Jamie Michelle Luner was born on May 12, 1971, a Wednesday, in Palo Alto, California, to Stuart and Susan Luner. She grew up alongside her older brother, David Luner, and her mother Susan in California.
Jamie's early start in the entertainment industry began at the tender age of three, with TV commercials. By the age of 15, she had already won the L.A. Shakespeare Festival in the category of monologues. During her time on Just the Ten of Us (1987),she attended Beverly Hills High School, graduating in 1989.
After taking a break from acting, Jamie attended culinary school and worked as a chef at the French restaurant Drai's. She returned to TV in 1993 with small parts in shows like Married... with Children (1987) and Diagnosis Murder (1993). Her big break came when she landed the role of Southern seductress "Peyton Richards" in Savannah (1996).
After the prime-time soap was canceled, Jamie and her then-boyfriend Johnny Braz traveled around the US in an Airstream motor home before landing the role of "Lexi" in Melrose Place (1992). Following the end of the Fox soap in 1999, so did her four-year-romance with Johnny Braz.
Jamie then joined the cast of Profiler (1996) as "Rachel Burke" after Ally Walker left. She later appeared in ABC's short-lived 10-8: Officers on Duty (2003). In 2005, she had lead roles in Lifetime's Blind Injustice (2005),Stranger in My Bed (2005),and The Suspect (2006).
In addition to her television work, Jamie has also done theater work in Santa Monica in "Black & Bluestein", Other Space, Santa Monica, and The Young Playwrites Festival in Los Angeles.
