Cynthia Gibb

Cynthia Gibb is an American actress who began as a model before turning to screen work. Born in Bennington, Vermont, and raised in Westport, Connecticut, she modeled for the Ford agency in New York City at fourteen and appeared on the covers of Vogue and Young Miss. Her first film role came in 1980 in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories. She was a regular on Fame and played Susan Martin Wyatt Carter on Search for Tomorrow. Her first female lead was in the sports drama Youngblood, and she went on to appear in Salvador and Short Circuit 2, with later roles in Malone and Death Warrant. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for playing Gypsy Rose Lee in Gypsy (1993). On television, she also played Karen Carpenter in The Karen Carpenter Story and starred in Madman of the People and Deadly Games.