Lori Singer

Lori Singer is an American actress and musician who first drew attention as a cellist, playing with the Oregon Symphony at thirteen and later finishing at Juilliard as its youngest-ever graduate. In the early 1980s she joined Elite Model Management and soon turned to acting, landing the part of Julie Miller on the television series Fame. She won ShoWest's Breakthrough Performer of the Year Award as Ariel Moore in Footloose (1984), and went on to parts in The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), The Man with One Red Shoe (1985), Warlock (1989), and Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993). An Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead followed her work in Trouble in Mind (1985). She played Sydney Bloom in the science fiction series VR.5 and narrated God Knows Where I Am (2016), a documentary. She also served as an executive producer on Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, an Emmy and Peabody winner.