25 Facts About Tracey Gold

Tracey Gold was born on May 16,1969 and is an American actress and former child star known for playing Carol Seaver on the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains.

Tracey Gold became an actress at the age of four, first appearing in a Pepsi print ad.

Tracey Gold appeared in two canceled series, Shirley with Shirley Jones in 1979, and Goodnight Beantown, starring Bill Bixby in 1983.

Tracey Gold played one of Albert Finney and Diane Keaton's four daughters in the feature film Shoot the Moon.

Tracey Gold guest starred on her sister Missy Tracey Gold's series Benson in 1985, playing the cousin of Missy's character, Katie Gatling.

In 1985, Tracey Gold auditioned for the role of Carol Seaver on Growing Pains, but was not initially cast.

In 1988, Tracey Gold starred as Angela Strull in the teen film Dance 'til Dawn.

In 2003, Tracey Gold appeared in an episode of the TV show The Dead Zone as the character Penny Barton.

Tracey Gold was a contestant on the program Celebrity Mole: Yucatan in 2004, and starred in the movie Safe Harbor in 2006.

Tracey Gold hosted the TV Guide Channel mini-show Trapped in TV Guide.

Tracey Gold appeared as the spokesperson in "Baby Sleeps Safe", a national television infomercial for Baby Guardian.

Tracey Gold starred in the first episode of Heartbreakers called "Shot Through The Heart" on ID on August 13,2014.

Tracey Gold competed on and won the twenty-fourth season of Worst Cooks in America, the show's seventh celebrity edition titled That's So 90s, airing in April and May 2022.

Tracey Gold stated that starting at about the age of seven, she thought about dieting, having learned the word and the concept on the many television production sets she worked on as a child actress.

Tracey Gold became preoccupied with the television movie The Best Little Girl in the World, starring actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, about an anorexic teenager.

In 1988 at age 19, Tracey Gold gained some weight over the Growing Pains series hiatus.

In 1990, Tracey Gold began group therapy in an eating disorder program, but only learned more ways to lose weight.

That season, her problem with weight loss was touched upon slightly on her television series, when Tracey Gold is seen looking at her body in a carnival mirror, and describes to another character the distorted image in her head.

Tracey Gold was suspended from the show for her skeletal appearance.

Tracey Gold last appeared in the 1991 episode, "Menage a Luke" after missing the two prior episodes where her problem is very obvious in some scenes, and did not return until the last two episodes of the series in the late spring of 1992, although she was not nearly recovered at this point.

Tracey Gold met her husband Roby Marshall through Growing Pains co-star Joanna Kerns.

In 2003, Tracey Gold wrote the book Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life with Julie McCarron, about Tracey Gold's struggle with and eventual recovery from anorexia.

In 2004, Tracey Gold was arrested for drunk driving after rolling her SUV down a California freeway embankment.

Tracey Gold was arrested by California Highway Patrol officers and charged with a felony count of driving under the influence causing injury.

Tracey Gold eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one month work release, 240 hours of community service, and 3 years of probation.