Brianne Leary

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Brianne Leary
Born
Brianne Banigan Leary

(1957-07-28) July 28, 1957 (age 67)
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
OccupationActress-Host-Journalist-Inventor
Years active1978–present
Known for CHiPs
Baa Baa Black Sheep

Brianne Banigan Leary (born July 28, 1957) [1] [2] [ unreliable source? ] is an American actress best known for her role in the NBC series CHiPs as Officer Sindy Cahill. She appeared on multiple television shows such as The Love Boat,and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. She also co-hosted the Disney Channel's second season of Walt Disney World Inside Out with George Foreman and J.D. Roth. She also hosted Animal Planet's Petsburgh USA . Leary also invented a pet product called the PawPlunger.

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Family and career

Leary's mother was the Assistant City Editor for the Arizona Daily Star , and she is a cousin of writer Timothy Leary.

During high school at Canyon Del Oro in Tucson, Arizona, Leary was a gymnastics champion, finishing in the top three at the State Championship in 1974.

Leary first appeared on television as a contestant on Match Game '76 . She won several games over the four episodes in which she appeared, earning a total of $9,050. She came back to the show three years later as a celebrity panelist, becoming the only person to appear on the 1970s incarnation as both a contestant and a panelist (1979 contestant Kirstie Alley came back to the re-booted show as a panelist in 2019).

Leary's first acting role came as nurse Susan Ames in the series Baa Baa Black Sheep. Also known as Black Sheep Squadron (1977–1978). She later had a recurring role as Officer Sindy Cahill in the second season of CHiPs (1978–1979). Her first appearance on CHiPs was in the episode “Family Crisis”(S2Ep3). She also starred in various shows such as: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century ; as slave girl Ryma The Fall Guy ; Simon & Simon ; No Soap, Radio ; as Russian gymnast Tania in The Paper Chase episode "A Case of Detente", 1979; and 1st & Ten . She also made an appearance in Battle of the Network Stars V in November 1978 and Battle of the Network Stars VI in May 1979. She further appeared as Marjorie, love interest for Jack Sullivan, the widowed father of public defender Christine Sullivan, in Night Court , season 3, episode 3, 1985.

From 1996 until 1998, Leary created a Canadian animated children's TV show, Stickin' Around , with Robin Steele, who worked on MTV's Stick Figure Theatre. [3]

In 2007, Leary received a patent for her "portable device for cleaning an animal's paw", called "Paw Plunger". [4] The Paw Plunger cleans dirty/muddy pet paws.

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  2. ↑ "Brianne Leary". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
  3. ↑ Perlmutter, David, 1980- (2018). The encyclopedia of American animated television shows. Lanham, Maryland. pp. 598–599. ISBN   978-1-5381-0373-9. OCLC   1014072872.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ "Patent US7302915 - Portable device for cleaning an animal's paw - Google Patents" . Retrieved 2012-02-14.
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