Jennifer Edwards is an American actress best known for playing the title role in the NBC made-for-television movie Heidi

Heidi (1968 film)

Heidi was a 1968 NBC made-for-TV film version of the original 1880 novel of the same name which debuted on November 17, 1968. It starred actress Jennifer Edwards, stepdaughter of Julie Andrews and daughter of Blake Edwards, in the title role, alongside Maximillian Schell, Jean Simmons, and Michael...

(which interrupted the New York Jets

New York Jets

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 vs. Oakland Raiders

Oakland Raiders

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 game now called The Heidi Game), which aired on November 17, 1968. Jennifer Edwards is the daughter of noted filmmaker Blake Edwards

Blake Edwards

Blake Edwards was an American film director, screenwriter and producer.Edwards' career began in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon turned to writing radio scripts at Columbia Pictures...

 and Patricia Walker, and a stepdaughter of Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews

Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honors...

.

Besides acting in a number of movies, she also co-wrote the 1988 television movie

Television movie

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 Justin Case with her father.

Filmography

(partial)

• The Nanny
  The Nanny (TV series)
  The Nanny is an American television sitcom co-produced by Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc., and Fran Drescher in association with TriStar Television for the CBS network...
  
  (one episode)
• Son of the Pink Panther
  Son of the Pink Panther
  Son of the Pink Panther is the ninth entry in the 30-year-old The Pink Panther film series. Directed by Blake Edwards, it stars Roberto Benigni as Inspector Clouseau's illegitimate son. Also in this film are Panther regulars Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk and Graham Stark and a star of the original 1963...
  
  (1993) ... as Yussa
• That's Life (1986) ... as Megan
• The Man Who Loved Women (1983) ... as Nancy
• S.O.B. (1981) ... as Lila
• Go Ask Alice
  Go Ask Alice
  Go Ask Alice is a controversial 1971 book about the life of a troubled teenage girl. The book continues its claim to be the actual diary of an anonymous teenage girl who became addicted to drugs, but this has been dismissed as false. Beatrice Sparks is listed as the author of the book by the United...
  
  (1973) ... as Chris
• Heidi
  Heidi (1968 film)
  Heidi was a 1968 NBC made-for-TV film version of the original 1880 novel of the same name which debuted on November 17, 1968. It starred actress Jennifer Edwards, stepdaughter of Julie Andrews and daughter of Blake Edwards, in the title role, alongside Maximillian Schell, Jean Simmons, and Michael...
  
  (1968) ... as Heidi
• Days of Wine and Roses
  Days of Wine and Roses (film)
  Days of Wine and Roses is a film directed by Blake Edwards with a screenplay by JP Miller adapted from his own 1958 Playhouse 90 teleplay of the same name....
  
  (1962) (uncredited; age 3)

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