Jamie Michelle Luner was born on Wednesday, May 12, 1971 to Stuart and
Susan Luner in Palo Alto, California. She
grew up with her older brother, David Luner,
and her mom Susan in California. Before landing her roles on
Chaos hoch zehn (1987)
as dizzy "Cindy Lubbock", Jamie began her career in front of the
cameras at the tender age of three doing TV commercials. At 15
she won the L.A. Shakespeare Festival in the category of
monologues. She was still working on
Chaos hoch zehn (1987),
while attending Beverly Hills High School, from which she graduated
in 1989. She took a break from acting, attended culinary school, and
was a chef at French restaurant Drai's after
Chaos hoch zehn (1987)
was canceled in 1991.
She returned to TV in
Teufel der Verführung (1993)
in 1993 with a few small parts in shows such as
Eine schrecklich nette Familie (1987),
Diagnose: Mord (1993).
Then, she got her first break as Southern seductress "Peyton Richards"
in Savannah (1996). After the prime-time soap
was canceled, Jamie and her then-boyfriend
Johnny Braz traveled around the US in an
Airstream motor home before she landed the role of "Lexi" in
Melrose Place (1992). After the
Fox soap ended in 1999, so did her four-year-romance. Then
after Ally Walker left, Jamie joined the cast of
Profiler (1996)
as "Rachel Burke".
Later she was in ABC's short-lived
10-8: Officers on Duty (2003).
Then, in 2005, she had lead roles in Lifetime's,
Blind Injustice (2005),
Stranger in My Bed (2005)
and, in 2006, The Suspect (2006),
The Perfect Marriage (2006)
and a guest spot on
Familienstreit de luxe (2005).
Jamie has also done theater work in Santa Monica in "Black &
Bluestein", Other Space, Santa Monica and The Young Playwrites Festival
in Los Angeles.
