Kari Wuhrer in Eight Legged Freaks
A sexy, attractive actress-singer who gained recognition as an MTV veejay and used that as a springboard for an acting career, Kari Wuhrer began to build leading roles in pay TV-movies and feature films in the 1990s. Wuhrer sang in amateur contests in her native Connecticut and made her first film appearance with a small role in “Fire With Fire” (1986). She had a cameo in “The Adventures of Ford Fairlane” (1990), which traded on her MTV face value and co-starred and “Beastmaster 2: Through the Portals of Time” (1991). But Wuhrer first got a chance to “act” in features with Sean Penn’s “The Crossing Guard” (1994), as a one-night stand for Jack Nicholson and “Boulevard” (also 1994), in which she was a young hooker learning the ropes. Other significant credits include John Singleton’s “Higher Learning” (1995, where she was billed under her married name as Kari Salin) “Beyond Desire” (1996), as a sexy call girl out to track down William Forsythe for the mob and “Stephen King’s ‘Thinner’” (also 1996), as a gypsy.
On TV, Wuhrer went from the cable TV series “Swampthing” (1989) to hosting MTV’s “Remote Control” game show to becoming a veejay all within about a year. Her veejay status helped Wuhrer begin to get parts in Hollywood, first in an episode of “Married…With Children” (1991), and then as femme fatale Robin Farr on the short-lived Fox drama series “Class of ‘96″ (1993). She was also a college student in her first significant dramatic TV role, as she fell for her professor (Eric Roberts) in HBO’s “Sensation” (1994). In “Terminal Justice” (HBO, 1996), she was a sensuous star used as a model for a virtual reality clone and continued in the sci-fi genre in 1997 when she joined the cast of “Sliders” (Fox; Sci-Fi Channel, 1998- ).
Also Credited As: Kari SalinBorn: on 04/28/1967 in Brookfield, ConnecticutJob Titles: Actor, TV host, Singer, ModelFamily
Brother: Christopher Wuhrer. older
Brother: Scott Wuhrer. younger
Father: Andrew Wuhrer.
Mother: Karin Wuhrer.
Education
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, drama
Milestones
1983 Signed by Ford Talent Agency
1986 Had small role in feature “Fire With Fire”
1989 Co-hosted MTV series “Remote Control”
1989 Became cable series regular on “Swampthing”
1993 Was regular on the short-lived drama series “Class of ‘96″ (Fox)
1994 Starred in HBO film, “Sensation”
1996 Co-starred in features “Beyond Desire” and “Stephen King’s ‘Thinner’”
1997 Joined the cast of the sci-fi series “Sliders”
2002 Starred opposite David Arquette in the campy spider movie “Eight Legged Freaks”
Appeared in commercials and began modeling
Was MTV veejay
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