Henson Kids cameos

Appearances of Jim Henson's children - Cheryl, Brian, Lisa, John, and Heather - in Muppet/Henson productions.

“My father liked to do everything – or at least a lot of the stuff – himself. Like the building work, and yard work, and landscaping... all of that. So we used to do a lot of that. It was a pretty creative house, though. He used to have all of us kids mosaic a bathroom when we were real young – all under 10. I remember we painted the kitchen, and each one of us painted a cabinet. He also used to make those insert films for Sesame Street in the house on the weekends. So we used to be helping with his work and helping around the house – it was all sort-of one big thing to us.”
—Brian Henson

Appearances

Brian in Wheels That Go

Brian in an early Sesame Street film, included in the Sesame Street Pitch Reel

Brian in the Sesame Street Number Song Series as the kid who says "3 peas"

Brian in the Sesame Street Number Song Series as the kid who says "5 dimes" and "7 nickels".

Brian in the Sesame Street Number Song Series as the kid who says "8 ping-pong balls".

Brian in the Sesame Street Number Song Series as the kid who says "10 little Indians"

John in the Sesame Street Number Song Series as the kid who says "10 Bells".

Cheryl appears as the daughter in Henson's 1967 commercial for Bufferin.

John appears as the son in Henson's 1967 commercial for Bufferin.

Lisa and Cheryl as children in Run, Run

Lisa, Cheryl and Brian in Flapsole Sneakers as kids

Lisa and Cheryl represent "children from all over the world" in the first Wilson's Meats meeting film.

The Henson kids are used in a photo in the "Sell! Sell! Sell!" meeting film (John is obscured by Leo).

Heather as Prince Kermit in The Frog Prince

Heather in Number Three Ball Film

Cheryl appears as one of the "mouth burners" in Traveling Matt's postcard in the Fraggle Rock episode "The Challenge."

Heather in The Muppets Take Manhattan

Heather dresses as Cyndi Lauper in Muppet Magazine issue 8

At a MuppetFest panel, Kirk Thatcher stated that "a Henson child" (either Cheryl or Lisa) portrayed the toddler seen running around during the "strip" montage in Time Piece, but jokingly refused to specify who for fear of strangulation.

John and Cheryl are seen playing catch in Episode 4211 of Sesame Street.

Cheryl Henson appears in a crowd scene in Episode 3785 of Sesame Street

Lisa appears in a photograph as the Dean of Doc's university in the Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock episode "The Great Wind."

Honorable Mentions

• In a Sesame Street News Flash sketch, the first five of The Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe's children are named Heather, Johnny, Brian, Lisa and Cheryl.

• Heather Henson had a cameo role as a dental patient in the 1986 film Little Shop of Horrors (directed by Frank Oz and featuring puppetry by Brian Henson); and as a teenager in the 1985 film Spies Like Us (directed by John Landis).

See also

• Brian Henson cameos
• The Henson family