Lara Flynn Boyle was born in Davenport, Iowa on March 24th 1970. She made her debut in the mini-series Amerika in 1987. Her first big break came in the Robin Williams movie, Dead Poets Society, in 1989. Lara Flynn Boyle appeared with Growing Pains mom Joanna Kerns in the made for television movie, The Preppie Murder. She starred in the 1992 movie Where The Day Takes You with Nancy McKeon who played Jo on The Facts Of Life.
