Background and career
Jamie Luner (born May 12, 1971) is an American actress. She is widely known for her roles as Cindy Lubbock on Just the Ten of Us, Peyton Richards on Savannah, Lexi Sterling on Melrose Place and Rachel Burke on Profiler. More recently, she portrayed Liza Colby on All My Children, and Cassie Siletti on Murder in the First.
Jamie Luner was born in Palo Alto, California on May 12, 1971, to Susan and Stuart Luner. She has an older brother, David Luner, who also has had a robust career in the entertainment business. Luner attended Beverly Hills High School. Luner was heavily involved in the drama department during her high school career, and at age fifteen she won LA's Shakespeare Festival for the Individual Monologues category in 1988. In between filming Growing Pains and Just the Ten of Us, Luner and her mother moved to New York to pursue Jamie's studies in entertainment. During 1986–1987, she attended the PCS Professional Children's School, which was established for providing working youth in the entertainment business with a basic education and curriculum. Simultaneously, she also studied at HB Studios to study dance with musical theater savant Ann Reinking. At age sixteen, the producers of Growing Pains asked her to audition for their new spin-off Just the Ten of Us, and upon being cast for the role, Luner returned to California. In 1994, when Luner was 23, she decided to pursue her passion for cooking and attended one of LA's top culinary schools, the Epicurean School of Culinary Arts, to study the fundamentals of fine French cuisine.
Following three and a half decades' worth of starring in films and television, in 2011 Luner went on to receive a master's degree in Spiritual Psychology at the Santa Monica College."I love learning and I wanted to further my education. I've always been on the spiritual path, and as a storyteller, the human psyche truly fascinates me. Brilliantly, school was set up as "experiential learning," so what I didn't expect was the profound internal transformation that occurred. It's been the gift that keeps on giving."
Luner's first role was playing the daughter of Suzanne Somers in a Crown Tissues commercial in 1975 at just four years old. From then on, she appeared regularly in commercials, making ten of them before the age of nine. Luner made her first television show appearance when she landed the role as the infamous Sheena ‘Woo Woo' Berkowitz in the hit sitcom Growing Pains (1987–1990). Although she was cast in only one episode to play one of three prom dates of main character Mike Seaver who was played by Kirk Cameron, she was often referenced throughout the rest of the series. The very next year, Luner went on to star as Cindy Lubbock in the Growing Pains spinoff, Just the Ten of Us (1988–1990), where she played the daughter of Coach Graham Lubbock portrayed by actor Bill Kirchenbauer. It also starred Heather Langenkamp, Brooke Theiss and JoAnn Willette as Luner's fictional sisters. She went on to play in Married… with Children (1992) on Fox with Christina Applegate and Ed O'Neill and the police drama Reasonable Doubts (1993) alongside Marlee Matlin. Following her roles in these series, she landed her first film lead in 1993 as Diana Moffitt in a television movie Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?, starring opposite Linda Gray and Antonio Sabàto, Jr. Luner continued with a succession of television films, most notably Confessions of a Sorority Girl (1994) which debuted on Showtime and was directed by Uli Edel and co-starred Alyssa Milano. Her first role in a multitude of crime dramas was Diagnosis Murder (1994), with renowned actor Dick Van Dyke.
In 1994, Luner expanded her education and passion for cooking and joined the Epicurean School of Culinary Arts which taught classical French cuisine in Los Angeles, California."I grew up in a very food-oriented family, a lot of cooking, a lot of eating, and I have a passion for it, so I put myself through culinary school."
Luner's major rise to prominence came in 1996, when she was cast for the first of many times by well-known producer Aaron Spelling. She joined the series as southern vixen Peyton Richards in the prime-time soap opera, Savannah (1996–1997), which was the signature show on the newly launched WB Television Network. Luner starred alongside other notable actors such as Robyn Lively, Shannon Sturges, George Eads, Ray Wise, and Mimi Kennedy. Luner had moved to Atlanta, Georgia during the filming of this series, and once it concluded, bought an airstream and traveled the United States for eight months before landing on a lot in Malibu. It was not long before Spelling then invited her to play Lexi Sterling on the iconic television series Melrose Place (1997–1999), for which Luner's performance gained global recognition. During these final two and a half seasons, the show followed her rivalry with Amanda Woodward played by Heather Locklear, ultimately portraying Luner's character as the alpha female. Soon thereafter, Luner received an invitation from the NBC network to replace Ally Walker on Profiler (1997–2000). She played the role as Rachel Burke alongside Robert Davi, Roma Maffia, and Julian McMahon until the show came to a close at the end of its fourth season in 2000. Luner's character also appeared in a cross-over episode on The Pretender (1998–2000), a television series that had a shared universe with Profiler.
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Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth (October 2026), in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
