Tracy Nelson (actress)

Tracy Kristine Nelson (born October 25, 1963)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> is an American actress. From a long line of entertainers, she is the daughter of musician Ricky Nelson and actress and painter Kristin Nelson.

Early life, family and education

Tracy Nelson was born in Santa Monica, California, to musician and film actor Ricky Nelson and actress/artist Kristin Nelson (née Harmon).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Tracy has three younger siblings: Matthew Nelson and Gunnar Nelson of the 1990s rock group Nelson, and Sam Nelson.

Tracy is a fourth-generation performer. Her great-grandparents were vaudeville performers Hazel Dell (née McNutt) and Roy Hilliard Snyder.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Their daughter was her paternal grandmother Harriet Nelson,<ref name="NY Times">Template:Cite web</ref> the star of the ABC-TV sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet from 1952 to 1966. Her paternal grandparents were Ozzie and Harriet Hilliard Nelson. Nelson's maternal grandparents were football star Tom Harmon, a Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Michigan, and actress Elyse Knox. She is also the niece of actors David Nelson, and her mother's siblings Mark Harmon and Kelly Harmon.

Nelson studied ballet for 17 years with Tania Lachine. She studied theater with Kim Stanley and Nina Foch and briefly in the UK.

She attended The Buckley School and graduated in 1981 from the Westlake School for Girls (now Harvard-Westlake School) in Los Angeles. She studied Dance and European History at Bard College in upstate New York.Template:Citation needed

Career

At age four, Nelson played one of Henry Fonda’s and Lucille Ball's daughters in Yours, Mine and Ours (1968). Her future co-star Tom Bosley also appeared in that film.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

She has been a professional dancer and toured throughout California in a dance company while still in grammar school. She performed in The Edinburgh Fringe Festival after graduation from high school. In 1982, she played "valley girl" Jennifer DeNuccio on the television series Square Pegs,Template:R and in 1986 she landed the role of the anorexic daughter in Paul Mazursky's film Down and Out in Beverly Hills.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Nelson made guest appearances on television series including Family Ties, St. Elsewhere, Murphy Brown, The Nanny, 7th Heaven, Melrose Place, Will & Grace, Matlock, Diagnosis Murder, and Seinfeld. Nelson co-starred in the television series The Father Dowling Mysteries as Sister Stephanie for its three seasons.<ref name="etvs">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> She was also a series regular on Aaron Spelling's Glitter, A League of Their Own,Template:R and the Australian television series The Man from Snowy River.Template:R She was in the touring company and on Broadway as Rizzo in Grease in 1995. Nelson has appeared in several theatrical releases and over 20 television movies, including The Perfect Nanny in 2000, The Perfect Husband, Kate's Secret, The Fight for Jesse, and The Rival in 2006.

She has written a book about her personal experience and a movie script about her family, The Nelsons.Template:Citation needed

Personal life

Nelson has survived three kinds of cancer. She was diagnosed with stage 2 Hodgkin's lymphoma<ref name="sbcs">Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> a month after her 1987 marriage to Moses, and one year after her father was killed in an aircraft crash on New Year's Eve 1985 in a field in DeKalb, Texas. Nelson went into remission after surgery, chemotherapy (ABVD) and radiation at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.Template:Citation needed

Having suffered trauma from radiation, Nelson was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2005 and breast cancer in 2010. She fully recovered from a bilateral mastectomy and complete reconstruction.Template:Citation needed

Nelson is active in cancer research advocacy and was the spokesperson for The Lymphoma Research Foundation of America. She received the "Lifesaver Award" from that organization and the "Jill Ireland Award" from the Amie Karen Cancer Fund for Children.Template:Citation needed

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1968	Yours, Mine and Ours	Germaine Beardsley	Directed by Melville Shavelson
1984	Maria's Lovers	Joanie	Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
1986	Down and Out in Beverly Hills	Jenny Whiteman	Directed by Paul Mazursky
1998	The Night Caller	Beth Needham	Directed by Robert Malenfant
2000	The Perfect Tenant	Rachel	Directed by Doug Campbell
2000	The Perfect Nanny	Andrea McBride/Nikki Harcourt	Directed by Robert Malenfant
2000	Home – The Horror Story	Linda Parkinson	Directed by Temístocles López
2001	Dumb Luck	Kelly Jordan	Directed by Craig Clyde
2002	Fangs	Ally Parks	Directed by Kelly Sandefur
2005	Miracle at Sage Creek	Adrianne	Directed by James Intveld
2009	The Telemarketers: 36 Hrs	Taylor	Directed by Lonny Stevens • direct-to-video
2013	My Stepbrother is a Vampire!?!	Denise	Directed by David DeCoteau
2016	Emma's Chance	Principal Matheson	Directed by Anna Elizabeth James
2016	Arlo: The Burping Pig	Mrs. Pritchett	Directed by Tom DeNucci
2016	The Last Note	Sis	Directed by Robert Zameroski
2018	As Long as I'm Famous	Theda Bara	Directed by Bruce Reisman
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982–83	Square Pegs	Jennifer DiNuccio	Main role • Season 1 (20 episodes)
1983	Hotel	Isabel Darby	Guest role • Season 1, episode 1: "Blackout"
1984	St. Elsewhere	Jennifer Milbourne	Guest role • Season 2, episode 19: "The Woman"
1984–85	Family Ties	Deena Marx	Recurring role • Seasons 2, episode 15 "Ladies Man" / Season 3, episode 14: "Oh Donna"
1985	The Love Boat	Sandy	Guest role • Season 8, episode 17: "Ace Takes the Test / The Counterfeit Couple / The Odd Triple"
1984–85	Glitter	Angela Timini	Main role • Season 1 (14 episodes)
1986	Comedy Factory	Michelle	Guest role • Season 2, episode 2: "Hearts of Steel"
1986	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Lori	Guest role • Season 4, episode 1: "The Drug Knot
1989–91	Father Dowling Mysteries	Sister Stephanie "Steve" Oskowski	Main role • Season 1–3 (42 episodes)
1993	A League of Their Own	Evelyn Gardner	Main role • Season 1 (6 episodes)
1994	Matlock	Jessie Morgan	Guest role • Season 8, episode 19: "The P.I."
1994	Burke's Law	Eve Baker	Guest role • Season 1, episode 11: "Who Killed the Romance"
1994–95	Melrose Place	Meredith Parker	Recurring role • Season 2–3 (4 episodes)
1995	The Nanny	Mary Ruth	Guest role • Season 2, episode 25: "The Chatterbox"
1995	Snowy River: The McGregor Saga	Ruth Whitney	Recurring role • Season 2 (5 episodes)
1996	Touched by an Angel	Lisa Magdaleno	Guest role •Season 2, episode 12: "The One That Got Away"
1996	Diagnosis: Murder	Kristie Lofton	Guest role • Season 3, episode 15: "Mind Over Murder"
1998	Seinfeld	Janet	Guest role • Season 9, episode 13 "The Cartoon"
1998	Murphy Brown	Lisa	Recurring role • Season 10, episode 13: "Turpis Capillus Annus" / Season 10, episode 18: "Second Time Around"
2000	7th Heaven	Pauline	Guest role • Season 5, episode 8: "Gossip"
2002	Will & Grace	Alison	Guest role • Season 4, episode 22: "Wedding Balls"
2003	Still Standing	Elise Larkin	Guest role • Season 2, episode 3: "Still the Bad Parents"
Television film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Pleasures	Annie Benton	ABC movie
1986	Kate's Secret	Patch Reed	NBC movie
1987	Home	Susan Costigan	CBS movie
1987	Tonight's the Night	Jamie Davies	ABC movie
1987	If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium	Randi Wainwright	NBC movie
1987	Fatal Confession	Sister Stephanie "Steve" Oskowski	Pre-series movie to Father Dowling Mysteries
1992	Highway Heartbreaker	Annie	CBS movie
1992	Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo	Charley Adams	NBC movie
1993	No Child of Mine	Tammy	CBS movie
1994	Ray Alexander: A Taste for Justice	Donna Colla	NBC movie
1995	Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder	Donna Colla	NBC Movie
1996	For Hope	Annie Altman	ABC movie
1997	Touched By Evil	Clara Devlin	ABC movie
1999	The Promise	Lisa Miles	NBC movie
2000	Perfect Game	Diane Crosby	Disney Channel movie
2002	Killer Bees!	Audrey Harris	Pax TV movie
2004	Her Perfect Spouse	Lisa Dorian
2005	A Killer Upstairs	Sandra Nowlin
2006	The Rival	Alice Miller
2007	A Grandpa for Christmas	Marie O'Riley	Hallmark Channel movie
2008	Polar Opposites	Jenna
2015	A Fatal Obsession	Christie Ryan	Lifetime Movie Network
2016	The Wrong Child	Joyce	Lifetime Movie Network
Short
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Sea World Adventure		Video short
1995	The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Mystery Cruise	Mary-Kate and Ashley's mom	Video short
2000	The Bus Stop
2016	The Eleventh	Cynthia	miniseries short (5 episodes)

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