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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 6, 1941
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
- Ghislaine Marie Thérèse Perreau-Saussine
Gigi Perreau
1.0 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.4
Self
Meghan Markle: An American Princess
2018
6.0
Whale (voice)
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
2010
10.0
Patricia Haber
High Seas Hijack
1977
6.7
Miss O'Hara
The Brady Bunch
1969
7.0
Iris Cooley
Adam-12
1968
3.5
Sue Robbins
Hell on Wheels
1967
3.5
Karen White
Journey to the Center of Time
1967
6.7
Tarzan
1966
7.0
Rosa Lombardi
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964
🎬
5.0
Many Happy Returns
1964
Credits
Meghan Markle: An American Princess
as Self
2018
5.4
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
as Whale (voice)
2010
6.0
High Seas Hijack
as Patricia Haber
1977
10.0
The Brady Bunch
as Miss O'Hara
1969
6.7
Adam-12
as Iris Cooley
1968
7.0
Hell on Wheels
as Sue Robbins
1967
3.5
Journey to the Center of Time
as Karen White
1967
3.5
Tarzan
1966
6.7
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
as Rosa Lombardi
1964
7.0
🎬
Many Happy Returns
1964
5.0
Follow the Sun
1961
6.0
Tammy Tell Me True
as Rita
1961
5.9
Look in Any Window
as Eileen Lowell (as Gigi Pereau)
1961
5.6
The Roaring 20's
1960
0.0
Surfside 6
1960
5.0
The Islanders
as Julie Staunton
1960
8.0
Girls Town
as Serafina Garcia
1959
3.4
The Rebel
as Demetria Angelica
1959
4.7
The Rebel
as Laurie Buford
1959
4.7
Rawhide
as Sister Joan
1959
7.2
The Rifleman
1958
7.1
The Donna Reed Show
as Cathy Robinson
1958
6.2
Wild Heritage
as Missouri Breslin
1958
4.5
The Cool and the Crazy
as Amy
1958
5.1
Perry Mason
as Doris Bannister
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Phyllis Clover
1957
7.7
Dance with Me, Henry
as Shelley
1956
5.1
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
as Susan Hopkins
1956
6.7
There's Always Tomorrow
as Ellen Groves
1956
7.1
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Gloria Barnes
1955
7.8
Gunsmoke
as Lucy
1955
6.6
The Wild Bunch
as Carlotta
1955
0.0
Climax!
as Laurette Bradshaw
1954
3.3
🎬
The Christophers
1953
0.0
General Electric Theater
1953
6.4
🎬
Four Star Playhouse
as Carlotta
1952
6.7
Bonzo Goes to College
as Betsy Drew
1952
5.0
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
as Roberta Blaisdell
1952
6.7
Week-End with Father
as Anne Stubbs
1951
5.8
Reunion in Reno
as Margaret 'Maggie' Angeline Linaker
1951
6.0
The Lady Pays Off
as Diane Braddock
1951
6.7
For Heaven's Sake
as Item
1950
6.9
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Phyllis
1950
6.3
Never a Dull Moment
as Tina Hayward
1950
5.4
Shadow on the Wall
as Susan Starrling
1950
6.6
My Foolish Heart
as Ramona
1950
6.4
Song of Surrender
as Faith Beecham
1949
0.0
Roseanna McCoy
as Allifair McCoy
1949
5.6
Enchantment
as Lark as a Child
1948
6.4
Family Honeymoon
as Zoe
1948
5.7
Studio One
as Jean
1948
5.0
🎬
Ford Theatre
1948
0.0
The Sainted Sisters
as Beasley Girl (uncredited)
1948
7.0
Song of Love
as Julie
1947
6.7
High Barbaree
as Nancy - Age 5 (uncredited)
1947
5.1
Green Dolphin Street
as Veronica
1947
6.1
Alias Mr. Twilight
as Susan Holden
1946
5.3
To Each His Own
as Virgie Ingham
1946
6.9
Yolanda and the Thief
as Gigi (as Ghislaine Perreau)
1945
5.7
Voice of the Whistler
as Bobbie (uncredited)
1945
5.7
God Is My Co-Pilot
as Robin Lee Scott (uncredited)
1945
6.9
The Master Race
as Baby (as Ghislaine Perreau)
1944
6.2
Two Girls and a Sailor
as Jean - Age 2½ (uncredited)
1944
5.7
Mr. Skeffington
as Two-Year-Old Fanny (uncredited)
1944
6.7
Madame Curie
as Eve at 18 Months (uncredited)
1943
7.2