| BIOGRAPHY
The inspiration for over a dozen web shrines, B-movie queen
and pop diva Kari Wuhrer has built an expansive list of credits
since debuting in the early '80s. Born in Brookfield, CT, to Andrew,
a police officer turned salesman, and Karin, a payroll accountant,
Wuhrer began her career by singing in local talent contests.
As a teenager, she would sneak into Manhattan to play with her
punk rock band, Freudian Slip. She also began taking acting classes
and persuaded her mother to take her to an audition for Ford Modeling
Agency's Talent Division. The company signed her on the spot.
She started appearing in commercials, and later juggled her acting
roles with drama classes at N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts
and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. After making
her film debut in Fire With Fire (1986), Wuhrer became an MTV
veejay and the co-host of network's quiz show Remote Control.
She then paid her own way out to Hollywood to make a cameo in
the Andrew Dice Clay vehicle The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990).
Wuhrer eventually settled in Los Angeles, appearing in Beastmaster
2: Through the Portal of Time (1991) and landing a guest spot
on Fox's Married With Children. Her own 1993 Fox series, Class
of '96, failed to attract viewers, but the network still hired
Wuhrer to bed Brian Austin Green in two episodes of Beverly Hills
90210 in 1994. That same year, she began landing more substantial
roles, acting opposite Jack Nicholson in Sean Penn's The Crossing
Guard and Laurence Fishburne in John Singleton's Higher Learning
(1995). Wuhrer played a gypsy in Stephen King's Thinner (1996),
before increasing her fan base exponentially when she joined the
cast of the sci-fi series Sliders in 1997.
While portraying sultry Maggie Beckett on the hit show, she appeared
with Jennifer Lopez in Anaconda (1997) and David Schwimmer in
Kissing a Fool (1998), as well as headlined numerous B-films,
straight-to-video releases, and television movies. In 1999, Wuhrer,
who sang and composed songs for several soundtracks, released
her first album. Entitled Shiny, it boasted the popular single
"There's a Drug." The new millennium saw Wuhrer leaving
Sliders and lending her talents (and internet following) to the
computer game series Command & Conquer, starring as Agent
Tanya in Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge. She made two guest appearances
on CBS's CSI and appeared in a string of B-pictures and independent
pictures, including Spider's Web (2001), The Rose Technique (2001),
The Medicine Show (2001), Berserker (2001), and Malevolent (2002).
A veteran of over 40 screen roles, Wuhrer then cashed in on her
cult status for Centropolis Entertainment's big-budget homage
to low-budget creature flicks, Eight Legged Freaks (2002) -- proving
that she had both wit and staying power. |
FILMOGRAPHY
• King of the Ants (2004)
• Final Examination (2003)
• The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting (2003)
• Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
• Malevolent (2002)
• Lip Service (2001)
• The Medicine Show (2001)
• Poison (2001)
• Spider's Web (2001)
• Fatal Conflict (2000)
• G-Men from Hell (2000)
• Sand (2000)
• Kate's Addiction (1999)
• Hot Blooded (1998)
• Ivory Tower (1998)
• Kissing a Fool (1998)
• Phoenix (1998)
• Anaconda (1997)
• Touch Me (1997)
• The Undertaker's Wedding (1997)
• An Occasional Hell (1996)
• Sex and the Other Man (1996)
• Thinner (1996)
• Beyond Desire (1994)
• Sensation (1994)
• Beastmaster 2 - Through the Portal of Time (1991)
• The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) |
