Wendie Jo Sperber Biography

Fast Facts

• After being diagnosed with breast cancer, she opened the weSPARK Cancer Support Center to offer a less institutional support environment to those fighting the disease
• The Los Angeles County Commission for Women named her Woman of the Year in 1999
• During the 1970s, she attended the summer Teenage Drama Workshop at California State University, Northridge, to further her goal of pursuing a career in the performing arts
• Quote: "I spent many years with low self-esteem․ But the cancer has given me the gift of seeing how many people love me․"
• Best known for playing funny and exuberant characters in such comedies as the television series "Bosom Buddies․"
• Worked alongside actor Tom Hanks on multiple occasions
• A character in American Dad, the last character she ever voiced, was renamed Wendie Jo in her honor after her death