Tracy Nelson (actress)
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Tracy Kristine Nelson is an American
actress.
and actress/artist Kristin Nelson
(née Harmon). She has three younger siblings: Matthew Nelson
, Gunnar Nelson
of the '90s rock group Nelson
, and Sam Nelson. Her paternal grandparents are Ozzie
and Harriet Nelson
and her maternal grandparents are Tom Harmon
, a Heisman
winner from Michigan, and actress Elyse Knox
. She is also the niece of actors David Nelson
, Mark Harmon
, and Kelly Harmon.
's daughters in Yours, Mine and Ours
(1968) when she was five years old. In 1982 she played Jennifer DeNuccio on the television series Square Pegs
, and in 1984 she had a regular role in Aaron Spelling
's short-lived television series Glitter
.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s she made guest appearances on popular television series including Family Ties
, St. Elsewhere
, Murphy Brown
, the Australian series The Man from Snowy River
, Melrose Place, Will and Grace, and Seinfeld
. She was on Broadway as Rizzo in Grease
in 1995. She has also appeared in several movies including the #1 hit Down and Out in Beverly Hills
. She has starred in several Lifetime movies including The Perfect Nanny
in 2000, The Perfect Husband, Kate's Secret, The Fight for Jesse, and various others.
survivor, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease a month after her 1987 marriage to actor William R. Moses
, and one year after her father was killed in a plane crash. Nelson and Moses divorced in 1997 and share a daughter, Remington Elizabeth Moses, born in 1992. Tracy also has a son, Elijah Nelson Clark, born in 2001, with Chris Clark.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actress.
Early life
Tracy Nelson is a third generation performer; her parents were Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Ricky NelsonRicky Nelson
Eric Hilliard Nelson , better known as Ricky Nelson or Rick Nelson, was an American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and actor...
and actress/artist Kristin Nelson
Kristin Nelson
Kristin Nelson, also Kristin Nelson Tinker, is an American primitive painter, actor, and author. She was married to Rick Nelson.-Early life:...
(née Harmon). She has three younger siblings: Matthew Nelson
Matthew Nelson
Matthew Gray Nelson is an American singer-songwriter, musician and international multi-platinum recording artist. He is the son of actress Kristin Harmon and the late teen idol Ricky Nelson. Along with his twin brother Gunnar, he has been a member of Nelson since 1990. Their single, " Love and...
, Gunnar Nelson
Gunnar Nelson
Gunnar Eric Nelson is an American musician, singer, and songwriter and international multi-platinum recording artist.-Family:...
of the '90s rock group Nelson
Nelson (band)
NELSON is a American hard rock band founded by singer/songwriters Matthew and Gunnar Nelson . NELSON featuring the twin lead front men had a No. 1 hit in the United States with " Love and Affection" during the week of September 29, 1990...
, and Sam Nelson. Her paternal grandparents are Ozzie
Ozzie Nelson
Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson was an American entertainer and band leader who originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio and television series with his wife and two sons.-Early life:...
and Harriet Nelson
Harriet Nelson
Harriet Nelson was an American singer and actress. Nelson is best known for her role on the long-running sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.-Early life and career:...
and her maternal grandparents are Tom Harmon
Tom Harmon
Thomas Dudley Harmon was a star player in American college football, a sports broadcaster, and patriarch of a family of American actors...
, a Heisman
Heisman Trophy
The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , is awarded annually to the player deemed the most outstanding player in collegiate football. It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman The Heisman Memorial...
winner from Michigan, and actress Elyse Knox
Elyse Knox
-Early life:Born Elsie Lillian Kornbrath to Frederick and Elizabeth Kornbrath in Hartford, Connecticut, she studied at the Traphagen School of Fashion in Manhattan then embarked on a career in fashion design...
. She is also the niece of actors David Nelson
David Nelson (actor)
David Oswald Nelson was an American actor, director, producer. He was the elder son of bandleader/TV actor Ozzie Nelson and singer Harriet Hilliard and the older brother of singer Eric "Ricky" Nelson.-Career:...
, Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon is an American actor who has been starring in American television programs and films since the mid-1970s, after a career as a collegiate football player with the UCLA Bruins. Since 2003, Harmon has starred as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the CBS series NCIS.-Early life:Harmon was born Thomas...
, and Kelly Harmon.
Career
Nelson is perhaps best known for playing the role of Sister Stephanie ("Steve"), the sidekick of Father Dowling in the television series The Father Dowling Mysteries. She started her career early, playing one of Henry FondaHenry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...
's daughters in Yours, Mine and Ours
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)
For the remake of this film starring Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo see Yours, Mine and Ours Yours, Mine and Ours is a 1968 film, directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda and Van Johnson...
(1968) when she was five years old. In 1982 she played Jennifer DeNuccio on the television series Square Pegs
Square Pegs
Square Pegs is an American comedy series that aired on CBS during the 1982–1983 season. The series follows Patty Greene and Lauren Hutchinson , two awkward teenage girls desperate to fit in at Weemawee High School....
, and in 1984 she had a regular role in Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling was an American film and television producer. As of 2009, Spelling's eponymous production company Spelling Television holds the record as the most prolific television writer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits...
's short-lived television series Glitter
Glitter (TV series)
Glitter was an American television drama series screened on the ABC network during the 1984-1985 season.The series was produced by Aaron Spelling and was set behind the scenes of a top entertainment magazine titled "Glitter" and attempted to combine the urgency of journalism and business politics...
.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s she made guest appearances on popular television series including Family Ties
Family Ties
Family Ties is an American sitcom that aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. The sitcom reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. This was particularly expressed through the relationship between young...
, St. Elsewhere
St. Elsewhere
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at fictional St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood...
, Murphy Brown
Murphy Brown
Murphy Brown is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS from November 14, 1988, to May 18, 1998, for a total of 247 episodes. The program starred Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for FYI, a fictional CBS television...
, the Australian series The Man from Snowy River
The Man from Snowy River
The Man from Snowy River is an 1890 Australian poem by Banjo Paterson."The Man from Snowy River" may also refer to the following derived works:Film:* The Man from Snow River, a silent black & white film from 1920....
, Melrose Place, Will and Grace, and Seinfeld
Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...
. She was on Broadway as Rizzo in Grease
Grease (musical)
Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
in 1995. She has also appeared in several movies including the #1 hit Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a 1986 American comedy film based on the French play Boudu sauvé des eaux, which had previously been adapted on film in 1932 by Jean Renoir. Down and Out in Beverly Hills was directed by Paul Mazursky, and starred Nick Nolte, Bette Midler and Richard Dreyfuss...
. She has starred in several Lifetime movies including The Perfect Nanny
The Perfect Nanny
"The Perfect Nanny" is a song from Walt Disney's film Mary Poppins, and it is composed by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. This song is heard at the beginning of the film, and its theme is heard through the film as a leitmotif for the children. It is sung by the characters of Jane Banks ...
in 2000, The Perfect Husband, Kate's Secret, The Fight for Jesse, and various others.
Personal life
Tracy graduated in 1981 from the Westlake School for Girls. She briefly attended Bard College in upstate New York. A cancerCancer
Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
survivor, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease a month after her 1987 marriage to actor William R. Moses
William R. Moses
William Remington Moses is an American actor.-Early life:Moses was born in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of the late actress Marian McCargo and advertising executive Richard Cantrell Moses, Sr. who divorced in 1963. Marian remarried in 1970 to the late former Republican Congressman...
, and one year after her father was killed in a plane crash. Nelson and Moses divorced in 1997 and share a daughter, Remington Elizabeth Moses, born in 1992. Tracy also has a son, Elijah Nelson Clark, born in 2001, with Chris Clark.
Filmography
- Yours, Mine and OursYours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)For the remake of this film starring Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo see Yours, Mine and Ours Yours, Mine and Ours is a 1968 film, directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda and Van Johnson...
(1968) - Glitter (1984) (TV)
- Maria's Lovers (1984)
- Down and Out in Beverly HillsDown and Out in Beverly HillsDown and Out in Beverly Hills is a 1986 American comedy film based on the French play Boudu sauvé des eaux, which had previously been adapted on film in 1932 by Jean Renoir. Down and Out in Beverly Hills was directed by Paul Mazursky, and starred Nick Nolte, Bette Midler and Richard Dreyfuss...
(1986) - The Drug KnotThe Drug KnotThe Drug Knot is a 1986 CBS Schoolbreak Special, a cautionary tale about teenage drug dependency.-Plot summary:High-school student Doug Dawson has it all: a loving family , a terrific girlfriend, a rock band he plays in after school...and a drug habit...
(1986) (TV) - PleasuresPleasuresPleasures is a two hour American television film written by Jill Gordon and directed by Sharron Miller. Its cast includes Joanna Cassidy, Barry Bostwick, Linda Purl, Rick Moses and Tracy Nelson.-Plot Summary:...
(1986) (TV) - Kate's SecretKate's SecretKate's Secret is a 1986 television movie starring Meredith Baxter Birney, Ben Masters, Tracy Nelson, and Edward Asner, about a seemingly "perfect" suburban housewife and mother who is secretly suffering from bulimia nervosa...
(1986) (TV) - Tonight's the Night (1987) (TV)
- If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium (1987) (TV)
- Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1987) (TV)
- Highway Heartbreaker (1992) (TV)
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo (1992) (TV)
- No Child of Mine (1993) (TV)
- Ray Alexander: A Taste for Justice (1994) (TV)
- The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Mystery Cruise (1995) (Video)
- The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Sea World Adventure (1995) (Video)
- Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995) (TV)
- For HopeFor HopeFor Hope is a 1996 ABC TV movie starring Dana Delany and directed by Bob Saget. Based on Saget's sister Gay, the movie showed the experience of a young woman fatally afflicted with the disease scleroderma...
(1996) (TV) - Touched by Evil (1997) (TV)
- The Night CallerThe Night CallerThe Night Caller is a 1998 thriller film starring Shanna Reed and Tracy Nelson about a crazed woman who becomes obsessed with a radio talk-show personality.It was directed by Robert Malenfant...
(1998) - The Promise (1999) (TV)
- The Perfect Nanny (2000)
- Home the Horror Story (2000)
- Perfect GamePerfect Game (film)Perfect Game is a 2000 made-for-TV comedy-drama about an eleven year old boy who loves baseball and yearns to play on his local Little League team.It was produced for the Disney Channel, where it was first aired.-Plot:...
(2000) (Video) - The Perfect Tenant (2000)
- Dumb Luck (2001)
- Fangs (2001)
- Killer Bees! (2002) (TV)
- The Perfect Husband (2004) (TV)
- A Killer Upstairs (2005) (TV)
- Miracle at Sage Creek (2005)
- The Rival (2006) (TV)
- A Grandpa for ChristmasA Grandpa for ChristmasA Grandpa For Christmas is a 2007 Hallmark Channel original TV film starring Ernest Borgnine and Juliette Goglia.-Plot:Bert is a retired Hollywood actor who has been estranged from his only daughter Marie for many years...
(2007) (TV) - Polar Opposites (2008)
Television
- Square PegsSquare PegsSquare Pegs is an American comedy series that aired on CBS during the 1982–1983 season. The series follows Patty Greene and Lauren Hutchinson , two awkward teenage girls desperate to fit in at Weemawee High School....
(20 episodes, 1982–1983) - HotelHotel (TV series)Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty....
(1 episode, 1983) - GlitterGlitter (TV series)Glitter was an American television drama series screened on the ABC network during the 1984-1985 season.The series was produced by Aaron Spelling and was set behind the scenes of a top entertainment magazine titled "Glitter" and attempted to combine the urgency of journalism and business politics...
(1984) - St. ElsewhereSt. ElsewhereSt. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at fictional St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood...
(1 episode, 1984) - Family TiesFamily TiesFamily Ties is an American sitcom that aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. The sitcom reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. This was particularly expressed through the relationship between young...
(2 episodes, 1984–1985) - The Love BoatThe Love BoatThe Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24,1977, until May 24,1986.The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain...
(1 episode, 1985) - Comedy Factory (1 episode, 1986)
- The Drug KnotThe Drug KnotThe Drug Knot is a 1986 CBS Schoolbreak Special, a cautionary tale about teenage drug dependency.-Plot summary:High-school student Doug Dawson has it all: a loving family , a terrific girlfriend, a rock band he plays in after school...and a drug habit...
(1986) - Father Dowling MysteriesFather Dowling MysteriesFather Dowling Mysteries is an American television mystery series that appeared between November 30, 1987 and May 2, 1991. For its first season, the show was on NBC; it moved to ABC network for its last two seasons...
(43 episodes, 1987–1991) - A League of Their OwnA League of Their OwnA League of Their Own is a 1992 American comedy-drama film that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League . Directed by Penny Marshall, the film stars Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Tom Hanks, Madonna, and Rosie O'Donnell...
(2 episodes, 1993) - Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (4 episodes, 1994)
- [Matlock: The P. I. ] (TV series)| (1994) (TV)
- Burke's LawBurke's LawBurke's Law is a detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud...
(1 episode, 1994) - Melrose Place (4 episodes, 1994–1995)
- The NannyThe NannyNanny may refer to:* Nanny, a child's caregiver* A grandmother * A Cajun word for godmother * A female goat* Nanny , a 1981–83 British drama series starring Wendy Craig* Nanny of the Maroons...
(1 episode, 1995) - Touched by an AngelTouched by an AngelTouched by an Angel is an American drama series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994 and ran for 211 episodes and nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series stars Roma Downey, as an angel named Monica, and Della...
(1 episode, 1996) - Diagnosis: MurderDiagnosis: MurderDiagnosis: Murder is a mystery/medical/crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son, a homicide detective played by his real-life son Barry Van Dyke. The series began as a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman...
(1 episode, 1996) - SeinfeldSeinfeldSeinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...
(1 episodeThe Cartoon"The Cartoon" is the 169th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 13th episode for the 9th and final season. It aired on January 29, 1998....
, 1998) - 7th Heaven7th Heaven7th Heaven is an American family drama television series, created and produced by Brenda Hampton. The series premiered on August 26, 1996, on the WB, the first time that the network aired Monday night programming, and was originally broadcast from August 26, 1996 to May 13, 2007...
(1 episode, 2000)