Cynthia Lauren Tewes (/ˈtwiË z/; born October , ) is an American
actress. She is best known for her role as Julie McCoy on the
television comedy anthology series The Love Boat, which originally
aired on ABC from to .Tewes was born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, of
German extraction and one of four children, to Joanne (née Woods) and
Joseph Robert Tewes, a wood pattern maker. Her early childhood was
spent in industrial Trafford, near Pittsburgh before the family moved
to Whittier, California, when she was eight.Tewes attended Ada S.
Nelson Elementary School and Pioneer High School, where she studied
Drama, winning Best Actress award for three years. Tewes enrolled on
an associate of arts degree at Rio Hondo College, deciding to major in
Theatre Arts. At college, she won "The Chancellor's Award for
Excellence in Theatre", a one-year scholarship which enabled her to
transfer to the University of California, Riverside, as a sophomore.In
, when her scholarship expired, Tewes withdrew from university and
joined the Pacific Conservatory Theatre in Santa Maria, California, as
an apprentice, making her stage debut in Arsenic and Old Lace and The
Most Happy Fella before becoming a member of the Birdcage Theatre
Company at Knott's Berry Farm, an amusement complex outside Los
Angeles.
actress. She is best known for her role as Julie McCoy on the
television comedy anthology series The Love Boat, which originally
aired on ABC from to .Tewes was born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, of
German extraction and one of four children, to Joanne (née Woods) and
Joseph Robert Tewes, a wood pattern maker. Her early childhood was
spent in industrial Trafford, near Pittsburgh before the family moved
to Whittier, California, when she was eight.Tewes attended Ada S.
Nelson Elementary School and Pioneer High School, where she studied
Drama, winning Best Actress award for three years. Tewes enrolled on
an associate of arts degree at Rio Hondo College, deciding to major in
Theatre Arts. At college, she won "The Chancellor's Award for
Excellence in Theatre", a one-year scholarship which enabled her to
transfer to the University of California, Riverside, as a sophomore.In
, when her scholarship expired, Tewes withdrew from university and
joined the Pacific Conservatory Theatre in Santa Maria, California, as
an apprentice, making her stage debut in Arsenic and Old Lace and The
Most Happy Fella before becoming a member of the Birdcage Theatre
Company at Knott's Berry Farm, an amusement complex outside Los
Angeles.
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