By Annie Walker

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS

Cindy Morgan (born Cynthia Ann Cichorski; September 29, 1954 – c. December 30, 2023) was an American actress best known for playing Lora/Yori in Tron and Lacey Underall in Caddyshack.

Cynthia Ann Cichorski was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 29, 1954. She was of Polish and German descent. Morgan attended 12 years of Catholic school, then studied communications at Northern Illinois University, where she was a DJ on the campus radio station. A commercial station in town invited her to report the news for them and she adopted the last name Morgan, from a story she had read about Morgan le Fay when she was 12 years old.

After graduation, Morgan worked at a television station in Rockford, Illinois, where she forecast the weather. She kept her hand in radio by working the graveyard shift at a local rock station. She returned to Chicago and deejayed on WSDM, until quitting on air during a labor dispute at the station, walking out with a record still spinning on the turntable.

Morgan landed her first screen role in the 1980 comedy Caddyshack, playing the role of sexy bombshell Lacey Underall. In a 2012 interview, Morgan said of the role: “Caddyshack was my first film and I’ll say that the end product was so completely different, it was originally about the caddies. So at first, I had nothing to lose to audition. It was fun. All I did was focus on making the person sweat. Look ’em in the eye, do that thing many women know how to …”

Morgan appeared in the 1982 hit Tron, the first computer-generated film. She played two characters: Lora, a computer programmer in the “real” world, and Yori, her alter-ego in the film’s computer-generated flights of imagination.

Morgan voiced Ma3a in Buena Vista Interactive‘s PC game Tron 2.0 in 2003.

Morgan was found dead of natural causes at her home in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, on December 30, 2023, at the age of 69.^[12] She had last been seen alive on December 19.