Biography: Andrea Fay Friedman, built a breakthrough 35-year acting career with Down syndrome. She portrayed Amanda, the girlfriend (and later wife) of Charles "Corky" Thacher on the TV show Life Goes On. In 1993, she appeared in an episode of Baywatch, 1997 film Smudge as Cindy, a girl in a group home for people with disabilities who attempts to hide her puppy, Smudge, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Family Guy (1999) & Walker Texas Ranger