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Tracey Gold (born Tracey Claire Fisher on May 16, 1969 in New York City) is an American actress, best known for playing Carol Seaver on the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains. Since January 12, 2009, she has been co-hosting with Fred Roggin on the Live show GSN Live. Gold is the older sister of actress Missy Gold, who appeared on the TV series Benson from 1979 to 1986. Her stage name "Gold" is her shortened form of the name acquired by Tracey and Missy when they were adopted by their stepfather Harry Goldstein, who married her mother when Tracey was a preschooler, and who later became a powerful Hollywood agent. Her sister Missy also shares the birth name Fisher.

Gold has been an actress since the age of four, first appearing in a Pepsi print ad. She appeared in two canceled series, Shirley with Shirley Jones in 1979, and Goodnight Beantown, starring Bill Bixby in 1983. Gold was originally cast as the youngest daughter in the original pilot series of the show Gimme A Break! starring Nell Carter, but was replaced by actress Lara Jill Miller when the show went to series.

In 1985, Gold auditioned for the role of Carol Seaver on Growing Pains, but was not initially cast. The actress chosen for the pilot was later replaced with Gold for the series, and Growing Pains ran from 1985 until 1992. During this time, Gold became a famous teen star. In 1988, Gold also starred as Angela Strull in the teen film Dance `til Dawn. After the end of the long-running series, Gold continued to work as an actress. Over the next decade, Gold starred in several television movies.

Gold met her husband Roby Marshall through Growing Pains costar Joanna Kerns, who portrayed Marshall`s mother in the TV miniseries adaptation of the true crime book Blind Faith by Joe McGinniss. Roby had served as a consultant on the miniseries, which dramatized the 1984 case in which his father, Toms River, New Jersey businessman Robert O. Marshall, was charged with (and later convicted of) the contract killing of his wife (and Roby`s mother) Maria. Gold and Marshall married on October 8, 1994, and have four sons: Sage Gold (b. February 16, 1997), Bailey Vincent (b. March 4, 1999), Aiden Michael (b. May 9, 2004), and Dylan Christopher (b. April 1, 2008). In 2003, Gold wrote the book Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life with Julie McCarron.

Gold was a contestant on the program Celebrity Mole 2: Yucatan in 2004, and starred in the movie Safe Harbor in 2006. She is currently hosting the TVGUIDE Channel mini-show Trapped in TV Guide. In addition, she is the host of TLC show The Secret Life of a Soccer Mom, which debuted on March 3, 2008. Recently, Gold appeared as the spokesperson in "Baby Sleeps Safe", a national television infomercial for Baby Guardian.

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