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Troy Byer
Troy Byer is an American psychologist, author, director, screenwriter, and actress. For most of her acting career she was credited as Troy Beyer.
Byer was born in New York City to an African-American mother and Jewish father.
After landing a bit part in Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984), Byer moved to Los Angeles, and became a regular on the ABC prime-time soap opera Dynasty in 1986, playing Jackie Deveraux, the daughter of Diahann Carroll's character Dominique Deveraux.
Since then, Byer acted in features such as Disorderlies (1987), The Five Heartbeats (1991) as Baby Doll, Weekend at Bernie's II (1993), Eddie (1996), Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man (1998), and John Q (2002).
In 1997, Byer made her screenwriting debut with B*A*P*S. In 1998, she made her directing debut with her next screenplay, Let's Talk About Sex (1998) which she as well starred in; the film was picked up by Fine Line Features. In 2002, Byer wrote and directed Love Don't Cost a Thing based on the 1987 movie Can't Buy Me Love.
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Troy Byer
Troy Byer is an American psychologist, author, director, screenwriter, and actress. For most of her acting career she was credited as Troy Beyer.
Byer was born in New York City to an African-American mother and Jewish father.
After landing a bit part in Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984), Byer moved to Los Angeles, and became a regular on the ABC prime-time soap opera Dynasty in 1986, playing Jackie Deveraux, the daughter of Diahann Carroll's character Dominique Deveraux.
Since then, Byer acted in features such as Disorderlies (1987), The Five Heartbeats (1991) as Baby Doll, Weekend at Bernie's II (1993), Eddie (1996), Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man (1998), and John Q (2002).
In 1997, Byer made her screenwriting debut with B*A*P*S. In 1998, she made her directing debut with her next screenplay, Let's Talk About Sex (1998) which she as well starred in; the film was picked up by Fine Line Features. In 2002, Byer wrote and directed Love Don't Cost a Thing based on the 1987 movie Can't Buy Me Love.