  cady mcclain (born katie jo mcclain on october 13, 1969) "cady, married lady." soap opera digest. p. 45. may 26, 2014 (vol. 39, no. 21). is an american actress, singer, and author. ==early career== mcclain's professional acting career began in 1978 at the age of 9, when she was featured in a commercial for band-aid bandages. she went on to appear in over thirty commercials for products including mcdonald's, amtrak, kenner's "strawberry shortcake" dolls, burger king, mattel, barbie, maybelline, shout detergent, pillsbury pop 'n fresh rolls, apple kool aid, prell, texaco and mccain's chicken. among her notable early tv credits was a recurring role on st. elsewhere, and an appearance on cheers, when she was 16 years old, as coach's niece joyce.grandjean, pat, "first people" column, item titled "cady mcclain", connecticut magazine, november 2006, page 17. other tv credits were as virginia in emmy award winning tv movie who will love my children, opposite ann-margret, robert kennedy and his times, as young pat kennedy (with river phoenix and chad lowe), the abc after school special just a regular kid: an aids story (with christian hoff and dana ashbrook), danny thomas' one big family (with michael deluise), spenser for hire, (with robert urich and ron lclarty), lou grant, (with ed asner) the tv movie home fires (with guy boyd and juliette lewis) and the michael mckean tv movie, town and gown. ===film=== her first film was in 1982 starring opposite peter o'toole in my favorite year as tess, his daughter. she then appeared as a dancer in the herb ross film, pennies from heaven starring steve martin and bernadette peters. mcclain later appeared in the independent films simple just
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