T.J. HOOKER BRITISH ANNUAL

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THE HOOKER FAMILY - BIOGRAPHIES

LEE BRYANT (Fran Hooker) – Lee Bryant decided to become an actress when she played the second flower from the left in an Easter play in second grade. Lee was born in New York City and grew up in Gross Pointe, Michigan. She enrolled at Ednicott College as a pre-med student, but changed her major to theatre after one term. After graduation Lee moved to New York to study acting, but her mother's death brought her back to Michigan. Lee was working at the Meadowbrook Theatre outside of Detroit and doing industrial films when she married and left acting behind for a few years. Upon her divorce she moved back to New York to work in regional theatre and Off-Broadway. Among her theatre credits are "Pfeiffer's People," "Caucasian Chalk Circle," "Period of Adjustment," and "A Streetcar Named Desire." She has guested on such television shows as "The White Shadow," "Three's Company," "The Incredible Hulk," "Lou Grant," "Hart to Hart," and "The Jeffersons." She has also appeared in the feature films "Airplane" and "Capricorn One." Lee, who lives in New York with her 11-year-old daughter, loves all sports, especially scuba diving and skiing.

SUSAN McCLUNG (Cathy Hooker) – Susan McClung was born on Okinawa where her father was stationed as a career officer in the Special Forces. She made a short trip back to the United States with her family to San Francisco when she was three and was hired to make her acting debut in a local commercial. Then her father was assigned to Thailand where she attended school in a two-room British school house for two years. When the family returned to San Francisco, Susan enrolled at the Sacred Heart Academy where she was discovered by director Delbert Mann and cast as the lead in the feature "The Birch Interval" when she was only 14. When she was 17 she joined the famed ACT theatre group as a member of the Young Conservatory Attic Theatre under the direction of Ross Brown. Susan continued to work in little theatre in the bay city after high school graduation and then she had the chance to go to Paris to school or Loyola-Marymount University in Los ANgeles. "I opted for L.A. so that I could continue my acting," she says. Susan left the university after one year and began guesting on television in such series as "Knotts Landing," "Lou Grant" and "Hart to Hart." She also appeared in the television movie "Desperate Lives" and the feature film "True Confessions." Susan, who is married to a stock broker, says studying people is her only hobby.

NICOLE EGGERT (Chrissie Hooker) – Nicole Eggert started her youthful career in acting when she won a beauty contest as Miss Young Universe at the age of six. She was born in Glendale, California, January 13 and her mother entered her into the contest at a shopping mall. Nicole was featured on the "Miss Universe" television show and attracted the attention of an agent who signed her for television commercials. The first of more than 20 commercials she has done was for Johnson's Baby Shampoo. She made her dramatic debut opposite Cheryl Ladd in the television movie "When She Was Bad" and her other credits include "Fantasy Island," "Today's FBI," "McClain's Law," "When Hell Was In Session," and the feature film "Rich and Famous." She has also done voice-overs for "Dennis the Menace" and "Charlie Brown" cartoons. Nicole attends Brook Elementary School whenever she's not working and loves to ice skate, ski and dance.

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