Andrea Elson (born March 6, 1969 in New York City, New York) is an American actress. She is best known playing the role of Lynn Tanner on ALF. She had also previously played in the 1983 show Whiz Kids with Matthew Laborteaux of Little House on the Prairie where she played the character Alice Tyler.
Her first television role was as Alice Tyler on the hit series Simon & Simon. She then revisited the role for three episodes on the short lived series...
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Andrea Elson (born March 6, 1969 in New York City, New York) is an American actress. She is best known playing the role of Lynn Tanner on ALF. She had also previously played in the 1983 show Whiz Kids with Matthew Laborteaux of Little House on the Prairie where she played the character Alice Tyler.
Her first television role was as Alice Tyler on the hit series Simon & Simon. She then revisited the role for three episodes on the short lived series Whiz Kids. This led to numerous guest appearances on popular shows such as Silver Spoons with teen heart throb Rick Schroder. She then got her big break, landing the role of Lynn Tanner on the hit show ALF.
Elson married TV producer Scott Hopper (whom she met while working on the ALF sitcom) in 1993 at the age of 24, and gave birth to daughter Claire in 1997. Elson suffered from bulimia during the second and fourth seasons of ALF. "I was this skinny little twig when I started, and then I started to get breasts, hips, and full lips and I didn...
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