Soleil Moon Frye has quite a unique name, but is better known by the name of the character she played early in her life - Punky Brewster.
She was born in California on August 6th, 1976, to actor Virgil Frye and Sondra Peluce, who would later manage Soleil s career. Soleil means Sun in French.
Her big break (big is an understatement there) was on the NBC series Punky Brewster as the title character. The show was about Punky, who was abandoned with her dog, Brandon, by her mother at a local supermarket, and later adopted by Henry Warnimont. Soleil was just 7 at the time she was cast.
And the show was a smash success. Suddenly Soleil was a child superstar, doing interviews on 20/20, describing herself as a survivor at the tender age of 8.
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