Cindy Copeland

About Cindy Copeland

Cindy Copeland is born and raised in Los Angeles County in the city of Pico Rivera, the same city mentioned by Tom Cruise in the Movie Collateral. As a child Cindy loved to entertain the neighbors with her own productions of Shirley Temple and westerns like Calamity Jane. She once mentioned that the TV show Mr. Ed was an inspiration as a child because as a horse lover if she could act she could be on film with Mr. Ed. As she grew, she was in the school choir and eventually starred in the high school production of "You're a Good Man Charley Brown" as Lucy. The Drama Teacher at the time was Squire Friddel, an actor of stage and film himself, playing the Toyota spokesman in the TV commercial in the 70's for several years. After, high school, Cindy pursued her acting under the encouragement of Squire. At first she studied Panotomime under Richmond Shepard, a graduate of Marcel Marceau the French actor and most famous mime. Over a period of 2 years, Cindy performed professionally with Richmond Shepards Professional Mime Troupe performing as a supporting mime to Richmond in The Big Top at the Mark Taper Forum. During her days with Richmond a couple of actors and comedians joined the class. Bill Kirchenbauer, who eventfully went on to perform his comedy on the Johnny Carson show and had a TV series entitled Just the Ten of Us. Also, Cindy became friends with Walter Olkewicz an actor of film and stage, even performing with his comedy troupe at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles. Walter continued his career in film and TV as a guest star in several popular shows like Seinfeld, Cheers, Love Boat,even having his own series with Jeff Conaway, Wizards and Warriors. Cindy decided that film, TV and stage was more a desire than mime, so she began her studies at the Van Mar Academy under Ivan Markota. Ivan enjoyed having Cindy in class as she brought her comedy as well as her dramatic abilities to his class, He encouraged her to pursue and get and agent, even admonishing her that she was good enough in his opinion the have her own comedy show like Carol Burnette. Thrilled, Cindy started on her journey. However, a change of circumstances changed her direction at an early age of 23, when she joined the US Army. From there she traveled to Germany to work as a Power Generator Mechanic at the Hoechst Signal Battalion. Before long, Cindy met and fell in love with Bill Copeland, a SP5 specialist in top secret communications. Within 6 months the 2 were married by a German Official and months later the 2 were back in the US with an infant. Though Cindy did not pursue her acting career during her marriage to Bill and while raising her child, Cindy helped her husband through college by writing a play inspired by true events landing Bill and A in his class. She has written several poems of her own life experiences as well as poem for friends and family. One poem was written for a dear friend at a dinner party of 10 special Christian friends, bringing tears to their eyes. One of her good friends passed, and the officiant of the service asked if he could read her poem at the funeral for all as her dear friend felt it was what most depicted the life and beauty of their lost friend. Cindy has touched the lives of her friends through the years, even helping homeless individuals have a place to stay for the night to keep warm and fed. Eventually, Cindy and Bill divorced as their daughter turned 18, back in 1998. In 2002, Cindy decided to move to Atlanta where her sister, Vi...

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