1. Lauren Tewes played Julie McCoy on the television anthology series The Love Boat, which originally aired on ABC from 1977 to 1986.
15 Facts About Lauren Tewes
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Lauren Tewes attended Ada S Nelson Elementary School and Pioneer High School, where she studied drama, winning Best Actress award for three years.
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Lauren Tewes enrolled on an Associate of Arts degree at Rio Hondo College, deciding to major in theatre arts.
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In 1973, when her scholarship expired, Lauren Tewes withdrew from college and joined the Pacific Conservatory Theatre in Santa Maria, California, as an apprentice, making her stage debut in Arsenic and Old Lace and The Most Happy Fella before becoming a member of the Birdcage Theatre Company at Knott's Berry Farm, an amusement complex outside Los Angeles.
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Lauren Tewes was cast for the role of cruise director Julie McCoy on The Love Boat, selected from more than 100 actresses who auditioned.
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Lauren Tewes starred in the third and final pilot of the show, cast the day before production began on the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach.
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In parallel, Lauren Tewes appeared in 1979 TV film Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders alongside Jane Seymour and made her film debut in the 1981 film Eyes of a Stranger, which co-starred a young Jennifer Jason Leigh.
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In 1984, after seven seasons on The Love Boat, Lauren Tewes was replaced after a highly public battle with cocaine addiction, which she eventually overcame.
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Lauren Tewes was cast in a 1985 CBS sitcom pilot Anything for Love.
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Lauren Tewes went on to star in classic 1980s TV series My Two Dads, The New Mike Hammer, Murder, Lauren Tewes Wrote, T J Hooker and Hunter.
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In 1994, Lauren Tewes moved to Seattle and focused on regional theatre acting and directing across the country.
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Lauren Tewes plays Maxine Murdoch in the Imagination Theatre comedy-mystery radio series Murder and the Murdochs, which debuted in 2020.
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Lauren Tewes has played roles in episodes of other radio series on Imagination Theatre.
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Lauren Tewes attended culinary school to become a cheese specialist and works as a sous-chef for a catering company in Seattle when not acting.
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Lauren Tewes has been married three times: first to John Wassel, a TV commercials director; then to Paolo Nonnis, an Italian drummer; and, lastly, to stage actor Robert Nadir.