Claudia Lamb

Claudia Lamb (Dec 3, 1963) is an American actress, award-winning journalist, and writer. She is best known for her television work playing Heather Hartman in both Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Forever Fernwood. After her acting career, Lamb worked for 25 years in radio as a talk show host, traffic reporter, news reporter, news anchor, and producer. While at the ABC News Radio flagship station KGO, Lamb won four Associated Press Mark Twain Awards, and five Edward R Murrow Awards for excellence in broadcast journalism. Claudia Lamb was born in Los Angeles, Calif, and grew up in North Hollywood with her five brothers. Her first modeling work came at age 3, and she subsequently did print work in dozens of magazines, newspapers, calendars, and catalogs. Lamb did her first television commercial at 5, and she had her SAG and AFTRA union cards by age 7. By the time Lamb was cast as Heather Hartman, she had already appeared in more than 50 television commercials as well as several industrial films, radio commercials, and television guest spots. At 15, Lamb started a dual enrollment in high school and college (1978-1981), later going on to study theater and writing at California State University at Northridge (1981-1984). Lamb and her husband of 15 years, Richard Jones, live in Colorado, where she writes daily and is working on a memoir.