Tiffany Brissette
 

Why in the world am I writing about Tiffany Brissette?

  The main reason that I am writing about Tiffany Brissette is because I was asked to write something about Tiffany Brissette. The reason I was asked to is because Tiffany Brissette was once a television star. Other than that, really, there is no reason for me to have ever considered writing about Tiffany Brissette. I am too old to have had a crush on Tiffany Brissette back when Tiffany Brissette was a television star. Thank God for that! I'd hate to see myself featured on "To Catch A Predator."

Are you getting a little tired of seeing "Tiffany Brissette" spelled out in full so many times in a row?

Now you know how Tiffany probably feels. ;)

  Tiffany was a child star. She started out doing bit parts and worked her little way up to getting her own show. Well, not her OWN show, it was a show that had her in the lead role. She played a child-like Robot in the television series "Small Wonder" - As in "I wonder how this show ever got picked up?!"

  It was not a bright and brilliant show. Tiffany's character was Vicki the Robot. Let me repeat that: Vicki-the-Robot. The show first aired in late 1985 and lasted for four long seasons. It is not a coincidence (to me) that early in 1985 a movie was released to some surprising success that featured a child-like robot as the lead character. That movie was "D.A.R.Y.L.".

  Tiffany was not an untalented child actress, yet the show Small Wonder did not afford her the opportunity to do any acting other than very mechanical bad acting. For four seasons Tiffany spoke her lines like a little kid play-acting at being a robot, moved her body in that stiff-unbalanced way that ALL little kids move their bodies when they are pretending to be robots, and got paid handsomely for it.

  I certainly hope that Tiffany's parents put all that money away for a rainy day because Tiffany's career went into the dumpster very shortly after Small Wonder ended. It is my personal belief that Tiffany was typecast due to her years as Vicki-the-Robot, not as a robot actor, but as an untalented actress. That's truly unfair because she was not a bad actress at all, she simply had played a role that forced her to perform in an untalented fashion.

  I have to admit that I watched very few episodes of Small Wonder. I could not make myself like the show because of that kiddie-robot-acting, the reused/rehashed scripts that had come from other sit-coms, and because the show was family-friendly fare. It has become an unfortunate fact of life that family-friendly more often than not means "This sucks!"

Small wonder, eh?

Where is she now: (as of  02/04/2009)
 

Tiffany grew up. She was 34 on her last birthday. That's her in the photo on the right in an updated and matured "Vicki" dress.

After her acting career ended she didn't get arrested, she didn't go to jail, she didn't rob a video store, didn't become a prostitute, and never tried her luck at an abusive and bad marriage.

She also didn't become involved with drugs, didn't gamble away her savings, and did not wrap her car around a school bus filled with special-needs children. What she did do is move on and succeed in real life - not just going through the (robotic) motions of it.

Tiffany achieved a degree in psychology, went on to counsel children and young adults, and is currently working as a nurse in Boulder Colorado.

She succeeded.

Small wonder.

:)

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