Actress, 84, who worked with John Wayne and starred in 80s mystery seen on rare outing… can you guess who?

By BRIAN MARKS, US ASSISTANT SHOWBUSINESS EDITOR

Published: 08:05 EST, 11 November 2026 | Updated: 13:53 EST, 11 November 2026

This film and television star was spotted on a rare outing in Los Angeles last week.

The actress, now 84, got her start in Hollywood in the 1960s, when she appeared in classic crime thrillers and a beloved Western that paired her with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara.

At the same time, she launched a career in television, and later in the decade she scored her first leading role on a TV series in a short-lived spinoff of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

But her biggest success wouldn’t come until the start of the 1980s, when she was cast alongside a Hollywood star with a controversial personal life in a hit mystery series.

Despite her age, she has continued acting, most recently shooting a television guest role on a popular police procedural series earlier this year.

Can you guess who this star of film and television is?

This film and television star was spotted on a rare outing in Los Angeles last week

But her biggest success wouldn’t come until the start of the 1980s, when she was cast alongside a Hollywood star with a controversial personal life in a hit mystery series. Can you guess who this star of film and television is?

The Daily Mail has reached out to Powers’s representative for comment but has not yet heard back.

Powers is best known for starring opposite Robert Wagner on Hart to Hart for five seasons, from 1979 to 1984, though the duo would reunite as their married characters for eight TV movies in the 1990s.

She was pictured out in Los Angeles last week as she took care of errands around the city.

Powers showed off her age-defying figure in a sporty ensemble with a white long-sleeve shirt and slim black leggings, along with white-and-gray Adidas trainers.

She carried along a black bag and wore a sporty pair of orange-tinted black-framed sunglasses that complemented her red bob.

Powers, who was born Stefania Zofya Paul in 1942 in the heart of Hollywood, established herself as a future star when she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1958, when she was just 16 years old.

After the studio-mandated name change from Paul to Powers, she established herself in films at the start of the ’60s.

She’s Stefanie Powers, who’s best known for starring opposite Robert Wagner on Hart to Hart for five seasons, from 1979 to 1984, though the duo would reunite as their married characters for eight TV movies in the 1990s

She was pictured out in Los Angeles last week as she took care of errands around the city

Powers showed off her age-defying figure in a sporty ensemble with a white long-sleeve shirt and slim black leggings, along with white-and-gray Adidas trainers

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One of her first major roles was in the classic noir crime thriller Experiment in Terror (1962), which starred Glenn Ford and Lee Remick and was directed by Blake Edwards of The Pink Panther fame.

In the same year, Powers appeared in the surprise-hit hospital drama The Interns, and she later returned for the 1964 sequel The New Interns.

In 1963, she appeared in the Western McLintock! (1963), which paired her with Western icons John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara.

Powers’s connection to Wayne continued in 1966, when she starred in a remake of his beloved 1939 Western Stagecoach.

Even as she was taking on more leading roles in films, Powers hedged her bets by taking guest roles on shows including Bonanza and Route 66.

Powers’s growing fame escalated when she scored the lead role in the Man from UNC.L.E. spinoff, The Girl from UNC.L.E., which aired for one season from 1966 to 1967.

In the ’70s, Powers leaned on films again with a major role in the sequel The Magnificent Seven Ride! and a leading role in the Love Bug sequel Herbie Rides Again (1974).

She teamed up with James Caan in 1975’s Gone with the West, and in 1979 she joined the ensemble cast of the British war film Escape to Athena with Roger Moore, David Niven, Elliott Gould and Claudia Cardinale, among many others.

She got her start with films including Experiment in Terror (1962) and 1963’s McLintock!, which paired her with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara

After turning to television in the late ’60s, she focused more on film in the ’70s, including with a role in the British ensemble war film Escape to Athena in 1979; Above, with Roger Moore in the film

That year marked the debut of her biggest success, Hart to Hart. She and Robert Wagner starred as Jennifer and Jonathan Hart, a wealthy married couple who managed to find themselves tangled in criminal conspiracies and murder mysteries nearly every week

She and Robert Wagner starred as Jennifer and Jonathan Hart, a wealthy married couple who managed to find themselves tangled in criminal conspiracies and murder mysteries nearly every week

Powers and Wagner have remained good friends to this day, and the 96-year-old actor wished Powers a happy birthday on Instagram on November 2 to mark her 84th birthday

That year marked the debut of her biggest success, Hart to Hart.

She and Robert Wagner starred as Jennifer and Jonathan Hart, a wealthy married couple who managed to find themselves tangled in criminal conspiracies and murder mysteries nearly every week.

Wagner’s character was the CEO of a major conglomerate located in LA, while Powers played a freelance journalist, and their combined skill sets allowed them to solve numerous crimes before the police even got involved.

The popular series aired five seasons from 1979 to 1984, but viewers hadn’t had enough of Powers and Wagner.

Nine years after Hart to Hart went off the air, the stars reunited for eight TV movies from 1993 to 1996, with the first five airing on NBC, while Canada’s CTV broadcast the final three films.

Powers and Wagner have remained good friends to this day, and the 96-year-old actor wished Powers a happy birthday on Instagram on November 2 to mark her 84th birthday.