Cindy Morgan is an American actress best known for her appearances as Lora/Yori
in Tron and Lacey Underall in Caddyshack.
Biography She was born in Chicago, Illinois to
Polish and German parents. Morgan attended 12 years of Catholic school and
was the first in her family to attend college.
While studying communications at Northern Illinois University, Morgan
played records on the radio. A commercial station in town wanted her to
report the news for them as well, and so a slight deception was needed. She used
the name Cindy Morgan, taken from a story she read about Morgan le Fay when
she was twelve years old. After graduation, Morgan gave all the
latest meteorological news on a television station in Rockford,
Illinois. She also kept her hand in radio by working the graveyard shift at
a local rock station. Then she returned to Chicago and deejayed on WSDM-FM.
During a labor dispute at the station, she literally quit on the air and walked
out with a record still spinning on the turntable.
She found employment at auto shows for Fiat, which took her to both coasts.
Morgan moved to Los Angeles in 1978, and became the Irish Spring girl. While she
did television commercials, she studied acting, and was rewarded with her first
screen role in Caddyshack, playing the role of Lacey Underall opposite Chevy
Chase. "Caddyshack was my first film and I'll
say that the end product was so completely different, it was originally
about the caddies. So at first, I had nothing to lose to audition. It was fun.
All I did was focus on making the person sweat. Look 'em in the eye, do that
thing many women know how to..." Disney made film history with Tron, the
first computer-generated film. Morgan played two characters: Lora, a computer
programmer in the "real" world, and Yori, her alter-ego in the film's
computer generated flights of imagination.
Morgan has many television and film credits, including portraying two
different roles on the prime time soap opera Falcon Crest during the course of
its run. She made two appearances on Matlock as different characters. Her
other credits include The Larry Sanders Show, Amazing Stories, CHiPs, and Bring
'Em Back Alive. Morgan also associate-produced five
films with Larry Estes, best known for Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
According to the documentary Caddyshack: The Inside Story, Morgan is currently a
resident of Florida and is working on a book about her experiences during the
making of Caddyshack. Morgan did not participate in the making
of Tron Legacy, the sequel to her 1982 film, nor does she appear in any of the
retrospective materials produced in conjunction with the sequel for use in a
DVD/Blu-ray reissue of the film in 2011. She did, however, reunite with her
costar Bruce Boxleitner, in character as Lora, in a mock news conference on April
2, 2010 promoting the release of Tron Legacy.
Charitable works Morgan, whose father fought in World War
II, is passionate about supporting the US military and helping to alleviate the
financial hardship felt by those who have been called upon to serve in the
recent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. She was director of the Caddyshack
Reunion Golf Tournament in 2006, which reunited some of the cast of Caddyshack,
along with other celebrities. Subtitled "Playing For The Home Team" and hosted
at Willow Crest Golf Club in Oak Brook, Illinois, the tournament raised funds to
benefit the Illinois Military Family Relief Fund, an organization that helps
the families of National Guard members and reservists on active duty.
Voice acting Morgan spent years in television and
radio before becoming an actress. She did the weather at 6 and 10 in Rockford,
Illinois, and weekends in Milwaukee. She was the morning drive DJ at the Chicago
radio station WSDM, now "The Loop." She ran camera and was an FCC licensed sound
engineer. In 2006, Morgan provided the voice of Emily S. Preston in the Night
Traveler multimedia adventure series produced by Lunar Moth Entertainment.
She also voiced Ma3a in Buena Vista Interactive's PC game Tron 2.0 in 2003.
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External links Official website
Cindy Morgan at the Internet Movie Database
Cindy Morgan at AllMovie Moviefone Cindy Morgan Interview