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Actress Cheryl
Ladd was the second-most-long-lasting angel, playing Kris
Munroe in Seasons 2-5.
When Farrah
Fawcett left Charlie's Angels after only one season, the
producers found another girl who could take her place: Cheryl
Ladd. This was really a good replacement for Farrah: she
sings, she dances. Ladd made sucess during the following seasons.
Kris came as a
replacement Angel when her older sister (Jill, Farrah Fawcett)
left the team to become a race car driver in Europe. Kris was
the 'rookie Angel'.
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Cheryl Ladd Biography
Born Cheryl
Jean Stoppelmoor on July 12, 1951, to an engineer father and
waitress mother, her hometown of Huron, South Dakota, was a
far cry from Hollywood. But the girl had long dreamed of
becoming a movie star, and she took tap lessons and sang at
home with her dad. In high school, she played in a jazz trio,
"Music Shop Band," which traveled from the Midwest
to California to try and make it professionally. When the
group broke up, Ladd decided to stay and chase her dream. Her
first real gig was singing backup on the cartoon show
"Josie and the Pussycats."
It was the
Music which brought her to Hollywood and during her time as an
actress she has also made some albums. The two first, Cheryl
Ladd and Dance Forever made big success in Japan. She has also
made some more albums later, but none of them have had the
same success. She has made all her albums together with
Capitol Records.
 After acting in commercials, she landed a
role in a 1973 movie, "Jamaica Reef", and met her
first husband, David Ladd. They married in 1973, and two years
later, their daughter, Jordan, was born. The marriage lasted
six years.
In 1977 she was tapped by Charlie's Angels
producer Aaron Spelling to replace Farrah Fawcett, who had
unexpectedly left the year-old sensation. Petite but with
plenty of vavoom, Ladd was a hit as Kris Munroe. "She had
to fill a big pair of shoes, and she did it with confidence", says
co-star Jaclyn Smith.
After her 1979 split, Ladd found romance
with Scottish-born Brian Russell, who had cut two '70s pop
albums before turning to movie producing in the '80s.
Cheryl won kudos for a role in last year's
edgy film Permanent Midnight and played a mother in last
month's family drama A Dog of Flanders. Her dream gig?
"Some wonderful Mrs. Robinson part, where I can be really
attractive, sexual and powerful," she says, adding with a
purr, "There are a couple of young actors I'd sure like
to work with".
Her hobbies include golf (she has a 17
handicap and attends pro tournaments as a Buick spokeswoman),
art (she collects folk paintings of cows and sells prints of
one of her own works on her Web site) and writing children's
books (The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship, by her and
her husband, was published in 1997). She also guides daughter
Jordan, an actress who starred with her in the 1998 TV movie
Every Mother's Worst Fear, and stepdaughter Lindsay Russell, a
singer-guitarist who plays L.A. clubs.
Trivia about
Cheryl Ladd
 Height:
5' 4" (1.63 m)
Spouse:
actor/producer David Ladd (married in 1974 and divorced in 1980) and Brian Russel
(1981 - present).
Mother
of one daughter, Jordan Ladd, from the marriage with her first
husband David Ladd.
Cheryl Ladd and her husband play golf every year at "Loch
Lomond".
Has
a younger brother named Seth.
Cheryl Ladd was a cheerleader in High School, in Huron.
Cheryl Ladd collects hand-crafted cows and is also an avid painter.
Step-daughter,
Lindsay Russell, born 1977, is an aspiring musician.
During
high school in Huron, South Dakota, Ladd waited on cars at the
local carhop, The Barn.
Cheryl Ladd once starred with the then unknown Steve Martin on
Ken Barry's "Wow" show in 1972.
Measurements:
34-22 1/2-33 (as a young model), 35C-23-34 (as the new "Angel"
in 1977). Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine.
Was
considered for the role eventually played by Meredith Baxter on
"Family" (1976/III), which is how she came to producer
Aaron Spelling's attention for "Charlie's Angels"
(1976).
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