Judy Strangis

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Judy Strangis is a Los Angeles based actress who has made a career from TV roles, voice overs, and commercials. She is best known for her roles on Room 222 and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl.

Strangis was born in Los Angeles County to parents who were not in show business (the Internet Movie Data Base lists her birth date as December 23, 1949, but this year conflicts with information from other sources). Her uncle was Spike Jones, the famous band leader and comedian. Also, her 21 year older brother Sam Strangis became active behind the camera as a director and producer.

Her first known appearance is in the movie "Dragoon Wells Massacre" in 1957, which she appeared in when she was five. For the next 25 years, she was regularly cast in small and guest starring roles in television shows.

Some appearances well remembered are on her Uncle Spike Jone's show, The Twilight Zone, and Bewitched. She was cast as a teenage extra twice on Batman, where her brother Sam was a production manager.

Strangis began doing voice-overs in Saturday morning cartoons in 1972 with William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's The Roman Holiday, and would perform cartoon voices over the next 10 years.

In 1969, Strangis was cast as high school student Helen Loomis in the ABC show Room 222. She played this role for four years, and is well remembered for it.

Strangis had achieved marketability as spirited teenager, and appeared series of commercials in the mid 1970's. Most famous was her Mean Mary Jean the Dodge girl.

In 1976, she was cast as the sidekick superheroine Judy/DynaGirl in the cult favorite Saturday morning TV show Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. She played opposite soap star Deidre Hall. The show was conceived as a female counterpart to Batman. She played her role as a female version of Robin. This is her most famous role, and has achieved her cult stature amongst Krofft fans.

Her nephew, writer/producer Greg Strangis, wrote for two episodes in this series.

In 1987 she was married.

In 2000, her brother Sam became a production manager for CSI. She began doing voice-overs, or looping for that series.