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Bios:
Maggie Lawson
Biography:
Maggie Lawson has portrayed a succession of legally and regally
blonde characters in her short career – including dual roles in
Disney’s TV movie "Model Behavior" – but she can especially relate
to a common trait in many of her acting assignments that requires
her to play young women with a master plan and an ordered existence.
"I’m not the stereotypical blonde vixen girl but rather the blonde
freckled girl from Kentucky," says Lawson. "The vixen is far from
what I am. In fact, I’m so like Eve that it’s scary, since I’m conservative
and like to have structure like so many of my characters. Eve thinks
she’s more free-spirited than she really is. But she has a hard
time adjusting her schedule to include her love for Adam (Schwartz)
as she enters law school."
Lawson
was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, as the middle child
sandwiched between two brothers who were raised by their single-parent
mother (who later developed her own upscale perfume-vending business).
When she was 8, Lawson began appearing in local community and dinner
theater productions. Two years later, she earned an on-air commercial
gig at a Louisville TV station and soon parlayed her recognition
into a steady six-year role as a TV personality who filed news reports
targeted for her fellow kids.
At 17, Lawson came to Los Angeles for her first professional TV
appearance in a recurring role on the sitcom Unhappily
Ever After, as a friend of series star Nikki Cox. She earned
her high school degree by finishing her senior year with a correspondence
course. Lawson would alternate between Louisville and Los Angeles
as dictated by work in such features as "Pleasantville" (as a friend
of star Reese Witherspoon – and the first girl to appear in the
film’s color scenes) and in sitcom pilots.
Finally,
Lawson and her family permanently re-located to Southern California
when she won a regular role in the short-lived comedy Family
Rules. She starred in twin roles as a model and a nerdy student
in the TV movie Model
Behavior in 2000, and is still recognized for her work (it also
marked a career turning point). A recurring role in Party
of Five followed where she played a campus prom queen.
In the fall, Lawson will star in the film "Cheaters," a dark comedy
in which she plays a "dorky" brainiac student who resents how her
friends resort to cheating to succeed in school. She also stars
in the upcoming film "Sheer Bliss," a love story.
In
her leisure time, Lawson enjoys singing and writing music (she is
completing a demo tape ranging from rock to country) as well as
playing softball, walking and hiking. She’s also a sports fan of
the hometown University of Louisville. Her birthday is August 12
Television
Credits:
Model
Behavior.....Alex Burroughs/Janine Adams (2000)
Family Rules.....Hope
(1999)
Party Of Five.....Alexa
(1999)
ER in episode: "Responsible
Parties" (original airdate: 05/13/1999)
Felicity....."Rebecca,
Todd's fiancé" in episode: "Todd Mulcahy (Part 2)" (original airdate:
02/16/1999)
Working....."Julie"
in episode: "Romeo And Julie" (original airdate: 01/11/1999)
Home Improvement....."Samantha
Hase" in episode: "Older, An" (1999)
Kelly Kelly....."Ally"
in episode: "Wedding Show, The" (original airdate: 5/10/1998)
Boy Meets World....."Debbie"
in episode: "I Love You, Donna Karan: Part 1" (original airdate:
11/14/1997)
Meego....."Brooke"
in episode: "Fatal Attraction" (original airdate: 10/17/1997)
Cybill....."Jennifer"
in episode: "Like Family" (original airdate: 10/13/1997)
Unhappily
Ever After....."Madelyn" in episode: "Angel Gone Bad" (original
airdate: 09/22/1996)
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