In , she was discovered by a casting director for The Facts of Life on the basis of her performance in a Hallmark advertisement, in which she was able to cry on cue. While she was working on The Facts of Life , McKeon attended school on-set with tutors, having attended Catholic school prior to that.
In an interview with Tom Snyder in , she joked that she "was given detention a few times" for not adhering to the strict rules of school, which included not wearing her favorite patent leather shoes. In , she starred in her own series, Can't Hurry Love , which lasted one season. McKeon portrayed Inspector Jinny Exstead on the Lifetime police drama The Division from to , with her pregnancy incorporated into the storyline of the last year of the series.
In Strange Voices , she portrayed a woman with schizophrenia. She produced many of these movies through her film company, Forest Hills Entertainment named after her childhood neighborhood, Forest Hills. In , she wrote and directed her own short film, A Wakening. She explained on the TV show Biography that directing had always been a personal ambition, so she wrote the movie in order to direct. The film won two film festival awards. In , McKeon starred in the film Comfort and Joy. McKeon has narrated several audiobooks.
The movie includes other cast members from the show. McKeon was supposed to have a larger role in the movie, but was unable to film more due to a family emergency. He has that in life.
McKeon dated actor Michael J. Fox for three years after they met on the set of High School U. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item.
