Cheryl Miller (actress)


Cheryl Lynn Miller is an American actress of film and television and a musician in her own right.

Early years

A California native, Miller is one of two children of an architect and film studio set designer, Howard Miller and accountant mother and Travel Agent, Elsie.
She began acting as a young girl early in her life.

Career

The film Casanova Brown marked her screen debut at the age of 19 days.
In 1965 was a break-through year for the young actress. She was featured with an elephant and a chimp on the hit TV series Flipper. This caught the attention of the director who later cast her on the feature film, Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion with. In this film she played Paula Tracy, the daughter of veterinarian Marsh Tracy. The film led to probably her best-known role, again playing Paula Tracy alongside Thompson, in the CBS television series, Daktari,.
During the summer of 1965, Walt Disney chose Cheryl Miller as his own contractee, dubbing her "The Typical American Girl".
By early 1966, filming began for Daktari in Africa, U.S.A., a 200-acre ranch about 40 miles north of the Los Angeles metro area.
Later that year, Miller along with 12 upcoming actresses were designated Hollywood Deb Stars of 1966. By the summer, she became Miss Golden Globe of 1966 and assisted Andy Williams in the presentation of the Golden Globe Awards. By the end of 1966, she was voted as honorary mayor of Studio City, California.
Miller made many appearances in other television series, including Flipper, Leave It to Beaver, Our Man Higgins, and The Donna Reed Show. She created the role of Samantha Pudding on the NBC soap opera, Bright Promise.
She also appeared in several other films, including The Monkey's Uncle, with Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk.

Personal life

Miller married Stan Shapiro, a stockbroker, in 1968. She married again in 1979 in Hawaii to the CEO of Compact Video Systems and RTS Systems, Robert E. Seidenglanz, the inventor of the single camera live television truck and high definition television. They had a son, Erik, a year later. He is a composer and conceptual artist and featured in Godards Last Film, Adieu Au Langage. Cheryl also raised Roberts other two children Ronn and Rob. Both film makers. Rob Seidenglanz is the director behind the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_Adventures_of_Sabrina_ While Ronn is the founder of film company Sidewayz based in Idaho.