- Was a top fashion model in the mid to late 1960s.
- Born in Buffalo, raised in Canada after her father's death, she briefly attended the University of Toronto, before moving to Paris in the mid-1960s to become a model with the Dorian Leigh Agency.
- She had auditioned for Gunn (1967) and Valley of the Dolls (1967) but didn't land either of the films. She later said that she was glad that she didn't land either of the films, because she thought the scripts were "appalling".
- She took acting classes from Lee Strasberg in New York, when she made her film debut in the hit film Wait Until Dark (1967).
- She took courses in radio and television arts at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, Canada.
- She got her start in modeling in Toronto, Canada, but lack of employment opportunities there sent her to Paris, France where her modeling career blossomed. By 1971, she was earning up to $500 per day as a model.
- She decided to enter modeling at the age of 19, after having conquered the skin condition of eczema, which she had battled since childhood.
- She chose the stage name as Samantha Jones, because she was writing short stories as a teenager and wanted to conceal her identity. She figured that she could sign her name as "Sam Jones" and readers would think the writer was a male. She co-wrote books with her second husband as Samantha Jones Wallace.
- She is a longtime practitioner of Transcendental Meditation and has a deep understanding of Ayurveda and its relationship to health and well being.
- She got mixed messages from producer Mel Ferrer and director Terence Young of her debut film Wait Until Dark (1967) They told her that they liked her work in the film and offered her a four picture deal. She turned them down, not wanting to be tied down to one production company. So they retaliated by telling her to see the rushes of the film and pointing to a close-up of her face and saying that they didn't really need it in the film. And then, they yelled at her in front of everyone.
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