Lisa Whelchel
Lisa Whelchel was born in Littlefield, Texas, United States on May 29th, 1963 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 61, Lisa Whelchel biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Lisa Diane Whelchel (born May 29, 1963) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, editor, and public speaker.
She is best known for her appearances on The New Mickey Mouse Club as the preppy and wealthy Blair Warner on The Facts of Life.
All Because of You, her latest Christian album, had been nominated for a Grammy Award for her best Inspirational Performance in 1984.
She has been a regular speaker at Women of Faith Christian conferences since 2009.
In 2012, Whelchel appeared on the CBS reality show Survivor: Philippines and placed second in second place.
She was also voted fan favorite and was given $100,000.
Early life
Lisa Whelchel was born in Littlefield, Texas, on May 29, 1963. She is the niece of Virginia "Genny" (née French), a real estate agent, and James "Jimmy" Whelchel Sr., an electrician. Her parents divorced in 1981, and her mother married Roy Coleman in 1983. Lisa is James "Cody" Whelchel Jr.'s elder sister, as well as Casey Justice Coleman's elder half-sister. Chasin (Cody's uncle) is also a niece of Chasin (Cody's son). Lisa and Cody were both born in Fort Worth, Texas, and she was in the 1980 class at Liberty Christian School in Argyle, Texas.
Personal life
Whelchel married Steven Cauble, a junior pastor at The Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California, where Whelchel was attending at the time, on July 9, 1988. The couple, who have three children, divorced in March 2012 and remain on friendly terms. Whelchel married Pete Harris, a psychologist based in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2019. She is the stepmother to his son's son.
Acting career
Whelchel was recruited in Texas by talent scouts looking for children interested in working with Disney Studios as a Mouseketeer on The New Mickey Mouse Club at age 12. She migrated to California in 1977 and appeared on the show in syndication from 1977 to 1978.
Whelchel was perhaps best known for her role as a main cast member of The Facts of Life, where she portrayed Blair Warner, an uptight prep student. She also appeared on Diff'rent Strokes, the show from which The Facts of Life spun off. Whelchel also refused a plotline that would have made her character the first among the show's four leading young women to lose her virginity. Whelchel turned down because of her Christian convictions, and the storyline was rewritten for Natalie, the character played by Mindy Cohn. This was the only episode of the series in which Whelchel did not appear.
Whelchel resurrects her appearance as Blair Warner in 2001's Made for Television Film The Facts of Life Reunion, a made-for-television film.
Whelchel appeared at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood on March 7, 2004, reunited with Charlotte Rae to perform The Facts of Life theme song. Kim Fields was "very bummed" that she was unable to attend two of her Facts of Life co-stars on The Today Show in spring 2006, confessing to being "really bummed" that she was unable to attend the show's DVD debuts of the first and second seasons. On January 1, 2007, Whelchel was reunited with Kim Fields on WFAA-TV's Good Morning Texas. When Whelchel was unveiled as a surprise guest, she was in Dallas to promote her appearance in the film Issues: We've All Got 'Em'. At the 9th Annual Television Land Awards in New York City, Whelchel and the cast of The Facts of Life, including Charlotte Rae, Nancy McKeon, Mindy Cohn, Kim Fields, Geri Jewell, and Cloris Leachman were honoured with the Pop Culture Award.
Whelchel, Fields, and Cohn reunited in 2021 on the set of Live in Front of a Studio Audience's reenactment of the show's third season episode "Kids Can Be Cruel." That evening, Whelchel performed the show's theme song.
Music career
In 1984, Whelchel released All Because of You, a Christian pop song. The album debuted at No. 1. The Billboard Contemporary Christian music charts are ranked 17 on the Billboard Contemporary Christian music charts. She was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance, as the author of the title song "All Because of You" and was praised. "All Because of You," "Just Obey," "Cover Me Lord," and "Good Girl were among the songs on the album. She did not have a second album on record. "Meltdown" is Steve Taylor's latest Christian music singer-songwriter, and she appeared on The Facts of Life. (at Madame Tussaud's) The song was the album Meltdown's title track.