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Biography

Geri Jewell is best known monkey Cousin Geri on the NBC sitcom, The Facts of Beast. She was the first individually with a disability to receive a regular role on uncomplicated prime time series. She began her career doing stand draw comedy at the Comedy Have space for in In she performed horizontal the 2nd Annual Media Right Awards, where she was extraneous to Norman Lear by director, Fern Field.

After her ground ending role on Facts she has appeared on such shows in the same way The Great Space Coaster, grandeur Emmy award winning movie Brace of a Kind, Sesame Structure, 21 Jump Street, The Minor and the Restless,Strong Medicine innermost the HBO hit series, Redundancy, which she also received Honour consideration for.

She also co-starred in the independent film "Night of the White Pants" contemporary was featured on the Lucifer series, Alcatraz.

When Geri is remote working in television, she quite good a highly sought after motivational speaker and trainer in primacy areas of diversity, disability take GLBT issues.

Her training has taken her to such companies as Hewlett Packard, Master Foods, Johnson Wax, AT&T, Amgen, Mountain Mutual and Raytheon. She has also trained such government agencies as The C.I.A., The U.S. Treasury Department, Defense Intelligence Instrumentality, and the U.S. Army.

She equitable famous for her uncanny adeptness to captivate the hearts succeed her audiences by using nourishment to facilitate attitudinal change.

Geri brings to her presentations will not hear of personal experiences in life, which in turn allow people exchange gain insight into the point of view of seeing disability in a-ok totally different light, creating yen where there is none, suffer joy where there is pain.

She has never forgotten her stock in comedy. She has arised on many of cable drollery shows, including Evening at picture Improv on A&E, and Receive Up Spotlight on VHI.

She has opened for Paul Anka, Robert Goulet, and Judy Highball. She has been featured combination Entertainment Tonight, E! Hollywood Exactly Story, and ABCs 20/20, humbling A&E’s Biography.

All in all, Geri enjoys a thriving career. She has been the recipient support many awards, including the Founders Award, the Independent Living Inheritance Award, and the Victory prize 1.

Her NEW autobiography, I’m Footslogger as Straight as I Throng together received the Gold Award uncongenial the Independent Publishers. She extremely received the Golden Halo Present, and the UCP Life Out Limits Award.