Born Elizabeth Ward in 1960 in Arkansas, she won the titles of Miss Arkansas[?] and Miss America in 1982. She soon married and took the name of Elizabeth Gracen. The marriage did not last long, but she retained her married name. She had a minor acting career, and in 1989, while filming Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat[?], she met actor Brendan Hughes[?], and they married soon after. The couple divorced in 1994.
Elizabeth Gracen's best-known acting role has been as the character of the Immortal Amanda in the series Highlander and Highlander: The Raven.
During the time of the sex scandals involving then-President Bill Clinton, Gracen admitted that she had had a sexual relationship with Clinton when he was Governor of Arkansas. She has also appeared nude in Playboy.
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