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The first time the public at large learned of Tracy Scoggins, she was three years old and the Galveston Daily News did a feature article on the youngest citizen ever to apply for and receive a library card.
The following fifteen years saw numerous reports of Tracy's athletic accomplishments. Her parents' home was filled with trophies from her victories, often for sports in which many told her she was too tall to excel (i.e. gymnastics, springboard diving). "There is no inspiration more powerful to me than the opposition of some joyless nay-sayer," smiles the actress, "so Hollywood provides the perfect setting for my prosperity."
The only child born to two attorneys after almost twenty years of marriage, Tracy is quick to credit her parents for all things good in her life. Her mother was one of the highest-ranked tennis players in Texas and her father a Golden Glove boxer, distance swimmer and runner. "I am so fortunate to have parents who were the perfect blend of the Athenian and the Spartan." They passed along to their daughter a love of philosophy, music, art and sporting competition.
Graduating from high school at sixteen, Tracy entered Southwest Texas State University majoring in physical education and speech communications. After college, Tracy decided to pursue modeling to finance a fledgling acting career. Successfully modeling for just one year in New York, Tracy left the United States to model in Europe, where she quickly became one of the most in-demand models in Italy, Germany and France.
Tracy returned to the States to pursue a full-time acting career and studied at the Herbert Berghoff Studio and the Wynn Hanmann Studio. Her first role came in the television movie Twirl with Heather Locklear and soon after she was cast in her first series, The Renegades, opposite Patrick Swayze. She starred as Charlton Heston's daughter, Monica Colby, in the popular series The Colbys and reprised her role on Dynasty. A versatile actress, she displayed her considerable comedic talent in The Gumshoe Kid and The Highlife.
Coming off a successful year as Catherine "Cat" Grant, the Daily Planet's laser-tongued society columnist on ABC's Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Tracy joined the cast of Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years as Amanda Carpenter. Tracy's versatility as an actress continued to show in her work as she starred in Galaxy Beat, a wacky off-beat comedy opposite Gregory Harrison, played a Cardassian scientist in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and starred as an Immortal in a recurring role on Highlander: The Series. In one of the highest-rated TV movies of 1996, Tracy held her own as attorney Anita Smithfield opposite Larry Hagman's J.R. in Dallas: J.R. Returns and reprised the role later in Dallas: War of the Ewings.
Her feature film credits include Dangerous Toys with Bentley Mitchum, Dead Space with Billy Dee Williams, Toy Soldiers with Tim Robbins, Play Murder for Me with Jack Wagner, Watchers, the film adaptation of Dean Koontz's bestseller, the lead role of Evelyn opposite Maxwell Caulfield In Dangerous Company, and Timebomb co-starring Michael Biehn and Patsy Kensit.
Tracy also had a lead role as Captain Elizabeth Lochley, a career military officer, in the award-winning international hit series Babylon 5, starring alongside Bruce Boxleitner, Jerry Doyle and Mira Furlan.
On stage Tracy starred in The Sicilian Bachelor, which enjoyed a six month run at the Tiffany Theatre. She won critical acclaim for her dynamic performance and received the Daily News' coveted "Marquis Award" for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy.
In addition to her film, television and stage work, Tracy takes on other projects that she believes in. She teamed up with Black Entertainment Television's popular talk show Our Voices host, Bev Smith, to host the video Rape is Not An Option. The video makes a convincing case for rape prevention, providing several highly effective, common-sense self-defense techniques which require no special skills.
Known for her athletic prowess, Tracy was a natural to star in two workout videos. In Tough Stuff, which she also produced, she leads a plyometric workout with friends Marcus Allen, former world champion boxer Carlos Palomino and pro-beach volleyball player Randy Stoklos. The second video, Mind Your Body, combines a high energy workout with Tracy's motivational coaching.
Tracy's passion for languages, the arts and travel are a balancing counterpoint to her continuing commitment to physical fitness and to acting.
Most recently Tracy has starred in the Babylon 5 TV movies River of Souls and A Call to Arms, reprised her role as Captain Lochley in the Babylon 5 spin-off series Crusade, and guest starred in the Canadian TV series The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne.
Source: dragoncon.org
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