Jennifer Dempster

She typically participated in the aerobics and stretching segments, although she did occasionally appear in the resistance training and viewer mail portions as well. Until their divorce in 1976, she was married to composer John Strauss, with whom she has one son. Jennifer Dempster was a regular cast member on the television fitness show BodyShaping , which is now shown in reruns. A respected stage actress who appeared in early seasons of Sesame Street and in a number of films, Rae first gained widespread fame in the 1961-1963 sitcom Car 54, Where Are You? as the memorable Silvia Schnauser. The second of three daughters, she attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, the same school as Cloris Leachman, the actress who replaced her for the last years of The Facts of Life's run. Charlotte Rae, born Charlotte Rae Lubotsky in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1926, is an American actress and singer best known today for her portrayal of Edna Garrett, a character she originated on the 1978-1986 sitcom Diff'rent Strokes and continued in her own spinoff, The Facts of Life, which ran from 1979 through 1988.