Shanna Reed

Shanna Reed is an American retired actress and dancer. She is best-known for playing Polly Cooper McGillis on the sitcom Major Dad.

Early years

Kansas City, Kansas-born Shanna Herron was seven years old when her father, Carl Herron, an engineer, died in a car accident in 1962, leaving her mother, Mary Lou (née Thompson; 1928–2014) with five children and pregnant. Within two years she married ex-Marine Tommy Reed (1913–2012), a jazz saxophonist and leader of the Tommy Reed Orchestra. Mary Lou and Tommy Reed had a child, creating a blended family of seven children. Mary Lou Reed taught dancing for Arthur Murray dance studios. After the marriage, the family moved to Phoenix, where Reed grew up. Her mother and stepfather operated a talent-booking agency there, and her mother had another child. Reed attended Arizona State University for a year.

Career

After she left Arizona State, Reed danced at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, and in 1975 she was one of 12 dancers who, along with a singer, entertained in the Middle East and Europe. After they returned to the United States, she joined the national touring company of A Chorus Line. She also had a replacement role in A Chorus Line on Broadway, and she performed on Broadway in Dancin' (1978).

Reed's additional television credits include roles in Promised Land, Beverly Hills, 90210, Touched by an Angel, Cheers, Magnum, P.I., The Colbys, Simon & Simon, Hotel, I Had Three Wives, Knight Rider, T.J. Hooker, Fantasy Island, Texas, and Newhart.

Personal life

Reed married film director Terrence O'Hara.

Filmography

External links

• at IMDb
• at Rotten Tomatoes