LORI SINGER

'Lori Singer'^[1] (born November 6, 1957) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role of Ariel Moore, the daughter of Reverend Shaw Moore (played by John Lithgow) in the 1984 film ''Footloose'', which also starred Kevin Bacon.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Personal life

Footnotes

External links

Biography

Early life

Singer was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the daughter of Jacques Singer, an orchestra conductor, and Leslie Wright, a concert pianist. Her brother is actor Marc Singer, and her cousin is film director Bryan Singer.

Career

Singer played Julie Miller in the TV series ''Fame'' from 1982-1983. After ''Footloose'', she starred in a number of other movies, including ''The Falcon and the Snowman'' (directed by John Schlesinger and co-starring Sean Penn), ''The Man with One Red Shoe'' (with Tom Hanks), ''Trouble in Mind'' (directed by Alan Rudolph), ''Summer Heat'', '' Warlock'', '' Sunset Grill'', '' F.T.W.'', and the Robert Altman film ''Short Cuts''. In 1995, she played Sydney Bloom, the lead character in the short lived but highly regarded science fiction TV series ''VR.5''.
In 1986, Singer was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her role of Georgia in ''Trouble in Mind''. She, and the rest of the actors in ''Short Cuts'', won awards for best ensemble cast at the 1993 Venice Film Festival and the 1994 Golden Globe Awards.

Personal life

Singer is an accomplished cellist. She plays the cello in ''Short Cuts'', and also in ''Sarabande'', a 1997 short film by Atom Egoyan that is part of the ''Inspired by Bach'' series, which showcases the playing of Yo-Yo Ma.

Footnotes

1. She has no middle name, according to the State of Texas. ''Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997''. At Ancestry.com

External links

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★ ''New York Times Movies'' biography of Lori Singer

★ fan site ''An Alluring Lori Singer''