Jensen Daggett

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Jensen Daggett
Born (1969-06-24) June 24, 1969 (age 55)
OccupationActress
Years active1989–1999
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Searchtool.svg Daggett as Maggie Reynolds in Major League: Back to the Minors (1998).

Jensen Daggett (born June 24, 1969) [1] is an American film and television actress. She has appeared in the films Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan and Major League: Back to the Minors . She had a recurring role as Nancy Taylor in Home Improvement .

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Life and career

Daggett was born in Connecticut. After studying theater at Agoura High School in Agoura Hills, California, [2] Daggett moved to Los Angeles after her eighteenth birthday to study at the Stella Adler Conservatory for Acting in Hollywood. At 18 years old, her first acting role was in The Fabulous Baker Boys . Soon after, she portrayed Rennie Wickham in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan . [3]

She also performed in several dozen television episodes before leaving acting in 1999 to raise a family. Some of her best-known roles were as Nancy Taylor, sister-in-law of Tim Taylor (wife of Tim's younger brother, Marty) on Home Improvement and Charlie in The Single Guy playing Jonathan Silverman's girlfriend.

Her last television appearance was as herself in an episode of the HGTV (Canada) show, Weekend Warriors, in which she remodeled her Connecticut home. Since then she has become a Green Home Builder and has built many homes featured in different magazines.

Select filmography

YearFilmRoleNotes
1989 Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan Rennie Wickham Film
1992 The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them CheerleaderFilm
1992 Melrose Place Marcy GarrettEpisode: "Friends and Lovers"
1993 Step by Step BonnieEpisode: "The Marrying Dude"
1993 Dead Before Dawn DanaTelevision film
1994 Matlock Sarah EldridgeEpisode: "The Godfather"
1995 Home Improvement Nancy Taylor Recurring role
1996 Project: ALF Dr. Melissa HillTelevision film
1997 Asteroid Dr. Valerie BrennanTelevision mini-series
1998 Major League: Back to the Minors Maggie ReynoldsFilm
1998 Telling You SusanFilm
1999 Will & Grace Grace ActorEpisode: "The Big Vent"
2009His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13thHerselfDocumentary
2013 Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th HerselfDocumentary

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References

  1. Jensen Daggett DirecTV
  2. EPisodeWorld "Jensen Daggett"
  3. "Where Are They Now?: Jensen Daggett". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2008-12-05.