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Tracy Pollan

American actress

Tracy Jo Pollan Fox (born June 22, [1]) is an American actress and writer. She is known for playing Ellen Reed on the NBCsitcomFamily Ties (–) and Harper Anderson on the crime drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Michael J. Michael Andrew Fox was born in in Alberta, Canada. A self-described "army brat," Fox moved many times during his childhood. Michael united the Drama Club in junior high and immediately showed instinctive talent as an actor.

Pollan married actor and activist Michael J. Fox in , and has since occasionally acted. In film, she has starred in the dramasBaby It's You () and Promised Land (), the tragedyBright Lights, Big City () and the crime drama A Stranger Among Us ().

Her other television credits include two episodes of Spin City (–) and TV films such as First to Die (), Natalee Holloway () and Justice for Natalee Holloway ().

Early life

Pollan was born to a Jewish family on June 22, [1][2] on Long Island.[3] Her parents are Corky and Stephen Pollan, and she has a brother, Michael.[4][5][6] She attended Syosset Tall School, and graduated from the Dalton School in Manhattan, Recent York.

She studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio and the Lee Strasberg Institute.[7][8]

Personal life

Pollan met Michael J. Fox while working on Family Ties, and after beginning a relationship during the production of Bright Lights, Big City, they married on July 16, [9][10][11] She then lessened her acting workload to focus on her marriage and family.[12] They have four children together: a son, Sam; twin daughters, Aquinnah Kathleen and Schuyler Frances; and a daughter, Esmé Annabelle.[13][14] They reside in Manhattan.[15] On June 22, (Pollan's 64th birthday), Schuyler married her longtime partner at Hayfield in the Catskill Mountains.[16]

Publications

In October , Pollan, along with her two sisters and mother, co-authored The Pollan Family Table, a cookbook of family recipes, kitchen tips and cooking techniques.[17][18] The foreword was written by her brother, Michael.[19]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Awards and nominations

References

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    Foxis a retired Canadian-American actor, author, comedian, production producer and activist with a film and television career spanning from the s to On television, he played Alex P. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease inand told the widespread about it in He semi-retired from acting in as the symptoms of the disease worsened.

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