Who is Cindy Eilbacher’s Family and Acting Career?

February 14, 2025

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Cindy Eilbacher is an American television and film actress known for the role she played on Slumber Party Massacre II, The Big Bounce, and Planet of the Apes. She has been nominated eleven times and has five awards including Outstanding Directing for several Drama Series. Cindy was active in the 1970s and 80s.

Cindy began her acting career as a 6-year-old and her first feature was on the television series Many Happy Returns in 1964 as Shirley Price and Bewitched playing Kimmie. She has been in films such as:

Code R
The Death of Richie
The Force of Evil
Good Heavens
Wonder Woman
The Odd Couple
Laredo
Green Acres
Hunter
City in Fear
Back to the Planet of the Apes
The Immigrants
Donner Pass; The Road to Survival
ABC Afterschool Special

During the shooting of the series The Young and Restless, she was featured for 72 episodes from 1981 to 1994 playing April Lynch. She successfully executed her role and was loved by her audience and gained her so much popularity. Her last appearance was in a movie titled My Son Is Innocent in 1996 where she played the role of a female customer and quit to do family business.

Cindy Eilbacher Family Life

Cindy Eilbacher was born on July 7 1958 in Saudi Arabia. She is the middle sister of Bobby and Lisa Eilbacher born on May 5, 1956. Her father is an American oil executive who was based in Saudi Arabia. Cindy was inspired to start acting by her elder sister Lisa and with the support of their family, they started at a young age something that turned out to be a full-time career. Together with her siblings, they grew up in Paris and then moved to Beverly Hills where they nurtured their acting skills and began making appearances on the screens. The sisters however quit acting by 1996 to concentrate on the family business.

Cindy Eilbacher Sister Lisa Eilbacher

Lisa began acting at the age of eight and with enough support, she was able to make appearances in over 56 films and television series. Her skills enabled her to fit perfectly in all the roles given to her and her audience loved her. Her debut appearance was in the TV series Wagon Train in 1964 for one episode and after five years when she had grown a little older, she played Bunny in My Three Sons and Alias Smith and Jones.

Throughout her acting career, she has been featured in films like:

Run for the Roses
Man from Atlantis
Wheels
Spider-Man
An Officer and a Gentlemen
Leviathan
The Last Samurai
Deadly Intent
Caribe
Movin On
Shazam Gunsmoke
Indict and Convict
The Waltons
Deadly Deception

Lisa auditioned for the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars: Episode IV New Hope in 1977. She was on The Return of Hunter; Everyone Walks in LA, Dazzle, and 919 Fifth Avenue as Valerie Damore before she quit acting in 1995 to concentrate on her family’s business. She is an avid bodybuilder and had to play the role of being out of shape as Casey Seeger in the film An Officer and a Gentleman.