Person Details

Birthday: 1941-02-06 21:20:16

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 26

TV Involvements: 10


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Perry Mason
Average
8

Perry Mason

(1957) Doris Bannister
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Average
8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(1955) Gloria Barnes
Studio One
Average
4

Studio One

(1948) Jean
Lux Video Theatre
Average
6

Lux Video Theatre

(1950) Phyllis
Rawhide
Average
7

Rawhide

(1959) Sister Joan
Gunsmoke
Average
7

Gunsmoke

(1955) Lucy
Climax!
Average
3

Climax!

(1954) Laurette Bradshaw
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
Average
6

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2018 Self
2010 Whale (voice)
1977 Patricia Haber
1969 N/A
1967 Sue Robbins
Karen White
1966 N/A
1964 N/A
N/A
1961 N/A
Rita
Eileen Lowell (as Gigi Pereau)
1960 N/A
N/A
Julie Staunton
1959 Serafina Garcia
Demetria Angelica
Laurie Buford
Sister Joan
1958 N/A
Cathy Robinson
Missouri Breslin
Amy
1957 Doris Bannister
1956 Shelley
Susan Hopkins
Ellen Groves
1955 Gloria Barnes
Lucy
1954 Laurette Bradshaw
1953 N/A
N/A
1952 Carlotta
Betsy Drew
Roberta Blaisdell
1951 Anne Stubbs
Margaret 'Maggie' Angeline Linaker
Diane Braddock
1950 Item
Phyllis
Tina Hayward
Susan Starrling
Ramona
1949 Faith Beecham
Allifair McCoy
1948 Lark as a Child
Zoe
Jean
N/A
1947 Julie
Veronica
1946 Susan Holden
Virgie Ingham
1945 Gigi (as Ghislaine Perreau)
Bobbie (uncredited)
Robin Lee Scott (uncredited)
1944 Baby (as Ghislaine Perreau)
Jean - Age 2½ (uncredited)
Two-Year-Old Fanny (uncredited)
1943 Eve at 18 Months (uncredited)
Year Character Movie/Tv

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