Kari Samantha Wuhrer (born April 28, 1967) is an American actress and
singer. Wuhrer began her career as a teenager, and is best known for
her time as a cast member on MTV's Remote Control, as well as her
roles as Maggie Beckett in the television series Sliders and as
Sheriff Samantha Parker in the horror comedy film Eight Legged
Freaks.Wuhrer was born in Brookfield, Connecticut, the daughter of
Karin (née Noble), a payroll accountant, and German American Andrew
Wuhrer, a police officer and car salesman. She has three siblings. As
a teenager, she sang in nightclubs, sneaking out of the family home to
perform. She studied acting from the age of 13 at the Wooster School,
then studied drama at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts,
Marymount Manhattan College, Columbia University, and the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art with famed teacher Uta Hagen.Wuhrer's first
television break was MTV's Remote Control (1987). She was a regular
cast member of the television series Swamp Thing from 1991 to 1992.
She also worked as a VJ on MTV during the same period. In 1993, she
was a regular in the TV series Class of '96, where she played college
student Robin Farr. From 1994 to 1995, she starred as Ariel Hunter in
the long-running prime-time soap opera Beverly Hills, 90210.During
this period she appeared in The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) and
starred in Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991). In 1995
she also had a supporting role in the John Singleton film Higher
Learning, followed by Thinner (1996), Anaconda (1997), and Kissing a
Fool (1998).
singer. Wuhrer began her career as a teenager, and is best known for
her time as a cast member on MTV's Remote Control, as well as her
roles as Maggie Beckett in the television series Sliders and as
Sheriff Samantha Parker in the horror comedy film Eight Legged
Freaks.Wuhrer was born in Brookfield, Connecticut, the daughter of
Karin (née Noble), a payroll accountant, and German American Andrew
Wuhrer, a police officer and car salesman. She has three siblings. As
a teenager, she sang in nightclubs, sneaking out of the family home to
perform. She studied acting from the age of 13 at the Wooster School,
then studied drama at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts,
Marymount Manhattan College, Columbia University, and the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art with famed teacher Uta Hagen.Wuhrer's first
television break was MTV's Remote Control (1987). She was a regular
cast member of the television series Swamp Thing from 1991 to 1992.
She also worked as a VJ on MTV during the same period. In 1993, she
was a regular in the TV series Class of '96, where she played college
student Robin Farr. From 1994 to 1995, she starred as Ariel Hunter in
the long-running prime-time soap opera Beverly Hills, 90210.During
this period she appeared in The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) and
starred in Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991). In 1995
she also had a supporting role in the John Singleton film Higher
Learning, followed by Thinner (1996), Anaconda (1997), and Kissing a
Fool (1998).
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