Jean Sagal is an American actress and director. She was born on October 9, 1961 in Los Angeles. Her mother, Sara Zwilling, was one of the first female producers in Hollywood, and a former beauty queen who died of heart disease when Jean was just 11 years old. (Coincidentally enough, zwilling means "twin" in German.) Her father was director Boris Sagal, best known for directing the award-winning mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man and the sci-fi classic The Omega Man with Charlton Heston. Boris Sagal was tragically killed in 1981 while location scouting on a TV movie he was set to direct titled "World War III." He accidentally walked into the tail rotor of the helicopter he was exiting. The movie was ultimately finished with another director.

Jean and her twin sister Liz Sagal, are the younger sisters of Katey Sagal, also an actress. Katey is best known for playing Peg Bundy on the long-running Fox television series Married... with Children. Katey was also one of Bette Midler’s backup singers "The Harlettes," in the 1980s and has now released two albums of her own music. Jean also has two older brothers; Joey Sagal, also an actor ("The Hidden," "Return of the Swamp Thing") and David, an attorney currently working for Warner Bros.

Jean attended Pacific Palisades High School while her sister Liz went to High School in Santa Monica. (Their parents felt the girls should have their own identities as much as possible) The girls started dancing professionally at the age of 17. Their first break came in 1982 when they were cast as the bubbly twin cheerleaders in "Grease 2." Coincidentally, the girls were cast separately for the roles -- Liz in L.A., Jean in New York. It wasn't until shooting was set to begin that director Patricia Birch realized she had real-life twins in her cast that the parts were altered.

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