Darcel Wynne
- Actress
Extremely gorgeous and shapely African-American stunner Darcel Wynne
was born on June 13, 1953 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Darcel moved to
Hollywood, California as a teenager and got her first professional
television dancing gig at age 14 by claiming she was 18. She was one
of the original, most popular, and beloved prominently-featured
dancers on the immensely-successful music series "Solid Gold." She
started on the two-hour "Solid Gold '79" pilot, appeared on "Solid
Gold" from 1980 to 1983, rejoined in 1985 and remained on the show
until the end of the 1986 season, during which she regularly announced
the countdown recaps near the end of each episode. Also, she starred
as Cinderella in the video for Kool and the Gang's "Fresh" and appeared
in the exercise videos "The Solid Gold 5-Day Workout" and "Darcel's
Body Workout." Wynne had small dancing parts in the films "Jesus Christ
Superstar," "Mame," "Xanadu," and "Night Shift, and the made-for-TV
movie "The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite. She played Tiger Lily in
a stage production of "Peter Pan" starring Sandy Duncan and was
featured in a stage production of "Hello Dolly" starring Pearl Bailey.
Among the people she has danced for are Carol Burnett, Mac Davis,
Sammy Davis, Jr., and Barry Manilow. In addition, Wynne was a dancer
for the 1983 Jerry Lewis Telethon, popped up as a dancing rollerskater
in an episode of the hit sitcom "Mork and Mindy," and was even
interviewed by David Letterman on "Late Night With David Letterman."
After leaving "Solid Gold" in 1986 she quit show business and became
a born-again Christian. She has three children with her husband,
Glenn Leonard of the Temptations.
