T.J. HOOKER BRITISH ANNUAL

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HEATHER LOCKLEAR - THE 'CALIFORNIA GIRL' WHO HOPES TO TRAVEL

Heather Locklear is the embodiment of the "California Girl." Slender, blonde and tanned, Heather is a native of Los Angeles who is at home surfing at the beach or pursuing a racquet ball on court.

Heather, who co-stars as Stacy Sheridan, a young police trainee and daughter of Captain Sheridan, in "T.J. Hooker", has never ventured far from her California home.

"My only trips out of state so far have been for a couple of commercials," she says. "But I'm hoping now with my career growing I'll be able to travel."

She was born September 25 in Los Angeles where her father is currently the director of admissions for UCLA. Heather attended Newbury Park High School and took some drama classes while also participating in track and field competition.

"I did some acting in school productions but I never seriously thought of being an actress," she says. "I was more interested in sports."

Heather enrolled at UCLA with an eye to majoring in psycology, but her college friends encouraged her to take a course in commercial acting.

"It was a small class and out of it I got my first agent, Wilhelmina," she says. "A short time later I was in my first commercial, for a hair rinse. Today when I look back it seems so easy, but I really had to muster up as much courage as I could to even go to that first class."

With some commercial experience under her belt, Heather began to get offers from episodic television. She has guested on "CHiPs", "240-Robert", "Tales of the Unexpected", and "The Fall Guy". She was also featured in "The Beverly Hillbillies Special" and in the television movie "Twirl", where she played an ambitious teenage baton twirler.

Heather made her debut as a series regular last season in "Dynasty", as Sammy Jo Dean.

"Sammy Jo started out as an unsophisticated and uneducated country girl," says Heather. "But with her exposure to the wealth and spicy life of the Carringtons she soon wised up. She was great fun to play, a bit of a scamp."

Heather admits to being undisciplined about exercise and nutrition. "I'd eat M&Ms for breakfast," she laughs. She keeps in shape with sports and dancing. She plays racquet ball twice a week and once a week rides her bike from her home in West Los Angeles to the beach and back. She also loves to play softball with her young sister's team on weekends.

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