American actress
Maureen Osborne Flannigan is a documentary filmmaker and American former child actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as teenager Evie Ethel Garland on the fantasy sitcom Out of This World, which ran from 1987 to 1991.[1]
Early life
Flannigan was born in Inglewood, California. She was discovered at age 11 by an advertising agent from Mattel while on the beach with her father.[citation needed]
She graduated from Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California.[citation needed]
Flannigan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the USC School of Theater.[2] She appeared in productions of Macbeth, The Crucible and William Saroyan'sThe Cave Dwellers[3] and directed a production Beth Henley's Am I Blue? She was also a member of USC's ski team.[citation needed]
Film and television
Flannigan made her television debut in a guest starring role in an episode of Highway to Heaven. Two years later, in 1987, Flannigan landed the role of Evie Garland in the first-run syndication children's comedy series Out of This World, starring with Donna Pescow and Joe Alaskey. She stayed with the show until its cancellation in 1991.
Flannigan had a recurring role on The WB's 7th Heaven as Shana Sullivan, the girlfriend of Matt Camden. She was in the ABC soap opera Push,[4] playing swimmer Erin Galway. She has also appeared on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, ER, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Starved, Close to Home, Kindred: The Embraced and 90210.
Flannigan has also acted in films. She starred in Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde (1993), National Lampoon's Last Resort (1994), Written in Blood (2003), A Day Without a Mexican (2004), and Homecoming (2005). In 2010 she appeared in the film Do Not Disturb, which she also co-produced.
Flannigan currently runs her own production company.[citation needed]
