This blonde-haired, blue-eyed child performer broke into the business at age two as a clothing model and soon found herself in local and national commercials. By age five, Johnson was wowing the judges at a Universal Studio beauty pageant with her rendition of "Broadway Baby". She won the talent competition and took her act to TV's "Star Search". America first experienced Johnson's charms when she joined the cast of the long-running ABC sitcom "Growing Pains" as Chrissy Seaver during the 1990-91 season. Intriguingly, her character had ended the previous season as an infant and returned as the adorable seven-year-old Johnson.
Johnson made her feature debut opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in the action programmer "Lionheart" (1991). She bade farewell to the Seavers in 1992 and moved on to specials and TV-movies. Johnson returned as a sitcom regular on "Phenom" (ABC, 1993-94) playing the younger sister of the tennis star protagonist. She was also a regular on the highly touted "All-American Girl" (ABC, 1994), as a friend of the Korean-American family who also served as an audience surrogate.
Family
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Brother: Christopher Johnson. born in May 1977
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Father: Clfford Johnson. born c. 1948
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Mother: Nancy Johnson. born c. 1952
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Sister: Haylie N Johnson. born in January 1980
Milestones
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1985 Began modeling clothes at age two (date approximate)
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1988 Won the talent portion of a beauty pageant at Universal Studios with her rendition of Broadway Baby
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1990 TV debut as a regular, playing Chrissy Seaver on the hit ABC sitcom, "Growing Pains"
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1991 Feature acting debut, "Lionheart", starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
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1991 TV-movie debut, "Men Don't Tell"
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1993 Cast as Mary Margaret Doolan, the little sister on "Phenom" (ABC)
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1994 Cast as a regular on the ABC sitcom "All-American Girl"
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1998 Had recurring role as a cancer patient on "ER" (NBC)
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2000 Played featured part of Mel Gibson's daughter in "What Women Want"
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2002 Had a recurring role on the NBC drama, "Providence"
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2004 Voiced Jinmay on the animated series "Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!" (Toon Disney)
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2005 Cast in the family drama, "Nearing Grace"
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2006 Cast as part of an ensemble in Richard Linklater's "Fast Food Nation"
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Acted in local and national commercials
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Appeared as a contestant on "Star Search" singing Broadway Baby
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Played a lost boy in a production of "Peter Pan"
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Sang with the Side Street Strutters at Disneyland