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Gibb grew up in Westport, Connecticut, and got her big break at the age of 14 when she was discovered by the Eileen Ford Agency in New York City.
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Cynthia Gibb
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She was on the cover of Vogue and Young Mississippi Woody Allen saw her in one of those magazines and cast her in her first film role in his 1980 movie Stardust Memories. In Salvador (1986), directed by Oliver Stone and starring James Woods, she portrayed an American lay missionary in El Salvador who was brutally raped and murdered.
Gibb is well known for her role on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow as Susan Martin Wyatt Carter from 1981 to 1983.
She was also a regular for three seasons on the original Fame television show and appeared in the first three Diagnosis: Murder movies in 1992 as Doctor Amanda Bentley. She later starred in the 1995 short lived television series Deadly Games.
She has also played in many television movies, including the role of Karen Carpenter in The Karen Carpenter Story (1989). She played Mary Maloney opposite John Schneider in Mary Christmas.
She has three children by former husband actor/producer Scott Kramer.
Despite a popular misconception, Gibb is not related to the Bee Gees. In 1988, she received a sympathy card from a fan regarding Andy Gibb"s recent death. She recalls, "I thought it was sweet, but at first I couldn"t figure out who the heck "Andy" was.
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