Mitzi Kapture (born Mitzi Gaynor Donahue; May 2, 1962) is an American actress, known for her role as Sgt. Rita Lee Lance in the CBS/

USA Network USA Network (or simply USA) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. It was launched in 1977 as Madison Square Garden Sports Network, one of the first national sports ...

crime drama series ''

Silk Stalkings ''Silk Stalkings'' is an American crime drama television series that premiered on CBS on November 7, 1991, as part of the network's late-night '' Crimetime After Primetime'' programming package. Broadcast for two seasons until CBS ended the '' ...

'' from 1991 to 1995.

Life and career

Kapture was born in

Yorba Linda, California Yorba Linda is a suburban city in northeastern Orange County, California, United States, approximately southeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and had a population of 68,336 at the 2020 United States ...

, and raised in

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg ...

, Georgia. After appearing as a contestant on $100,000 Pyramid, she began her career in films such as ''Lethal Pursuit'' (1988), '' Angel III: The Final Chapter'' (1988), '' Liberty & Bash'' (1989), and '' The Vagrant'' (1992), before moving to television. She gained exposure with her first regular series role as Sergeant Rita Lee Lance in the television series ''

''. ''Silk Stalkings'' premiered on CBS and USA, but later moved solely to

. The show aired for eight seasons and became USA network's highest-rated original drama series. She played Rita, the other half of the two "Sams" for almost five years. Paired with Rob Estes, who played Sergeant Chris Lorenzo, Kapture gained recognition along with her co-star. Sergeant Lance eventually became Lieutenant Lance by the time Kapture left the series in 1995 to have her first daughter. During her time with the series, Kapture also directed episodes. Kapture returned to television in 1997, starring in two made-for-USA-Network movies. She played lead roles in USA Pictures Originals telemovies, ''Perfect Crime'' (based on a true story, also called ''Hide and Seek: The Joanne Jensen Story''), which also starred

Jasmine Guy Jasmine Chanel Guy (born March 10, 1962) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and director. She portrayed Dina in the 1988 film ''School Daze'' and Whitley Gilbert-Wayne on the NBC ''The Cosby Show'' spin-off '' A Different World'', which or ...

, and ''His Bodyguard'' with Robert Guillaume. She returned to series television in a lead role on ''

Baywatch ''Baywatch'' is an American Drama (film and television), drama television series about lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, and Hawaii, starring David Hasselhoff. It was created by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz ...

'' as Alexis Ryker. From 2002 through 2005, she played the seductive Anita Hodges on the CBS daytime soap opera ''

The Young and the Restless ''The Young and the Restless'' (often abbreviated as ''Y&R'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in the fictional Genoa City (named after the real-life Genoa City, Wiscon ...

'', credited as Mitzi Kapture Donahue. She also starred in the made-for-Lifetime television movie ''Night of Terror'', which premiered March 26, 2007. In her latest film, she played the role of a therapist specializing in autism in the independent feature '' God's Ears'', released in 2008 and on DVD in 2012. In 2010, she guest-starred in an episode of the CBS sitcom '' Rules of Engagement''.

Filmography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kapture, Mitzi 1962 births 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Living people People from Yorba Linda, California American television actresses American stage actresses American soap opera actresses American film actresses Actresses from California