Daughter of French-born Robert Perreau-Saussine and Eleanor Child Perreau-Saussine, she was born Ghislaine Elizabeth Marie Thérèse Perreau-Saussine. Perreau achieved success as a child actress in a number of films. She got into the business quite by accident. Her older brother Gerald was trying out ... for the part of the title character's son in Madame Curie. Because their mother could not find a babysitter, she took Gigi along. The two-year-old, who could speak French, got the (uncredited) part of Madame Curie's daughter Ève (while Gerald would have to wait a year to make his film debut in Passage to Marseille). She also played the daughter of Claude Rains and Bette Davis's characters in the 1944 film Mr. Skeffington. In Shadow on the Wall, she starred as the sole witness to a murder. As the "top child movie actress for 1951", the then ten-year-old was given the keys to the city of Pittsburgh by its mayor, and later Pennsylvania governor, David L. Lawrence. She was the youngest person to be so honored. Perreau played the rebellious teen daughter of Fredric March in 1956's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. However, her film career lost momentum as she became an adult, so she turned to television. In 1959, she played a friend of Shelley Fabares on The Donna Reed Show, and had a supporting role in the sitcom The Betty Hutton Show, with her brother Gerald. In 1960, Perreau and Robert Harland performed as Sara Lou and Lin Proctor, a young couple from the east who have eloped and are heading west, in the western series Stagecoach West with Wayne Rogers and Robert Bray. Also in 1960, Perreau was cast as Julie Staunton in an episode of The Islanders, set in the South Pacific. She was cast in "Don Gringo" and "The Promise", as well as in The Rebel. In 1961, she played Mary Bettelheim in an episode of The Roaring 20s. She was cast in a recurring role on Follow the Sun series from 1961–1962 as secretary, Katherine Ann "Kathy" Richards. She guest starred on The Rifleman in 1960 and 1961. She made guest appearances on Perry Mason. In 1964, she also co-starred as Lucy, a beleaguered homesteader, on an episode of Gunsmoke. In 1970, she appeared on The Brady Bunch as a math teacher who becomes the object of puppy love by Greg Brady, one of her students. In the 2000s, she provided her voice in the animated films Fly Me to the Moon, A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures and Crash: The Animated Movie, and acted in Time Again.
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| Organization | Category | Movie |
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
as Rosa Lombardi
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 25, 1964
Gunsmoke
as Lucy
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
Perry Mason
as Doris Bannister
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Studio One
as Jean
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 07, 1948
The Islanders
as Julie Staunton
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Gloria Barnes
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1955
Rawhide
as Sister Joan
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 09, 1959
Lux Video Theatre
as Phyllis
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1950
Climax!
as Laurette Bradshaw
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 07, 1954
The Donna Reed Show
as Cathy Robinson
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1958
The Rebel
as Demetria Angelica
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1959
Adam-12
as Iris Cooley
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1968
Perry Mason
as Phyllis Clover
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Four Star Playhouse
as Carlotta
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 25, 1952
The Rebel
as Laurie Buford
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1959
Follow the Sun
Episodes: 30
First Aired: Sep 17, 1961
The Rifleman
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 30, 1958
The Brady Bunch
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 26, 1969
Surfside 6
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 06, 1960
General Electric Theater
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 01, 1953
Many Happy Returns
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1964
Ford Theatre
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 17, 1948
Tarzan
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 1966
The Roaring 20's
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 15, 1960
The Christophers
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 20, 1953
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