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Cynthia Gibb

Cynthia Lowrie Gibb (born December 14, 1963), also credited as Cindy Gibb, is an American actress and former model who has starred in film and on television. She began her career as a cast member on the musical television drama Fame, based on the movie of the same name. She also appeared in the films Youngblood (1986), Salvador (1986), Malone (1987), Short Circuit 2 (1988) and Death Warrant (1990). She received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Gypsy Rose Lee in the film Gypsy (1993).

Cynthia Lowrie Gibb was born December 14, 1963, in Bennington, Vermont. She grew up in Westport, Connecticut and attended Staples High School.

At the age of 14, she began assignments with the Ford Modeling Agency in New York City. She was on the cover of Vogue and Young Miss magazines. It was during this period that she was cast for her first film role in 1980, as a Young Fan in the Woody Allen film Stardust Memories.

In 1986, Gibb had her first female lead role as Jessie Chadwick in the sports drama Youngblood, also starring Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze. Later that year, she portrayed an American lay missionary in El Salvador who was brutally raped and murdered in the drama Salvador, directed by Oliver Stone and starring James Woods.

On television, Gibb also played the role of Susan Martin Wyatt Carter on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow, appearing from 1981 to 1983. Gibb was also a regular for three of the six seasons of the television series Fame, which aired from 1982 to 1987. Gibb later starred in the NBC sitcom Madman of the People (1994–1995), and the UPN series Deadly Games (1995–1997). Over her career, Gibb has appeared in many various TV series, including 7th Heaven, Judging Amy, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Without A Trace, and Criminal Minds.

Gibb has also appeared in many TV movies, most notably in the lead role of Karen Carpenter in The Karen Carpenter Story which aired on CBS on January 1, 1989 and was the highest-rated TV movie of that year, and in the 1993 TV adaptation of Gypsy, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film; where Gibb played the adult Gypsy Rose Lee opposite Bette Midler as Madame Rose. She played Dr. Amanda Bentley in a trio of Diagnosis: Murder TV movies between 1992 and 1993. In 2002, she played Mary Maloney opposite John Schneider in Mary Christmas.

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