Wendie Jo Sperber
Wendie Jo Sperber was born in Hollywood, California, United States on September 15th, 1958 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 47, Wendie Jo Sperber 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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Sperber began her screen career at a young age when she was cast in the small role of "Kuchinsky", in Matthew Robbins' 1978 teen comedy Corvette Summer, alongside Mark Hamill and Annie Potts. She appeared in Robert Zemeckis' period comedy I Wanna Hold Your Hand, as the irrepressible "Rosie Petrofsky". Sperber was overweight, but was able to move quickly on screen (Entertainment Weekly described Rosie Petrofsky as "a screaming Beatlemaniac who, among other things, climbed through elevator shafts"), and her "girl next door" appearance helped her to overcome the stigma of her weight.
She played the title role in the ABC Afterschool Special feature Dinky Hocker, which dealt with a teenager's attempts to hide her feelings by eating, and engaged in physical comedy in Steven Spielberg's 1941. Zemeckis, who also worked on 1941, brought Sperber back to the big screen in 1980 with a role in his comedy Used Cars, but it was on television that year that Sperber finally began to receive more serious attention.
She was cast in the role of "Amy Cassidy"—a character that was funny, romantic, and exuberant— in the series Bosom Buddies starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. Following its cancellation in 1982, Sperber appeared in the comedy The First Time, and worked a year on the series Private Benjamin. She then resumed her feature work in the Tom Hanks theatrical vehicle Bachelor Party, directed by Neal Israel. Israel cast her again in Moving Violations in 1985. That same year, she appeared as Linda McFly in Zemeckis' highly successful Back to the Future. She reprised her role as Linda in Back to the Future Part III.
Sperber's roles grew larger in the wake of Back to the Future, and over the next decade she starred in the series Babes (a comedy about three zaftig women) but the series was cancelled after one season. In 1994, Sperber was cast in a major supporting part in the CBS-TV series Hearts Afire. In 1998 she guest starred as April the cleaning lady and Grace's muse on the twelfth episode of Will & Grace.
Her last work was voicing a character on the animated TV series American Dad (episode titled "Roger 'n' Me)" that aired in 2006, after her death.