Actress. Born June Edna Wilson, she will best be remembered for her iconic Ajax snorting scene in Cheech and Chong’s 1978 comedy 'Up in Smoke.' A prom queen from Manhattan Beach, California, she had a promising movie career in the late 1960s and early 70s, appearing in such films as 'Where Angels Go Trouble Follows' (1968), 'Head' (1968), 'Drive, He Said' (1971), 'Pretty Maids All in a Row' (1971), 'Top of the Heap' (1972), 'Thunderbolt and Lightfoot' (1974), 'The Student Body' (1976) and 'Sextette' (1978) which was to be her – and Mae West’s — final feature. She's also widely credited for naming the band "Three Dog Night," while dating lead singer Danny Hutton. By the late 1970s, her real-life struggle with drugs and alcohol derailed her acting career and left her, at times, homeless and living on L.A.'s Skid Row. She danced at clubs, tried rehab several times, and was robbed and raped while living on the streets. By 2001, she was selling newspapers to get by – and spent time in jail for failing to complete community service after a DUI conviction. She spent the past few years, clean and sober, staying in small rooms in downtown L.A. hotels and living off Social Security disability payments. Fairchild died in hospice care after a long battle with liver cancer.
Actress. Born June Edna Wilson, she will best be remembered for her iconic Ajax snorting scene in Cheech and Chong’s 1978 comedy 'Up in Smoke.' A prom queen from Manhattan Beach, California, she had a promising movie career in the late 1960s and early 70s, appearing in such films as 'Where Angels Go Trouble Follows' (1968), 'Head' (1968), 'Drive, He Said' (1971), 'Pretty Maids All in a Row' (1971), 'Top of the Heap' (1972), 'Thunderbolt and Lightfoot' (1974), 'The Student Body' (1976) and 'Sextette' (1978) which was to be her – and Mae West’s — final feature. She's also widely credited for naming the band "Three Dog Night," while dating lead singer Danny Hutton. By the late 1970s, her real-life struggle with drugs and alcohol derailed her acting career and left her, at times, homeless and living on L.A.'s Skid Row. She danced at clubs, tried rehab several times, and was robbed and raped while living on the streets. By 2001, she was selling newspapers to get by – and spent time in jail for failing to complete community service after a DUI conviction. She spent the past few years, clean and sober, staying in small rooms in downtown L.A. hotels and living off Social Security disability payments. Fairchild died in hospice care after a long battle with liver cancer.
Bio by: Louis du Mort
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