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BIRTHDAY

November 06, 1957

Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

RECENT CREDITS

Short Cuts (FILM) Mar. 15, 1994

Equinox (FILM) Jan. 1, 1993

Sunset Grill (FILM) Jan. 1, 1993

Warlock (FILM) Jan. 11, 1991

Summer Heat (FILM) May. 29, 1987

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BIOGRAPHY

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A willowy, striking blue-eyed blonde, Lori Singer originally intended to pursue a career as a cellist. She began studying music at age five and by her teens was enrolled at NYC's prestigious Juilliard School of Music. While still a student, Singer played cello with such world-renowned ensembles as the Caracas Symphony and the Oregon Symphony and won the Bergen Philharmonic Competition in 1980. Segueing to acting, she landed a role that combined both of her interests, Midwesterner Julie Miller, a promising cellist who faced the difficulties of life at a New York high school for performing artists in the TV series version of "Fame" (NBC, 1982-83). In her first TV-movie, "Born Beautiful" (NBC, 1982), Singer was a teenaged fashion model befriended by a veteran (Erin Gray). In 1984, she graduated to the big screen as the rebellious daughter of a minister in "Footloose" (1984). Singer followed with girlfriend roles in two well-made features, John Schlesinger's "The Falcon and the Snowman" and Alan Rudolph's "Trouble in Mind" (both 1985). Attempting a change of pace, she won praise as a disaffected wife who embarks on an affair in "Summer Heat" (1987), a film that plays as a riff on the superior "The Postman Always Rings Twice". Robert Altman provided her with another meaty role, as an emotionally-disturbed cellist, in "Short Cuts" (1993). Singer returned to the series grind for the short-lived sci-fi fantasy "VR.5" (Fox, 1995), as a young woman who enters a surrealistic virtual reality world.

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Sundance: Let's Shop!

Jan. 23, 2001

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22, 2001 -- Despite the lion’s share of films available for acquisition at the Sundance Film Festival, the fat wallets have remained tight as purchases have been scarce going into the event’s fourth day. “It’s early on,” Patrick Gunn, an Artisan exec, told The Hollywood Reporter. “But on the other hand, I don’t remember the festival going into Sunday without the...

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