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Who is Kari Wuhrer?

Kari Wuhrer was born on the 28th April 1967 in Brookfield, Connecticut. She is an actress and singer of Cherokee and German decent. She is sometimes credited as Kari Salin. After high school she studied drama at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Marymount Manhatten College, Columbia University, and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London with the famed teacher Uta Hagen. Her first movie role was in The Adventures of Ford Fairlane in 1990. Next she was the lead in Beastmaster2: Through the Portal of Time in 1991. She then starred in over a dozen straight-to-video sexploitation films, most notably Sex and the Other Man in 1996 and Vivid (also released as Luscious) in 1997. She came to mainstream fame for her role in the TV series Slider, she was in the role for three years. She is also well known by many gamers for her role in the PC game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and its expansion pack Yuri's Revenge as Agent Tanya Adams. She declined an offer from Playboy in 1998. From February to November 2005 she joined the cast of the soap opera General Hospital but was fired. In January 2006 she announced that she was suing General Hospital, claiming that she was fired because of her pregnancy. The case was dismissed in December 2006.