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Andrea Thompson was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1960. She has three siblings, and was raised in a strict Catholic household. At the age of seven, she moved to Australia with her family. After graduating from high school, Andrea traveled the world for five years, before moving to New York to study acting. She then went to Hollywood and eventually got her first small parts in Manhattan Gigolo and Nightmare Weekend (both 1986).

In December, 1998, Italian designer Gianluigi Assenato was sentenced
to two years in prison, followed by deportation, for stalking her.

Left Hollywood and a role on <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0106079/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">NYPD Blue (1993)</a> to become a newsreader on CNN&#39;s <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0256555/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Headline News (1982)</a>.

Son, Al, with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0236381/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Jerry Doyle</a>

KRQE was her first TV station assignment in Albuquerque, NM.

Son, Alec, born. Father unidentified. (1992)

Hosting a Saturday night line-up on CourtTV. (October 2002)

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