Lenore Kasdorf is an American

United States

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 actress.

Biography

Kasdorf was born in New York City

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 to an army colonel father. She is best known for her role as the alluring and promiscuous nurse Rita Stapleton Bauer

Rita Stapleton

Rita Stapleton Bauer was a fictional character on the CBS soap Guiding Light. The character was played by Lenore Kasdorf, and was created by Bridget and Jerome Dobson, shortly after they became Guiding Light's head writers in 1975. Rita was written out in 1981, when Kasdorf announced she was...

, whom she played from 1975 to 1981 in the soap opera Guiding Light

Guiding Light

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, and for her performance as Mrs Rico in Starship Troopers

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.

She has since appeared on the soaps Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara (TV series)

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and Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives

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, as well as a number of films (her most prominent film role costarring with Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris

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 in 1984's Missing in Action

Missing in Action (film)

Missing in Action is a 1984 action B-movie directed by Joseph Zito and starring Chuck Norris. It is set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue. Colonel Braddock, who escaped a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp 10 years earlier, returns to Vietnam to find American soldiers listed as missing...

). She also had a recurring role on the 1980s sitcom Coach

Coach (TV series)

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. Her television credits also include guest-starring roles on The A-Team

The A-Team

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, Knight Rider, Murder She Wrote, Barnaby Jones

Barnaby Jones

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, 21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street

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, NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue

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, Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210

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, and the science fiction drama Babylon 5.

In 2004, Kasdorf suffered paralysis, as result of an opportunistic infection which manifested in her spine. Though she eventually overcame both the infection and her paralysis, she has not been active as an actress since that time.

Kasdorf was married to actor Phil Peters from 1977 - 1983.

She has a daughter, Vanessa Peters, born in 1980.

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