Cynthia Gibb
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Cynthia Gibb (born December 14, 1963 in Bennington, Vermont, U.S.) is an American actress and former model who has starred in film and on television. Gibb grew up in Westport, Connecticut and got her big break at the age of 14 when she was discovered by the Eileen Ford Agency in New York City. She was on the cover of Vogue and Young Miss. Fate then intervened, as director Woody Allen saw her in one of those magazines and gave her her first film role in his 1980 movie Stardust Memories. In the 1986 war film, Salvador, directed by Oliver Stone and starring James Woods, she portrayed an American nun in El Salvador who was raped and murdered. Gibb's best known TV role was on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow as Susan "Suzi" Martin Wyatt Carter from 1981-1983. She was also a regular for three seasons on the original Fame TV show and appeared in the first three Diagnosis: Murder movies in 1992 as Dr. Amanda Bentley. In the TV adaptation of Gypsy she starred as the adult Rose Louise/Gypsy Rose Lee, opposite Bette Midler as Mama Rose. She later starred in the 1995 short lived TV series Deadly Games. She has also played in many TV movies, including the role of Karen Carpenter in The Karen Carpenter Story (1989). She has three children Description above from the Wikipedia article Cynthia Gibb, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Movies (40)
Lux Freer
Director (Directing)
2023
Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection
as Self
2023
Christmas on the Menu
as Shannon Byrde
2020
Ivy & Mistletoe
as Mary Anderson
2020
Sharing Christmas
as Helen
2017
Stalker's Prey
as Sandy Wilcox
2017
Broadcasting Christmas
as Patrice Montgomery
2016
Caged No More
as Lottie
2016
Christmas Land
as Elaine Richardson
2015
Before I Sleep
as Caroline
2013
The Cheating Pact
as Brenda Marshall
2013
My Dog's Christmas Miracle
as Madeline
2011
A Nanny for Christmas
as Samantha Ryland
2010
Accused at 17
as Jacqui Madler
2009
Beautiful Loser
as Bonnie (adult)
2009
Fall of Hyperion
as Jenni Hansen
2008
An Accidental Christmas
as Vicky
2007
Christie's Revenge
as Miranda Colton
2007
A Family Lost
as Valerie Williamson
2007
Demons from Her Past
as Marilyn Baxter
2007
A Crime of Passion
as Frederica Dumay
2003
Mary Christmas
as Mary Malone
2002
Full Frontal
as Pregnant Woman
2002
The Wandering Soul Murders
as Jill Dempsey
2001
A Colder Kind of Death
as Jill Dempsey
2001
Earthquake in New York
as Laura Rykker
1998
High Stakes
as Annie Fitzgerald
1997
Love-Struck
as Emily Vale
1997
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
as Kelly Adams
1997
Holiday Affair
as Jodie Ennis
1996
Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O'Hara Story
as Alexandra O'Hara
1994
Sin and Redemption
as Billie Simms
1994
Sin & Redemption
as Billie Simms
1994
Gypsy
as Louise Hovick / Gypsy Rose Lee
1993
The Woman Who Loved Elvis
as Emily Shaw
1993
Diagnosis Murder: A Twist of the Knife
as Dr. Amanda Bentley
1993
Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street
as Dr. Amanda Bentley
1992
Drive Like Lightning
as Ginger McDaniel
1992
Diagnosis Murder: Diagnosis of Murder
as Amanda Bentley
1992
Death Warrant
as Amanda Beckett
1990
TV Shows (10)
Criminal Minds
as Kathy Gray
2005
Without a Trace
as Tracie Duncan
2002
The Division
as Donna Packard
2001
This Is How the World Ends
as Nicole Van Dyke
2000
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Karen Campbell
1999
Judging Amy
as Irene Kraft
1999
Superman: The Animated Series
as Trish Mills (voice)
1996
7th Heaven
as Betsy
1996
Deadly Games
as Lauren Ashborne
1995
Madman of the People
as Meg Buckner
1994