| Cherie Bennett | |
| Birth Place: | Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Pseudonym: | C.J. Anders Carrie Austen Zoey Dean |
| Alma Mater: | Wayne State University University of Michigan |
| Spouse: | Jeff Gottesfeld (divorced) |
| Children: | 1 |
Cherie Bennett (born 1960 in Buffalo, New York) is an American novelist, actress, director, playwright, newspaper columnist, singer, and television writer on the CBS Daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless.
Bennett attended Wayne State University, and then the University of Michigan in the early 1980s, as a musical theatre major. She worked as an actress, doing national musical tours, regional theatre productions including Mark Medoff's When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? and a well-reviewed turn in the off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton. She headed her own improv comedy trio, Zaniac, and performed as a vocalist, singing backup for John Mellencamp and in her play, Honk Tonk Angels.
Bennett lives in Los Angeles with her son. Her pseudonyms are C.J. Anders and Carrie Austen. For many years, she wrote frequently with Jeff Gottesfeld, with whom she shared the Zoey Dean pseudonym.[1] She and Gottesfeld are divorced.
Her father was a writer for such shows as The Twilight Zone, Route 66, and Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows.
Since June 2011, she's been the Artistic Director at Amusings Productions in Sherman Oaks.
The Young and the Restless (hired by Lynn Marie Latham; fired by Maria Arena Bell)
December 14, 2006 - December 21, 2007; March 18 - August 19, 2008
As the World Turns (hired by Hogan Sheffer)
Port Charles (hired by Lynn Marie Latham)
2006
2001 - 2002
Book Series
Six Book Series
Other Books
Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team, 2008
Best children's film for television (Searching For David's Heart, 2005)
Best Books For Young Adults, 2005 nominee (A Heart Divided)
Young Adult Readers' Choice, Anne Frank And Me, 2003
Best Books For Young Adults, 1999