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Christopher Norris (born October 7, 1953) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 movie and television actress. She is probably best known for her portrayal of nurse
Nurse

A nurse is a healthcare professional, who along with other health care professionals, is responsible for the treatment, safety, and recovery of Acute or Chronic ill or injured people, health maintenance of the healthy, and treatment of life-threatening emergencies in a wide range of health care settings....
 Gloria "Ripples" Brancusi in the CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 series Trapper John, M.D.
Trapper John, M.D.

Trapper John, M.D. is an United States television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH , about a lovable doctor who became a mentor, father figure, who also runs a teaching hospital in San Francisco, California....
.

Early notable roles include the wild girl, Miriam, in "Summer of '42
Summer of '42

Summer of '42 is a 1971 in film Cinema of the United States "Bildungsroman" film drama based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of Raucher as a boy, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket, Massachusetts, off the coast of New England, who embarked on a one-sided romance with a woman, Doro...
", a heroic young flight attendant in the 1975 disaster film Airport 1975
Airport 1975

Airport 1975 is a 1974 in film disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 in film hit Airport . The movie is one among many of a class of Disaster films that became a movie-going craze during the 1970s....
, and as hot girl alongside Ron Howard
Ron Howard

Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an Academy Award-winning American film director and film producer as well as an actor. Howard came to prominence in the 1960s while playing Andy Griffith's TV son, Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffith Show , and later in the 1970s as Howard Cunningham's son and Arthur Fonzarelli's best friend, Richie Cunningha...
 in Roger Corman
Roger Corman

Roger William Corman , sometimes nicknamed "King of the Bs" for his output of B-movies , is a prolific United States film producer and film director of low-budget movies, some of which have an established critical reputation: his cycle of films derived from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe for example....
's "Eat My Dust". Early in her career she played wholesome, "girl next door" types, and, later in her career, she got more "vixen" type roles, including the role of Laura Asher on the daytime soap "Santa Barbara"
Santa Barbara (TV series)

Santa Barbara is an United States decade long and award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993....
.

Also, early in her career, she was often mistaken for Melanie Griffith
Melanie Griffith

Melanie Griffith is an Academy Award and Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe-award winning United States actress. She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren and the wife of actor Antonio Banderas....
, due to their resemblance.






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Christopher Norris (born October 7, 1953) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 movie and television actress. She is probably best known for her portrayal of nurse
Nurse

A nurse is a healthcare professional, who along with other health care professionals, is responsible for the treatment, safety, and recovery of Acute or Chronic ill or injured people, health maintenance of the healthy, and treatment of life-threatening emergencies in a wide range of health care settings....
 Gloria "Ripples" Brancusi in the CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 series Trapper John, M.D.
Trapper John, M.D.

Trapper John, M.D. is an United States television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH , about a lovable doctor who became a mentor, father figure, who also runs a teaching hospital in San Francisco, California....
.

Early notable roles include the wild girl, Miriam, in "Summer of '42
Summer of '42

Summer of '42 is a 1971 in film Cinema of the United States "Bildungsroman" film drama based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of Raucher as a boy, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket, Massachusetts, off the coast of New England, who embarked on a one-sided romance with a woman, Doro...
", a heroic young flight attendant in the 1975 disaster film Airport 1975
Airport 1975

Airport 1975 is a 1974 in film disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 in film hit Airport . The movie is one among many of a class of Disaster films that became a movie-going craze during the 1970s....
, and as hot girl alongside Ron Howard
Ron Howard

Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an Academy Award-winning American film director and film producer as well as an actor. Howard came to prominence in the 1960s while playing Andy Griffith's TV son, Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffith Show , and later in the 1970s as Howard Cunningham's son and Arthur Fonzarelli's best friend, Richie Cunningha...
 in Roger Corman
Roger Corman

Roger William Corman , sometimes nicknamed "King of the Bs" for his output of B-movies , is a prolific United States film producer and film director of low-budget movies, some of which have an established critical reputation: his cycle of films derived from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe for example....
's "Eat My Dust". Early in her career she played wholesome, "girl next door" types, and, later in her career, she got more "vixen" type roles, including the role of Laura Asher on the daytime soap "Santa Barbara"
Santa Barbara (TV series)

Santa Barbara is an United States decade long and award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993....
.

Also, early in her career, she was often mistaken for Melanie Griffith
Melanie Griffith

Melanie Griffith is an Academy Award and Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe-award winning United States actress. She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren and the wife of actor Antonio Banderas....
, due to their resemblance. Because of this, Griffith was mistakenly interviewed in the 1990s by the British media about acting in Airport 1975
Airport 1975

Airport 1975 is a 1974 in film disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 in film hit Airport . The movie is one among many of a class of Disaster films that became a movie-going craze during the 1970s....
. In the 1990s, she took a break from acting and got a degree in psychology from Antioch University
Antioch University

Antioch University is a six-campus United States university with campuses in four states. An outgrowth of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, each of Antioch's campuses has its own distinct academic programs, community life, and regional identity....
.

She is an avid antique collector.

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