Gigi Perreau
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 6, 1941 (age 85)
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
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Filmography
Mamie Exposed! The Life and Loves of the Last Blonde Bombshell
Movie
Meghan Markle: An American Princess
Movie · as Self
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
Movie · as Whale (voice)
High Seas Hijack
Movie · as Patricia Haber
The Brady Bunch
TV · as Miss O'Hara · 1 ep
Adam-12
TV · as Iris Cooley · 1 ep
Journey to the Center of Time
Movie · as Karen White
Hell on Wheels
Movie · as Sue Robbins
Tarzan
TV · 1 ep
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
TV · as Rosa Lombardi · 1 ep
Many Happy Returns
TV · 1 ep
Look in Any Window
Movie · as Eileen Lowell (as Gigi Pereau)
Tammy Tell Me True
Movie · as Rita
Follow the Sun
TV · 30 eps
Surfside 6
TV · 1 ep
The Islanders
TV · as Julie Staunton · 1 ep
The Roaring 20's
TV · 1 ep
Girls Town
Movie · as Serafina Garcia
Rawhide
TV · as Sister Joan · 1 ep
The Rebel
TV · as Demetria Angelica, Laurie Buford · 1 ep
Wild Heritage
Movie · as Missouri Breslin
The Cool and the Crazy
Movie · as Amy
The Donna Reed Show
TV · as Cathy Robinson · 1 ep
The Rifleman
TV · 2 eps
Perry Mason
TV · as Doris Bannister, Phyllis Clover · 1 ep
Dance with Me, Henry
Movie · as Shelley
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Movie · as Susan Hopkins
There's Always Tomorrow
Movie · as Ellen Groves
The Wild Bunch
Movie · as Carlotta
Gunsmoke
TV · as Lucy · 1 ep
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Gloria Barnes · 1 ep
Climax!
TV · as Laurette Bradshaw · 1 ep
General Electric Theater
TV · 1 ep
The Christophers
TV · 1 ep
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Movie · as Roberta Blaisdell
Bonzo Goes to College
Movie · as Betsy Drew
Four Star Playhouse
TV · as Carlotta · 1 ep
Week-End with Father
Movie · as Anne Stubbs
The Lady Pays Off
Movie · as Diane Braddock
Reunion in Reno
Movie · as Margaret 'Maggie' Angeline Linaker
Shadow on the Wall
Movie · as Susan Starrling
For Heaven's Sake
Movie · as Item
My Foolish Heart
Movie · as Ramona
Never a Dull Moment
Movie · as Tina Hayward
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Phyllis · 1 ep
Roseanna McCoy
Movie · as Allifair McCoy
Song of Surrender
Movie · as Faith Beecham
Family Honeymoon
Movie · as Zoe
Enchantment
Movie · as Lark as a Child
The Sainted Sisters
Movie · as Beasley Girl (uncredited)
Studio One
TV · as Jean · 1 ep
Ford Theatre
TV · 1 ep
Song of Love
Movie · as Julie
Green Dolphin Street
Movie · as Veronica
High Barbaree
Movie · as Nancy - Age 5 (uncredited)
To Each His Own
Movie · as Virgie Ingham
Alias Mr. Twilight
Movie · as Susan Holden
God Is My Co-Pilot
Movie · as Robin Lee Scott (uncredited)
Voice of the Whistler
Movie · as Bobbie (uncredited)
Yolanda and the Thief
Movie · as Gigi (as Ghislaine Perreau)
Two Girls and a Sailor
Movie · as Jean - Age 2½ (uncredited)
Mr. Skeffington
Movie · as Two-Year-Old Fanny (uncredited)
The Master Race
Movie · as Baby (as Ghislaine Perreau)
Dark Waters
Movie · as Yvette Boudreaux (uncredited)
Madame Curie
Movie · as Eve at 18 Months (uncredited)