Erin Moran

Erin Moran

Erin Marie Moran-Fleischmann was an American actress. She played Joanie Cunningham on the television sitcom Happy Days and its spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi. Moran’s first acting role was at the age of 5, in a television commercial for First Federal Bank.

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Summary Erin MoranErin Marie Moran-Fleischmann was an American actress, best known for playing Joanie Cunningham on the television sitcom Happy Days and its spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi. Moran’s first acting role was at the age of 5, in a television commercial for First Federal Bank. In 2013, despite reports that she would be reunited with Happy Days co-stars Henry Winkler, Ron Howard, and Scott Baio in the fourth season of Arrested Development, she did not appear in the revamped Netflix series. In 1987, Moran married Steven Fleischmann; they divorced in 1993. In 2008, she was a contestant on VH1’s reality show Celebrity Fit Club, two years later, she made an appearance in the independent comedy feature Not Another B Movie.

In 2011, Moran, three of her Happy DaysCo-stars and the estate of Tom Bosley, who died in 2010, filed a USD 10 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS, which owns the show. The suit claimed that cast members had not been paid merchandising revenues owed under their contracts. On June 5, 2011, a judge rejected the group’s claim of fraud, thereby eliminating the possibility of recouping millions in damages. In July 2012, the actors settled their lawsuit with CBS; each received a payment of USD 65,000 and a promise from CBS to continue honoring the terms of the contracts.