1941-02-06 ( 84 years old ) in Los Angeles, California, USA
Daughter of French-born Robert Perreau-Saussine and Eleanor Child Perreau-Saussine, she was born Ghislaine Elizabeth Marie Thérèse Perreau-Saussine. Perreau achieved success as a child actress in a number of films. She got into the business quite by accident. Her older brother Gerald was trying out for the part of the title character's son in Madame Curie. Because their mother could not find a babysitter, she took Gigi along. The two-year-old, who could speak French, got the (uncredited) part of Madame Curie's daughter Ève (while Gerald would have to wait a year to make his film debut in Passage to Marseille).
She also played the daughter of Claude Rains and Bette Davis's characters in the 1944 film Mr. Skeffington. In Shadow on the Wall, she starred as the sole witness to a murder. As the "top child movie actress for 1951", the then ten-year-old was given the keys to the city of Pittsburgh by its mayor, and later Pennsylvania governor, David L. Lawrence. She was the youngest person to be so honored. Perreau played the rebellious teen daughter of Fredric March in 1956's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. However, her film career lost momentum as she became an adult, so she turned to television.
In 1959, she played a friend of Shelley Fabares on The Donna Reed Show, and had a supporting role in the sitcom The Betty Hutton Show, with her brother Gerald. In 1960, Perreau and Robert Harland performed as Sara Lou and Lin Proctor, a young couple from the east who have eloped and are heading west, in the western series Stagecoach West with Wayne Rogers and Robert Bray. Also in 1960, Perreau was cast as Julie Staunton in an episode of The Islanders, set in the South Pacific. She was cast in "Don Gringo" and "The Promise", as well as in The Rebel. In 1961, she played Mary Bettelheim in an episode of The Roaring 20s. She was cast in a recurring role on Follow the Sun series from 1961–1962 as secretary, Katherine Ann "Kathy" Richards. She guest starred on The Rifleman in 1960 and 1961. She made guest appearances on Perry Mason. In 1964, she also co-starred as Lucy, a beleaguered homesteader, on an episode of Gunsmoke. In 1970, she appeared on The Brady Bunch as a math teacher who becomes the object of puppy love by Greg Brady, one of her students.
In the 2000s, she provided her voice in the animated films Fly Me to the Moon, A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures and Crash: The Animated Movie, and acted in Time Again.
Movies
Meghan Markle: An American Princess
2018-05-11
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
2010-08-04
High Seas Hijack
1977-10-20
Hell on Wheels
1967-09-01
Journey to the Center of Time
1967-05-31
Tammy Tell Me True
1961-07-26
Look in Any Window
1961-01-29
Girls Town
1959-10-05
Wild Heritage
1958-07-23
The Cool and the Crazy
1958-03-01
Dance with Me, Henry
1956-12-17
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956-04-12
There's Always Tomorrow
1956-01-08
The Wild Bunch
1955-02-17
Bonzo Goes to College
1952-09-11
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
1952-06-25
Week-End with Father
1951-12-01
Reunion in Reno
1951-10-09
The Lady Pays Off
1951-10-04
For Heaven's Sake
1950-12-15
Never a Dull Moment
1950-08-19
Shadow on the Wall
1950-05-19
My Foolish Heart
1950-01-19
Song of Surrender
1949-10-27
Roseanna McCoy
1949-10-12
Enchantment
1948-12-25
Family Honeymoon
1948-12-06
The Sainted Sisters
1948-04-30
Song of Love
1947-10-09
Green Dolphin Street
1947-01-15
Alias Mr. Twilight
1946-12-24
To Each His Own
1946-03-12
Yolanda and the Thief
1945-11-22
Voice of the Whistler
1945-10-30
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945-04-07
The Master Race
1944-09-22
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944-06-14
Mr. Skeffington
1944-05-25
Madame Curie
1943-12-16
Powered by Powerxsoft Ltd using the TMDB API