Tracey Gold
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Tracey Gold (born Tracey Claire Fisher on May 16, 1969 in New York City) is an American actress, best known for playing Carol Seaver on the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains. Her sister is the actress Missy Gold, who appeared on Benson. Her stage name "Gold" comes from her stepfather Harry Gold (né Goldstein). Her sister Missy also shares the birth name Fisher.
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[edit] Battle with anorexia
Gold is also famous for her highly publicized battle with anorexia nervosa, which almost killed her. She had suffered eating disorders earlier in her youth, and the trauma from her past experiences came back when Carol was made fun of on the show by her brothers for being "too fat." In 1991, she started starving herself and lost a massive amount of weight that year, to the point that she was admitted to a hospital in early 1992. She was written out of the show for most of the final season. Gold eventually recovered, and starred in the 1994 TV movie For the Love of Nancy with Jill Clayburgh. The film explored a young woman's battle with anorexia and its effects on her family.
[edit] Personal life and post-Growing Pains
Gold met her husband Roby Marshall through Growing Pains costar Joanna Kerns, who portrayed Marshall's mother in the TV miniseries adaptation of the true crime book Blind Faith by Joe McGinniss. Roby had served as a consultant on the miniseries, which dramatized the 1984 case in which his father, Toms River, New Jersey businessman Robert O. Marshall, was charged with (and later convicted of) the contract killing of his wife (and Roby's mother) Maria.[1]
Gold and Marshall married in 1994, and have three sons: Sage (b. February 1997), Bailey (b. March 1999) and Aiden Michael (b. May 2004).
In 2003, Gold wrote the book Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life with Julie McCarron.
[edit] DUI arrest
Gold was arrested for driving under the influence after a car accident on September 3, 2004. Her husband and two of her three children were injured, one with a broken clavicle and a head laceration, but her newborn infant was not hurt. She posted $50,000 bail the following day. Gold originally pleaded not guilty to the charges, but later changed her plea to guilty and was sentenced to one month in a work release program, 240 hours of community service, and three years' probation.
Gold made an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, explaining her side of the story and what happened on what she proclaims was "the worst night of her life."
[edit] Present day
Gold was a contestant on the program Celebrity Mole 2: Yucatan in 2004, and starred in the movie Safe Harbor in 2006. She is currently hosting the TVGUIDE Channel mini-show Trapped in TV Guide.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Gold's father-in-law spent nearly 22 years on death row in New Jersey before his death sentence was overturned in May 2006. In August 2006, he was resentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 2014.
[edit] External links
- Tracey Gold at the Internet Movie Database
- Tracey Gold at TV.com
- Tracey Gold at the Notable Names Database
