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Ranked #47 in VH1's list of "100 Greatest Kid Stars," Tina Yothers was born on May 5, 1973, in Wittier, Calif. The green-eyed actress began doing commercials for McDonalds, Bell Telephones and Doritos at age three. Tina is most definitely known for her role as Jennifer Keaton in the hit 80s comedy "Family Ties." She later went on to have roles in the films "Shoot The Moon" and "Laker Girls." Then in April 2004, she landed the lead role in "Lovelace: The Musical," a stage show based on the life of former porn star Linda Lovelace. In 2006 she got a starring role on the VH1 reality show "Celebrity Fit Club." During her free time her hobbies are swimming and playing hockey.
Tina Yothers rose to child stardom as Jennifer, the second-oldest child of the Keaton family, on Gary David Goldberg's quintessential '80s sitcom Family Ties (opposite Michael J. Fox, Meredith Baxter-Birney, and others). An actress from age three, born into a showbusiness family, Yothers signed one of her first major parts in 1981, shortly before the seven-year Family Ties assignment, when Alan Parker and co. tapped her to play the daughter of Albert Finney and Diane Keaton in his gut-wrenching treatment of a contemporary divorce, Shoot the Moon (1982). Yothers' post-Ties career placed its strongest emphasis on telemovies, such as Laker Girls (1990) and A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester (1995), and she achieved a colorful bit of recognition by playing scandal queen Tonya Harding in the TV movie Spunk: The Tonya Harding Story (1993). Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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