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Ally Walker

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Raised in New Mexico, Ally Walker majored in biology and chemistry at the University of California in Santa Cruz. While spending a semester at Richmond College of the Arts in London, Ally became interested in the theater. After graduating with her degree in science, Ally worked on a genetic engineering project until a producer saw her in an L.A. restaurant and cast her in a movie. Television provided employment in the early days of her career with parts in the soap opera "Santa Barbara" (1984) and series "True Blue" (1989), in which she played a cop. In the television series "Moon Over Miami" (1993), Ally moved to private eye. In the television series "Profiler" (1996), she is again working with the cops, but clandestinely as a forensic psychologist. Ally has appeared in a number of big-screen films in the '90s, but she is best remembered as the yuppie girlfriend of Peter Gallagher in the movie While You Were Sleeping (1995).

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Raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Has a son, Jon Walker Landgraf, born August 7, 1997, weighing 7 lbs. 7 oz.

In 1989 she was Clairol's "Nice & Easy Girl".

Listed as one of People magazine's 40 most fascinating people on TV (1997).

Measurements: 33-24-34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).

Her mother was an attorney and her father a scientist. When Ally moved to California, she attended UC Santa Cruz with the original goal of becoming a physicist, following in her father's footsteps.

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I loved my soap days. I really loved them. A Martinez and Marcy Walker taught me how to act, basically. All those people pulled together and helped get me started. Like, showed me how to hit my mark, made me do this, made me do that. That was my first long-running professional gig. And it was like, they were just -- great, great with me.

I'm probably going to go more the feature film route for a while, just so I have more time on my hands. If I did go back to television, I'd do a comedy, a half hour. Or I'd go back on an hour long if it was ensemble, if I had a smaller role, if I could work less days. Being a main character and carrying an hour and being pregnant and having a new baby and a new marriage was like -- I'm tired. I've got to be honest with you, I'm really tired.

Well, I worked with Cameron Crowe, and I'd love to work with him again. Jim Brooks has always been really cool to me, I wrote a script he wanted to do, and those are my two favorite directors so far. There are a lot of good people, though -- I love Mark Ilsey, who I just worked with on Happy, Texas, and I'd work with him and Ed Dunagan in a heartbeat. There's a woman who did Forces of Nature, who I think is brilliant. She's from Toronto, and I'd love to work with her. I think she's really talented. I'd love to work with her.

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