Kim Lankford

Kim Lankford is a retired American actress known for playing Ginger Ward on the CBS soap opera Knots Landing between 1979 and 1983. She got her first screen role in the 1976 movie Harry and Walter Go to New York and then acted in sitcom episodes such as Happy Days. In 1978 she played the female lead in NBC's short-lived sitcom The Waverly Wonders, opposite Joe Namath, and starred in the teen comedy Malibu Beach. She played one of the original leads of Knots Landing for four seasons, leaving in 1983, and had a part opposite Chuck Norris in The Octagon (1980). Guest appearances included Fantasy Island, The Love Boat and Cheers, she was a regular on the ABC detective drama Murphy's Law, and she appeared in Cameron's Closet and Night of the Running Man (1995). She played her Knots Landing character again in the 1997 follow-up Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac and retired from acting in 2000.