Beverly Sanders is one of the most familiar faces in America. While the actual numbers may not be available, Beverly Sanders has probably made more TV commercials than any other actress. It seems virtually impossible to turn on the TV without seeing her promote Clairol, Kelloggs, Shoney’s Restaurants, and as the ten-year spokesperson, Louise, for Arm & Hammer Baking Soda (CLIO winner), among at least 300 other commercial appearances.

Beverly’s talents encompass stage, television and film as an actor, writer and director. She has guest-starred in prime television series over the years, playing the memorable newsroom waitress, Rayette, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Easy Susie, Rhoda’s always pregnant friend, and appeared regularly on the classic Father Knows Best with Robert Young and Jane Wyatt. She starred on Lotsa Luck opposite Dom DeLuise and One Day at a Time with Bonnie Franklin, and appeared in featured roles on CPO Sharkey, Night Court and St. Elsewhere among many others. More recently she has been seen in Baywatch, Grace Under Fire, Delta, Kirk and The Faculty.

Her dramatic performance as Maureen Stapleton’s daughter in the TV special Queen of the Stardust Ballroom received widespread critical recognition. On the big screen she has played opposite Al Pacino in And Justice For All, appeared in Magic with Anthony Hopkins and Beaches with Bette Midler.

One of a select group chosen to attend the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, Beverly’s short film Callback was an award winner at the San Francisco Film Festival.

She is a graduate of the famed Hollywood High, along with Ricky Nelson, Yvette Mimieux and other illustrious alumni, and went on to UCLA, majoring in psychology, all the while working on her craft. By the age of sixteen she danced with Dan Dailey and performed with Eddie Fisher at the California State Fair in Sacramento.

Following her dream, Beverly moved to New York to study acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actor’s Studio. Among her theater credits are Wendy Wasserstein’s Isn’t It Romantic at the Pasadena Playhouse, Vienna Notes and Babbit workshop for the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and Neil Simon comedies Rumors with David Birney, Brighton Beach Memoirs at the Burt Reynolds Theater in Florida, and the national tour of Neil Simon Suite with Paul Lynde.

Through the 1980s Beverly was Artistic Director for Room for Theatre, a company she co-founded, devoted to the works of American Master playwrights. Beverly directed their first production, S. N. Behrman’s Old Acquaintance.