Kellie Martin
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Kellie Noelle Martin (born October 16, 1975) is an American actress.
A native of Riverside, California, Martin loved to perform for her close-knit family. She began her acting career at age seven, when her aunt Rhonda, a nanny for actor Michael Landon's children, helped Martin land a guest spot on the Landon produced series Father Murphy.
Among many roles in motion pictures, made-for-TV movies and television series, she is perhaps most famous for her role as Rebecca "Becca" Thatcher on the drama Life Goes On, which ran on ABC (1989–93), and for her role as med student Lucy Knight on the NBC drama ER (1998–2000).
In 1994, she starred in her own series, acting alongside Tyne Daly in the CBS period drama Christy.
In 1995, she starred in The Face on the Milk Carton, a TV film based on the book by Caroline Cooney about a teenager who finds out she was kidnapped from her real family 13 years prior and had been raised by the parents of her kidnapper.
In 1997, she starred in the short-lived (only six episodes) NBC drama Crisis Center.
In 2002, Lifetime started a television series, Fiona, based on Warren Adler's The Fiona FitzGerald Mysteries as a starring vehicle for Martin, but it was never aired.
In 2003, Martin starred in Mystery Woman, a Hallmark Channel movie about a book store owner being involved in actual crimes. It proved a popular vehicle for Martin; since 2005 she has gone on to make nine more Mystery Woman movies for Hallmark, two of which she directed.
Trivia
- Martin's sister Heather lost her life to lupus erythematosus at age 19.
- Martin graduated from Yale University in 2001 with a degree in art history. She was a member of Saybrook College.
- Martin married Keith Christian in 1999 in his hometown of Polson, Montana. The couple are expecting their first child in October 2006.
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