12 Facts About Bree Walker

Bree Walker was born on Patricia Lynn Nelson; February 26,1953 and is an American radio talk show host, actress, and disability-rights activist.

Bree Walker gained fame as the first on-air American television network news anchor with ectrodactyly.

Bree Walker was born in Oakland, California, and raised in Austin, Minnesota.

Bree Walker inherited ectrodactyly, a rare genetic condition which causes missing digits and syndactyly, which causes fused digits.

Bree Walker started her television career in 1980 at KGTV in San Diego as a consumer advocacy reporter.

Bree Walker guest-starred on an episode of the PBS children's series, Reading Rainbow, to talk about her disability.

Bree Walker requested, created, auditioned and won the role of Sabina the Scorpion Lady.

Bree Walker showcased her webbed hands as the series probed public attitudes toward persons with highly visible disabilities.

Bree Walker is in the film as an expert, speaking at a media reform conference.

In June 2007, it was announced that Bree Walker had purchased Cindy Sheehan's 5-acre "Camp Casey" site in Crawford, Texas for $87,000, in response to Sheehan's May 26,2007 announcement that she would be selling the property and ending her antiwar activities.

Bree Walker has a daughter named Andrea Layne Walker was born on August 12,1988 and with her second husband, independent film and video producer Robert Walker, and a son named Aaron James Lampley with her third husband, news anchor and sportscaster Jim Lampley.

Bree Walker was nominated and inducted into the San Diego Women's Hall of Fame in 2010 a collaboration between Women's Museum of California, Commission on the Status of Women, University of California, San Diego Women's Center, and San Diego State University Women's Studies.