Jenilee Harrison (born June 12, 1958) is an American actress who appeared as Cindy Snow, a cousin of and replacement for blonde roommate Chrissy Snow on the hit sitcom Three's Company, between 1980 and 1982. She went on to play Jamie Ewing Barnes on Dallas from 1984 to 1986.

Career

Before breaking into show business, Harrison was a cheerleader from 1978 to 1980 for the Los Angeles Rams. Harrison was just 21 when she landed the role of Cindy on Three's Company after Suzanne Somers asked for a raise in salary, and her role was reduced. Both Harrison and Somers suffered in popularity. As a result, Priscilla Barnes was cast as Terri permanently replacing Somers, while Harrison was made a supporting cast member and disappeared from the series after two and a half seasons, with producers saying she was too "inexperienced and unseasoned." This period of her life was later dramatized in the television movie Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company(2003) with Liz Crawford playing Harrison. After Three's Company, Harrison continued on with her acting career appearing in feature films Tank (film) and television series Dallas where she played Jamie Ewing Barnes for two years. She continued in guest-starring roles on television where she reunited with her former Three's Company co-stars Suzanne Somers and Don Knotts on She's the Sheriff in 1988. She also performed with another Three's Company co-star Richard Kline in dinner theater for the play Shear Madness in Canada in 1992. She left showbiz in 2002 to focus on her real estate investments, caring for animals and car racing. In 2017, she did reunite with some of the surviving stars of Three's Company for the show's 40th anniversary celebration on Antenna TV.

Personal life

In the early 1980s, Harrison dated L.A. Rams guard Dennis Harrah and Major League Baseball star Reggie Jackson. In 1993, Harrison married Dr. Bruce Oppenheim, a Los Angeles-area chiropractor and the ex-husband of actress Cybill Shepherd. Oppenheim and Harrison divorced in 2022.

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