Stephanie Sinclaire, also known as Stephanie Crawford, is a painter and director in theatre and film. She was born Stephanie Anne Weiss in Boston, Massachusetts on February 28, 1954 to Harvard Law graduate and Naval officer Howard A Weiss and singer and painter Bernice Joan Smith. Her parents divorced and when she was three years old and her mother married Joseph DiLalla, a small band leader, who played with ?Baby? Rose Marie, Jimmy Durante, Louis Armstrong and others in Las Vegas and elsewhere, travelling continually around America. She is one of nine siblings. In 1968 she attended Windsor Mountain High School in Lenox, Massachusetts, a utopian experiment that began in Europe. In 1972 she enrolled in the California College of Art and Craft in Oakland, California, where she studied literature with absurdist playwright Michael McClure and painting while working for Laurel Burch jewellery design. Siclaire married Matthew Eliot Kastin in 1980. They have one daughter, Katherine Kastin, a zoologist, actress and therapist. In 1985 she married Daniel Frank Crawford, founder of The Kings Head Theatre, London. 

February 28th, 1954 in   /  Died:   Apr 14th, 2021