Born: May 6, 1960

Born in Ireland, Roma Downey studied at the London Drama Studio and earned numerous Broadway and off-Broadway stage credits, including a U.S. tour with Dublin's Abbey Players. Though she is most well-known for playing Monica on the CBS dramatic series Touched By an Angel, Downey also played Jackie_Kennedy in the 1991 TV miniseries A_Woman_Named_Jackie. She also appeared in several highly sentimental made-for-TV movies like Borrowed Hearts and A Child Is Missing. In 1998, she played Annie_Sullivan to Moira_Kelly's Helen_Keller in Monday After the Miracle. Staying with emotive dramas, she next played Cassie Whitman in the U.K. television movies A Test of Love and A Secret Life. For her next few romantic comedies, she played opposite Tim_Matheson in Second Honeymoon and opposite George_Newbern in Sons of Mistletoe. Downey finally broke through to a leading role in a feature film with the family comedy Hairy_Tale. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

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