Jamie Luner
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 Luner at the November 2008 Big Apple Con in Manhattan |
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| Born | Jamie Michelle Luner May 12, 1971 Palo Alto, California |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1988–present |
Jamie Michelle Luner (born May 12, 1971) is an American television actress, best known for her role as Lexi Sterling on Melrose Place and Rachel Burke on Profiler. Luner has played the role of Liza Colby on the ABC soap opera, All My Children from April 2009 until September 2011.
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[edit] Personal life
Luner was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of Susan, an actress, and Stuart Luner, a sales representative.[1] She was raised in a Jewish family and has an older brother.[2]
[edit] Television career
After guest starring in several episodes of the sitcom Growing Pains, Luner went on to star as sexy-if-scatterbrained Cindy Lubbock in the GP spinoff Just the Ten of Us (1988–1990)...which also starred Heather Langenkamp, Brooke Theiss and Jo Ann Willette as Luner's fictional sisters; the foursome comprised a fictional singing group, "The Lubbock Babes". To date, Luner is the only one of the four who has not appeared in a Nightmare On Elm Street movie. Luner also guest starred in a Halloween episode of Growing Pains in which she portrayed a vanishing hitchhiker.
Luner returned to television in 1993 in the TV movie, Why My Daughter?, starring opposite Linda Gray. Luner followed this up with a succession of TV movies, most notably Confessions of a Sorority Girl (1994), which began her extended professional association with producer Aaron Spelling.
Luner's next big break came in 1996, when she was cast as scheming vixen Peyton Richards in Spelling's prime-time soap opera, Savannah (1996–1997).
Luner appeared with former President Jimmy Carter and actor William Hurt on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on December 17, 1996, and on Entertainment Tonight on Monday, July 28, 1997. In late August, 1998, she appeared on The Howie Mandel Show with Michael J. Fox.
Later in 1997, Luner was cast in Spelling's Melrose Place, playing the role of scheming Lexi Sterling until the show's conclusion in 1999.
In 1999, immediately following the cancellation of Melrose Place, Luner was cast as Rachel Burke, Ally Walker's replacement in NBC's Profiler. She played the role until the show was cancelled at the end of its fourth season in 2000.
[edit] 2000–present
Following the cancellation of Profiler, Luner continued to work steadily, with guest appearances on several television shows including The Outer Limits, CSI: Miami and a three-episode arc on That's Life. In 2000, Luner also starred in the independent feature Sacrifice, along with Michael Madsen.
In 2003, Luner joined the cast of another Spelling drama, playing the role of Senior Deputy Ryan Layne in 10-8: Officers on Duty (2003–2004). The series was cancelled after Luner had appeared in just five episodes. Also in 2003, Luner starred opposite Nicholas Lea in the Sci Fi Channel original movie Threshold, and in 2004 guest-starred in an episode of NCIS.
In 2005, Luner appeared in four TV movies for the cable network Lifetime Television: The Suspect (2005), Blind Injustice (2005), Stranger in my Bed (2005), and The Perfect Marriage (2006).
In 2007 Luner appeared as Susan in the comedy Black and Bluestein at The Santa Monica Playhouse. Also that year, Luner starred in Nuclear Hurricane, a Sci Fi Channel original movie, and made a guest appearance on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
In April 2009, Luner joined the cast of All My Children as Liza Colby.[3]
In 2011 she had a role in the recent film Hall Pass.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Films
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter? | Diana Moffitt | TV movie |
| 1994 | The St. Tammany Miracle | Lootie | |
| Tryst | Mindy | ||
| Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy | Donna | TV movie | |
| Confessions of a Sorority Girl | Sabrina Masterson | TV movie | |
| 1999 | Friends & Lovers | Model | |
| 2000 | Sacrifice | Naomi Cohen | TV movie |
| 2002 | Warrior | Eldoran's Girl Friend | |
| 2003 | Threshold | Dr. Savannah Bailey | TV movie |
| 2005 | The Suspect | Beth James | |
| Blind Injustice | Diana Scott | TV movie | |
| Stranger in My Bed | Sara Hansen | TV movie | |
| 2006 | The Perfect Marriage | Marrianne Danforth/Annie Grayson | TV movie |
| 2007 | Nuclear Hurricane | Linda | TV movie |
| 2009 | Heat Wave | Kate Jansen | TV movie |
| Trust | Sandra | TV movie | |
| 2012 | Walking the Halls | Holly Benson | TV Movie |
[edit] TV series
| Year | Title | Role | Seasons | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988–90 | Just the Ten of Us | Cynthia "Cindy" Lubbock | 1–3 | Nominated for a Young Artist Award |
| 1996–97 | Savannah | Peyton Richards Massick | 1-2 | |
| 1997–99 | Melrose Place | Lexi Sterling | 6-7 | |
| 1999–2000 | Profiler | Rachel Burke | 4 | |
| 2003–04 | 10-8: Officers on Duty | Senior Deputy Ryan Layne | 1 | |
| 2009–11 | All My Children | Liza Colby | - |
[edit] TV appearances
| Year | Title | Season | Role | Episode | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Growing Pains | 2 | Sheena Berkowitz | "Some Enchanted Evening" | Episode 13 |
| 1988 | 3 | Cindy | "How the West Was Won: Part 1" | Episode 24 | |
| "How the West Was Won: Part 2" | Episode 25 | ||||
| 1990 | 6 | Kara Daye | "Happy Halloween: Part 1" | Episode 7 | |
| "Happy Halloween: Part 2" | Episode 8 | ||||
| 1992 | Married... with Children | 7 | Gerri | "Frat Chance" | Episode 6 |
| 1993 | Reasonable Doubts | 2 | Tiffany | "Crumbling Systems" | Episode 17 |
| 1994 | Diagnosis: Murder | 2 | Kimmy Marlowe | "The Last Laugh: Part 1" | Episode 9 |
| 2000 | The Pretender | 4 | Agent Rachel Burke | "Spin Doctor" | Episode 10 |
| The Drew Carey Show | 6 | Jenny | "Drew and Kate Become Friends" | Episode 8 | |
| 2001 | The Outer Limits | 7 | Dr. Candace Maguire | "Mind Reacher" | Episode 14 |
| That's Life | 2 | Samantha Richardson | "Plus One" | Episode 7 | |
| "Idiots" | Episode 8 | ||||
| "Sex in the Suburbs" | Episode 10 | ||||
| 2002 | CSI: Miami | 1 | Nikki Olson | "Breathless" | Episode 7 |
| 2004 | NCIS | 1 | Amanda Reed/Lt. Cmdr. Hamilton Voss | "Dead Man Talking" | Episode 19 |
| 2006 | The War at Home | 1 | Jodi | "Three's Company" | Episode 13 |
| 2007 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | 8 | Elizabeth Rodriguez | "Lying Down With Dogs" | Episode 10 |
[edit] References
- ^ "Jamie Luner Biography (1971–)". FilmReference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/13/Jamie-Luner.html. Retrieved January 22, 2009.
- ^ Lee, Luaine (1999-09-26). "Acting isn't everything to Luner". Austin American-Statesman. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AASB&p_theme=aasb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0E9C241DD3CEBD3A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ Michael Logan. "Exclusive: Jamie Luner is All My Children's New Liza" TV Guide. March 16, 2009
[edit] External links
- Jamie Luner at the Internet Movie Database
- Michael Logan. "Luner Landing on All My Children" TV Guide April 6, 2009
