Biography
Lori Singer is an American actress and cellist born on November 6th, 1957, in Corpus Christi, Texas. She is perhaps best known for her role in the 1984 feature film Footloose, and as Julie Miller in the television series Fame.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Rachel Hendrix
2023
as Rachel Hendrix
A creative writing professor experiences a relapse of grief one year after the loss of her husband. Rachel Hendrix must face the challenge of how to d...
The Institute
2017
as Madame Werner
In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood In...
God Knows Where I Am
2016
as Linda Bishop (voice)
Well-educated, New Hampshire mother, Linda Bishop, was determined to stay free of the mental health system after her early release from a 3 year commi...
Experimenter
2015
as Florence Asch
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering pain...
Table Scraps: Notes on Babette's Feast
2013
as Narrator
In this essay on Babette's Feast, filmmaker Michael Almereyda charts the path from Isak Dinesen’s story to Gabriel Axel’s film, taking detours along t...
Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind
2010
as Self
A look behind-the-scenes at the making of the movie Trouble in Mind, featuring interviews from cast and crew members.
When Will I Be Loved
2004
as Lori Singer
Feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, a young woman begins to explore her sexuality with other people.
Sarabande
1997
as Dr. Angela France
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels...
F.T.W.
1994
as Scarlett Stuart
A man and a woman running from their pasts are trapped on a collision course with the future. Frank T. Wells, a newly-released ex-con looking for a fe...
Short Cuts
1993
as Zoe Trainer / Cello - The Trout Quintet
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a bo...
Sunset Grill
1993
as Loren
Ryder Hart is a private investigator and former police officer who is down on his luck and drinks too much. His estranged wife Anita runs a bar and re...
Equinox
1992
as Sharon Ace
Estranged twins Henry and Freddy navigate their drastically different lives— one a troubled bookworm, the other a hardened criminal. As a young writer...
Storm and Sorrow
1990
as Molly Higgins
In 1974, mountain climber Molly Higgins (Lori Singer) begins her ascent of Lenin Peak, located in the Pamir Mountains on the edge of the Himalayas. Sh...
Sensibility and Sense
1990
as Therese
Three friends who bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s reunite after becoming estranged over a book one of them wrote.
Warlock
1989
as Kassandra
In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flung into th...
Made in U.S.A.
1987
as Annie
Two men from Pennsylvania give up hope in their small run down coal mining town, and head off in search of the beaches of California. The two steal ca...
Summer Heat
1987
as Roxy Walston
The young wife of a tobacco farmer falls in love with their handsome hired hand.
Heartbeat
1987
as Filmmaker's Wife
A surrealistic journey into the experiences and reflections of a documentary filmmaker as he evaluates the people and places that have made up his lif...
Trouble in Mind
1985
as Georgia
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the hypnotic Rain City.
The Man with One Red Shoe
1985
as Maddy
A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
as Lana
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Footloose
1984
as Ariel
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he...
The Kids from Fame: From the Royal Albert Hall London
1983
as Self
This is a live performance for the British fans of Fame that recreates their most memorable episode moments like "Desdamona". The excitment of the Lon...
Born Beautiful
1982
as Jodi Belcher
This is the story of Betsy a model who is nearly 30. Now in the world of modeling that is considered to be the age of retirement. She then sets out to...