Margo (magician)

Margo is the screen and stage name of Margo Timon (nee Tucker) a magic performer and actress who had a starring slot in the NBC network television special The World's Most Dangerous Magic II. She has also worked with the highly respected duo The Pendragons.

Life and career

Margo is the offspring of an old established magic family. Her mother is award-winning magician Frances Willard, who is famous for her performances of the Spirit Cabinet trick and who is in turn a descendant of Willard The Wizard. Margo's father is Texan newspaper editor Glenn Tucker. Her younger sister Hannah is married to well known close-up magic specialist and lecturer Michael Ammar.

As an assistant with The Pendragons, Margo appeared on the Tonight Show and the World Magic Awards. In 1999 she was picked by producer Gary Ouellet to be one of the stars of the second of his World's Most Dangerous Magic specials. Ouellet and his team created for her the predicament escape trick "Rat Attack", in which she was shackled into a coffin-like box which was then filled with rats and she then magically escaped.

She has also studied acting and had small roles in the television series Night Court and The Young & The Restless.

In 1996 Margo married James Timon who was head of entertainment at Universal Studios. The couple first met because Timon had hired The Pendragons for a run at Universal and Margo was working with them.

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