Carol Potter (born May 21, 1948) is an American

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best known for playing Cindy Walsh on ''

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''.

Life and career

Potter was born in

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, and attended high school in

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, and went on to attend

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, where she earned a

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. In 1977, she made her

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debut in

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's play

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, which went on to become the fifth-longest running non-musical play in Broadway history. Potter had her first role as a regular in a prime time television series in 1981, playing Maggie Clinton on '' Today's F.B.I.'' In 1985, she married screenwriter Spencer Eastman, and their son Christopher was born in 1987. Three months later, Eastman was diagnosed with

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, and he died in 1988. Potter married for a second time to actor Jeffrey Josephson in October 1990, the same month ''Beverly Hills 90210'' made its television debut. She was a regular on ''

'' from 1990 to 1995. In 1997, she was cast in NBC's '' Sunset Beach'' as Joan Cummings. She has also guest starred on many shows including ''

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'', '' JAG'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2019, Potter returned to the ''90210'' franchise in the spin off ''

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'', where she played a version of herself as a therapist for the cast. She also appeared on a special "TV Moms" episode of the

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version of ''

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'', in which she won $124,000 for her charity, beating

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Filmography

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Potter, Carol 1948 births American television actresses Living people People from Tenafly, New Jersey Radcliffe College alumni 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses American soap opera actresses