Jo Polniaczek
played by Nancy McKeon
JO QUOTE:
My father told me there are two types of people. People who get shoved and people who do the shoven. He said, Jo, I want you to do the shoven.
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FACTS ABOUT THE CHARACTER JOANNA MARIE POLNIACZEK
A streetwise kid from the Bronx who joins the Eastland family in the show's second season, Jo is brash and headstrong. Don't be fooled, though. Her tough exterior hides a first-class intellect and a soft heart. Jo, often the voice of reason in a crisis, learns to navigate the privileged world of a private girls' school without losing her street smarts. Rich kid Blair is a favorite target for Jo's sarcasm, but if anybody else picks on Blair, Jo will likely rush to her defense. Her parents, Charlie and Rose were divorsed. In 1985, Edna got married, Jo caught the boughet. In 1987 she was the first of the girls to get married. She married character Rick Bonner. In 2001, we find out Jo is a cop, and is still married to Rick with is a song producer. They both have a daughter named Jamie.
FACTS ABOUT ACTRESS NANCY McKEON
Nancy McKeon was born in Westbury, New York April 4, 1966. She has only one brother, Philip McKeon, who is 18 months older. She currently resides in Los Angeles. Phillip and Nancy have appeared in over 60 commercials together. From her childhood home in Forest Hills, NY, Nancy McKeon began her career as a catalogue model and actress on commercials and the now defunct soap opera The Secret Storm.
When her brother Philip was cast to play Tommy on the series Alice, the McKeon clan headed for the West Coast. Discovered by a casting director while she was appearing in a Hallmark ad, McKeon -- the younger sis of 'Alice' star Philip McKeon -- joined 'Facts' at the beginning of season 2, playing tough, smart, motorcycle-ridin' tomboy Jo, who butted heads with preppie snob Blair. Her 'Facts' fame even landed her a private audience with the Pope.
She was the only main cast member not to appear in the Facts of Life Reunion Movie. In August of 2003 Nancy Mckeon was married to producer Marc Andrus.
NANCY McKEON FILMOGRAPHY - 5 most recent
"Without a Trace" as Gail Sweeney (1 episode, 2007)
Wild Hearts (2006) (TV) as Emily
Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004) (TV) as Amy Harkin
"Comfort and Joy" (2003) as Jane
"Division, The" (2001) as Inspector Jinny Exstead
WHERE IS SHE TODAY?
After The Facts of Life was cancelled, McKeon made many TV movies and also starred in two failed TV series: 'Can't Hurry Love' (with a pre-'Law & Order: SVU' Mariska Hargitay) and 'Style & Substance,' with Jean Smart. Most recently she starred in the Lifetime cop drama 'The Division,' became a wife and mother of two and guest-starred on 'Without a Trace.'
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