Margo is the screen and stage name of Margo Timon (née Tucker) a magic

Magic (illusion)

Magic is a performing art that entertains audiences by staging tricks or creating illusions of seemingly impossible or supernatural feats using natural means...

 performer and actress who had a starring slot in the NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 network television special The World's Most Dangerous Magic

The World's Most Dangerous Magic

The World's Most Dangerous Magic was the title of two American television specials showcasing illusion and escapology acts, which were made for the NBC network...

 II. She has also worked with the highly respected duo The Pendragons

The Pendragons

Jonathan and Charlotte Pendragon were an award-winning husband-and-wife team of American illusionists who called their work "physical grand illusion"...

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Life and career

Margo is the offspring of an old established magic family. Her mother is award-winning magician Frances Willard

Frances Willard (magician)

Frances Louise Willard is an American magician.The daughter of magician Harry Willard , who performed as "Willard the Wizard", she began her career at age six as an assistant to her father. After her divorce from Texas newspaper editor Glenn Tucker, with whom she had three children , she...

, 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

Gary Ouellet

Gary Ouellet was a French-Canadian television producer and magician who lived and worked in the United States.He may be best-known as the driving force behind a number of network television specials that helped some of the top performers in modern magic to gain a national and international profile...

 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

Predicament escape

A predicament escape is any form of magic trick or escapology stunt in which the performer is trapped in a dangerous situation and is required to escape from it...

 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

Night Court

Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984, to May 20, 1992. The setting was the night shift of a Manhattan court, presided over by the young, unorthodox Judge Harold T. "Harry" Stone...

and The Young & The Restless.

In 1996 Margo married James Timon who was head of entertainment at Universal Studios

Universal Studios Hollywood

Universal Studios Hollywood is a movie studio and theme park in the unincorporated Universal City community of Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood movie studios still in use...

. The couple first met because Timon had hired The Pendragons for a run at Universal and Margo was working with them.