Christa Miller

Christa Miller Lawrence (born May 28, 1964) is an American actress. Christa Miller was born in New York City, the daughter of model Bonnie Trompeter. Miller was a model as a child, appearing in a Wonder Bread commercial when she was six months old, posing at three for Francesco Scavullo in an Ivory soap advertisement, and photographed for the cover of Redbook. Her days as a child model were curtailed after an operation for a benign bone tumor. After attending Convent of the Sacred Heart she returned briefly to modeling, but soon took acting lessons and gave up modeling when she moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1990. She was in the first edition of Maxim.

Miller's first role on television was in Kate & Allie which starred her real-life aunt, Susan Saint James. She was also in episodes of Northern Exposure, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and Party of Five. She had a major role on The Drew Carey Show from 1995-2002 playing Kate O'Brien, and was the voice of Cleopatra in the short-lived animated show Clone High.

In 2001, her husband, writer-producer Bill Lawrence, conceived a new show called Scrubs. Christa Miller was given a recurring guest role as Dr. Cox's (John C. McGinley) bitter ex-wife Jordan Sullivan. The role increased after season 2. She maintained this minor but crucial role in later seasons.Christa Miller also appeared twice in Seinfeld as two different characters. In "The Sniffing Accountant" she was the boss of George Costanza's potential employer and in "The Doodle" she was a woman whom George unsuccessfully dates.