Holly Elizabeth Robinson Peete (born September 18, 1964, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress, singer and author.
Her parents, Dolores and Matt Robinson (the original Gordon on Sesame Street), were both actors who moved to Los Angeles, California when she was ten years old. She attended Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York where she majored in psychology and French. Her language skills allowed her to spend a year in Paris,...
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Holly Elizabeth Robinson Peete (born September 18, 1964, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress, singer and author.
Her parents, Dolores and Matt Robinson (the original Gordon on Sesame Street), were both actors who moved to Los Angeles, California when she was ten years old. She attended Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York where she majored in psychology and French. Her language skills allowed her to spend a year in Paris, France to study at the Sorbonne.
Holly attended Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, California. "Samohi" was crawling with future Hollywood celebrities when Robinson attended. Chad and Rob Lowe and Charlie Sheen — who played on the baseball team — were among her classmates, along with Junior Thurman and Keith Davis, who would later be teammates of Rodney Peete at USC, before Holly married him.
In 1969, she made her first TV appearance by playing a little girl named Sally on the very first episode of Sesame Street.
As an actress,...
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