Lydia Cornell

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Lydia Cornell (born July 23, 1953) is an American actress best known for her role as Sara Rush on ABC's situation comedy "Too Close for Comfort."

Early life and family

Cornell was born Lydia Korniloff in El Paso, Texas, on July 23, 1953. She is the eldest granddaughter of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Gregory Jacob Korniloff, a Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Arts who later became assistant concertmaster of the El Paso Symphony Orchestra. Cornell is the elder sister of pianist Paul Korniloff, a piano player, and Kathryn Korniloff, co-founder of the band Two Nice Girls and a sound designer and composer since 1995.

Cornell was named El Paso's "Little Miss Cotton" in March 1963 as a ninth-grade student at Mesita Elementary School.

Cornell and her family immigrated to Scarsdale, New York, in 1966. She attended both Scarsdale Junior High School and Scarsdale High School, both of which she graduated in 1971.

Cornell studied at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she learned about finance, drama, English, Russian, Spanish, and Anthropology. She spent her summer at Caribou Ranch in Nederland, Colorado, during her sophomore and junior years in college. Billy Joel, Dennis Wilson, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, David Cassidy, and photographer Henry Diltz were among the visitors. She brought food to the cabins of such rock stars as The Beach Boys, America, Chicago, and Billy Joel as a Caribou Ranch photographer and "kitchen kid." The Ozark Mountain Daredevils gave her a shoutout on their album "Men From Home." Cornell was the road manager for musician Michael Murphy before graduation. Cornell obtained a Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree in May 1976 with majors in both advertising and English/drama.

Cornell had joined the Korniloff family, who had been living in The Hague, the Netherlands, since mid-1975, by the time of her father's death in May 1977. Her mother and siblings returned to El Paso, Texas, shortly after. Cornell had moved to Los Angeles in 1978 to pursue an acting career. While there, she had been working at a recording studio and modeling for album covers before being hired by Jack Webb Productions as a secretary-production assistant. Cornell also served as an assistant to the producer of the television film Little Mo, a biography of tennis star Maunconnolly, who was still known as Lydia Korniloff.

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Acting career

In the film Steel (1979), directed and starring Lee Majors, Lydia Korniloff was the first screen appearance on Cornell as a woman in a walk-on. Her first public speaking role was in an episode of The Love Boat, for which she had two lines. Cornell spent nine weeks in the Greek Isles for her role in the ostensible horror film Blood Tide, which was not released until 1982.

Sara Rush, "a ditzy, big-breasted blonde," appeared on Too Close for Comfort from 1980–85, Cornell's first big role was as Sara Rush, "a ditzy, big-breasted blonde." Cornell was portrayed by sexologist Robert T. Francoeur as a modern example of "classic female stereotypes in the style of Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield" in 1982, during the sitcom's heyday.

Cornell appeared on numerous television shows over the years, including The Love Boat, Charlie's Angels, The Drew Carey Show, Quantum Leap (the pilot episode) and The City of Hazzard. She has appeared on episodes of television game shows, including Battle of the Network Stars, Super Password, and Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour.

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