Cheryl Ladd

Cheryl Ladd is an American actress, singer, and author who was born in Huron, South Dakota, and came to Los Angeles to begin a career in music, singing as the voice of Melody on the animated Josie and the Pussycats and on its 1970 album. She moved into commercials and guest spots on television before her break in 1977, when she joined the ABC series Charlie's Angels as Kris Munroe, written as the younger sister of Farrah Fawcett-Majors's character, and she stayed until the show was canceled in 1981. Later she took leading roles in over 30 television movies and appeared in features including Millennium (1989), Lisa (1990), Permanent Midnight (1998), and Unforgettable (2017). She played Jillian Deline on Las Vegas from 2003 to 2008 and stepped into the title role of a Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun from 2000 to 2001. She also published books, among them a children's story and a golf memoir.