Kari Wührer

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Kari Wuhrer
Birth name	Kari Samantha Wührer
Born	April 28, 1967 (age 39) Brookfield, Connecticut, USA
Other name(s)	Kari Wuhrer Salin, Kari Salin, or Kari Salin-Wuhrer
Spouse(s)	Daniel Salin (1995-1999) James Scura (2003-present)
Official site	KariWuhrer.net

Kari Samantha Wührer (born April 28, 1967 in Brookfield, Connecticut) is an American actress and singer of Cherokee and German descent, sometimes credited as Kari Salin.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 General Hospital 3 Filmography 4 Television Series and Made-for-TV movies 5 Personal life 6 External links 7 References

[edit] Early life

Wührer is the daughter of Andrew and Karin Wührer, and has three siblings. As a teenager she sang in nightclubs, sneaking out of the family home to perform. Kari began studying acting at the age of 13 at the Wooster School. She studied drama at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, Columbia University, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London with famed teacher Uta Hagen. Engelbert Wührer

[edit] Career

Her first television break was working for MTV as a VJ and as a co-host in Remote Control (1987). She then starred in over a dozen straight-to-video sexploitation movies, most notably Sex and the Other Man (1996), Vivid (1997) (also released as Luscious), and Spider's Web (2001). Wührer appeared in the television series Swamp Thing as Abigail from 1991-1993.

She came to mainstream fame in 1997 on the series Sliders as Maggie Beckett, joining the cast as a regular and staying until the show ended in 2000.

Later mainstream movie roles include:

• Anaconda (1997)
• Berserker (2001)
• Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

Wührer is also well known by many gamers for her role in Westwood Studios' PC game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and its subsequent expansion pack, Yuri's Revenge as Agent Tanya Adams.

Wührer signed a record deal with Rick Rubin and her debut album was called Shiny, released in 1999. She plays the guitar and the flute as well as sings.

Wührer, who considered an offer to appear nude in Playboy in 1998, was later voted #76 on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2000.^[1], #73 in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2001^[2], #36 in Maxim magazine's 50 Sexiest Women Countdown (1999), #64 on Celebrity Skin's 100 Sexiest Stars of All Time, and #4 in the Celebrity Nudity Database most popular actresses (1999).

Her breast implants encapsulated during the filming of Spider's Web (2001) so she had them removed. She later wrote an article for the September 2002 issue of Glamour Magazine about the insecurities that led her to get implants early in her career and the sense of self-acceptance she acquired. After its publication, she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and discussed the pressure she received from a prominent record producer to get the implants, during what she called "the era of the Video Vixen".

[edit] General Hospital

From February 3, 2005 through November 2005 Wuhrer joined the cast of the soap opera General Hospital as FBI Agent Reese Marshall, the former love interest of mobster Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and former best friend/rival of main character, Carly. Wuhrer's character died after suffering some minor injuries in a train wreck. In January 2006, Wuhrer announced that she was suing General Hospital, claiming that she was fired because of her pregnancy. Wuhrer plans to support her claim using testimony from another former actress on General Hospital, Lesli Kay, who claims she was fired for the same reason. The case was dismissed in December 2006, for unknown reasons.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Filmography

• Fire with Fire (1986) as Gloria
• The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) as Melodi
• Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991) as Jackie Trent
• Boulevard (1994) as Jennifer
• Higher Learning (1995) as Claudia
• Terminal Justice (1995) as Pamela Travis
• Sensation (1995) as Lila Reed
• Sex and the Other Man (1995) as Jessica
• The Crossing Guard (1995) as Mia
• Beyond Desire (1996) as Rita
• Thinner (1996) as Gina Lempke
• An Occasional Hell (1996) as Jeri Gillen
• Lucious (aka: Vivid) (1997) as Billie Reynolds
• Anaconda (1997) as Denise Kalberg
• Hit and Run (1997) as Miya
• The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson (1997) as Kristi Wilson
• Touch Me (1997) as Margot
• The Undertaker's Wedding (1998) as Maria
• Kissing a Fool (1998) as Dara
• Ivory Tower (1998) as Karen Clay
• Phoenix (1998) as Katie Shuster
• Kate's Addiction (1999) as Kate McGrath
• Fatal Conflict (2000) as Sasha Burns
• Sand (2000) as Sandy
• G-Men from Hell (2000) as Marete
• Spider's Web (2001) as Lauren Bishop
• Berserker (2001) as Anya
• Angel's Don't Sleep Here (2001) as Dr. April Williams
• Thy Neighbor's Wife (aka: Poison) (2001) as Ann Stewart
• The Medicine Show (2001) as Gwendolyn
• The Rose Technique (2002) as Kristi
• Dark Labyrinth (2002) as Danielle
• Eight-Legged Freaks (2002) as Sheriff Samantha Parker
• Manevolent (2002) as Jessica Tarrant
• Do It for Uncle Manny (2003) as Jenny
• Final Examination (2003) as Detective Julie Seska
• Death of a Dynasty (2003) as a sexy woman
• King of the Ants (2003) as Susan Gatley
• The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting (2003) as Maggie
• Hellraiser: Deader (2005) as Amy Kline
• The Prophecy: Uprising (2005) as Allison
• The Prophecy: Forsaken (2005) as Allison

[edit] Television Series and Made-for-TV movies

• Married with Children (1991; two episodes) as Jonie
• Swamp Thing (1991; nine episodes) as Abigail
• Class of '96 (1993) as Robin Farr
• Beverly Hills, 90210 (1994-1995; three episodes) as Ariel Hunter
• The Marshall (1995; one episode) as Sherry Prairie
• Nash Bridges (1997; one episode) as C.J.
• To Have and To Hold (1998; two episodes) as Paula
• Sliders (1997-2000; 49 episodes) as Captain Maggie Beckett
• Lip Service (2000) (TVM) as Sunni
• Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (2000) (TVM) as Darcy Davis
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2002; one episode) as Tiffany Langer
• Mystery Woman: Snapshot (2005) (TVM) as Fawn
• General Hospital (February-November, 2005) as Reese Marshall

[edit] Personal life

In the late 1980s she dated rock singer Dean Davidson. She married Daniel Salin in 1995, and divorced in 1999. In the summer of 2000, during an appearance on a cable network show, she publicly stated that her boyfriend Henry Rollins dumped her via e-mail. Kari is presently married to the film producer James Scura since 2003. She and her husband have two children, a boy named Enzo, born January 2004, and a girl named Evangeline, born 27 March 2006.

[edit] External links

• The Kari Wuhrer Page
• Another Kari Wuhrer Page
• Kari Wuhrer profile on SoapCentral
• Why I Took Out My Breast Implants
• Kari Wührer at the Internet Movie Database

[edit] References