Tracey Gold Biography
Born: May 16, 1969
Inextricably associated with the 1980s for her memorable, seven-season portrayal of bookish teen Carol Seaver on the family-oriented sitcom Growing_Pains (1985-1992), actress Tracey Gold grew up in a show-business family. The older sister of Missy_Gold (Benson), Brandy_Gold (Wildcats), and Jessie_Gold (A Crime of Passion), Tracey signed for her first part at the age of seven in the miniseries Captains and the Kings. Major projects during the early '80s included a key supporting role in Alan_Parker's critically acclaimed, divorce-themed psychodrama Shoot the Moon (1982, as one of the central couple's daughters) and a stint on the short-lived sitcom Goodnight,_Beantown as the daughter of single working mom Mariette_Hartley.
Growing_Pains, of course, represented Gold's major career break. She experienced difficulty around the end of the program by enduring and surviving a well-publicized bout with anorexia nervosa. After the sitcom wrapped, Gold began tackling parts in occasional telemovies that would come to shape and define her career in the years to follow. These included For the Love of Nancy (1994, which dramatized the story of a girl suffering from anorexia), Lady_Killer (1995), Dirty_Little_Secret (1998), and Wildfire_7:_The_Inferno (2002). Gold made television headlines in 2004 when cast in the fourth season of the reality series The_Mole, which featured celebrity participants. Nathan Southern, Rovi
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