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Nancy McKeon, who has all but grown up on television, plays Jane Sokol, a smart, practical, level-headed, ever-honest manager of the Chelsea Stevens empire, in Touchstone Television's new half-hour comedy series Style & Substance.
"Jane is smart, honest, real, and wants everyone to like her 100% of the time," said McKeon. "That kind of dilemma makes for great comedy."
Born April 4, McKeon landed her first job in the industry at the age of two, while accompanying her brother Philip to an audition for a television commercial. Several years later, when Philip was cast as Linda Lavin's son on the hit series "Alice," the McKeon family moved from Queens, New York, to Los Angeles. She got her first TV role at age 12 on ABC's "Starsky and Hutch," but she's best known to television audiences for playing the streetwise tomboy Jo Polniaczek on the long-running NBC series "The Facts of Life." McKeon also guest-starred with Dennis Weaver on the police drama series "Stone."
McKeon also appeared in the made-for-television movies "Question of Love," "A Mother's Gift," "In the Child's Name," and "Cry for Help," the Tracy Thurman story, as well as in the CBS miniseries "Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage."
In 1992, McKeon made her feature film debut in "Where the Day Takes You," co-starring with Dermot Mulroney, Kyle MacLachlan, Laura San Giacomo, and Christian Slater. She also appeared in the independent feature film "Teresa's Tattoo."
In an ongoing effort to find more challenging roles, McKeon took on the responsibilities of producing in 1995, when she returned to series television in "Can't Hurry Love." She not only starred in and helped develop the series but also served as one of its producers. She also produced and starred in the television movie "Firefighters," playing the first female firefighter in the Los Angeles Fire Department, and in "Strange Voices," in which she portrayed a woman suffering from schizophrenia.
McKeon currently resides in Los Angeles.
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