Cherie Bennett
Cherie Bennett (born 1960 in Buffalo, New York) is an American novelist, actress, director, playwright, newspaper columnist, singer, and television writer on the CBS Daytime soap opera "The Young and the Restless". Biography. The writing was not Bennett's early focus. Sometimes known as the "Big and Tall Barbie Doll", she attended Wayne State University, and then the University of Michigan in the early 1980s, as a musical theatre major. She worked frequently as an actress, doing national musical tours, regional theatre productions including Mark Medoff's "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?" and a well-reviewed turn  in the off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton". She headed her own improv comedy trio, Zaniac, and performed as a vocalist, singing backup for John Mellencamp and in her play, "Honk Tonk Angels". Bennett's favourite non-writing activities are reading (memoirs, medical mysteries, and show-biz stories), film, theatre, cooking, politics, and Internet shopping. She lives in Los Angeles with her son. Her pseudonyms are C.J. Anders, and Carrie Austen. For many years, she wrote frequently with Jeff Gottesfeld, with whom she shared the Zoey Dean pseudonym. She and Jeff are divorced. Her  father was a writer for such shows as "The Twilight Zone", "Route 66", and Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows". Since June 2011, she's been the Artistic Director at Amusings Productions in Sherman Oaks. Television credits. "The Young and the Restless" (hired by Lynn Marie Latham; fired by Maria Arena Bell) "As the World Turns" (hired by Hogan Sheffer) "Port Charles" (hired by Lynn Marie Latham) "Another World" "Girls Got Game": 2006 "Smallville": 2001 - 2002 Books. Book Series Six Book Series Other Books