Rana Jo Platz is the wife of Paul Petersen. Rana Jo Platz’s husband Petersen is an American actor, singer, novelist, and activist. He first rose to prominence in the 1950s playing Jeff Stone on The Donna Reed Show and transitioned to a singing career in the 1960s.
How did Paul Petersen and Rana Jo Platz meet?
How did the two beautiful couple meet and started their relationship? The couple have not given any information about the fate that brought them together. However, Rana Jo is the third woman Petersen got married to. Petersen has been married three times. His first marriage was to actress Brenda Benet.
They married in 1967 and divorced in 1970. In 1974, he married Hallie Litman with whom he had two children. They divorced in 1988. In December 1992, Petersen married Rana Jo Platz. The love birds got married in a beautiful ceremony in the presence of their friends, family, and loved ones. In addition to his two children from his second marriage, Petersen also has a daughter from a previous relationship. Rana Jo Platz and Petersen have no known children.
Rana Jo Platz and Paul Petersen have been married for 29 years. They were dating for 1 year after getting together in 1991 and were married on 27th Dec 1992. There isn’t much information about Rana Jo. She only came into the limelight after she got married to the famous actor.
Rana Jo Platz’s husband Paul Petersen
Petersen began his career in show business at a very young age. He began his career at the age of ten as a Mouseketeer on the Mickey Mouse Club. He appeared in the 1958 film Houseboat alongside Sophia Loren and Cary Grant, but he rose to prominence as teenager Jeff Stone on the ABC Family television sitcom The Donna Reed Show from 1958 to 1966.
The Donna Reed Show became part of American popular culture over the course of eight seasons and decades of syndication reruns, and Petersen was honored with the Young Artist Foundation’s Former Child Star “Lifetime Achievement” Award in 1997 for his role in the series.
After The Donna Reed Show ended, Petersen had a small role as Tony Biddle in the 1967 musical film The Happiest Millionaire. He also appeared in many guest roles, including one as a military officer in the short-lived 1967 ABC Western series Custer, with Wayne Maunder in the title role. He also made a guest appearance on F Troop as “Johnny Eagle Eye” which aired on April 12, 1966.
In 1990, following the suicide of former child star Rusty Hamer, Petersen founded a child-actor support group, A Minor Consideration, to improve working conditions for child actors and to assist in the transition between working as a child actor and adult life, whether in acting or in other professions.
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