Vanessa Marano

Vanessa Marano is an American actress who started acting professionally when she was seven. Her first major television parts were Jack Malone's older daughter on Without a Trace, Valerie's stepdaughter on The Comeback and April Nardini on Gilmore Girls, and she also worked in productions at the Stage Door Theater. On film she played Layne Abeley in The Clique (2008) and Samantha Combs in Dear Lemon Lima (2009). She appeared in an episode of Ghost Whisperer with Jennifer Love Hewitt, was Eden on The Young and the Restless as well as Hope on Scoundrels, and had recurring roles on shows including Malcolm in the Middle, Grey's Anatomy and Without a Trace. Her role as Bay Kennish on the ABC Family series Switched at Birth lasted from 2011 to 2017. She starred in Restless Virgins in 2013 and in Saving Zoë (2019).