Kari Wuhrer
- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Kari Samantha Wuhrer was born on April 28, 1967 in Brookfield,
Connecticut, the daughter of Karin, a payroll officer and Andrew, a
former police officer and car salesman. Kari has three siblings. She
studied acting at age 13 at the Wooster School, and headed to New York
City to do rounds of auditions. She was signed to the Ford's Model
Talent Division and appeared in several commercials, most notably
Clairol, as well as performing in theater productions. After a role in
the drama film
Fire with Fire (1986), Kari landed
a job on MTV as a VJ and was a co-host of the game show
Remote Control (1987). Wuhrer
snuck out of her family home as a teenager to sing in nightclubs; she
was the youngest member of the band Freudian Slip. She studied drama at
New York University, Marymount Manhattan College, Columbia University,
and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, England with famed
teacher Uta Hagen. Her biggest career break
came when she was cast to play Maggie Beckett on the sci-fi television
series Sliders (1995) from 1997 to
2000. She was signed to a record deal by American Recordings impresario
Rick Rubin, which eventually appeared on the
small Del-Fi label; her debut album "Shiny" produced the successful
single "There's a Drug".