Ask American Profile 12/7/2008
Amber Tamblyn, Carey Lowell, Jon Cryer and Susan Stafford
—Amanda Caffey, Oneonta, N.Y.
Tamblyn, 25, was back on television earlier this year in the The Russell Girl, but if you missed that movie, take heart: She’s one of the stars in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, a recent movie about the bonds of friendship between four young women. And she headlines the new ABC series The Unusuals, in which she plays a police detective in a department teeming with twisted humor and dirty little secrets.
Q I’ve been a fan of Law & Order’s Carey Lowell for some time. What is she doing these days?
—Al Morgan, Claremore, Okla.
The former fashion model and “Bond girl” from the movie License to Kill left Law & Order in 2001 and returned to its Trial By Jury spin-off for two episodes in 2005. You also may have seen her in the Lifetime network movie More Than Meets the Eye: The Joan Brock Story, or on the TV shows Six Degrees and Empire Falls. Lowell, 47, is married to actor Richard Gere, with whom she has an 8-year-old son. She also has a teenage daughter from her previous marriage to actor Griffin Dunne.
Q Is Jon Cryer of Two and a Half Men related to Don Knotts? His mannerisms are so similar.
—Gail Bell, Lake City, Ark.
Cryer is unrelated to Knotts, best known as Mayberry’s Barney Fife. Cryer’s mother, Gretchen Cryer, and father, David Cryer, both were Broadway actors, and, alongside his mother, little Jon filmed his first commercial at age 4. He grew up in New York and then attended London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He starred in the movies Pretty in Pink, Hot Shots! and Hiding Out. He’s divorced and has an 8-year-old son.
Q Who hosted Wheel of Fortune before Vanna White, and what is she doing now?
—Freda Barnes, Johnsonville, N.Y.
Wheel of Fortune’s original hostess was Susan Stafford, now 63. Since leaving the show in 1982, she’s devoted her life to humanitarian causes, working alongside Mother Teresa’s nuns in India, spending a year as a chaplain intern in cancer work at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Houston, and launching the Susan Stafford Foundation to deal with patient advocacy, human trafficking and ecology issues. She also went back to school—big time—to earn a doctorate in clinical psychology and a master’s degree in theology. She’s written an autobiography, Stop the Wheel, I Want To Get Off, set for release next year.
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