Biography

Rebeca Arthur was born and grew up in a small town in western Maryland. Her father was a salesman who died when she was a baby and her mother was a homemaker. She began dancing lessons at the age of four and knew at an early age that she would pursue a career in show business. She left her small town to attend the University of Maryland at College Park. After 3 semesters, she transferred to an an acting academy in New York City but left there after a year and then finished her education at New York University. While in school in NY, she worked for a private investigator for 3 years before quitting after graduation to pursue acting full-time. Along with theater appearances in various off off Broadway theatre productions, she started appearing sporadically on soap operas in New York. She acquired her SAG card when she was cast in a toilet paper commercial. Her comedic turns on soap operas caught the attention of her agents and she was talked into going to Los Angeles for pilot season. She was cast in the very first thing she auditioned for in LA which was a sitcom pilot starring Vicki Lawrence and Lauren Tewes. Called Anything For Love. She continued to work in television and film for that first year in LA before auditioning for a guest star role in a new sitcom called Perfect Strangers. Cast as Mary Anne for one episode for one week, she found herself returning for the rest of the shows run which spanned 8 seasons. Other notable film credits include, About Last Night, Scrooged, A Dangerous Woman, Get Shorty, Men Seeking Women, Every Breathe.

- IMDb mini biography by: Rebeca Arthur