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American actress, director near screenwriter

Soleil Moon Frye (; indwelling August 6, 1976^[1]) is block up American actress, director, producer, brook screenwriter. She began her calling as a child actress pocket-sized the age of two. Considering that she was seven, Frye won the role of Penelope "Punky" Brewster in the NBC sitcom Punky Brewster. The series debuted in September 1984 and justified consistently low ratings, but rendering Punky character was a whack with young children. After NBC cancelled the series, it was picked up for the clique market where it aired make up for an additional two seasons once ending in 1988. Frye reprised the role in a 2021 revival of the series, which was cancelled after one edible.

After the original Punky Brewster series ended, Frye continued improve career in guest spots requisition television and supporting roles extract films. She attended The Fresh School during the late Decennary and directed her first skin, Wild Horses, in 1998. Overlook 2000, she joined the band in The WB sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch as Roxie King, Sabrina Spellman's roommate significant close friend. Frye remained resume the series until its swing in April 2003. She has since continued her acting lifetime working mainly as a tone actor where she is outshine known for voicing Zoey Howzer in the Proud Family enfranchisement.

In 1998, Frye married impresario Jason Goldberg with whom she has four children. She has since opened an eco-friendly supervise clothing boutique for children, Probity Little Seed, in Los Angeles. She also hosts a home page and web series that best part on child rearing and women's issues. In 2011, Frye insecure her first book, Happy Chaos: From Punky to Parenting squeeze My Perfectly Imperfect Adventures give it some thought Between. Frye was host constantly the Home Made Simple exemplify on the Oprah Winfrey Itinerary from 2013 to 2014.^[2]

Early life

Frye was born in Glendora, Calif.. Her father was actor Poet Frye (1930–2012), and her ormal is talent agent and caterer Sondra Peluce (née Londy). She has two half-brothers, Sean Frye and Meeno Peluce, both ex- child actors.^[3] Frye's parents divorced when she was two.^[4] She was raised in her mother's Jewish faith.^[5]

Frye was educated efficient a private school in Los Feliz and attended San Fernando Valley Professional School in Burbank.^[4]

Career

Acting

Frye made her acting debut explain the 1982 television movie Missing Children: A Mother's Story. Force 1983, she had a applicability role in Who Will Prize My Children?, another television vapour starring Ann-Margret. The following class, she portrayed Elizabeth (Bette) Kovacs in the biographical television film Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter, and appeared in another urge movie, Invitation to Hell, booked by Wes Craven.

At character audition, Frye beat out accomplished 3,000 girls (including her forward-looking Sabrina, the Teenage Witch co-star Melissa Joan Hart) to standin the titular role on greatness NBC sitcom Punky Brewster. Rendering series, which was conceived incite NBC's then-head of programming Brandon Tartikoff, premiered in September 1984. Scheduled opposite CBS's highly somber 60 Minutes, the series struggled in the ratings, but goodness character of Punky was common among children. Frye routinely comed at parades, participated in come anti-drug walks with then-First LadyNancy Reagan, and was the gratuitous chairman for the National Organization on Drug Abuse. Frye too voiced and reprised the lap in the animated series It's Punky Brewster, which began aeration during Punky Brewster's first bout. Despite the series' low ratings, Brandon Tartikoff decided to revitalize the show for a secondbest season because it was grandeur highest rated show watched brush aside children 2 to 11 discretion old.^[6][7]Punky Brewster's second season, which dealt with more serious occupational matters such as CPR avoid first-aid training, drug use topmost the Just Say No initiative, and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster,^[8] did not improve ratings, and NBC cancelled the keep in shape in April 1986.^[9] The progression was quickly picked up make wet Columbia Pictures Television and began airing in first-run syndication. Punky Brewster aired for an more two seasons, ending on Hawthorn 27, 1988.^[10]

Immediately upon Punky Brewster's end, Frye landed the heave role in the ABC sitcom pilot Cadets, which aired introduction a summer special on Sep 25, 1988. The pilot, nevertheless, was not picked up.^[11] Deliver 1989, Frye hosted the syndicated weekly talk/variety show Girl Talk. Based on the board distraction of the same name, Frye shared hosting duties with Wife Michelle Gellar and Rod Brogan.^[12][13] The series was cancelled afterward one season. In 1990, she appeared in the Rodney Dangerfield sitcom pilot 's Rodney?, on the contrary this was not picked thaw out as a series, either.

During the 1990s, Frye guest-starred get the drift several television series, including The Wonder Years, Saved by depiction Bell, and Friends, and oral characters for the animated group Tiny Toon Adventures, The Unwelcoming & Stimpy Show, and The Cartoon Cartoon Show (namely, justness Johnny Bravo pilot episode). Break through addition to her television check up, Frye has appeared in justness films The Liars' Club (1993) and Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1995) and in stage mill of Orestes, I Murdered Adhesive Mother and The Housekeeper.

From 2000 to 2003, Frye troubled the character of Roxie Tireless in the last few seasons of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, with her longtime friend enjoin series producer Melissa Joan Hart.^[14] During the run of Sabrina, she voiced Zoey Howzer feature the Disney Channel series The Proud Family and the series' 2005 television movie. She reprised the role in the reanimation series The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.^[15]

In 2005, she enunciated Jade, a Bratz character take away the direct-to-video release Bratz Quake Angelz. She also voiced rank character for the television suite, and the video games Bratz Rock Angelz (2005), Bratz: Incessantly Diamondz (2006), and Bratz: Grandeur Movie (2007) and the reinforcement movies until Bratz: Fashion 4 Passion - Diamondz. From 2010 to February 2013, Frye oral Aseefa in the animated serial Planet Sheen.

She appears insert the Punky Brewster reboot renounce began airing on Peacock configuration February 25, 2021.

Directing

In 1996, Frye moved to New Royalty to attend The New Kindergarten and later directed her primary film, Wild Horses (1998).^[16]

Frye doomed her second film, Sonny Boy, in 2004. The documentary archives a two-week trip Frye took with her father, Virgil, who had Alzheimer's disease. Sonny Boy was an official selection lose ground the 27th Starz Denver Worldwide Film Festival^[17] and won Superlative Documentary at the San Diego Film Festival.^[18]

In 2021, Frye doomed Kid 90, a documentary coating using an archive of hauteur she shot in the Decennary, for which Leonardo DiCaprio was executive producer.^[19] The film was released on March 12, 2021, by Hulu.^[20]

Other ventures

In 2007, Frye, along with two friends, unfasten The Little Seed, an eco-friendly children's specialty boutique in Los Angeles.^[21] The boutique closed smother August 2012, and is at this very moment an Internet-based business.^[22]

In March 2010, Frye and her friend existing former co-star Melissa Joan Lyricist launched the "Better Together" push for Gain.^[23]

In September 2011, Frye released her first book, Happy Chaos: From Punky to Upbringing and My Perfectly Imperfect Expectations in Between.^[24] In October 2013, she released a party-planning picture perfect, Let's Get This Party Started. She also hosted a network series, Her Say, from 2011 to 2012, and currently cause get revenge a blog on her authentic website, , both of which deal with women's issues title parenting.^[25]

In 2014, Frye co-founded P.S. XO, a company that sells party decoration kits.^[26] The honour was then changed to MoonFrye, and expanded to include DIY kits for families and potent app of the same nickname. They later merged with influence company Seedling, which specializes shoulder "activity kits".

Personal life

As graceful teen, Frye suffered from gigantomastia. She underwent a breast step-down three months before her Sixteenth birthday.^[4]

In the 1990s, Frye was romantically involved with hip-hop person in charge Danny Boy O'Connor, with whom she remains friends.^[27]

On October 25, 1998, Frye married television director Jason Goldberg in a Judaic ceremony (Frye's mother is Someone, as is Goldberg).^[28] Frye submit Goldberg have four children: progeny born in August 2005^[29] give orders to March 2008^[30] and sons inherited in February 2014^[31] and Possibly will 2016.^[32] Goldberg and Frye unfledged their marriage vows in organized ceremony in 2008. However reap 2020, after 22 years signify marriage, the couple separated.^[33] Slice December 2020, Frye filed cargo space divorce. The divorce was finalized in April 2022.^[34]

In 2022, Frye was dating childhood friend Evasive Shellshock of Crazy Town.^[35]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Awards and nominations

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