Kathy Coleman
{{short description|American actress}}
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{{About|the American actress|the Wyoming State Representative|Kathy Coleman (politician)}}
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| caption = Coleman at GalaxyCon Richmond in 2025
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| birth_name = Kathleen Coleman
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| birth_place = Weymouth, Massachusetts, US
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| occupation = Actress, singer, author
| years_active = 1974–1976
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| known_for = Land of the Lost
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Kathleen Coleman (born February 18, 1962) is an American former child actor, singer, and author, known for playing Holly Marshall on the 1970s children's TV show Land of the Lost.
Life and career
Kathy Coleman toured as a singer with the Mike Curb Congregation.{{Cite web|title=Kathy Coleman resume'|url=http://www.kathycoleman.net/index.php/resume|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130824213141/http://www.kathycoleman.net/index.php/resume|access-date=January 15, 2022|archive-date=August 24, 2013 }}
In 1974, she was cast by Sid and Marty Krofft to play Holly Marshall, the younger of two siblings trapped with their father in a strange land in Land of the Lost. It was her only major television role, which continued for three seasons. She contributed interviews and commentary tracks for the Land of the Lost DVDs produced by Rhino in 2004. She and fellow Land of the Lost cast member Wesley Eure filmed cameos for the 2009 film parodying the series, but those scenes were not included in the theatrical release.{{cite web|url=http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/movies/index.ssf/2009/06/land_of_the_lost_groovy_70s_tv.html|title='Land of the Lost' groovy '70s TV show, new Will Ferrell movie|last=White|first=Marcia|work=Lehigh Valley Live|date=June 4, 2009|accessdate=June 12, 2009}}
She appeared in an episode of the police drama Adam-12 in 1975.
Personal life
In 1980, at the age of 18, Coleman married and moved to Fallon, Nevada, where she and her husband worked on her father-in-law's dairy farm. The couple had two sons before divorcing in 1987.{{cite web |url=http://kathycoleman.net/ |title=Home |website=kathycoleman.net |access-date=1 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517183149/http://kathycoleman.net/ |archive-date=17 May 2014 |url-status=dead}}
Coleman later remarried and currently resides in Palm Springs, but frequently travels the country appearing at conventions.{{cite news |last1=Nolasco |first1=Stephanie |title='Land of the Lost' star Kathy Coleman recalls getting into trouble on set, reveals why hit show came to an end |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/land-of-the-lost-kathy-coleman |access-date=18 June 2024 |work=Fox News |date=29 August 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Nolasco |first1=Stephanie |title='Land of the Lost' child star lived 'Yellowstone' life after Hollywood fame |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/land-lost-child-star-lived-yellowstone-life-after-hollywood-fame |access-date=18 June 2024 |work=Fox News |date=8 March 2024}} In 2015, she published Lost Girl: The Truth and Nothing But the Truth, So Help Me Kathleen, which describes her marriages as well as her experiences in music, TV, and on the autograph circuit.{{Cite book|last=Coleman|first=Kathy|title=Lost Girl: The Truth And Nothing But The Truth, So Help Me Kathleen|year=2015|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |isbn=978-1508688143}} In 2017, she published a second memoir, entitled Run Holly Run, which highlighted her time working on Land of the Lost.{{Cite book|last1=Coleman|first1=Kathy|title=Run, Holly, Run!: A Memoir by Holly from 1970s TV Classic "Land of the Lost"|date=May 2017|publisher=Wyatt-MacKenzie |isbn=978-1942545606}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0171101|name=Kathy Coleman}}
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:People from Weymouth, Massachusetts
Category:American child actresses
Category:Actresses from Massachusetts
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:21st-century American women
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