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"I really like bars. I love to shoot pool. And I can."

Five Things You Must Know...

She shares a birthday with former president Andrew Jackson and model Fabio.

It took her six years to earn her college degree.

She appeared in the movies "Vibes," with Cyndi Lauper, and "Kindergarten Cop."

She starred in an unsold pilot titled "The Line."

She recently appeared in the movie "Sparkler."

The Quick Take

Birthday: March 15 Birthplace: Nashville, Tennessee Occupation: Actress Sign: Pisces Crowning achievements: Miss Outlaw Biker, 1993

Park Overall: A Country Girl With a Wild Streak

Park Overall started her life as a troublemaker in Tennessee, but has found happiness as a prolific film and television actress. The star of three Lifetime Original Movies, she has never turned her back on her earthy roots. Her favorite pastimes are advocating for the environment, riding motorbikes and taking care of her personal menagerie of animals.

Park Overall was born in Nashville into a respected local family; one parent was a college English professor and the other was a judge. But the young Overall did her best to be a bad girl; she drank, smoked, played pool and hung out with older boys.

It wasn't until college that Overall discovered her passion for acting, which would lead her to straighten out her life. She attended Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tennessee, performing in school plays and local theater productions before she graduated in 1981.

Both Overall and her father believed that the portrayal of Southerners on-screen was stereotypical and offensive, and that the young actress' regional accent could limit her professional opportunities. The elder Overall offered to finance his daughter's desire to live in New York and break into the acting scene there.

At the age of 28, Overall landed a part in the 1984 low-budget horror film "Tainted." During the shoot, she fell in love with assistant cameraman Ron Schlaeger. The two became a couple and settled in Manhattan.

Overall spent the next several years performing at regional and off-Broadway theaters. In 1986, the actress made her Broadway debut in Neil Simon's hit play "Biloxi Blues" as Rowena, the tenderhearted prostitute. Her performance was so good that Overall was asked to reprise the role for Mike Nichols' film adaptation of the play, which starred Matthew Broderick.

In 1988, she moved to the West Coast after being cast as the acerbic nurse Laverne Todd on the TV show "Empty Nest," a spin-off of the smash series "The Golden Girls." Despite the show's success (it was a hit with audiences and Overall was singled out for several acting awards), Overall was unhappy with the way her character was being written. She has described Laverne as a one-dimensional hillbilly. She also didn't connect with the cast. But even after five seasons on the series, she was bound by her contract, despite the fact that she wanted out.

So Overall found other, more satisfying outlets for her creative energies, appearing in several made-for-TV movies, including "Overkill: The Aileen Wournos Story," "The Good Ole Boys" and "Inflammable." She also acted in big-screen movies, including "Mississippi Burning," "The Vanishing" and "House of Cards."

When "Empty Nest" went off the air in 1995, Park turned her attention to community activism, leading a campaign against the Champion International Paper Mill for poisoning Pigeon River. Overall used her public clout to convince ABC's "PrimeTime Live" to do a story on the environmental brouhaha, expediting a cleanup.

The next year, Overall won rave reviews for her role as a sexually frustrated fiancée in John Patrick Shanley's play, "Psychopathia Sexualis," opposite actor Andrew McCarthy. In the past few years, she has appeared in several Lifetime Original Movies, independent films and the CBS series "Ladies Man," featuring Betty White and Alfred Molina.