Tracey Gold
Biography
Tracey Gold is an American actress who started working young, making her first appearance in a Pepsi print ad when she was four. Born in New York City, she went on to parts in two series that were soon canceled, Shirley and Goodnight, Beantown, and played one of four daughters in the film Shoot the Moon (1982). She is best known for playing Carol Seaver in the sitcom Growing Pains, a role she took over after the actress cast in the pilot was replaced, and she stayed with the show from 1985 to 1992. She later reprised the part in two Growing Pains television movies in 2000 and 2004, and appeared in many small-screen films, among them For the Love of Nancy (1994), Lady Killer (1995), Face of Evil (1996) and Safe Harbor (2006). Her later credits include The Dead Zone, the reality competition Celebrity Mole: Yucatán, and hosting The Secret Life of a Soccer Mom.
57years old
Turns 58 on May 16in 187 days
- Born New York City
- Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20
- Tracey Claire Fisher (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 32 years1980 to 2012
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A role that slipped away
Gold auditioned for Carol Seaver on Growing Pains in 1985 but lost the part to Elizabeth Ward, her co-star in the 1983 ABC Afterschool Special The Hand-Me-Down Kid; test audiences disliked Ward, so Gold took over the role.
First role
Gold became an actress when she was four years old, and her first appearance was in a print ad for Pepsi.
A first
Gold competed on Worst Cooks in America and won its twenty fourth season, the seventh celebrity edition, titled That's So 90s, which aired in April and May 2022.
Tracey Gold movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Tracey Gold shares two films with Catherine Hicks, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Catherine Hicks's page
Dean Cain's page
Ernie Hudson's page
William Forsythe's page
David Lewis's page
Diane Keaton's page
All films by Alan Parker
All films by Griff Furst
Michael FeiferDirector, 1 film, 2011
All films by Michael Feifer
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Official profiles and reference pages.