Christa Miller Biography

Fast Facts

• Appeared in a commercial for Wonder Bread when she was just 3 months old and a print advertisement for Ivory Soap, when she was 3 years old
• Had an operation to remove a benign, but rare, bone tumor when she was 10
• Appeared in her first TV commercial (a Polaroid ad) in 1980, and began modeling professionally after high school
• In 1989, landed her first episodic-TV appearance on Kate & Allie, which starred her aunt Susan Saint James; this led to guest appearances on Northern Exposure, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Party of Five
• Made feature-film debut in the 1991 suspense/thriller Deceived
• Appeared twice on Seinfeld: first as the boss of George Costanza's potential employer, in the episode "The Sniffing Accountant"; and then as a woman with whom George had little romantic chemistry, in "The Doodle
• " First major sitcom role came in 1995, when she won the role of tomboyish Kate O'Brien on The Drew Carey Show; she left in 2002 when her husband, Scrubs writer and producer Bill Lawrence, cast her in the recurring role of Jordan, Dr
• Cox's hard-nosed, wise-cracking ex-wife and hospital board member
• Featured on the cover of the first American edition of Maxim magazine, which was released on April 1, 1997
• Penned an article for Esquire Magazine, titled "Fifteen Things You Don't Know About Women
• " Daughter Charlotte appeared with her in an episode of Scrubs titled "Their Story," in which Charlotte played a girl who bore an uncanny resemblance to Christa's character Jordan