Trivia

As of 2004 was working in Seattle, WA, as a cheese steward following her completion of culinary arts studies.

Last name is pronounced "Tweeze".

She was dismissed from La croisière s'amuse (1977) in 1984, due to a well-published cocaine addiction. This caused her to further spiral into further drug addiction. She has been sober for many years and makes her living doing voice-overs and radio commercials. She says she used to spend 16 hours a day caring for her sick husband.

Even though she has been clean and sober for almost 35 years, she still feels stigmatized by her former "Love Boat" cast-mates. (Oftentimes, one's behavior under the influence can be so hurtful that it causes irreparable damage to former relationships, and the latter have no choice but to permanently move on.).

She has played the same character (Julie McCoy) in four different series: La croisière s'amuse (1977), Drôles de dames (1976), Martin (1992) and La croisière s'amuse, nouvelle vague (1998).

Sideline: gourmet cooking.

Attended Rio Hondo College in Whittier, CA.

Made her stage debut in "Arsenic and Old Lace" at the Pacific Conservatory Theatre in California. Other plays include "Born Yesterday" and "Crimes of the Heart" which were performed during the early 1980s.

In 1987, she suffered the loss of her one month-old daughter, born prematurely.

Also studied at the University of California at Riverside, where she won the 1st Annual Chancellor's Award for Excellence in the Theatre.

Her paternal grandfather, Joseph Frederick Tewes, was a German immigrant, and her paternal grandmother, Mildred Gertrude Marie Franklin, was of German descent. Lauren's mother's family was of Irish and English origin.

Father, Joseph Robert Tewes, was a wood pattern maker; mother is the former Joanne Woods.