![]() They remained married for the last 2 years (1983–85) of Brynner's life. When Vera settled down in New York City, she tried to start a singing career, appeared in several movies, singing Russian gypsy and folk songs. On April 4, 1983, aged 62, Brynner married his fourth and last wife, Kathyyam Lee (born 1957/1958), a 24-year-old ballerina from Malaysia, whom he had met in a production of The King and I in which she had a small dancing role. (Russian: ) Vera (Borisovna) Bryner was the sister of Yul Brynner (who added a 2nd n to the last name). His 1980 announcement that he would continue in the role of the King for another long tour and Broadway run, together with his affairs with female fans and his neglect of his wife and children, purportedly broke up this marriage. The first house Brynner owned was the Manoir de Criqueboeuf, a sixteenth-century manor house that he and Jacqueline purchased. Brynner and Jacqueline adopted two Vietnamese children: Mia (1974) and Melody (1975). His third wife, Jacqueline Thion de la Chaume (1971–1981), a French socialite, was the widow of Philippe de Croisset (son of French playwright Francis de Croisset and a publishing executive). ![]() They had one child, Victoria Brynner (born November 1962), whose godmother was Audrey Hepburn. His second wife, from 1960 to 1967, Doris Kleiner, was a Chilean model whom he married on the set during shooting of The Magnificent Seven in 1960. Brynner's daughter, Lark Brynner, was born out of wedlock in 1959 and raised by her mother, Frankie Tilden, who was 20 years old when Lark was born. ![]() He regularly returns to Vladivostok, the city of his father's birth, for the "Pacific Meridian" Film Festival. In 2006, Rock wrote a book about his father and his family history titled Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond. Rock is a historian, novelist, and university history lecturer at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York and Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut. ![]() His father nicknamed him "Rock" when he was six years old in honor of boxer Rocky Graziano. He and his first wife, actress Virginia Gilmore (1944–1960), had one child, Rock Yul Brynner (born December 23, 1946). He fathered three children and adopted two. ![]()
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