Cynthia Geary Biography

Fast Facts

• Graduated from the University of Mississippi with a Bachelor of Arts degree in vocal performance
• Met real estate broker Robert Coron, who she married in 1994, on a blind date
• Her mother encouraged her to study ballet, voice and piano when she was growing up
• Rose to fame as Shelly Tambo, a former beauty queen running a tavern with her older lover in the television series "Northern Exposure․"
• Though she appeared in a number of independent films and made-for-television movies in the 1990s, when her second daughter was born, she switched her focus to being a mother and homemaker
• Was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority during college
• Voiced Katia Anderson in "Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box," the second installment in the Professor Layton video game series