Cheryl Ladd
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{{short description|American actress (b. 1951)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Cheryl Ladd
| image = Cheryl Ladd (cropped).jpg
| caption = Ladd in 2001
| birth_name = Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|7|12}}
| birth_place = Huron, South Dakota, U.S.
| known_for = Charlie's Angels
Purple Hearts
Millennium
One West Waikiki
Las Vegas
Grace Kelly
| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|singer|author}}
| years_active = 1970–present
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|David Ladd|1973|1980|end=div}}
- {{marriage|Brian Russell
|1981}}
}}
| children = 2, including Jordan Ladd
| signature = Cheryl Ladd Signature.svg
}}
Cheryl Ladd (born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor; July 12, 1951) is an American actress, singer, and author best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the ABC television series Charlie's Angels, whose cast she joined in its second season in 1977 to replace Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Ladd remained on the show until its cancellation in 1981. Her film roles include Purple Hearts (1984), Millennium (1989), Poison Ivy (1992), Permanent Midnight (1998), and Unforgettable (2017).
Early life
Ladd was born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor on July 12, 1951, in Huron, South Dakota,{{cite book |last1=Leszczak |first1=Bob |title=From Small Screen to Vinyl: A Guide to Television Stars Who Made Records, 1950-2000 |date=2015 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |page=181 |isbn=9781442242746 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UpucCQAAQBAJ}}{{cite news |last=Shindler |first=Merrill |date=February 28, 1988 |title=THE HORSEY SET OPENS ITS RANKS TO CHERYL LADD |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-02-28-8804020944-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |access-date=March 21, 2018}} the second daughter of Dolores (née Katz), a waitress, and Marion Stoppelmoor, a railroad engineer. After high school, she traveled with the band The Music Shop and played in venues in the United States Midwest before settling in Los Angeles in 1970.{{Cite journal|last=de Arakal|first=Byron|date=October 1981|title=Cheryl: From Huron, South Dakota to Hollywood, Cheryl Ladd Quietly Moves Ahead|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxYEAAAAMBAJ&q=Cheryl+Jean+Stoppelmoor+high+school&pg=PA21|journal=Orange Coast Magazine|pages=19}}
Career
=Early roles=
Ladd originally came to Hollywood to begin a career in music (she was known as "Cherie Moor" when she was the singing voice of Melody on Hanna-Barbera's Josie and the Pussycats animated series, and she also sang on the 1970 album of the same name).{{cite web|url=http://www.toonbarn.com/other-cartoons/greatest-tv-cartoon-theme-songs-13-josie-pussy-cats/|title=Greatest TV Cartoon Theme Songs #13: Josie and The Pussy Cats|work=ToonBarn|access-date=March 4, 2012|archive-date=July 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730014624/http://www.toonbarn.com/other-cartoons/greatest-tv-cartoon-theme-songs-13-josie-pussy-cats/|url-status=dead}} However, she soon began to land non-singing roles in commercials and episodic television, including guest appearances on shows such as on The Rookies, The Partridge Family, Police Woman, The Muppet Show, Search and Happy Days.{{cite magazine|last1=de Arakal|first1=Byron|title=Cheryl|journal=Orange Coast Magazine|date=October 1981|pages=19–24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA19|access-date=July 29, 2017|publisher=Emmis Communications|language=en}}
=''Charlie's Angels'' (1977–1981)=
Ladd's big acting break came in 1977, when she was cast in the ABC television series Charlie's Angels, replacing star Farrah Fawcett,{{cite news |last=Reilly |first=Sue |date=September 26, 1977 |title=Taking Farrah's Spot |url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-taking-farrahs-spot-vol-8-no-13/ |work=People |access-date=March 21, 2018}} who left the show after only one season to pursue a movie career. To make the transition easier for audiences, producers cast Ladd as Fawcett's character's younger sister, Kris, instantly making her a part of the "Angels family". In the years to come, this practice of replacing Angels became a common event for the show. However, Ladd remained a part of the main cast for four seasons, until the show's cancelation in June 1981.{{cite book|last1=Mansour|first1=David|title=From Abba to Zoom: A Pop Culture Encyclopedia of the Late 20th Century|date=2011|publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing|isbn=9780740793073|page=79|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7GN0E_diWbAC&pg=PA79|access-date=July 29, 2017|language=en}}
While starring in the highly rated Charlie's Angels, Ladd took advantage of her newfound popularity to further her musical career, guest starring in musical-comedy variety series and specials, performing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl XIV in January 1980, and releasing three albums. She had a top-40 Billboard Hot 100 single and a gold record.{{cite web|url=http://popdose.com/lost-in-the-70s-cheryl-ladd-think-it-over/|title=Lost in the '70s: Cheryl Ladd, "Think It Over"|work=Popdose|date=February 12, 2009}}
=Later career=
Following Charlie's Angels, Ladd remained a familiar face on television and has starred in more than 30 made-for-television films, including as Grace Kelly, the Philadelphia heiress who became a Hollywood glamour girl and then a European princess, in a biopic that was begun shortly before Kelly's death.{{cite news |last=O'Connor |first=John J. |author-link=John J. O'Connor (journalist) |date=February 21, 1983 |title=TV MOVIE: GRACE KELLY |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/21/arts/tv-movie-grace-kelly.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=March 21, 2018}} She also appeared in a number of feature films, such as Purple Hearts (1984), Millennium (1989), Poison Ivy (1992) (featuring Drew Barrymore, who later starred in the film adaptations of Charlie's Angels) and Permanent Midnight (1998). Ladd had the lead role in the television series One West Waikiki (1994–96) and made guest appearances in other TV shows such as Charmed, Hope and Faith and CSI: Miami. From 2003 until the show's cancellation in 2008 Ladd played Jillian Deline, the wife of the lead character Ed Deline (James Caan), in 29 episodes of the television drama series Las Vegas.{{cite news |last=Nededog |first=Jethro |date=October 3, 2011 |title='Charlie's Angels' Star Cheryl Ladd Gets Maternal on 'Chuck' |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/charlies-angels-star-cheryl-ladd-243232 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=March 21, 2018}}
In 1996, Ladd published a children's book titled The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship.{{cite news |last=Grady |first=Pam |date=November 25, 2012 |title=Cheryl Ladd has pick of litter with 'Paws' |url=https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Cheryl-Ladd-has-pick-of-litter-with-Paws-4061839.php |work=SFGate |access-date=March 21, 2018}} In 2005, she published Token Chick: A Woman's Guide to Golfing With the Boys,{{cite news |last=Metz |first=Nina |date=June 4, 2006 |title=Guess what's on the ceiling in Cheryl Ladd's bedroom |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-06-04-0606040452-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |access-date=March 21, 2018}} an autobiographical book which focused on her love of golf.{{cite web |url=https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2017/07/26/charlies-angels-star-cheryl-ladd-is-still-a-bombshell/23049154/ |title='Charlie's Angels' star Cheryl Ladd is still a total blonde bombshell at 66 |date=July 26, 2017 |website=AOL |access-date=March 21, 2018}} For several years, Ladd hosted a golf tournament sponsored by Buick.{{cite news |title=Happy Playing Two Tours, Nelson Is No Easy Ryder |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-31-sp-48746-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=October 31, 1997 |access-date=March 21, 2018}}
In September 2000, Ladd starred on Broadway, taking over the title role from Bernadette Peters in a revival of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun. She played the role until January 2001, when Reba McEntire took over.{{cite news|access-date=November 7, 2011|title=New Star Fills the Balcony, Doin' What Comes Natur'lly; A Familiar Face Can Rejuvenate a Musical|newspaper=The New York Times |year=2001 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/28/theater/new-star-fills-balcony-doin-what-comes-natur-lly-familiar-face-can-rejuvenate.html}}
On April 17, 2010, Ladd — along with her co-angel Jaclyn Smith — accepted the 2010 TV Land Pop Culture Award for Charlie's Angels.{{cite news |title=2010 TV Land Awards |url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/slideshow/2010-TV-Land-Awards-35405.php |work=SFGate |date=April 26, 2010 |access-date=March 21, 2018}}
Ladd has continued to appear in a number of TV productions, including the 2011 Hallmark Channel movie Love's Everlasting Courage,{{cite web|url=http://hallmarkchannel.com/loveseverlastingcourage/cast/Cheryl_Ladd|title=Cheryl Ladd as Irene on Love's Everlasting Courage – Hallmark Channel|work=Hallmark Channel|access-date=March 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306084351/http://hallmarkchannel.com/loveseverlastingcourage/cast/Cheryl_Ladd|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}} guest starring in the NCIS episode "Thirst" (as the love interest of medical examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard),{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/ncis/thirst-1401692/cast/|title=NCIS: Thirst|publisher=CBS Interactive|work=TV.com|access-date=March 4, 2012|archive-date=February 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210181304/http://www.tv.com/shows/ncis/thirst-1401692/cast/|url-status=dead}} and the series Chuck, playing Sarah Walker's mother.
On September 8, 2022, Ladd was announced as a contestant on season 31 of Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with Louis Van Amstel.{{Cite web |title=Dancing with the Stars: Teresa Giudice, Wayne Brady, Selma Blair and More Celebs Join Season 31 |url=https://people.com/tv/dancing-with-the-stars-season-31-cast-reveal/ |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=Peoplemag |language=en}} They were eliminated in the third week of the competition, placing 14th.
Personal life
She married fellow actor David Ladd (son of Alan Ladd) in 1973. They have a daughter, actress Jordan Ladd.{{cite news |last=Nolasco |first=Stephanie |date=February 19, 2019 |title='Charlie's Angels' star Cheryl Ladd on her relationship with God: 'It has gotten stronger and deeper' |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/charlies-angels-star-cheryl-ladd-reveals-her-favorite-memories-from-the-set-surprising-new-role |work=Fox News |access-date=February 19, 2019}} Ladd took his surname as her own, keeping it after their divorce in 1980.{{cite news |last=David |first=Anna |date=June 9, 1997 |title=Ladd's Lass |url=https://people.com/archive/ladds-lass-vol-48-no-22/ |work=People |access-date=March 21, 2018}}
Ladd has been married to music producer Brian Russell since 1981 and has a stepdaughter, Lindsay Russell.{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Samantha |date=September 27, 1999 |title=Wings of Desire |url=https://people.com/archive/wings-of-desire-vol-52-no-12/ |work=People |access-date=March 21, 2018}} Ladd is a celebrity ambassador for the child abuse prevention and treatment non-profit Childhelp.{{cite web |url=https://www.childhelp.org/celebrity-ambassadors/ |title=Childhelp's Celebrity Ambassadors |website=Childhelp |access-date=March 21, 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://www.childhelp.org/childhelp-golf-invitational-raised-over-188000/ |title=Childhelp Golf Invitational Raised Over $188,000 |website=Childhelp |access-date=March 21, 2018}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1971
| Kathy | |
| 1974
| The Treasure of Jamaica Reef | Zappy | |
| 1982
| Jessie Clarke | Feature film, Australia |
| 1984
| Deborah Solomon | |
| 1989
| Louise Baltimore | |
| 1990
| Lisa | Katherine | |
| 1992
| Georgie Cooper |
| 1996
| Lucinda Michaels |
| 1998
| Pamela Verlaine | |
| 1999
| Anna | |
| 2007
| Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story | Herself | Uncredited |
| 2008
| Holiday Baggage | Sarah Murphy | |
| 2012
| Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups | Mrs. Claus | |
| 2014
| Mrs. McCormack (Mom) | |
| rowspan=2|2017
| Helen / Lovey | |
| Camera Store
| Alma | |
| 2021
| A Cowgirl's Song | Erin Mays | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1970–1971
| Melody Valentine (singing voice) | 16 episodes |
| rowspan=3|1972
| Girl | Episode: "The Good Die Young" |
| Alexander Zwo
| Nelly | Episode: "Das gestohlene Ich" |
| The Ken Berry 'Wow' Show
| Herself | 5 episodes |
| 1972–1973
| Search | Amy Love | 3 episodes |
| rowspan=4|1973
| Harry O | Teenage Girl | Episode: "Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On" |
| Ironside
| Gwen | Episode: "A Game of Showdown" |
| Satan's School for Girls
| Jody Keller | Television film; co-starred with future "angel" colleague Kate Jackson |
| The Partridge Family
| Johanna Houser | Episode: "Double Trouble" |
| rowspan=2|1974
| The Streets of San Francisco | Susan Ellen Morley | Episode: "Blockade" |
| Happy Days
| Cindy Shea | Episode: "Wish Upon a Star" |
| 1975
| Switch | Jill Lorimer | Episode: "Death by Resurrection" |
| rowspan=5|1977
| Kate | Episode: "Silky Chamberlain" |
| Police Story
| Buffy | Episode: "Prime Rib" |
| Code R
| Ruth Roberts | Episode: "The Aliens" |
| The Fantastic Journey
| Natica | Episode: "The Innocent Pray" |
| The San Pedro Beach Bums
| Herself | Episode: "Angels and the Bums" |
| 1977–1981
| Kris Munroe | Main role |
| 1978
| Guest | Episode: "Cheryl Ladd" |
| rowspan=3|1979
| Guest | Episode: "Pilot" |
| The Cheryl Ladd TV Special
| Herself - Host and singer | TV special |
| When She Was Bad
| Betina "Teeny" Morgan | TV movie |
| 1980
| The Cheryl Ladd Special: Souvenirs | Herself - Host and singer | TV special |
| rowspan="3" | 1983
| Maggie Telford | rowspan=4|TV movie |
| Grace Kelly |
| The Hasty Heart
| Margaret |
| rowspan="2" | 1985
| Romance on the Orient Express | Lily Parker |
| A Death in California
| Hope Masters | rowspan=2|Miniseries |
| 1986
| Liane DeVilliers |
| 1987
| Ann Halloran | TV movie |
| 1988
| Bluegrass | Maude Sage Breen | Miniseries |
| 1989
| The Fulfillment of Mary Gray | Mary Gray | rowspan=11|TV movie |
| rowspan=3|1990
| Jekyll & Hyde | Sara Crawford née Lanyon |
| The Girl Who Came Between Them
| Laura |
| Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501
| Diane Halstead |
| rowspan=2|1991
| Changes | Melanie Adams |
| Locked Up: A Mother's Rage (aka The Other Side of Love) | Annie Gallagher |
| rowspan=2|1993
| Linda |
| Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back
| Pam Cheney |
| 1994
| Dancing with Danger | Mary Dannon |
| rowspan=3|1996
| Kiss and Tell | Jean McAvoy |
| The Haunting of Lisa
| Ellen Downey |
| Vows of Deception
| Lucinda / Lucy Ann Michaels | Television film |
| 1994–1996
| Dawn 'Holli' Holliday, M.E. | 21 episodes |
| 1997
| Ink | Mercedes | Episode: "The Black Book" |
| rowspan=2|1998
| Connie Hoagland | Television film; co-starred with daughter Jordan Ladd |
| Perfect Little Angels
| Elaine Friedman | Television film |
| rowspan=3|1999
| Jesse | Mary Anne Myers | Episode: "Crazy White Female" |
| Michael Landon, the Father I Knew
| Lynn Noe Landon | TV movie |
| Intimate Portrait
| Herself - Cheryl Ladd | 1 episode |
| 2000
| Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place | Berg's Mom | 2 episodes |
| 2002
| Her Best Friend's Husband | Jane Thornton | Television film |
| 2003
| Charmed | Doris Bennett | Episode: "The Day the Magic Died" |
| 2003–2008
| Jillian Deline | 29 episodes |
| rowspan=2|2004
| Mary Jo Johnson Fairfield | Episode: "9021-Uh-Oh" |
| Eve's Christmas
| Diane Simon | Television film |
| 2006
| Elizabeth Bishop | Television film |
| 2009
| Amanda Collins | Episode: "Bolt Action" |
| rowspan=3|2011
| Irene | TV movie |
| NCIS
| Mary Courtney | Episode: "Thirst" |
| Chuck
| Emma | Episode: "Chuck Versus The Baby" |
| 2014
| Joanne | Episode: "Charlie Gets Tied Up with A Catholic Girl" |
| rowspan=2|2015
| Tina Harvey | Episode: "Breakfast of Champions" |
| Garage Sale Mystery: The Wedding Dress
| Helen Whitney Carter | TV movie |
| 2016
| The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Linell Shapiro | 4 episodes |
| rowspan=2|2017
| Ballers | Mayor of Las Vegas | Episode: "Bull Rush" |
| Royal New Year's Eve
| Abigail | TV movie |
| rowspan=2|2018
| Malibu Dan the Family Man | Pamela Marshall | 2 episodes |
| The Christmas Contract
| Renee Guidry | rowspan=3|TV movie |
| 2019
| Grounded for Christmas | Susan |
| 2020
| Christmas Unwrapped | Janet Cohen |
| 2022
| Contestant | Placed 14th/16 |
| 2023
| A Christmas for the Ages | Joan | TV movie |
Discography
=Studio albums=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Label ! Notes |
|---|
| 1970
| rowspan="5"| Capitol Records |
| 1978
| The album reached number 129 on the US Billboard 200 chart, with the single "Think It Over" peaking at number 34 on the Billboard Hot 100. The track "Walking In The Rain" was used as an ending song for Charlie's Angels in Japan and was released as a single, while the song "I'll Never Love This Way Again" was recorded by Dionne Warwick the following year. |
| 1979
| Dance Forever | The album reached number 179 on the US Billboard 200 chart. The title track was also the closing theme of Charlie's Angels in Japan and was released as an EP, while the song "Where Is Someone To Love Me" was the theme of a Japanese whisky TV commercial featuring Ladd herself. |
| 1981
| Take a Chance | Released in Japan |
| 1982
| You Make It Beautiful | Mini-album released in Tokyo, Japan |
=Singles=
| class="wikitable" | ||||
| bgcolor="#CCCCC"
! Issued ! Title ! Label ! Release ! Catalogue No. | ||||
| 1970 | "Every Beat Of My Heart" b/w "It's All Right With Me" (as a member of Josie and the Pussycats) | Capitol Records | 45 rpm | 2967 |
| "Inside, Outside, Upside Down" b/w "A Letter To Mama" (Josie and the Pussycats) | rowspan=4|Kellogg's Cereal Promo Record | CP-58 | ||
| "Josie" b/w "With Every Beat Of My Heart" (Josie and the Pussycats) | CP-59 | |||
| "Voodoo" b/w "If This Isn't Love" (Josie and the Pussycats) | CP-60 | |||
| "It's Gotta Be Him" b/w "I Wanna Make You Happy" (Josie and the Pussycats) | CP-61 | |||
| 1971 | "Stop Look And Listen" b/w "You've Come A Long Way Baby" (Josie and the Pussycats) | Capitol Records | rowspan=5|45 rpm | P-3045 |
| 1974 | "The Family" b/w "Mamma Don't Be Blue" | Warner Bros | 7821 | |
| 1976 | "Country Love" b/w "He's Looking More Everyday Like The Man Who Broke My Heart" | rowspan=4|Capitol Records | 4215 | |
| 1978 | "Think It Over" b/w "Here Is A Song" | 4599 | ||
| "Good Good Lovin'" b/w "Skinnydippin" | 4650 | |||
| "Skinnydippin'"(Extended Version) (either side) | 12" Promo Single | SPRO-8894 | ||
| "Walking in the Rain" b/w "I'll Come Running" | Capitol Records Japan | 45 rpm | ECR-20516 | |
| 1979 | "Missing You" b/w "Thunder In The Distance" | Capitol Records | 4698 | |
| "Missing You" (Extended Version) (either side) | 12" Promo Single | SPRO-9096 | ||
| "Dance Forever" b/w "Missing You" | Capitol Records Japan | 45 rpm | ECR-20575 | |
| 1980 | "Where Is Someone To Love Me" b/w "Just Like Old Times" | ECR-17013 | ||
| 1981 | "Just Another Lover Tonight" b/w "Television" | ECR-17205 | ||
| "Take A Chance" b/w "Victim Of The Circumstance" | ECR-17155 | |||
| 1982 | "Can't Say No To You" b/w "You Make It Beautiful" (duet with Frankie Valli) | Capitol Records | B-5115 | |
| "You Make It Beautiful" (duet with Frankie Valli) b/w "Can't Say No To You/Love And Passion/Sakura Sakura" | Capitol Records Japan | EP | ECS-41010 |
References
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External links
{{Commons}}
- [http://www.cherylladd.com/ Official site]
- {{IMDb name|1440|Cheryl Ladd}}
- {{IBDB name}}
- {{rotten-tomatoes-person|cheryl_ladd}}
- {{discogs artist|Cheryl Ladd}}
- [http://www.charliesangels.com Charlie's Angels website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140810033217/http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20140707%2FENT%2F140709804%2F Interview on role in 1983 Grace Kelly movie, July 7, 2014, Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel]
- [http://www.christianfilmdatabase.com/review/the-perfect-wave/ The Perfect Wave] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610041746/http://www.christianfilmdatabase.com/review/the-perfect-wave |date=June 10, 2015 }}
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