Lori Singer Filmography

Lori Singer is an American actress and cellist. She is perhaps best known for her role as Ariel Moore, the female lead in the 1984 feature film Footloose, and as Julie Miller in the television series Fame. Singer was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. She grew up in a musical family: her father, Jacques Singer, was a famous conductor and protégé of Leopold Stokowski, and her mother, Leslie, is a concert pianist. Her brother is the actor Marc Singer. As a child, she was often around such luminaries as Leonard Bernstein. Singer is Jewish. A Juilliard-trained cellist, she was a student of... Leonard Rose. Singer made her debut as soloist at age thirteen with the Oregon Symphony. Singer has performed in public on such stages as the Royal Albert Hall and Carnegie Hall. She plays the cello in Short Cuts, Fame, and also in Sarabande, a 1997 short film by Atom Egoyan that is part of the Inspired by Bach series. Singer performed as soloist at Carnegie Hall in January 2008, premiering a hymn written by Karl Jenkins in memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. Singer first came to fame when she was cast as cellist Julie Miller, one of The Kids from "Fame", in the TV series Fame.
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