Tracy Pollan

Tracy Jo Pollan (born June 22, 1960) is an American actress.

Tracy Jo Pollan was born on June 22, 1960, on Long Island, to parents Corky and Stephen Pollan, a financial consultant and writer.

She was raised in Woodbury, New York.

Pollan is from a Jewish family and was raised in the faith.

She attended Syosset High School and later graduated from the Dalton School in Manhattan, New York.

She studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio and later at the Lee Strasberg Institute.

Pollan was in a five year relationship with actor Kevin Bacon in the 1980s.

She first met Michael J. Fox when she played the girlfriend of his character on Family Ties; they worked together again on the set of Bright Lights, Big City a couple of years later and began a relationship.

She is best known for her role as Ellen Reed on the NBC sitcom Family Ties from 1985 to 1987.

She is also known for her roles as Vicky Allagash in Bright Lights, Big City (1988), Lindsay Boxer in First to Die (2003), and Beth Holloway in Natalee Holloway (2009) and Justice for Natalee Holloway (2011).

Pollan and Fox married on July 16, 1988.

They have four children together: a son, Sam; twin daughters, Aquinnah Kathleen and Schuyler Frances; and a daughter, Esmé Annabelle.

Pollan and her family live primarily in Manhattan.

In October 2014, Pollan, along with her two sisters and mother, co-authored The Pollan Family Table, a cookbook of family recipes, kitchen tips and cooking techniques.

The foreword was written by her brother, Michael Pollan, who is an author of several books about socio-cultural impacts of food.