Heidi Lucas (born June 3, 1977)
is an American
attorney and
actress
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...
.
Biography
During the early 1990s, Lucas played Dina Alexander on
Nickelodeon
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's ''
Salute Your Shorts
''Salute Your Shorts'' is an American television sitcom created by Steve Slavkin and produced by Propaganda Films, which aired on Nickelodeon from July 4, 1991, to September 12, 1992.
Focused around the life of young campers at the fictional C ...
'', which ran from 1991 to 1992. In 1992, she appeared in the 'Fantasy Dating Game' Girls' Club. Created for the
Philips CD-I
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Imagination Machine, it allowed girls to go on interactive dates with thirty of the 'coolest guys in the universe'. In 1993, she won the
Young Artist Award
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for best young actress to co-star in a cable series for her role. She also played Noriko "Max" Matsuda in the 1996 sci-fi series ''
Hypernauts
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''.
By 1998, Lucas quit acting, pursuing higher education instead. She currently lives in Arizona and works as an attorney. In 2015, she reunited with most of her ''Salute Your Shorts'' cast at
Portland, Oregon
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's Everything is Festival.
Filmography
Television
Lucas appeared in numerous video shorts as well as in the 1992 film ''Ghost Ship''.
She also appeared in major commercials for the following companies:
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Coca-Cola
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(1998)
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Clearasil
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(1997)
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Sunny Delight
SunnyD (named Sunny Delight prior to 2000) is an orange drink developed in 1963 by Doric Foods of Mount Dora, Florida, United States. Additional plants were built in California and Ohio in 1974 and 1978, respectively. In April 1983, Sundor Bra ...
(1996)
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Noxzema
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(1995 & 1996)
*Secret Ultra Dry Deodorant
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Johnson & Johnson
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Persa Gel
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Skittles
References
External links
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1977 births
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American lawyers
21st-century American women lawyers
American child actresses
American actors of Chinese descent
American people of Czech descent
American television actresses
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
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