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Maureen Flannigan

Maureen Flannigan

Acting

Biography

Maureen Flannigan (born December 30, 1973) is an American documentary filmmaker and former child actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as teenager Evie Ethel Garland on the fantasy sitcom Out of This World, which ran from 1987 to 1991. Flannigan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the USC School of Theater. She appeared in productions of Macbeth, The Crucible and William Saroyan'sThe Cave Dwellers. Flannigan made her television debut in a guest starring role in an episode of Highway to Heaven. Two years later, in 1987, Flannigan landed the role of Evie Garland in the first-run syndication children's comedy series Out of This World, starring with Donna Pescow and Joe Alaskey. She stayed with the show until its cancellation in 1991. Flannigan had a recurring role on The WB's 7th Heaven as Shana Sullivan, the girlfriend of Matt Camden. She was in the ABC soap opera Push, playing swimmer Erin Galway. She has also appeared on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, ER, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Starved, Close to Home, Kindred: The Embraced and 90210. Flannigan has also acted in films. She starred in Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde (1993), National Lampoon's Last Resort (1994), Written in Blood (2003), A Day Without a Mexican (2004), and Homecoming (2005). In 2010 she appeared in the film Do Not Disturb, which she also co-produced.

Known For

Out of This World
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Out Of This World is an American fantasy sitcom about a teenage girl who is half alien, which gives her unique supernatural powers. It first aired in syndication from September 17, 1987 and ended on May 25, 1991. During its first season, the series was originally part of NBC's Prime Time Begins at 7:30 campaign, in which the network's owned-and-operated stations would run first-run sitcoms in the 7:30-8 pm time slot to counterprogram competing stations' game shows, sitcom reruns and other offerings. Out of This World was rotated with the original series Marblehead Manor and She's the Sheriff, a syndicated revival of the 1983 sitcom We Got It Made, and a television adaptation of the play You Can't Take It With You. NBC ended the experiment after the 1987-88 season due to the low ratings put up by three of the series, with Out of This World being one of the two that was renewed. After its first season the series was largely moved to weekend time slots, where it remained until its cancellation following the fourth season.

Out of This World

1987Series
Kindred: The Embraced
7.1

Kindred: The Embraced is an American television series produced by John Leekley Productions and Spelling Television. Loosely based on the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, the series premiered on Fox on April 2, 1996, and ran for eight episodes before it was canceled on May 9, 1996. The series focused on San Francisco Police Detective Frank Kohanek who discovers his city is home to numerous vampires while investigating alleged mobster, Julian Luna. Julian is the "prince" of the city, ruler of five groups of vampires in the city, collectively called "The Kindred". The vampires survive through the "masquerade", disguising themselves as humans, and Julian strictly enforces the laws that govern them to protect their anonymity. Julian and Frank form an uneasy bond as they work together to try to prevent a vampire war and Julian struggles with his romantic feelings for human reporter Caitlin Byrne. The eight episodes of the series have been released on VHS and DVD.

Kindred: The Embraced

1996Series
Starved
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Starved is an FX Network television situation comedy that aired for one season of seven episodes in 2005. The series was about four friends who each suffer from eating disorders, who met at a "shame-based" support group called Belt Tighteners. Its characters included those with bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating disorder. Eric Schaeffer created the show as well as writing, starring in and directing it, based upon his own struggle with eating disorders. In addition to his own life experiences, Schaeffer also drew upon the experiences of the other members of the principal cast, each of whom coincidentally had struggled with food issues of their own. Starved was the lead-in of FX's hour-long "Other Side of Comedy" block with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. FX executives wanted to use the two series to begin building comedy programming and broaden the network's demographic. The series debuted on August 4, 2005 to poor critical reviews and was cancelled in October 2005, when FX picked Sunny over Starved for renewal.

Starved

2005Series