Lynne Adams

Adams is the daughter of Rosalind (née Gould), an actress, and Robert K. Adams, a producer, actor (noted for his appearances on The Goldbergs and Your Family and Mine), and former vice president of CBS, as well as a descendant of presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.{{cite web |last= |first= |date=February 16, 1981 |title=Robert K. Adams, 72, a Producer Of Television and Theater Shows |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E0D91639F935A25751C0A967948260 |work=The New York Times |format= |doi=}} She is the older sister of actress Brooke Adams.{{cite news |last1=Genzlinger |first1=Neil |date=January 20, 2004 |title=An Actress of a Certain Age Ponders the Cult of Beauty, Gracefully |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/20/movies/an-actress-of-a-certain-age-eyes-the-beauty-cult.html |url-access=subscription |access-date= |work=The New York Times |page=E 5}} She graduated from the Professional Children's School in New York City in 1965.{{cite news |title=Tent Producer's Daughter to Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-saginaw-news-lynne-adams/169820508/ |access-date=April 8, 2025 |work=The Saginaw News |date=August 8, 1965 |page=34|via = Newspapers.com }}

Adams was an apprentice in theaters for eight years, learning skills that included building scenery, managing ticket sales, and operating a lighting board. She debuted as a professional actress in a 1955 production of Brigadoon at the Flint Musical Tent in Flint, Michigan.{{cite news |last1=Malka |first1=Robert G. |title=Lynne Adams—3 Faces |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-flint-journal-lynne-adams/169753152/ |access-date=April 7, 2025 |work=The Flint Journal |date=August 27, 1967 |page=7|via = Newspapers.com }}

Adams played the role of Leslie Jackson Bauer Norris Bauer from 1966 to 1971 and again from August 1973 to June 1976 on The Guiding Light. She was the second generation in her family to act on the program; both her parents had roles in the radio incarnation in the 1940s. She also appeared on The Secret Storm in the role of Amy Kincaid from September 1971 to May 1973.

Adams has written and produced a number of stage productions, including Two Faced, upon which the feature film Made-Up was based. Adams wrote and produced Made-Up, co-starring her younger sister and brother-in-law, Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub, as well as Eva Amurri, Gary Sinise and Lance Krall.{{cite news |last1=Thomas |first1=Kevin |title='Made-Up' doesn't stop at skin deep |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96901597/the-los-angeles-times/ |access-date=March 4, 2022 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=February 6, 2004 |page=E 14|via = Newspapers.com}}

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