Andrea Elson is a former American actress. Beginning her professional career as a child actress and model, Elson is perhaps best known for her television roles as Alice Tyler on the CBS sciencefiction adventure series Whiz Kids and as Lynn Tanner on the NBC comedy series ALF, which garnered the teenage actress two Youth in Film Award nominations in 1986 and 1989.
Elson was born in New York City on March 6, 1969. She grew up in New York with her parents and an older sister named Samantha . While Elson was still a child, the family moved to San Diego, California for a period of four years before returning to Westchester County, New York.
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