It’s not often child actors land a starring role on a network sitcom. It’s even more rare when you do it twice.
That’s exactly what Staci Keanan did.
Keanan (born Anastasia Sagorsky) started in 1987, where she spent three seasons on the Paul Reiser-Greg Evigan NBC sitcom “My Two Dads”.
The show revolves around Keanan’s character Nicole Bradford, the daughter of a woman that had romantic relations with both Reiser and Evigan’s characters years prior. The mother dies and both men are awarded custody of Nicole, neither knowing whom the real father is. Resier’s character is straight and rigid while Evigan is wild and free. Hilarity ensues. At the height of the shows fame, it registered in the Neilsen Ratings Top 20 shows.
After the demise of that show, she tinkered around working on another short lived sitcom (“Going Places” with Alan Ruck and Holland Taylor) and did some guest spots before she landed a starring role in “Step By Step” a 90’s version of The Brady Bunch starring Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Summers. She played Dana Foster, daughter of Carol (Summers) who was the stereotypical smart, wisecracker of the group of kids, spending much of her screen time putting down her step brother JT. The show lasted 7 seasons, the first six a part of ABC’s TGIF lineup, and the last season on CBS. The focus of the show was of course Duffy and Summers, but many of the secondary plots were revolved around Keanan’s character.
After the show was cancelled, Keanan took some time away from acting. From “My Two Dads” through “Step By Step”, she had been working non stop for 11 years. She slowly got back into acting in 2004 and has appeared in films such has “Holyman Undercover” and “You Again” both released in 2010.
Not much else has been published about her over the last few years but she can be found on Twitter @stacikeanan (unverified account).
Here is hoping she brings her talents back to primetime television soon!
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Always good to see child stars not screwing up their lives.
This made me think of a “Girls of the 80s: Who’s Hot Now?” column.
Great idea!! So many good examples.
I remember the Step by Step years. (Spank Bank Material back then)
Yup. The youngest sister… SMOKIN hot now. A write up on her is long overdue. *mental note
I hadn’t thought about her until writing about the theme to Step By Step. Thanks for catching us up on Stacy!
where is she know any pictures super sexy
I had a crush on her on “Going Places”, and loved that show as a kid…it had Heather Locklear too and the kid who played Mark on “Step By Step”. It was your typical Miller-Boyett cheeseball sitcom, but I was 8, I didn’t know any better.
She still looks great!
I can confirm that it is not her on twitter, I own that account, I actually waited for it to come back up to grab as somebody else had it…the plan behind this is that one day she’ll get in contact asking if she can have it which of course I’ll say yes in return for signing my my two dads scripts or something equally nerdy!
That’s awesome! Maybe we can increase her sense of urgency to register it by conducting “An Interview With @StaciKeenan” (which would be you, of course) and in it she’d be obsessed with Tecmo Bowl & Filet O Fish or something.