Jamie Luner


Actor

About

Also Known As
Jamie M Luner
Birth Place
Palo Alto, California, USA
Born
May 12, 1971

Biography

Within the first months after the premiere of "Savannah" on The WB, Jamie Luner as Peyton Richards had slept with her best friend's husband, hit her lover over the head with a bottle, and stolen a priceless Faberge egg. There was little doubt that a new bitch-goddess had been born on TV, as the redheaded, fiery Luner broke away from the pack on the series. Luner had not always been the "...

Family & Companions

John Braz
Companion
Personal trainer. Born c, 1966 together since 1995.

Biography

Within the first months after the premiere of "Savannah" on The WB, Jamie Luner as Peyton Richards had slept with her best friend's husband, hit her lover over the head with a bottle, and stolen a priceless Faberge egg. There was little doubt that a new bitch-goddess had been born on TV, as the redheaded, fiery Luner broke away from the pack on the series. Luner had not always been the "bad-girl." 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. Her first series role was as the dimwitted Cindy Lubbock on the ABC sitcom "Just the Ten of Us" (1988-90). 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. Luner has also appeared in a handful of TV-movies including "Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?" (NBC, 1993), in which she was Linda Gray's offspring, and "Confessions of a Sorority Girl," a 1994 Showtime original in which Luner was first cast as a bad seed. In 1997, she added another sultry siren to her credit when she joined the cast of Fox's primetime soap "Melrose Place" and then segued to more serious work replacing Ally Walker as an FBI investigator in the final season (1999-2000) of NBC's "Profiler."

Life Events

1974

Appeared in numerous TV commercials (dates approximate)

1986

Won Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival for Single Monologues

1988

Appeared in TV-movie, "Rules of Marriage" (date approximate)

1993

Played first leading role in a TV-movie, "Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?" (NBC)

1994

Played first bad-girl role, "Confessions of a Sorority Girl" (Showtime)

1997

Joined cast of Fox primetime soap "Melrose Place"

1999

Hired to replace the departing Ally Walker on NBC's "Profiler"

Family

Stuart Luner
Father
Clothing sales representative. Divorced from Luner's mother.
Susan Luner
Mother
Manager; former actor. Divorced from Luner's father.
David Luner
Brother
Store owner. Owns ceramic stores; older; born c. 1968.

Companions

John Braz
Companion
Personal trainer. Born c, 1966 together since 1995.

Bibliography