Tracy Nelson (actress)

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Tracy Nelson

Nelson in 1981
Born Tracy Kristin Nelson
October 25, 1963 (1963-10-25) (age 48)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1968–present

Tracy Kristine Nelson (born October 25, 1963, Santa Monica, California) is an American actress.

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[edit] Early life

Tracy Nelson is a third generation performer; her parents were Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Ricky Nelson and actress/artist Kristin Nelson (née Harmon). She has three younger siblings: Matthew Nelson, Gunnar Nelson of the '90s rock group Nelson, and Sam Nelson.[1] Her paternal grandparents are Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and her maternal grandparents are Tom Harmon, a Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Michigan, and actress Elyse Knox. She is also the niece of actors David Nelson, Mark Harmon, and Kelly Harmon.

[edit] Career

Nelson is perhaps best known for playing the role of Sister Stephanie ("Steve"), the sidekick of Father Dowling in the television series The Father Dowling Mysteries. She started her career early, playing one of Henry Fonda's daughters in Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) when she was five years old. In 1982 she played Jennifer DeNuccio on the television series Square Pegs, and in 1984 she had a regular role in Aaron Spelling's short-lived television series Glitter.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s she made guest appearances on popular television series including Family Ties, St. Elsewhere, Murphy Brown, the Australian series The Man from Snowy River, Melrose Place, Will and Grace, and Seinfeld. She was on Broadway as Rizzo in Grease in 1995. She has also appeared in several movies including the #1 hit Down and Out in Beverly Hills. She has starred in several Lifetime movies including The Perfect Nanny in 2000, The Perfect Husband, Kate's Secret, The Fight for Jesse, and various others.

[edit] Personal life

Tracy graduated in 1981 from the Westlake School for Girls. She briefly attended Bard College in upstate New York. A cancer survivor, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease a month after her 1987 marriage to actor William R. Moses, and one year after her father was killed in a plane crash. Nelson and Moses divorced in 1997 and share a daughter, Remington Elizabeth Moses, born in 1992. Tracy also has a son, Elijah Nelson Clark, born in 2001, with Chris Clark.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Television

[edit] References

  1. ^ www.nndb.com

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