She played Jody Banks on "Autumn". See Heather Thomas now at 64 years old.

Some troubling experiences have remotely away from the actor, but she is still involved in the industry.


Throughout the 1980s,Heather Thomas The heads shot like Jody Banks, a Hollywood-performer-performer-performer hunter, on the television action dramaThe picking guy. At the same time, she was hung on the walls of millions of rooms and dormitories through her work. After herHit Finished in 1986, Thomas disappeared from the public eye, only appearing in a handful of film and television roles, but she remained an important player in Hollywood, branching in the scenario and politics. Read it to learn why she retired to act in 1998 and what she has done since.

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She took other roles during and afterThe picking guy.

Heather Thomas in 1985
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While she featuredThe picking guy, Thomas also appeared in the 1982 teenager sexual comedyZapped! oppositeScott Baioand source of episodes ofThe love boat andT.J. Hooker.

After the cancellation of the show, it landed with some other movie roles, including the head in 1987Cyclone, a science-felle adventure in which she plays a woman who must keep the most advanced motorcycle in the world on the hands of metal weapon brokers. Parties in a handful of television movies and little budget movies such as 1990American bloody american girl and Thriller of the 1997 policeAgainst law monitoring. His last role of big screen was like a showgirl in the 1998Crystal Billy the comedyMy giant.

The stalkers led her out of the industry.

Heather Thomas in 2012
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The success of Thomas's career inThe picking guy coincided with difficult times in his offscreen life. During the height of the popularity of the show, she struggled with a drug addiction andentered in rehabilitation in 1985, according toPeople. There she met her first husband,Allan Rosenthal, one of the founders of anonymous cocaine. They divorced in 1986 after less than a year of marriage.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

During and afterThe picking guyThomas also took care of an adverse attention of fans whose behavior has crossed the line in harassment. "[In the 80s] I made myself so harassed," she told Reuters in 2009. "I had a guy climbing on the fence with a knife once." In 1993, she releaseda retaining control against a fan Who was at home without a guest and sent him his scenario, that she said "clearly the work of a disturbed person". Although his career has already slowed down, Thomas explained that these incidents and others like them as they contributed to his decision to withdraw from acting in 1998.

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Outside the spotlight, she focused on her family and write.

Heather Thomas with husband Skip Brittenham and daughter India in 2008
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In 1992, Thomas married Hollywood ProsecutorHarry Mr. Brittenham, who had two daughters of an earlier relationship. With his career marking, and given his past experiences with violent fans, she chose to retire the act and focus on a parent instead. In 2000, she gave birth to a girl,India has increased. "I have risen from children for 15 years and it was great"She told CNN in 2003. "I had the luxury to do that I am very lucky."

After leaving the actor, Thomas has refocused his attention on writing. She wrote a scenario on a teenager whose reputation is ruined by a false rumorwhich has been sold to the images of the key keyAlthough the film has never been done. She wrote and sold other scripts not produced and also published a novel, a hollywood satire entitledTrophy, in 2009.

It is active in politics and philanthropy.

Heather Thomas in 2012
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"If you do not take any action, you are as much to blame," said Thomas at CNN in 2003. She spent years living until this ideal.

As part of the 2008 presidential election, Thomas became well known to Los Angeles for his political activism. According to an article by 2008 on time,She ran a "living room" Known like L.A. Cafe of his house, invite speakers to come talk about liberal causes with rich potential donors. His political involvement continued over the years and in 2018,Variety distingua like one of theInfluential Hollywood democrats Organize around mid-term elections this year.

It also serves on the advisory councils of the Rape Foundation and the Amazon Conservation Team.

She did not quite act behind.

Moderator Jerry Milani, Lee Majors, Doug Barr, and Heather Thomas during The Fall Guy virtual reunion
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Although she has never really returned to the screen, Thomas lands another role in 2014 webseriesGIRLTRASH!, created byAngela Robinson (The word l) and the pre-prequel filmGirlTrash: All night long.

She also comes up with tenderness her time onThe picking guy, however, and participated in a 2020 virtual meeting next to his old co-stars Lee majors and Doug Barr .

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