Andrea Elson

Andrea Hope Elson, an American actress and former model has retired as an actor. She began her career as a child actor as well as a model, Elson is most likely best known for her TV roles as Alice Tyler on the CBS science fiction series . Andrea auditioned and won the part of Lynn Tanner on the hit series ALF (1986). Andrea was a part of a variety of hit TV shows in addition to Movies of the Weekly for several more seasons before she left the industry to concentrate on her family. Andrea Elson played Lynn Tanner in ALF, the teenaged girl to Kate the actress and Willie. People magazine released a retrospective of her career back in 2000. She said that growing up as a girl in the spotlight was not simple. In New York City in 1969 Elson grew up within the world of travel as her father was a salesman who traveled. By the time she was 10, Andrea had already been in New York Chicago San Diego Los Angeles. Andrea found an agent in San Diego and won her audition for her first part. Fusco supported the show's premise, saying that "ALF is 285 years old, he is able to drink beer because he's old enough. As ALF started to become more popular, NBC said that Fusco could no longer have ALF drinking alcohol before the children. This was a negative role for a role model. Fusco, who believed ALF had the maturity to not drink and drive was mistaken. In 1995, he was diagnosed with lymphoma, which was treated successfully and remained in remission up to the end of 2019. He passed away from the illness on the 26th of June, 2019 aged 75 in the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood New Jersey.