Jenilee Harrison Bio
Jenilee Harrison is an American Actress and television personality. She was born Jenilee A. Harrison on June 12, 1958, in Los Angeles, California. She appeared as a Playboy Muse in July 1987 at 29. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Harrison has enhanced breasts, green eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-23-35.
Jenilee Harrison’s path to Hollywood began with beauty pageants, cheerleading and a determination to get herself in front of the right cameras. Growing up in California’s San Fernando Valley, she won titles including Miss San Fernando Valley, Miss Los Angeles and Miss Hollywood before joining the Los Angeles Rams’ Embraceable Ewes cheerleading squad in 1978. At the same time, she supported herself through modeling and television commercials while attending the University of Southern California, where she earned a degree in education and studied acting with Joyce Selznick.
Her breakthrough came at 21, when she joined Three’s Company as Cindy Snow. Harrison entered the sitcom during the highly publicized contract dispute involving Suzanne Somers, initially stepping into an awkward position as the show reshuffled its female cast. Her cheerful, accident-prone Cindy quickly became familiar to viewers, and Harrison remained with the series for more than two seasons before her character was eventually written out.
She moved on to feature and dramatic television work, appearing in the film Tank and the miniseries Malibu before landing another high-profile television role as Jamie Ewing Barnes on Dallas. Harrison spent two years on the prime-time soap and received a Soap Opera Digest nomination for Best New Actress in a Prime Time Series, giving her a second signature television role after Three’s Company.
By the time Playboy featured her, Harrison had already moved comfortably through several corners of show business: pageants, commercials, professional cheerleading, sitcom comedy, feature films and prime-time drama. The magazine framed her as the quintessential San Fernando Valley success story—someone who had translated local pageant titles and cheerleading into a durable Hollywood career while insisting on making her choices on her own terms.
Harrison continued acting afterward, with appearances in Murder, She Wrote and She’s the Sheriff, the latter reuniting her with Suzanne Somers and Don Knotts. She also returned to the stage, performing Shear Madness with former Three’s Company colleague Richard Kline in 1992. In 2002 she stepped away from show business to concentrate on real estate investments, animals and car racing, closing a career that had taken her from NFL sidelines to two of American television’s most recognizable series.
