The actress was adopted just 24 hours after birth, and she grew up believing a very different story about her biological parents. Born on May 8, 1964, she was raised by actress Barbara Crane and entertainer Paul Gilbert, alongside her adopted brother Jonathan. After her adoptive parents separated and Paul died in 1976, she eventually discovered that her biological mother, Kathy Wood, was a dancer and her biological father, David Darlington, was a stock car racer and sign painter—not the accomplished figures she had been told about as a child. She later shared her remarkable journey and the truth about her adoption in her memoir, Prairie Tale: A Memoir…READ MORE BELOW
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