Kelly Garrett was
portrayed by
Jaclyn Smith, who reprised the role in a
cameo in the 2003 film
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
She is the only Angel who stayed with the Townsend
Agency for the show's entire 5-season run (1976-1981).
Uncommonly beautiful but not uniquely so, Smith's image
is provided as evidence of Kelly's doppelganger, not
once but twice (Seasons One and Four). Kelly has common
sense developed from firsthand experience. She is
skilled at self defense with her hand, mind or a gun and
she remains an innocent yet sveldt temptress. Physically Kelly Garrett is one of
the real classic beauties of the seventies having a
pinup girl quality. She is sultry, sexy and classy and
the most sensitive of the three Angels. Kelly Garrett is an orphan
and she was raised by nuns in the St. Agnes
Orphanage. She
managed to turn her life around by joining the police
force, where she gained confidence and integrity. She
was later recruited by Charlie and joined the Townsend
Agency to lead an independent life.
She is known as the street-wise and tough Angel
and
probably had the bumpiest time of any Angel, enduring
and miraculously surviving
countless car chases, kidnappings, chloroformings, explosions, hostage
situations, murderous post-hypnotic suggestion,
unwitting heroin addiction, and two separate incidents
of a gunshot to the head.
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It's a miracle she survived - but it's also a
testament to the strength under that sometimes shy
exterior.
Kelly Garrett
was possibly the most sensitive and vulnerable of the
Angels.
It is no
surprise that she spent her personal time helping
disadvantaged children. |
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She volunteered at a
center for autistic kids, and when she found out that a
single parent police officer she was working with
physically abused his son, she took him to court and
convinced him that he needed counseling. She is single
and lives in Los Angeles with her large poodle, Albert.
Kelly's house number is 326.
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Past:
Kelly
Garrett came from a hard background. She was born in
Dallas. She never met her parents and was raised at the
St. Agnes Orphanage, raised by
nuns and grew up in a
number of foster homes and came dangerously close to a
life of crime. Her last name Garrett was given by
a nun at St. Agnes Orphanage. Although Kelly was
initially assigned a "streetwise" personality, it faded
over time to match Jaclyn Smith's more sensitive and
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Fashion:
Turtlenecks with blazers or
silky blouses and gold jewelry. Bikinis, bathing suites
and haute couture dresses. Kelly look heavenly in
everything she wears. Especially in a bikini.
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Romance:
Most of the Angels found themselves romantically
involved at one time or another with someone they
encountered on the job, but Kelly is the only Angel
depicted having a romance with someone the girls don't
ultimately expose as a felon. In the first season, Kelly
considerately, if dishonestly, breaks up with her
boyfriend Dr. Alan Samuelson (played by Tom Selleck sans mustache
- Episode "Target: Angels"), when
she fears the hit man making attempts on her life will
put him in jeopardy.
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She also fell in love with the handsome government agent
Carl Hansworth (played by Dennis Cole) in the
episode "Terror on Skis" and with Bill Cord (played by Dallas's
Patrick Duffy) and she almost left The Townsend Agency
in the episode "One Love, Two Angels".
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Car:
She drives a beige Ford Mustang II with license
plate number CALIFORNIA 356-CFX (which gets blown up, twice,
in the First Season Episode "Angels on Wheels" and
in the Season Four Episode "Toni's Boys"). When the
Townsend Agency moved in Hawaii in Season 5 she owned a
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Covers and Techniques: Kelly Garrett is an expert in karate
and martial arts and an excellent gun shooter. She is
also an expert in picking locks and doors. She often operates under the
guise of dancer or model and her specialty cover
consists of a Southern accent and, sometimes, glasses.
Still, she is the only Angel to have passed herself off
as a being from another galaxy. In actuality, her
extraterrestrial exploits are limited to jumping a
motorcycle through a ring of fire as a carnival
performer, jerry-rigging a sabotaged seatbelt to avoid
falling from a biplane during aerial acrobatics, and
safely landing a passenger jet.
While it was Jill
who gets tapped to go undercover as a dance instructor
in Season One, Kelly's talents in that area flourish in
her absence, as she attempts to teach Sabrina how to
hula, performs in an arena ice dancing spectacular with
Kris, belly dances in a hookah bar, appears in a dance
performance in a Las Vegas casino, and by the final
season stars in a prospective Broadway song-and-dance
revue.
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Why did she leave: Kelly was shot in the head while confronting
an embezzler during the series' swan song episode,
wherein the Angels saw the end of the Townsend Agency
and Charlie in bodily form.
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- Essential Kelly
Garrett Episodes:
- Target Angels - Someone is trying to exterminate
the Angels
