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WhenThe facts of life—A retouching ofDifficulty focused on a boarding school for girls - returned for his second season in 1980, he was without four of his original actors (including a young brunetteMolly Ringwald, who played Molly Parker). In their place, a surprising addition has arrived at the distribution in the form of a tomboy born at the Bronx motorcycle named Jo Polniaczek.

During his seven seasons playing the rough-and-to-to-to-have,Nancy McKeon would bring main characters tootia (Kim Fields), Blair (Lisa Whelchel), and Natalie (Mindy Cohn) Closer (via the punishment that the five received after stolen the school van to drink in a local bar); Bicker with Blair; And intimidate men with its mechanical ability. Neither his acting career nor his links with herFacts of life The co-stars would end with the show in 1988. Read the rest to discover what happened to McKeon in the decades that followed and where it is now at 56 years.

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Unlike Co-Stars Fields and Cohn, McKeon has chosen not to continue a university degree. Instead, she sought to perfect her profession with additional actor training afterThe facts of life ended. She continued to act, appearing in a certain number of TV movies in the late 1980s and the early 90s, producing some of these films of the week thanks to her production company, Forest Hills Productions. At the end of the 90s, she even made an ambition to make, leading the short filmAwakening, which she also wrote and produced.

"I just thought I will take what would have been my tuition fees, and I willmake this short-circuit», She recalls on the Cohn podcast,Mondays with Mindy.

The film was released in 1999 andwon two festival prizes. While McKeon would mainly stick to act in the coming years, she then made two episodes ofThe division While also appearing on the series and hopes to lead more in the future, she told Cohn.

In 2012Vanity Oral history of the seriesFriends,,Lori Openden, the former casting chief in NBC, revealed that the choice of who should play Monica Geller came to two actors: "Nancy McKeon, fromThe facts of life, Read also for [Courteney Cox's] part. She gave a great performance. [President NBC]Warren [Littlefield] Either [the co-creators]Marta [Kauffman] andDavid [Crane] make the call. They went for a walk and returned and said Courteney. ""

Instead, McKeon continued to play in his own sitcom,I can't hurry love, which lasted a season in 1995 before being canceled despite solid notes. She had another race for a season by playing the Midwesterner Jane Sokol alongside aMartha Stewart-esqueSmart jeans onStyle and substance In 1998 before winning the role of Inspector Jinny Exstead on the criminal drama for lifeThe division, which she played from 2001 to 2004.

McKeon - which is datedMichael J. Fox For three years in the 80s and was previously hired by the hockey playerLuc Robitaille—Men from film technicianMarc Andrus On the set of the TV movieMother's gift In 1995. They got married eight years later and moved to a ranch in the Austin region, Texas, where they raised girlsDawn (born in 2004) andHarlow (Born in 2006) before selling it in 2020, according to its appearance on the Cohn podcast. (Brother of McKeon, lateAlice actorPhilip McKeon, finally joined her, living outside Austin until her death in December 2019.) While Andrus was active in Austin's film industry, McKeon only acted sporadically during the young years Girls, choosing to focus on their care.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

""I have two little girls, and my main work is there with them, so when I choose to go away, the moment must be fair, "she said in a 2011 interview with Tulsa World.

In the early 2000s, this timing allowed McKeon only the occasional TV movie until 2009, when it played a recurring role in Disney Channel sitcomSonny with a chance As a mother of the main character, a teenage actor played by a youngDemi Lovato.

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After the end ofSonny with a chance In 2011, McKeon left screens until 2018, when she returned as a competitor of season 27 ofDancing, in competition with proVal Chmerkovskiy. She followed this appearance with a cameo in the film for lifeYou clarified my Christmas featuringFacts of life Co-Star fields. In her latest role, McKeon played the mother of a teenage girl who participated in a dangerous post-high school competition in the Amazon Prime 2021 thriller 2021Panic, based on the series of novels for young adults byLauren Olivier.

Despite his absence ofa recentFacts of life meeting, McKeon is still friends close to his old co-stars. His friendsCryed alongside McKeon In the wake of his brother's death in 2019, McKeon participated in a series of fields of conversations recorded in honor of his 2020 anniversary, and Whelchel said they were all in contact viaA group conversation Called the "wire of the sisters".

"We have gone through our years of training together," said McKeon about their link onMondays with Mindy. "We were really sisters ... in my heart, we are still."