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Pace<\/a> died in her sleep on March 11 while visiting family members in Marina del Rey, her family said in a statement.<\/p>\n Pace was the first Black female actress to be put under long-term contract by Columbia Pictures<\/a> in the early 1960s when she began to make her mark as a model. She made her movie debut in a film from famed B-movie producer William Castle<\/a>, \u201c13 Frightened Girls<\/a>.\u201d A few years later, Pace joined the cast of what was then TV\u2019s hottest primetime soap opera, ABC\u2019s \u201cPeyton Place<\/a>.\u201d The role that she played in 1968 and 1969 made her among the most prominent Black actors on TV at the time.<\/p>\n Pace also saw her star rise in 1971 with her supporting role in the critically beloved,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Judy Pace, a pioneering model and actress known for her work in \u201cPeyton Place,\u201d \u201cBrian\u2019s Song,\u201d \u201cThe Young Lawyers\u201d and numerous films, has died. She was 83. Pace died in her sleep on March 11 while visiting family members in Marina del Rey, her family said in a statement. Pace was the first Black female […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2329769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2329768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Judy-Pace-Pioneering-Actress-and-Model-Known-for-\u2018Peyton-Place.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329770,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329768\/revisions\/2329770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2329769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}