Claim: Melora Hardin is an American actress and singer who starred as Baby in the short-lived 1988 television series Footloose.and started her acting career as the young star of the television series Thunder from 1977 to 1978.
Evidence: She starred as Baby in the short-lived 1988 television series Dirty Dancing (based on the 1987 film of the same name) and two 1992 episodes of Quantum Leap (as Abigail in "Trilogy", Parts 2 and 3).