Jamie Luner Bio
Jamie Luner is an American actress whose four-decade career spans film and television, including leading and recurring roles in dramas and soap operas. She is widely known for playing Cindy Lubbock on Just the Ten of Us, Peyton Richards on Savannah, Lexi Sterling on Melrose Place, and Rachel Burke on Profiler, as well as Liza Colby on All My Children and Cassie Siletti on Murder in the First. In addition to acting, Luner has worked as a producer and earned a Master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology.
Early Life and Background
Jamie Luner was born in Palo Alto, California on May 12, 1971, to parents Susan and Stuart Luner. She has an older brother, David Luner, who has also built a robust career in the entertainment industry. She attended Beverly Hills High School, where she became heavily involved in the drama department and at age fifteen won the LA Shakespeare Festival Individual Monologues category.
During the 1986 and 1987 school year, Luner attended the PCS Professional Children’s School in New York, an institution founded to provide working youth in the entertainment business with a basic education. While living in New York, she also studied dance at HB Studios with Ann Reinking, a prominent musical theater instructor. At age sixteen, the producers of Growing Pains invited her to audition for a new spin-off series, and after being cast, Luner returned to California.
In 1994, at twenty-three years old, Luner decided to pursue her passion for cooking and enrolled at the Epicurean School of Culinary Arts in Los Angeles, where she studied the fundamentals of classical French cuisine. Following more than three and a half decades in film and television, she went on to receive a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monterey between 2011 and 2012.
Path to Celebrity
Luner began her career in 1975 at age four, playing the daughter of Suzanne Somers in a Crown Tissues commercial. She appeared in roughly ten additional commercials before reaching the age of nine, establishing her presence in the industry as a child performer. Her first television role came when she was cast as Sheena Berkowitz on the sitcom Growing Pains, where she played one of three prom dates for Kirk Cameron’s character Mike Seaver. Although she appeared in only one episode, the character was referenced throughout the rest of the series.
The following year, Luner landed a starring role as Cindy Lubbock on the Growing Pains spin-off Just the Ten of Us, playing the daughter of Coach Graham Lubbock. She starred alongside Heather Langenkamp, Brooke Theiss, and JoAnn Willette as her fictional sisters. She went on to make guest appearances on Married… with Children and the police drama Reasonable Doubts. Her first television film lead came in 1993 as Diana Moffitt in Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?, starring opposite Linda Gray and Antonio Sabàto Jr., followed by a notable role in Confessions of a Sorority Girl, which debuted on Showtime under the direction of Uli Edel and co-starred Alyssa Milano.
Jamie Luner Career
Early Career (1975–1994)
Luner began performing at age four with a Crown Tissues commercial alongside Suzanne Somers. She followed with roughly ten additional commercial appearances before the age of nine. Her first television role came as Sheena Berkowitz on the sitcom Growing Pains, where she played one of three prom dates for Kirk Cameron’s character Mike Seaver. Although she appeared in only one episode, the character remained referenced throughout the series.
In 1988, she was cast as Cindy Lubbock on the Growing Pains spin-off Just the Ten of Us, where she played the daughter of Coach Graham Lubbock. She went on to guest star on Married… with Children and Reasonable Doubts, and landed her first television film lead in 1993 as Diana Moffitt in Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?, starring opposite Linda Gray and Antonio Sabàto Jr. She also appeared in Confessions of a Sorority Girl and Diagnosis Murder.
Breakthrough (1994–2000)
In 1996, Luner landed her breakthrough role as southern vixen Peyton Richards on the prime-time soap opera Savannah, produced by Aaron Spelling and broadcast on the newly launched WB Television Network. She starred alongside Robyn Lively, Shannon Sturges, George Eads, Ray Wise, and Mimi Kennedy. Luner relocated to Atlanta, Georgia during filming, and after the series concluded in 1997, she bought an airstream and traveled across the United States for eight months before settling in Malibu.
Spelling then invited her to join the series Melrose Place as Lexi Sterling, a role that earned her global recognition. During the show’s final two and a half seasons, her character became the dominant female presence through a central rivalry with Heather Locklear’s Amanda Woodward. Soon after, NBC invited her to replace Ally Walker on Profiler, where she played Rachel Burke alongside Robert Davi, Roma Maffia, and Julian McMahon through the end of the fourth season in 2000. Her character also appeared in a crossover episode on The Pretender.
Later Career (2000–Present)
Following the end of Profiler, Luner appeared alongside Michael Madsen and Diane Farr in the thriller Sacrifice. She made guest appearances on series including That’s Life, CSI: Miami with David Caruso, and landed a series regular role as Senior Deputy Ryan Layne in 10-8: Officers on Duty. She also guest-starred in NCIS and starred in a succession of television thrillers, including Stranger in My Bed, Blind Injustice, The Suspect, and The Perfect Marriage.
Between 2009 and 2011, Luner played Liza Colby on All My Children in a role that spanned 296 episodes. She also made guest appearances on Supernatural, Criminal Minds, The Glades, Two and a Half Men, True Blood, Code Black, and Better Call Saul. Between 2015 and 2016, she played recurring character Cassie Siletti on Murder in the First, initially booked for two episodes before producer Steven Bochco expanded her storyline after seeing on-screen chemistry with co-star Currie Graham.
Jamie Luner Award Nominations
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Jamie Luner Awards Won
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Jamie Luner Family
Jamie Luner was born to Susan and Stuart Luner in Palo Alto, California. She has an older brother, David Luner, who has also built a career in the entertainment industry.
Personal Life
Jamie Luner has no publicly documented children or partners in available sources. She has expressed a long-standing interest in spirituality and wellness, pursuits that led her to earn a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica in the early 2010s.