Colleen Broomall (born August 30, 1983, in

Teaneck, New Jersey Teaneck () is a Township (New Jersey), township in Bergen County, New Jersey, Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is a bedroom community in the New York metropolitan area. The town is know for their pancake throwing contest held ...

) is an American journalist and former child actor. Colleen grew up in Norwood, New Jersey and was cast to play the role of Meg Ryan's daughter on the soap opera ''

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'', October 11, 2010. Accessed May 1, 2016. "At two months old, Colleen Broomall was a working actress on As the World Turns. Playing Meg Ryan's soap-opera daughter, the Teaneck native (raised in Norwood) spent parts of the first five years of her life on the set, working alongside actors such as Julianne Moore and Marisa Tomei." During her time on the show, Colleen became the national spokesmodel for Good Lad of Philadelphia and even garnered a ''

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'' Award Nomination for Best Child Actor. However, when Colleen was in second grade, her mother pulled her out of showbiz so that she could enjoy a normal childhood. At age 12, she was published in ''

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'' and spent the summer after her sophomore year of college working as Associate Editor of both Life Story and Movie Magic magazines. During her senior year at the

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, she studied under CNN news veteran Ralph Begleiter and appeared on the school's weekly Del-AWARE news program. Throughout college, she was a Contributing Editor at Tiger Beat magazineLittman, Jonathan
"Millennial Girl Meets Gen Z"
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with a B.A. in Communications and concentration in Mass Media. From 2012 to 2015, Colleen was Editor-in-Chief of Popstar! magazine. In the summer of 2015, she left the publication in order to create and develop YSBnow (You're So Beautiful Now), a digital platform that seeks to inspire and empower teens. Less than five months after its October launch, and with no PR or advertising, YSBnow was attracting 200,000 unique visitors a month. In a 2019 podcast, Colleen revealed that losing both of her brothers at a young age (one died in a car accident and the other died by suicide) is a driving force behind her work with Gen Z

Filmography

* '' The Winning Season'' (

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

) * ''

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1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

- 1988,

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

) .... Danielle Andropoulos

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* * https://archive.today/20131018032122/http://www.sanclementetimes.com/blog/2013/04/03/students-writing-talent-takes-her-to-the-stars/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Broomall, Colleen 1983 births Living people American soap opera actresses People from Norwood, New Jersey Actresses from Teaneck, New Jersey University of Delaware alumni 21st-century American women