Sharon Tate was an actress.
" The Hollywood Reporter provided some positive comments, such as, "Sharon Tate emerges as the film's most sympathetic character 
 His 1979 film Tess was dedicated "to Sharon", as Tate had read Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles during her final stay with Polanski in London and had left it for him to read with the comment that it would be a good story for them to film together

