Intimate Portrait

Nancy McKeon (11x11)

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Nancy McKeon got a very early start in show business (she was a child model for years before she played Jo on ""The Facts of Life""), but has endured as a talented actress with a knack for portraying flawed women battling their personal demons. One of the stars of Lifetime's new cop show with a heart, ""The Division,"" McKeon is also a gifted writer, producer, director and, most importantly, friend. At the ripe old age of three, she was signed with a modeling agency. The precocious little girl and her mother would shuttle from the family's suburban home in Queens to glitzy Manhattan, so that she could strike adorable poses for the Sears catalog and The New York Times. As McKeon grew, so did her resume. By age 10, she had appeared in dozens of commercials and a TV soap. But she owes her big break to her beloved big brother, Philip. In 1977, Philip McKeon, then 12, was cast as Linda Lavin's son on the TV sitcom ""Alice."" The big-time gig meant the entire McKeon clan had to uproot itself and m