Cynthia Gibb

Cynthia Gibb (born December 14, 1963, in Bennington, Vermont, U.S.) is an American actress and former model who has appeared in film and on television.

Gibb grew up in Westport, Connecticut, and received her big break at age 14 when she was discovered by the Eileen Ford Agency in New York City. She appeared on the cover of *Vogue* and *Young Miss*. Her career took a pivotal turn when director Woody Allen saw her in one of those magazines and cast her in her first film role in his 1980 movie *Stardust Memories*. In the 1986 war film *Salvador*, directed by Oliver Stone and starring James Woods, she portrayed an American nun in El Salvador who was raped and murdered.

Gibb's best-known television role was on the soap opera *Search for Tomorrow*, where she played Susan "Suzi" Martin Wyatt Carter from 1981 to 1983. She also appeared as a regular for three seasons on the original *Fame* TV show and had a recurring role in the first three *Diagnosis: Murder* movies in 1992 as Dr. Amanda Bentley.

In the TV adaptation of *Gypsy*, she starred as the adult Rose Louise/Gypsy Rose Lee, opposite Bette Midler as Mama Rose. She later starred in the 1995 short-lived TV series *Deadly Games*. She has also appeared in many TV movies, including the role of Karen Carpenter in *The Karen Carpenter Story* (1989).

She has three children.