It all started at the age of 3, when Nancy was signed with a modeling agency. That meant the McKeon family had to move from Queens to Manhattan so Nancy could pose for the Sears catalog and The New York Times. By the age of 10, she had been in dozens of commercials and a TV soap. In 1977, Phillip McKeon, 12 at the time, as casted as Linda Lavin’s son in the sitcom "Alice." The big time gig meant that the McKeon family had to move again, but this time, to California, where they lived in a small, one bedroom apartment. Nancy and Phillip alternated sleeping on the floor and on the couch. After a few years, Nancy landed a guest part on the classic ‘70’s detective show, "Starsky and Hutch" as a crying little sister of an abused boy. Her performance landed her a part on the sitcom, "The Facts of Life" -with Lisa Whelchel, Mindy Cohn, Kim Fields, and Charlotte Rae- as the tomboy with a heart of gold, Joanna "Jo" Polniaczek. It aired until 1988. Before "Facts" ended, she starred in "This Child is Mine" as an unwed mother and "High School USA". When "Facts" went off air, McKeon began starring and producing her own projects under her company, Forest Hills Entertainment (named after her childhood neighborhood). These included made-for-tv movies, "Strange Voices", "Firefighters" and the CBS sitcom, "Can’t Hurry Love". She also starred in, "Style and Substance" with Designing Women star, Jean Smart. Now, McKeon is playing the bad-ass, take no crap, Jinny Exstead, on Lifetime’s original series "The Division". Which is now ending it’s second season, as of August 2002. McKeon loves to spend time with her family, and do yoga, in her spare time.


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