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Soleil Moon Frye Profile |
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Birth Date: August 6, 1976
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Birth Place: Glendora, California, USA
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Birth Name: Soleil Moon Frye
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Height: 5'1"
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Biography |
Soleil Moon Frye was
born on August 6, 1976, in Glendora, California. Hers was an
acting family, and Soleil grew up watching her father,
Virgil, and her half-brother, Meeno Peluce, on television.
By the age of 5, Soleil was determined to take up the family
trade.
Her father set her up with an agency, Herb Tannen and
Associates, which immediately found commercial work for
Soleil. In 1982, she landed a gig on the made-for-TV movie
Missing Children: A Mother's Story. A series of similar
projects followed and by 1984, Soleil was well ingrained in
the television industry.
It was in this same year that Soleil won the role of perhaps
her most enduring character; that of Punky Brewster in the
sitcom of the same name. The program about the unlikely
pairing of an orphan and a grumpy old man was immediately
embraced by the American public, and Punky Brewster was an
instant hit. At the age of 8, Soleil had suddenly achieved
superstar status, and soon found herself meeting President
Ronald Reagan and being interviewed on 20/20.
Although the public's affair with Punky Brewster has proved
to be memorable, it was a brief one. The show went into
syndication in 1986, and then disappeared from the airwaves
entirely two years later.
Soleil returned to school full-time once Punky Brewster
wrapped, vanishing from the Hollywood scene entirely. At the
age of 16, she momentarily resurfaced in the spotlight,
undergoing a highly publicized breast reduction operation to
treat chronic back problems, but had soon lapsed back into
obscurity.
After having completed her high-school education in
California, Soleil moved to New York City to attend the New
York School for Social Research, where she studied social
psychology, literature and drama. Throughout her college
years, Soleil continued to act, and expanded her interests
to include writing and directing. Her directorial debut, the
movie Lunch Time Special (a.k.a. Wild Horses), was
co-written with her half-brother Meeno. The film went
virtually unnoticed, a characteristic that seemed to plague
most of the projects Soleil was involved in throughout the
mid-nineties.
Movies like Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1994) and TV's
Piranha (1996) became noteworthy only as evidence of
Soleil's capacity to deal with adversity. The closest she
came to box-office success in this period was a role
alongside Jeff Daniels and Michael Richards (Seinfeld's
Kramer) in Trial and Error (1997), a comedy that received
mediocre reviews.
Although Soleil's resume in the '90s was peppered with
unsuccessful projects, finding work never became a problem
for her. This can be attributed in part to the pop culture
icon status that Punky Brewster had won her, yet it should
also be noted that, in spite of their contexts, Soleil's
individual acting performances were always well received.
Her onstage renditions in productions of The Housekeeper and
Orestes, I Murdered My Mother were met with rave reviews. By
the late '90s, more favorable roles were being offered to
her, including a 1999 guest appearance on the wildly popular
sitcom, Friends.
In May of 2000, Soleil took a hiatus from acting to pursue
other business interests. Dot-com fever was sweeping Los
Angeles, and Soleil was consumed by it. She co-founded the
site WebStation.com, planned as a network to air fashion
shows, concerts, and extreme sports events. Unfortunately,
the plan was a failure: neither Soleil nor her partner, a
former securities trader, had any experience in the Web
industry, and the company went under in August of the same
year.
In the fall of 2000, Soleil made her return to television on
the WB program, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. She was cast as
the character Roxie King, Sabrina's cynical college
roommate, a role that has garnered her a great deal of
publicity and a revitalized fan base.
After dating Mark Wahlberg, Edward Furlong and Brian Austin
Green (of Beverly Hills, 90210), Soleil married producer
Jason Goldberg in 1998. But that doesn't mean she has
settled down entirely; Soleil continues to seek out fresh
acting and directorial opportunities, as well as the
occasional business venture, such as her own fashion line,
Petite Moon. |
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Other
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Half-sister of Sean Frye and Meeno Peluce and daughter of
Virgil Frye.
Soleil means Sun in French.
Graduated from a private high school in California's San
Fernando Valley. She then attended New School University in
New York for one year.
At the age of 22, she directed Wild Horses (1998/I), making
her one of the youngest people in history ever TO direct a
film.
Her mother named her Soleil Moon after the song "I got the
sun in the morning (and the moon at night)" from the musical
"Annie Get Your Gun".
Measurements: 38DD-26-35 (as a young teen actress),
36C-24-34 (after breast reduction surgery at age 15),
(Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Dated Edward Furlong in the early 1990s.
When Shannen Doherty left the series "Charmed" (1998),
Soleil was one of the short list of actors considered to
replace her. The role later went to Rose McGowan.
She & her husband Jason are expecting their first child in
late August 2005
She starred in the television movie, I've Been Waiting for
You (1998) (TV), where her character hunts a witch.
Ironically, a few years later she joined the cast of
"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (1996), where she played the
best friend of a witch.
Ranked #35 on VH1's 100 Greatest Kid Stars. (June 2005)
Her daughter, Poet Sienna Rose Goldberg, was born at 2:20 am
on 24 August 2005 in Los Angeles. Poet weighed 7 lbs. 13 oz.
and was 19 inches long.
Daughter, Poet Sienna Rose is called Poe for short.
First name is pronounced "So-lay". |
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