Cindy Fisher (actress)

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Cindy Fisher is an American stage, film and television actress.

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Career

Fisher is best known for the role of Rebecca in the soap opera The Young and the Restless , in which she starred in the early 1980s. While working on the show she met actor Doug Davidson, who became her husband in 1984. They have two children, Calyssa and Caden. [1] After The Young and the Restless she starred in several films and TV movies, including leading roles in the drama Liar's Moon (1982), alongside Matt Dillon, [2] and in the television film Intimate Agony (1983), one of the first movies to be themed on the disease herpes. [3] She was featured in the soap opera Days of Our Lives , in which she played the role of Patti Griffin between 1978 and 1979 and the role of Diane Parker in 1984. [4] She was a character named Nancy in a Waltons episode entitled "The Lie" which first aired 1/2/1975.

Her other film credits include roles in Bad Ronald (1974), Hometown U.S.A. (1979), The Blues Brothers (1980), Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), and The Stone Boy (1984). Her stage work includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Annie Get Your Gun , Summer and Smoke , and Twelfth Night . [1]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1975The Swiss Family RobinsonHelga Wagner
1979Hometown U.S.A.Ginger
1980 The Blues Brothers Daughter #2
1981 Liar's Moon Ginny Peterson
1982 Airplane II: The Sequel I don't want to sound forwardUncredited
1984 The Stone Boy Amalie

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1972, 1975 The Waltons Nancy Madden2 episodes
1974 The ABC Afternoon Playbreak Tracy DavenportEpisode: "Miss Kline, We Love You"
1974 Bad Ronald Babs WoodTelevision film
1977 Police Story AnnieEpisode: "Ice Time"
1977 Rafferty Bonnie MilliganEpisode: "Brothers & Sons"
1977–1978 Days of Our Lives Patti Griffin26 episodes
1978More Than FriendsWindTelevision film
1980 The Incredible Hulk MickeyEpisode: "Falling Angels"
1980–1987 The Young and the Restless Dana / Rebecca14 episodes
1981 Hellinger's Law Jill GronouskiTelevision film
1981 Hill Street Blues LaurieEpisode: "The Second Oldest Profession"
1982 Strike Force SunsetEpisode: "Fallen Angel"
1982 Teachers Only Ginger PetersonEpisode: "Diana, Substitute Mother"
1982 Family Ties Kimberly BlantonEpisode: "Pilot"
1983Intimate AgonyKate FairmontTelevision film
1984You Are the JuryDorothy LandrumEpisode: "The Case of the People of Florida vs. Joseph Landrum"
1985 T. J. Hooker Yvonne WinslowEpisode: "Trackdown"
1985 Cover Up Sally BensonEpisode: "Adams' Ribs"
1986 Remington Steele Cindy WellingtonEpisode: "Steele at Your Service"
1986 Magnum, P.I. Patty 'Bunny' EmoryEpisode: "Straight and Narrow"
1986, 1987 Murder, She Wrote Nancy Bates / Linda Bonner2 episodes

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