Dana Lee Connors: Facts about Mike Connors' daughter

Dana Lee Connors is the daughter of Mike Connor. Dana Lee Connors’ father Mike whose real name is Krekor Ohanian was an influential American actor best known for playing private detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series Mannix from 1967 to 1975, a role which earned him a Golden Globe Award and lots of fans.

Dana Lee Connors: Bio Summary

Dana Lee Connors was born on July 1960 to her parents  Mike Connors and Marylou Connors in the United States of America. As of 2022, she is 62 years old. She was not the only child of her parents, she has another sibling whose name is Matthew Gunner Ohanion.

Unlike her father, Dana didn’t pursue an acting career. She spent most of her time away from the media and the pressures that come with it. Not much is known about her as she living a private life. Her brother Matthew Gunner was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 15. Matthew predeceased his father and mother, dying of heart failure in 2007.

After Dana Lee’s brother was diagnosed, their father became active in charitable organizations for mental-disorder patients. He was a spokesperson for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. In 1998, the UC Irvine College of Medicine’s Brain Imaging Center Committee awarded Connors the Silver Ribbon Award for his contributions.

Her Parents met while in college

Dana Lee Connors’ parents meet when they were both students at UCLA. During that time her father studied law on an athletic scholarship while his mother, MaryLou Connor was studying education. The couple developed feeling for one another after they met.

After they dated for a while, her father wanted to marry her mother, but she kept stalling. At the time, she had dropped out of college and was home in Laguna Beach, where Mike Connors was selling brushes and vacuum cleaners door to door to be close to her.

Her father gave her an ultimatum when her mother Marylou Connors was proving too tough. They would either get married or call off their relationship. With that, he left Laguna Beach and returned to school. A few weeks later, Lou said she would marry him. They eventually married on September 10, 1949.

When they got married the couple stayed faithful to each other. Her father recalls how Lana Turner sent a girl to ask for his name. Lana was interested in him, and after he gave his name, Lana sent the girl to ask if Connors would love to have a drink with her in her dressing room.

Dana Lee Connors’s father brushed her off, saying he’d have loved to, but he had an appointment and could not stay much longer. She reminded her that he had not been married long and was still in love with his wife. Her parents were married for about 7 decades. They had one of the longest marriages in Hollywood.

Parents’ death

Dana Lee Connors’ parents, Mike Connors and Marylou Connors lived a fulfilled life and loved each other to the end, so much that after almost seven decades together, they did not want to be apart when the time came. They passed on the same year, in 2017, with Lou dying shortly after Connors’ demise.

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