next up: the robot from small wonder aka tiffany brissette:
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birth name: tiffany michelle brissette
tiffany began her 'career' at the very young age of 2 years old. her mother entered her in many pageants and talent competitions during her young life. that led to television voice-over work and many commercial appearances which included, 'care bears', 'florida orange juice', 'ibm', 'jell-o puddin' pops' appearing with bill cosby) and many others.
tiffany was given a career boost after appearing in 'a perfect day for banana fish' with bob hope, and was highly encouraged by her peers to pursue television as a career. her biggest success she shared, was the role as the child robot 'v.i.c.i.' on fox's 1980's successful show, 'small wonder' (1985) which had a popular run from 1985-89. she beat out candance cameron and heather o'rourke for the role.
after 'small wonder' ended, she made various television appearances and was even a guest on the 'the 700 club' in 1991 at the age of 17. tiffany later received her bachelor's degree in psychology from westmont college in santa barbara california. she has not returned to television in almost ten years.
more recently, on march 2, 1997, she participated in the los angeles marathon, finishing in 4:33:06. she placed 921st among 5,312 females, and 101st out of 545 in her age class. she placed 5,110th in an overall field of 15,899 entrants.
as of may, 2002 she was working as a nanny in boulder, colorado but has since become heavily involved with children and young adults as a counselor in san diego.
misc: horseback riding is one of her favorite hobbies.
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