Years active 1955–present Children Kimberly Beck Movies I Was a Teenage Werewolf | Role Television actress Name Cindy Robbins | |
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Occupation Actor, television producer & writer Nominations Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year – Actress Similar People Tommy Leonetti, Kimberly Beck, Ann Elder, Jason Clark, Gardner McKay | ||
Cynthia Chenault (born January 5, 1937) is an American television actress and producer/writer active from the mid-1950s to the present. She used the screen name Cindy Robbins in her acting credits.
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Television career
Her first acting role on television was in 1955, in the episode Moonfire of the television western series Brave Eagle. In 1960, Robbins appeared as a ballerina in the "Bullets and Ballet" episode of Tightrope!.
Her last acting role in television was on the television comedy series McHale's Navy in 1964.
Her best-known role was that of Carol Porter, one of the daughters in the one-season sit-com The Tom Ewell Show (1960–61). She also made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of Teddi Hart in the 1960 episode, "The Case of the Treacherous Toupee."
Her other television work consisted of appearances in comedy shows (Ensign O'Toole, Father Knows Best, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Leave It To Beaver), military/action shows (Steve Canyon, Whirlybirds, Harbor Command), westerns (Wagon Train, Outlaws, The Tall Man), and dramas (Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Tightrope, Dragnet).
Film career
Producing/Writing Career
In the mid-1980s, she produced/wrote several ABC Weekend Specials (notably, Pippi Longstocking) and a CBS Schoolbreak Special. She was also a writer in 1984 for the TV cartoon series Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats.
In 1986, she shared in the nomination for a Daytime Emmy in the category Outstanding Writing in a Children's Special, for the ABC Weekend Special The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn.
Personal life
Cynthia Chenault was born January 5, 1937, in Hammond, Louisiana.
She had one child, actress Kimberly Beck, born in Glendale, California, in January 1956.
Cynthia, then still known as Cindy Robbins, married Australian singer-songwriter Tommy Leonetti on November 27, 1965, in Beverly Hills, California. The two of them, plus her young daughter, moved to Sydney, Australia, and lived there for the remainder of the 1960s and for most of the 1970s before returning to America in the late 70's. Her husband Tommy died in 1979. She began around that time using her actual name for her writing credits, rather than her screen name.