Laurie O'Brien
Encyclopedia
Born: September 6, 1952
Laurie O'Brien is a professionally trained actress who started her career in 1982 with her role in Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann. She is best known for voicing Baby Piggy on the 1980s Saturday morning cartoon Jim Henson's Muppet Babies from 1984-1991 & the CTW
animated series Cro as Ivana the mammoth. As an on-camera actress, O'Brien has guest starred on the soap opera Santa Barbera as a hooker & has featured on numerous TV series including Trapper John M.D, NYPD Blue
, Matlock
, and L.A. Law
on which she played a women on trial for killing her rapist. She is married to Carl Weintraub
. Her son Barry O'Brien
also wrote the Muppet Babies episode "By the Book".
Laurie O'Brien is a professionally trained actress who started her career in 1982 with her role in Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann. She is best known for voicing Baby Piggy on the 1980s Saturday morning cartoon Jim Henson's Muppet Babies from 1984-1991 & the CTW
CTW
CTW may refer to:* Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop * CTW, the ICAO airline designator for Cargo Three, Panama* context tree weighting , a lossless compression and prediction algorithm...
animated series Cro as Ivana the mammoth. As an on-camera actress, O'Brien has guest starred on the soap opera Santa Barbera as a hooker & has featured on numerous TV series including Trapper John M.D, NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...
, Matlock
Matlock
Matlock is the county town of Derbyshire, England. It is situated at the south eastern edge of the Peak District, and forms part of the Sheffield City Region. The town is twinned with the French town Eaubonne. The former spa resort Matlock Bath lies immediately south of the town on the A6. Matlock,...
, and L.A. Law
L.A. Law
L.A. Law is a US television legal drama that ran on NBC from September 15, 1986 to May 19, 1994. L.A. Law reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights,...
on which she played a women on trial for killing her rapist. She is married to Carl Weintraub
Carl Weintraub
Carl Weintraub is an American actor who appeared on numerous television shows from the 1970s to the 2000s in addition to several movies....
. Her son Barry O'Brien
Barry O'Brien
Barry O'Brien is an American television writer and producer. His credits include Happy Days, Perfect Strangers, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Judging Amy, CSI: Miami and is the co-creator of the Disney Channel Original Series Hannah Montana....
also wrote the Muppet Babies episode "By the Book".
Filmography
- St. ElsewhereSt. ElsewhereSt. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at fictional St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood...
- Mrs. Morgen - Dungeons and Dragons - Additional Voices
- Jim Henson's Muppet Babies - Baby Piggy, Captain Black Wig
- Cartoon All-Stars to the RescueCartoon All-Stars to the RescueCartoon All-Stars to the Rescue is an animated drug prevention television special starring many of the popular cartoon characters from American weekday, Sunday morning and Saturday morning television at the time of this film's release...
- Baby Piggy and the Mom - The Defiant OnesThe Defiant OnesThe Defiant Ones is a 1958 drama film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners, one white and one black, who are shackled together and who must co-operate in order to survive. It stars Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Cara Williams, Charles McGraw, and Lon Chaney, Jr...
(1986) - Pauline