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Jamie Luner Biography
Jamie Michelle Luner was born Thursday, May 12, 1971 to Stuart and Susan Luner in Palo Alto, California. She grew up with her brother David and her mom Susan in California. Before landing her roles on "Just the Ten of Us" as dizzy Cindy Lubbock, Jamie began her career in front of the cameras at the tender age of three doing TV commercials. When she was 15, she won the L.A. Shakespeare Festival in the category of monologues. While still working on, "Just the Ten of Us" Jamie was still in high school. She graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1989. She took a break from acting and she attended culinary school and was a chef in Drai's, a French restaurant, after Just the Ten of Us was cancelled in 1991.

Then returned to TV in Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter? in 1993, then she had a few small parts in shows such as "Married with Children", Diagnosis Murder". Then she got her first break as Southern seductress Peyton Richards in "Savannah". After the prime time soap was cancelled, Jamie and her than boyfriend, John Braz, travel around the US in an Airstream motor home before she landed the role of Lexi in Melrose Place". After the Fox soap ended in 1999, so did her 4 year romance with her boyfriend. Then after Ally Walker left, Jamie joined the cast of "Profiler" as Rachel Burke.

Later on she was in ABCs short lived "10-8: Officers on Duty". Then in 2005 she had lead roles in Lifetime's, Blind Injustice, Stranger in My Bed and in 2006 The Suspect, The Perfect Marriage and a guest spot on. "The War at Home".

Jamie has also done theater work in Santa Monica in "Black & Bluestein," Other Space, Santa Monica and The Young Playwrites Festival in Los Angeles.
Trivia
Attended culinary school and was a chef in a French restaurant after Just the Ten of Us was cancelled.
Auditioned for the role of Lane on Savannah before getting the role of Peyton.
Made her first commercial (tissues commercial) at the age of 4. Suzanne Somers played her mom.
On the set of Melrose Place people used to call her "Turbo" because of her "high-octane energy" at work. She drank 10 cups of coffee a day.
Appeared in underwear along with Yasmine Bleeth, Alyssa Milano, Melissa Joan Hart, Garcelle Beauvais, Carmen Electra, Peta Wilson, and Jeri Ryan on the cover of, and inside the October 1997 issue of "Details" magazine.
Graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1989.
Admits that she received a lot of funny letters while working on Profiler asking to use her "powers" to help fans with many different problems. Some people really believed that she is psychic.
Went to the same High School as Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Nicolas Cage, Corbin Bernsen, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, and Richard Dreyfuss.
Has a brother named David who is 3 years older.
Also went to school with: Gina Gershon, Rhonda Fleming, Jackie Cooper, Rob Reiner, Antonio Sabato Jr., Pauly Shore, Michael Tolkin, Betty White, E.G. Daily, Albert Brooks, Crispin Glover, Michael Tolkin, Pauly Shore!.
Jamie's mother, Susan was her former manager.
Studied acting at the Professional Children's School in New York City.
Got her start on TV on Growing Pains and its 1988 spin-off Just the Ten of Us.
After Aaron Spelling's Savannah (1996) was axed, she bought a trailer and traveled around the United States for a year.
Stuart Luner - Father.
After the cancellation of Just the Ten Of Us, Jamie attended the Epicurean Cooking School in Los Angeles, then apprenticed as a cook and landed a job as a chef in a French restaurant.
She also undertook an exercise regimen lasting several years, which turned her fit and trim.
She is most noted for her roles as a vixen as Peyton on the program Savannah in 1996 and Lexi on Melrose Place (1997-1999).
Returned to acting in 1993 in the television movie Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?.
After winning a local Shakespeare competition, Jamie knew she wanted to pursue a career in acting.
Played first bad-girl role, in 1993's "Confessions of a Sorority Girl" (Showtime).
Won Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival for Single Monologues in 1988.
Studied at the Beverly Hills High School, and it was then when she was cast as Sheena Berkowitz on the sitcom Growing Pains. Soon after that performance, she obtained another role, in Just the Ten of Us.
She quit soccer after playing, falling and hitting her head.
She ranked #88 in 1996 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women.
She bought a remodeled home, built in the 1940s, with three bedrooms in 2,300 square feet. The contemporary, ranch-style house, with high ceilings, is behind gates with valley views.
She was filming a movie in Alabama when she heard about the chance to become the title character in the NBC drama "Profiler." Unable to fly back to Los Angeles to meet the show's producers, she went to a local video outlet and shot an audition tape, asking one of the store's employees to feed her lines.
A native of Los Angeles, she appeared on the comedy series "Growing Pains" while still attending Beverly Hills High School. That guest appearance led to a starring role in the spin-off series "Just the Ten of Us," in which she played boy-crazy Cindy Lubbock.
Aaron Spelling and the producers of "Savannah" at first insisted she audition for the role of Lane, the sweet girl, and only allowed Luner to audition for Peyton at the end of the day, after they had seen numerous others. Her reading clearly impressed them and she landed the role.
She began in front of the cameras at age three doing TV commercials and by age 15 had won the L.A. Shakespeare Festival in the category of monologues.
Attended the same school as Golden Girls star Betty White.
Father: Stuart Luner. Clothing sales representative. Divorced from Jamie's mother.
Mother: Susan Luner. Manager; former actor.
Brother: David Luner. Store owner. Owns ceramic stores.
Worked in L.A. restaurant Drai's.
Became a member of the executive producer Aaron Spelling's Melrose Place in 1997. She was brought on to revitalize the show.
Her first big break was playing Sheena Berkowitz on Growing Pains as Kirk Cameron's date.
Met her boyfriend, John Braz, a personal trainer and independent film maker, in Santa Monica, where he was managing a coffee shop. They were together from 1995 to 1999, ending their 4 year romance shortly before she landed the role as Rachel Burke on NBC's Profiler.
While filming Savannah, she shared a modest apartment with her boyfriend.
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