Dana Barron

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Dana Barron (born April 22, 1968 in New York City, New York, USA) is an American actress who has starred in film and on television. She is well known for her role as Audrey Griswold in the 1983 hit comedy classic National Lampoon's Vacation and in the 1987 action film Death Wish 4: The Crackdown.

Dana appeared on the soap opera One Life to Live from 1984-1985 as Michelle Boudin. She starred in the 1998 TV series The Magnificent Seven as Casey, and she had a recurring roll as Nikki Witt on the Fox Broadcasting Company hit series Beverly Hills, 90210.

Dana has made guest appearances on TV shows including The Equalizer, In the Heat of the Night, Murder, She Wrote, and Babylon 5 as a telepath named Lauren Ashley in the Season 5 episode "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father".

Dana Barron's father is the award-winning 'commercial' director who started the first commercial and soap opera acting for television school in the world: Weist-Barron School of Television. Her mother is stage actress Joyce McCord and her sister is Allison Barron, who is also an actress.

Dana is the only surviving member of the "Three Dana's" that were prominent in American acting in the early 1980s as both Dana Hill and Dana Plato have passed away.