Dorothy Diane "Dedee" Pfeiffer (born January 1, 1964) is an American film and television actress. She portrayed Kate Milligan / Ghoul in the season 4 episode "Jump the Shark".
Early life[]
Pfeiffer was born January 1, 1964 in Midway City, California, the daughter of Donna (née Taverna), a home-maker, and Richard Pfeiffer, a heating and air-conditioning contractor. She is the younger sister of actress Michelle Pfeiffer and the older sister of actress Lori Pfeiffer. She also has an older brother born before Michelle.
Career[]
Pfeiffer began her acting career at the age of 21 with a 1985 appearance on Simon & Simon, an American detective television series starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker. That same year, Pfeiffer played a hooker in Into the Night, a 1985 American comedy-thriller film directed by John Landis, starring Jeff Goldblum and Pfeiffer's sister Michelle. Pfeiffer's first nude role came in a 1989 shower scene for the supernatural horror film The Horror Show, and she later would go on to pose nude for Playboy magazine's February 2002 edition.
Along with acting on stage, Pfeiffer starred in many films and on TV. One of her best-known TV roles is on Cybill Shepherd's television series Cybill, as her daughter, "Rachel Blanders", from 1995–1997. She also starred in the TV series For Your Love from 1998 to 2002. She starred with Susanna Hoffs in the 1987 film The Allnighter and has made guest appearances on the TV shows Simon & Simon, Ellen, Seinfeld, Friends, Dream On, CSI: NY and The Dead Zone among others.
In an interview on the 2011 UK DVD and Blu-ray release of Vamp, Pfeiffer stated that she shelved her acting career of twenty-five years in favor of pursuing a new career in the field of forensic psychology and is now at college, studying for a master's degree. She returned to acting a few years later.
Trivia[]
- Pfeiffer has worked with Jensen Ackles on three shows including Supernatural. In 1997, Ackles and Pfeiffer worked together on the series Cybill, in which Pfeiffer was a series regular and Ackles appeared in the episode "The Wedding". In 2022, Ackles joined the series Big Sky in season 2, a show in which Pfeiffer was also a series regular.
- When Pfeiffer and Ackles started working together on Big Sky, they both didn't remember that they had worked together on Cybill until they were reminded by a fan.[1]
External links[]
Dedee Pfeiffer at the Internet Movie Database- Dedee Pfeiffer at Wikipedia
- Dedee Pfeiffer at AllRovi
- Dedee Pfeiffer on Big Sky Wiki
References[]
- ↑ Changing Channels, Dedee Pfeiffer interview.