Kicking off her television career as a teenager, Juliette Lewis was cast as Kate in the ABC series "I Married Dora." The show had only one season, premiering in the fall of 1987 and concluding after 13 episodes. Blonde and fresh-faced, she played the daughter of series lead Daniel Hugh Kelly and stepdaughter of actor Elizabeth Peña — their two characters had married to prevent Peña's character from being deported. While the series was canceled (famously announced in the final episode as the cast waved goodbye), Lewis was nominated for a Young Artist Award.
When she remembered that time, Lewis revealed in an interview with Bustle that she would "go away and do bad '80s sitcoms, one being 'A Family for Joe,' and the other 'I Married Dora,'" which she notes would not pass the political correctness test in modern times. "Then I would try to go back to high school in the Valley," she added.
It was around this time, too, that she became emancipated from her parents, causing a flurry of rumors to circulate about her home life. "That still bothers me," she revealed to Stella magazine (via Express). "The truth is that it's something very common that you did when you were acting very young. ... My parents are just the best."
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