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Shanna Reed
American actress, dancer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shanna Reed is an American retired actress and dancer. She is best-known for playing Polly Cooper McGillis on the sitcom Major Dad.
Early years
Kansas City, Kansas-born Shanna Herron was seven years old when her father, Carl Herron, an engineer, died in a car accident in 1962, leaving her mother, Mary Lou (née Thompson; 1928–2014) with five children and pregnant.[1] Within two years she married ex-Marine Tommy Reed (1913–2012), a jazz saxophonist and leader of the Tommy Reed Orchestra.[2][3] Mary Lou and Tommy Reed had a child, creating a blended family of seven children.[4] Mary Lou Reed taught dancing for Arthur Murray dance studios. After the marriage, the family moved to Phoenix, where Reed grew up. Her mother and stepfather operated a talent-booking agency there, and her mother had another child. Reed attended Arizona State University for a year.[2]
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Career
After she left Arizona State, Reed danced at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, and in 1975 she was one of 12 dancers who, along with a singer, entertained in the Middle East and Europe. After they returned to the United States, she joined the national touring company of A Chorus Line.[2] She also had a replacement role in A Chorus Line on Broadway, and she performed on Broadway in Dancin' (1978).[5]
Reed's additional television credits include roles in Promised Land, Beverly Hills, 90210, Touched by an Angel, Cheers, Magnum, P.I., The Colbys, Simon & Simon, Hotel, I Had Three Wives, Knight Rider, T.J. Hooker, Fantasy Island, Texas, and Newhart.
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Personal life
Reed married film director Terrence O'Hara.[6]
Filmography
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References
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