Nancy Valen

Nancy Valen is an American actress and television producer from Brooklyn. She is best known for playing Melissa in The Heavenly Kid (1985) and Captain Samantha Thomas on Baywatch. Her first film part came in Porky's Revenge (1985), and she went on to appear opposite Patrick Dempsey in Loverboy (1989). Other film credits include Listen to Me, with Kirk Cameron, and Seven Sundays, opposite Molly Ringwald, directed by Jean-Charles Tacchella. On television, she played a school nurse named Jennifer in a 1990 episode of Saved by the Bell. That year brought a role in Hull High, an NBC musical series that had a brief run under director Kenny Ortega; TV Guide singled her out as a particularly watchable new television star. Her guest appearances include Friends, Miami Vice and Murder She Wrote. She and Craig J. Nevius formed Windmill Entertainment, which made programs including Chasing Farrah, Let's Kill Scott Baio and William Shatner in Concert.