Trivia: Built her foundation in theater by taking parts in plays, musicals, acting classes and training camps while attending Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts. Acted for the stage in productions of Steel Magnolias, The Importance of Being Earnest and George the Fourth. First credited television role was Specialist Tanya Gabriel in the Lifetime drama series Army Wives. Landed the lead role of Elizabeth Thatcher in drama series When Calls the Heart which began airing on The Hallmark Channel in 2014. Has made guest appearances on NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles and Castle.

Trivia: After abandoning plans to be either a minister or a doctor, Canadian-born singer/actor Alan Thicke turned to sports writing, then typed out comedy material for the CBC television network. He moved to Hollywood, where he became a writer and sometime performer on the syndicated Norman Lear series Fernwood 2-Night. He returned to Canada in 1980 to replace talk host Alan Hamel on a popular daytime chatfest. He was successful enough in this endeavor to be invited by onetime network executive Fred Silverman to star in Silverman's first non-network effort, a nighttime variety show titled Thicke of the Night (1983). Despite an enormous publicity buildup, the show was a disaster, for which Thicke adopted a "mea culpa" stance. Also during this period, his marriage to singer/actress Gloria Loring broke up; thus Thicke felt himself a failure on all counts. He has credited his comeback to producer Ilene Berg, who cast Thicke in the 1984 TV movie The Calendar Girl Murders, which proved to skeptics that the man had talent as a straight actor. In 1985, Thicke originated the role of psychiatrist Jason Seaver in Growing Pains, a popular ABC sitcom which ran until 1994. The following year, Thicke showed up as a preening, bombastic talk show host (could this have been an act of attrition for Thicke of the Night?) on the NBC comedy series Hope and Gloria. Additionally, Thicke has hosted the children's series Animal Crack-Ups (1987-1990), and has composed the theme songs for several other TV series, notably The Facts of Life. Although he worked steadily in a variety of less than noteworthy projects, he did score a cameo as himself in the satire Teddy Bears' Picnic, and landed supporting roles in the comedies The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, and the 2012 Adam Sandler laugher That's My Boy.Alan Thicke's son is actor Brennan Thicke, best known for providing the voice of the TV cartoon character Dennis the Menace, and his other son, Robin Thicke, followed his father's musical interests and became a pop star. Thicke died in 2016, at age 69.

Trivia: Grew up in an artistic family, her grandparents performed with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Circus, and her mother was a ballet teacher and choreographer.Performed ballet with the Joliet Ballet Society, which her mother co-founded, and the Indianapolis Ballet Theatre.Studied piano and voice.At age 19, traveled nationally as a cast member of a production of Evita.At age 21, decided to settle in New York City.In 1999, decided to move to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, after working in the Los Angeles Company of Ragtime.