Cynthia Gibb

Actress

Birthday December 14, 1963

Birth Sign Sagittarius

Birthplace Bennington, Vermont, U.S.

Age 60 years old

Nationality United States

Height 1.62 m

#17820 Most Popular

1963

Cynthia Gibb (born December 14, 1963) is an American actress and former model who has starred in film and on television.

She began her career as a cast member on the musical television drama Fame, based on the movie of the same name.

Cynthia Lowrie Gibb was born December 14, 1963, in Bennington, Vermont, U.S. and grew up in Westport, Connecticut, and attended Staples High School.

At the age of 14, she began assignments with the Ford Modeling Agency in New York City.

She was on the cover of Vogue and Young Miss magazines.

1980

She was cast for her first film role in 1980, as a Young Fan in the Woody Allen film Stardust Memories.

Gibb appeared in Youngblood, also starring Rob Lowe.

1981

She also played the role of Susan Martin Wyatt Carter on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow, appearing from 1981 to 1983.

1982

Gibb was a regular for three of the six seasons of the television series Fame, which aired from 1982 to 1987.

1986

She also appeared in the films Youngblood (1986), Salvador (1986), Malone (1987), Short Circuit 2 (1988) and Death Warrant (1990).

In Salvador (1986), directed by Oliver Stone and starring James Woods, she portrayed an American lay missionary in El Salvador who was brutally raped and murdered.

In the TV adaptation of Gypsy, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film; she played the adult Gypsy Rose Lee opposite Bette Midler as Madame Rose.

1989

She has also played in many TV movies, including the role of Karen Carpenter in The Karen Carpenter Story (1989).

She played Mary Maloney opposite John Schneider in Mary Christmas.

1992

She appeared in the Diagnosis: Murder movies in 1992 as Dr. Amanda Bentley.

1993

She received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Gypsy Rose Lee in the film Gypsy (1993).

1994

Gibb later starred in the NBC sitcom Madman of the People (1994–1995), and UPN series Deadly Games (1995–1997).