A major little talent, this French-American moppet star of the late '40s and early '50s was not able to parlay her precocious popularity into a sizeable adult career, but has nevertheless maintained on the fringe for decades. Gigi Perreau was born in Los Angeles to a French father, who fled his native country at the onset of WWII, and an American mother. Her beginnings started way back to the tender age of two and a half when her mother was approached by a talent agent who represented child actors and who took an initial interest in her 5-year-old brother Gerald. But Gigi grabbed a little attention of her own. When producer/director 'Mervyn LeRoy' , also dabbled in film and TV as youngsters, but to a much lesser degree.
Born at 11:40am-PST
Sister of Janine Perreau , Lauren Perreau and Peter Miles
Gigi and her brother, Peter Miles , once managed a popular Los Angeles art gallery.
Vice-President of the Drama Teachers Association of Southern California and also served on the Board of Directors for the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.
Appeared with Donna Reed in the film Green Dolphin Street , and later served on the Board of Directors of the Donna Reed Foundation.
Interviewed in "Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Classic Film and Television", by Tom Goldrup and Jim Goldrup (McFarland, 2002).
Mother of four - Gina Gallo Paris, Robert Anthony Gallo, Danielle Elaina Bianco, and Keith H. deRuelle.
After a decade on Broadway, Gigi has taught drama for several years at her alma mater, Immaculate Heart High School. IHHS is a college preparatory Catholic all-girls school in Hollywood, CA.
Brother Peter is 3 years older than Gigi while her sister Janine is 2 years younger.
When young Gigis mother lived in Japan where she met and married Robert Perreau, who worked in a Tokyo bank, They moved to France then, when the Germans invaded in WWII, to Lisbon then onto America.and Los Angeles where Gigi was born. One day mom, accompanied by Gigi and her brother Peter stopped by Warner Brothers studio to meet a friend an agent saw the kids and within a few months they were in films, Gigi in Madame Curie and Peter in Passage to Marseilles.
[on her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame] I was at the groundbreaking,ceremonies, with my gold shovel. My goddaughter, who lives in the,Hollywood Hills, occasionally goes down there - and has to clean it! It,was taken up when they were putting in the Metro - the subway system.
