Karen Lorre

Karen Lorre is an American actress and model who was born Karen Witter in Long Beach, California. She studied pre-med psycho-physiology at the University of California, Irvine and modeled to cover tuition, appearing in commercials. Playboy made her its Playmate of the Month for March 1982, with Arny Freytag shooting her centerfold, and she returned to the cover in March 1983. She then turned to acting, mostly on television, with parts on Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Cheers, The X-Files, Sliders, NYPD Blue and Malcolm in the Middle. She played Nemesis in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and appeared in the film The Vineyard (1989). On the ABC soap One Life to Live she took over as Tina Lord from Andrea Evans, winning the part over more than 300 others, staying until 1994, and earning a 1991 Soap Opera Digest Award nomination for Outstanding Female Newcomer in Daytime. She retired from acting.