brother, Philip McKeon, who is 18 months older and whom she appeared in over 60
commercials with over the years. Her middle name is Justine.
From her childhood home in Forest Hills, NY, Nancy McKeon began her career as a
catalogue model and actress on commercials and the now defunct soap opera The
Secret Storm.
When her brother Philip was cast to play Tommy on the series Alice, the McKeon clan
headed for the West Coast. Nancy soon shared her brother's success. She was cast in
hit shows like Starsky and Hutch, The Love Boat, Alice and, of course, The Facts of
Life. McKeon's amazing ability to cry on cue as Jo Polniaczek on The Facts of Life
won her the nickname her "Faucet Face" from her cast mates.
After The Facts of Life was cancelled, Nancy made several guest appearances on
television series and hosted Friday Night Videos opposite Michael Damian (whom she
dated). McKeon is now best known for an impressive list of made-for-TV movies.
Her most recent acting credit is an October 1999 episode of Touched by an Angel.
At one time, she dated Michael J. Fox and later Luc Robitaille - a NHL hockey player.
Lifetime is airing Intimate Portrait: Nancy McKeon on 1/5/01 at 7-8PM Eastern.
She will be starring in a new one hour drama on Lifetime called The Division
(originally called City Limits) on 1/7 at 9-10PM Eastern.
working together in the Central Station of the San Francisco Police Department.
Because of the diverse nature of SF, these women face an endless array of cases, from
inner city homicides to white collar crime in the Financial District.
Stars Bonnie Bedelia, Nancy McKeon, Lisa Vidal, Lela Rochon-Fuqua and Tracey
Needham. (Nancy's character is named Ginny Ecstead).
Nancy currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
From the Daily News on 10/25/00 - New Horizons: Nancy McKeon, who has spent most
of her life before the cameras, as tomboy Jo on "The Facts of Life," the star of CBS'
1995 "Can't Hurry Love," and dozens of TV movies, is now earning plaudits as a
director. Her "A Wakening," which she wrote and helmed, won both the Best First
Short Film and the Audience Award for Best Drama at Florida's Marco Island Film
Festival this month, honors she never expected it to receive.
"It's my very first attempt at directing," she says. "I financed it myself, and it never
would have been made except for the love and efforts of some remarkable people who
worked for free. We shot in my aunt's house in Queens, N.Y., and some of my relatives
worked as extras." Even her Beverly Hills hair stylist, the very hot Phil Ackerman,
flew to New York to do everyone's hair during production, paying his own expenses and
air fare. With the drama, about a young boy at the Irish wake of his grandfather, who
was his best friend, getting such attention, interest is already being generated in its
purchase."