants", as she was often talking to people (aka giants) who were not actually on the set. So she was often talking to nobody at all.
Much to the delight of young male viewers of the time, Valerie was often seen wearing sexy outfits in "Giants", and in one episode, Graveyard of Fools (1970), one outfit crossed the line as too sexy, in the eyes of the network.- IMDb Mini Biography By: StuOz
- SpousesJames E. Duffy(August 29, 1980 - ?) (divorced)Don Matheson(April 16, 1970 - ?) (divorced, 1 child)Wilbur Owen Upson(June 1958 - 1963) (divorced, 2 children)
- Children
- In November 2011 she attended the New Jersey Comic Expo in Teaneck, along with other Batman (1966) guest stars Lee Meriwether, Susan Silo and Donna Loren.
- Her first marriage was to a rodeo rider. The marriage lasted four years and produced two children, Randy and Kim.
- A cheerleader in high school, she acted in campus productions of plays by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams during her freshman year at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
- Worked as a weather girl on a TV station in Miami.
- Wrote a 1992 novella, titled Valerie in Giantland, based on Land of the Giants but set a decade later.
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