Cynthia Chenault

Cynthia Chenault (née Robichaux) is an American television actress and producer/writer active from the mid-1950s to the present. She used the screen name Cindy Robbins in her acting credits.

Early years Robbins was born Cynthia Robichaux She has four sisters. She is of French descent.

Career Stage Robbins's entertainment debut came in Ken Murray's Blackouts She also had a lead role in The Vacant Lot at the La Jolla Playhouse.

Her last acting role in television was on the television comedy series McHale's Navy in 1964.

Her best-known role was that of Carol Porter, one of the daughters in the one-season situation comedy The Tom Ewell Show (1960–61). She also made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of Teddi Hart in the 1960 episode "The Case of the Treacherous Toupee" and the role of Mabel Richmond in the 1962 episode "The Case of Melancholy Marksman".

Her other television work consisted of appearances in comedy shows (Ensign O'Toole, Father Knows Best, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Leave It to Beaver), McHale's Navy and military/action shows (Steve Canyon, Whirlybirds, Harbor Command), westerns (Wagon Train, The Tall Man), and dramas (Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Tightrope!, Dragnet).

Film She appeared in several films from 1957 to 1959: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) playing Pearl, Vic's Girl Dino (1957), a Sal Mineo drama, playing Sylvia Rockabilly Baby (1957), a film about family secrets and small-town life (featuring Les Brown and His Band of Renown), playing Vougette #1 Gunsight Ridge (1957), a Joel McCrea Western, playing the Bride This Earth Is Mine (1959), a Rock Hudson drama about California wine country, playing Buz Dietrick

Producing/writing In the mid-1980s, she produced/wrote several ABC Weekend Specials (notably, Pippi Longstocking) and a CBS Schoolbreak Special. She was also a writer in 1984 for the TV cartoon series Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats.

Personal life She has one child, actress Kimberly Beck.

Cynthia, then still known as Cindy Robbins, married New Jersey singer-songwriter Tommy Leonetti on November 27, 1965, in Beverly Hills, California.