Corinne Bohrer (born October 18, 1958) is an American film and television actress whose career has spanned four decades and includes regular roles in eight primetime series produced between 1984 and 2015: ''
E/R'' (1984–85) ''I’ll Take Manhattan'' (1987), ''
Free Spirit'' (leading role, 1989–90), ''
Man of the People'' (1991–92), ''
Double Rush
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'' (1995), ''
Partners'' (1995–96), ''
Rude Awakening'' (recurring, 1998–2001), ''
Veronica Mars
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'' (recurring, 2004–2006) and ''
Murder in the First'' (recurring, 2015).
Early life
Born on the
North Carolina
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Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
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, Bohrer was raised in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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;
Billings, Montana
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; and
Arlington, Texas
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,
where she attended
Lamar High School.
She was active in drama, band, and student government.
She attended the
University of Texas at Arlington
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to study journalism but never graduated.
Career
While in college, she modeled, performed in commercials, and worked as a dancer.
Film and television
By the time of her 22nd birthday, Bohrer was in
Hollywood
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, working on her first on-screen assignment — a one-minute role as a stranded motorist on ''
McClain's Law'', the
pilot telefilm of the 1981
James Arness
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series of the
same name. In 1986 she appeared in the 22nd episode of the first season of ''
MacGyver
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'' as Terry Ross. In 1988 she co-starred opposite
Randy Quaid
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He was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award for his role in '' The ...
in ''
Dead Solid Perfect'',
and followed that with a co-starring role opposite Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage in the comedy ''
Vice Versa''.
During the 1990s, she appeared on ''
Murder, She Wrote
''Murder, She Wrote'' is an American crime drama television series, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link, starring Angela Lansbury, and produced and distributed by Universal Television for the CBS network. The series f ...
''.
Many of her major roles were in short-lived sitcoms. She played a young pediatric nurse who had a crush on
Elliott Gould
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Gould's breakthrough role was in the film ''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice'' (1969), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The ...
in the 1984-1985
CBS
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sitcom ''
E/R'',
a bohemian witch who becomes a nanny for a motherless family, Bohrer's first role as lead actress, in the early 90s ABC sitcom ''
Free Spirit'',
and a prim and conservative administrative assistant who acted as a foil to her boss, an unscrupulous
City Council
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man played by
James Garner
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in the
NBC
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sitcom ''
Man of the People''.
She is also known as
Trickster
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's sidekick
Prank
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in the 1990 CBS series ''
The Flash
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'' and the
version
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Music
* Cover version
* Dub version
* Remix
* ''V ...
from
The CW
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, in which she appeared in a 2018 episode.
Bohrer's work has included a recurring role as
Lianne Mars, the wayward mother of the
title character
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in the CW television series ''
Veronica Mars
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''.
She was featured in the ''
Dream On'' episode "What I Did for Lust" and the ''
Friends
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'' episode "
The One Where Rachel Finds Out" (1995).
Commercials
Bohrer has also frequently appeared in commercials. She appeared in McDonald's 1987
Chicken McNuggets
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Shanghai
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campaign. She also played the role of the "counselor" in
Apple Inc.
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's "
Get a Mac
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" ad campaign. Other commercials include
Totino's Pizza Rolls,
Walgreens
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Walgreens has been the subject of a number of lawsuit ...
,
Campbell's
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low sodium soup and
Bounty ("One-sheeter"!).
Theatre
In 1983 she appeared in Larry Ketron's comedy ''The Trading Post'' at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles.
[Drake, Sylvie (August 24, 1983). "Courtin' Time at 'The Trading Post'". '']Los Angeles Times
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''. Part IV, p. 5.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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American television actresses
American film actresses
1958 births
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Living people
People from Arlington, Texas
Actresses from Texas
People from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina