Justine Bateman

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Justine Bateman (born February 19, 1966, in Rye, New York) is an American actress, born to Kent (a film producer) and Victoria (a Maltese-English flight attendant) Bateman.

She attended Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California, and graduated in 1984.

She played the role of superficial Mallory Keaton on the television sitcom Family Ties from 1982 to 1989. Mallory was presented as a vacuous airhead, which was fodder for jokes and teasing from her brother Alex. However, one episode revealed that her IQ was actually higher than Alex.

She made a brief comeback in the 1996-97 NBC sitcom version of the British TV comedy Men Behaving Badly with Rob Schneider and Ron Eldard.

Bateman hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in 1988. The same year, she starred in the lead role of Satisfaction, a film about an all-girl band that also starred Julia Roberts and Liam Neeson. Bateman starred as the lead vocalist and also performed the vocals on the soundtrack.

She appeared in several made-for-TV movies and most recently in the Showtime series Out of Order, which included her only known nude scene.

She is the older sister of Arrested Development star Jason Bateman. In "Family Ties," a third-season Arrested Development episode, her character is initially believed to be Jason's character's sister, but she turns out to be a prostitute taken advantage of by his father and pimped by his brother.

Bateman revealed to TV Guide in its Nov. 9, 1996, issue that she had struggled with anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating while making Family Ties. "[I would make rules like] I can have one more cookie if I go throw it all up later," she said. "Or I can have this now if I skip lunch later."

She is married to Mark Fluent and has two children, Duke and Gianetta. She also runs her own fashion design company.