Kathy Garver (born December 13 1945) is a television, stage, screen, and voice actress. Born in Long Beach, California, her full name is Kathleen Marie Allison Garver.

Garver is best known for playing Cissy Davis, the eldest sibling on the original TV series Family Affair. She is one of the last two surviving cast members of the series, along with Johnny Whitaker, who shares the same birthday with her, though is 14 years her junior.

Garver also provided the voice of Firestar on the Saturday morning cartoon Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. She often voiced female guest characters as well.

She was a member of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women at UCLA.

She lives in Hillsborough, CA with her husband David and son Reid. Kathy Garver spends much of her leisure time in Palm Springs, CA in a residence she co-owns with her brother, Lance Garver, President and CEO of Brokers USA.

Kathy Garver was born in Long Beach, California on 13 December 1945. The daughter of Hayes George Garver and Rosemary Garver and the youngest of 4 children (2 brothers & 1 older sister). She attended Pacific Arts High School in 1962 and graduated in 1966. The same year, she attended UCLA and graduated in 1970. Her debut in film was I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) at age 10, but her break-through performance came as one of the young slaves in Ten Commandments, The (1956). Her big moment on television was as the teenage niece of Uncle Bill Davis named Cissy Davis on "Family Affair" (1966). After the show ended in 1971, she went to Israel to do the Stage rendition of the same CBS-TV Show in Tel Aviv in 1971. In 1972, she went to London, England, to do Stage Shows and this led to an appearance on "David Frost Show, The" (1969) and "Coronation Street" (1960) for 2 days only. She met David Travis in 1976 where Wimbledon played that year on NBC Sports where he worked on the coverage, and they were married on January 17, 1981, and had a son, Reid in 1991, named after actor Tim Reid (I). Through her 50-year career in show business, she survived and conquered triumph through tragedy, just like the TV character she portrayed, Cissy Davis, big sister of twin children: Buffy & Jody Davis ("Family Affair" (1966)).

Kathy was in born in Long Beach, California to Hayes and Rosemary Garver joining her sister, Beverly, and brothers, Hayes, Jr. and Lance. Beverly entered UCLA at a precocious 15 years old at the time Kathy started working professionally. During Ms. Garver's teenage years, Kathy added radio and stage to her burgeoning film and television career. Ms. Garver was a freshman majoring in speech at UCLA when she was tested for a television series entitled Family Affair. Kathy, deemed "perfect" to star as "Cissy" with Brian Keith as "Uncle Bill" and Sebastian Cabot as "Mr. French" performed for five years in one of the warmest and most enduring series of the 1960s and 70s. The show continues to be popular today through the release of Family Affair's all five seasons on DVD pleasing old and new audiences world wide - a true classic. After "Family Affair", Kathy starred in an Israeli musical stage version of the TV series, having to learn Hebrew phonetically for her role. Later, she continued her dramatic studies at London's prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she portrayed Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Dramatic and comedic productions in the states followed including starring roles in My Fair Lady, Sunday in New York, A Midsummer's Night Dream and the Trojan Women. Ms. Garver retuned to UCLA to earn a Master's Degree in Theater Arts. Today Kathy Garver is an accomplished and versatile actress, appearing in such films as Sweet November, The Princess Diaries, MOWs such as FBI Murders and Stay the Night with Guest Star roles on many TV shows. She is a sought after celebrity on Game shows, winning top money for charities as she did on "Street Smarts" and other reality programs. Kathy is also very much in demand for her numerous vocal characterizations. She's a stand out in the very competitive field of voices overs for cartoons, commercials, toys and audio books. She voiced, "Pepper" an automotive whiz in the Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos series and "Firestar", a mutant super hero in the Spiderman and his Amazing Friends TV series. Ms. Garver produced, narrated and wrote lyrics and original music for eight audio Beatrix Potter tales and eight Mother Goose based audiotapes for Smarty Pants, Inc. Kathy's Beatrix Potter tapes have sold over two million copies and have won numerous awards. Ms Garver has also won two Audie Awards, one for her narration of The Worlds Shortest Stories, the other in 2004 for her direction of Amy Tan in The Opposite of Fate read by the author. Kathy has recorded books for Brilliance Audio, Dove, Listen and Live and can be downloaded at the Timberwolfpress.com site. Her voice has been heard in Apollo 13 (which was awarded the Academy Award for sound), Ransom, Back Draft and Jingle all the Way, all directed by Ron Howard. Kathy has electrified the talk show circuit entertaining audiences with tales of her life long career in show business. She's chatted with Bill O'Reilly. Geraldo, Sally Jesse, Mary Hart, Maury Povich and many more. Some of the lively discussion centers on the modern woman juggling marriage, career, and family all handled with laughter and aplomb. Kathy now has her own family affair. She met her husband of 26 years, business executive David Travis, on a tennis court in Palm Springs - truly a love match. Their son Reid Garver Travis, now 16, continues the tradition of show business by appearing in national commercials, TV, movies and by doing voice overs For all her accomplishments and future plans, it seems Kathy's sails will be billowing in some very favorable waters for quite some time.