Lauren Tewes

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name = Lauren Tewes
birthname = Cynthia Lauren Tewes
location = Braddock, Pennsylvania, U.S.
birthdate = birth date and age|1954|10|26
notable role = Julie McCoy on "The Love Boat"
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(Cynthia) Lauren Tewes (IPA2|twiːs, born in Braddock, Pennsylvania on October 26, 1954) is an American actress best known for playing Cruise Director Julie McCoy on the sitcom "The Love Boat".

Ms. Tewes attended Rio Hondo College in Whittier, California. She also studied at the University of California at Riverside, California where she won the 1st Annual Chancellor's Award for Excellence in the Theatre. She made her stage debut in "Arsenic and Old Lace" at the Pacific Conservatory Theatre in California. Other plays include "Born Yesterday" and "Crimes of the Heart" which were performed during the early 1980s.

In the early 1970s, she worked as a waitress in the infamous Continental Hyatt House coffee shop on the Sunset Strip.

In 2000-2001, she had a recurring role on "The Fugitive" as a police detective.

She currently lives in the Seattle area of Washington state, where she is still acting in regional theater and doing voice-over and self promotion work. Recent roles include Mrs. Pearce in "My Fair Lady" at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle in 2003, and Karen Noone in Craig Lucas's "Prayer for My Enemy" at the Intiman Theater in 2007. Tewes has also performed roles for Imagination Theater's various radio dramas.

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