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FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH EVERYDAY PROBLEMS
DYSLEXIA - TRACEY GOLD
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Tracey Gold (born Tracey Claire Fisher on May 16, 1969 in New York City) is an American actress, best known for playing Carol Seaver on the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains. Her sister is the actress Missy Gold, who appeared on Benson. Her stage name "Gold" comes from her stepfather Harry Gold (ne Goldstein). Her sister Missy also shares the birth name Fisher.
She is also famous for her highly publicized battle with anorexia nervosa, which almost killed her. She had suffered eating disorders earlier in her youth, and the trauma from her past experiences came back when Carol was made fun of on the show by her brothers for being "too fat". In 1991, she started starving herself and lost a massive amount of weight that year, to the point that she was admitted to a hospital in early 1992. She was written out of the show for most of the final season. After a few more years, she overcame her anorexia, married, and had three sons, Sage, Bailey, and Aiden.
In 2004, she was a contestant on the program Celebrity Mole 2: Yucatan.
Filmography
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Dance 'Til Dawn (1988)
Starring: Christina Applegate, Tempestt Bledsoe Director: Paul Schneider
It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley (Alissa Milano) ditches her prom and ends up spending the night with unpopular Dan (Chris Young); Popular guy Kevin (Brian Bloom) goes out with nerdy Angela (Tracey Gold) because he heard she was easy; Patrice (Christina Applegate) continues to blame her boyfriend Roger (Matthew Perry) for everything that doesn't go the way she wants it to. The adults also have there problems to contend with: Nancy (Mary Frann) and Larry (Cliff De Young) must find out a way to patch up their marriage or get a divorce; Jack (Alan Thicke) spends the night tracking down his son Dan to find out why he didn't go to the prom; and overprotective Ed (Kelsey Grammer) and Ruth (Edie McClurg) keep tabs on their daughter Angela throughout the night.
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Lady Killer (1995)
Starring: Judith Light, Jack Wagner Director: Steven Schachter
Janice Mitchell (Judith Light) is attempting to put a recent affair with the handsome plastic surgeon Guy (Jack Wagner) in her past as she and her husband take an island vacation. The obsessive Guy refuses to let go and stalks Janice, resulting in a brutal attack and rape. Unable to tell her husband of her secret , the terror becomes even more insidious when Guy begins to date her daughter who brings him to the island resulting in a terrifying and thrilling final struggle for survival. Starring: Judith Light, Jack Wagner, Ben Masters, and Tracy Gold.
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The Girl Next Door (1998)
Starring: Tracey Gold, Tom Irwin Director: David Greene
A young girl, Annie Nolan (Tracey Gold) comes to the police to confess to a murder, but runs away before saying anything. Later, she visits the police psychologist Gayle Bennett (Sharon Gless), and in flashback, her story of how she fell in love with the older policeman Craig Mitchell (Tom Irwin) and was used by him in his plot to murder his wife unfolds.
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Wanted (1999)
Starring: Tracey Gold, Michael Sutton Director: Terence M. O'Keefe
I thought this was going to be another low grade, straight to video movie, but I was quite impressed. The photography, direction, and acting was well done. It was intelligently written and had well developed characters.
It is a coming of age story about a young man on the run from the law and the mob. He runs away to a Catholic school for boys and hides out. While there he gets a job and helps out with the kids. He teaches the kids right from wrong and in turn learns a thing or two himself. He befriends a priest who helps him choose the right path. In the end he gets the girl and lives happily ever after.
The story line to this movie is pretty basic and straight forward, but is enjoyable none the less.
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