<P> Tewes was born in Braddock, Pennsylvania to Joanne (née Woods) and Joseph Robert Tewes, a wood pattern maker . </P> <P> She was raised in Whittier, California and attended Pioneer High School and Rio Hondo College . She also studied at the University of California, Riverside, where she won the 1st Annual Chancellor's Award for Excellence in the Theatre . </P> <P> Tewes made her stage debut in Arsenic and Old Lace at the Pacific Conservatory Theatre in California . In 1977, Tewes appeared in an episode of the TV series Family ("Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ...") as Jill Redfield, a young woman feeling helpless about being expected to marry a man she doesn't love . A year earlier, she had been cast for the role of cruise director Julie McCoy on The Love Boat . She was selected from more than 100 actresses who auditioned for the role . She was in the third and final pilot of the show, and cast the day before production began . </P> <P> She made her film debut in the 1981 movie Eyes of a Stranger . In 1984, after seven seasons, Tewes was replaced on The Love Boat after a highly public battle with cocaine abuse (which she eventually overcame). She did reprise her role as a guest in a 1985 episode . </P>

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