Liz Sagal
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| Born | Elizabeth Ann Sagal October 9, 1967 Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
Liz Sagal (born October 9, 1967) is an American television actress and writer best known for her role on Double Trouble.
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[edit] Biography
Liz Sagal's mother, Sara Zwilling, was one of the first female producers in Hollywood, and a former beauty queen who died of heart disease when Liz was just 11 years old. Her father was director Boris Sagal, who was killed in a 1981 helicopter accident. Sagal and her twin sister Jean, are the younger sisters of actress and singer Katey Sagal. They also have two older brothers; actor Joey Sagal, and David, an attorney currently working for Warner Bros..
Sagal went to high school in Santa Monica while her sister Jean attended Pacific Palisades High School (Their parents felt the girls should have their own identities as much as possible). The girls started dancing professionally at the age of 17. Their first break came in 1982 when they were cast as the bubbly twin cheerleaders in Grease 2. The girls were cast separately for the roles -- Liz in Los Angeles, Jean in New York City. It wasn't until shooting was set to begin that director Patricia Birch realized she had real-life twins in her cast that the parts were altered.
[edit] Double Trouble
Liz and her sister Jean are best remembered for their own short-lived TV sitcom Double Trouble, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1985. The girls played twin sisters Kate and Allison Foster. With a plot similar to The Patty Duke Show of the 1960s the girls were given opposite personalities: Liz played Allison, the studious one, while Jean played Kate, the mischievous one. Initially, the girls were cast in the roles that most reflected their real life personalities: Jean as the quieter sister, Liz as the more outspoken one. In another twist, before the series went into production, producer Norman Lear who was visiting the set, suggested switching their roles, feeling this would lend an edge to the girls' acting. This seemed to work as both girls later admitted in interviews that they deliberately added personality "quirks" from the other sister to their parts, in effect "mocking" their-real life twin.
[edit] Later career
After their series was canceled, the girls pursued mostly separate acting careers. Liz appeared in films such as Howard the Duck, Flashdance, The Big One and the straight-to-video movie Skinheads. Liz could also be seen throughout the late '80s and '90s in several TV commercials promoting such items as life insurance, headache medicine, cars and dishwashers. The twins reuited in 1992 to guest star in the TV series Picket Fences.
As of 2005, Sagal was a script supervisor on the WB series Charmed. She has also written for such popular shows as Mad About You and has worked as a story editor on the ABC sitcom Two Guys and a Girl.
[edit] Personal life
In 2001, Liz Sagal married a hair and make-up artist.
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| NAME | Sagal, Liz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sagal, Elizabeth Ann |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Actress, writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Monica, California |
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