[3] Her father, William Sherman Plimpton, a native of Portland and graduate of the University of Washington, operated an auto parts store in Roseburg,[4] while her mother worked as a medical researcher.

[3] She and her mother moved into an apartment in Greenwich Village, and Plimpton attended Washington Irving High School in Gramercy Park, Manhattan.

He gently rejects her advances, giving her his bandanna as a souvenir and saying simply, "I just don't want to catch your cold".

[6] Plimpton also appeared in the 1969 Robert Downey Sr., film Putney Swope opposite Ronnie Dyson as one half of an interracial college couple ("It started last weekend at the Yale-Howard game") in a satire of a pimple cream TV spot.

[7] In 2002, it was reported that Plimpton was living in Seattle, Washington, working a day job at a gift center.