Early Career
McClain's professional acting career began in 1978 at the age of 9, when she was featured in a commercial for Band-Aid bandages. She went on to appear in over thirty commercials for products including McDonald's, Amtrak, Kenner's "Strawberry Shortcake" dolls, Burger King, Mattel, Barbie, Maybelline, Shout Detergent, Pillsbury Pop 'n Fresh Rolls, Apple Kool Aid, Prell, Texaco and McCain's Chicken.
Among her notable early TV credits was a recurring role on St. Elsewhere, and an appearance on Cheers, as Coach's niece Joyce when she was 16 years old.
Other TV credits were as Virginia in Emmy Award winning TV Movie "Who WIll Love My Children," opposite Ann-Margret, "Robert Kennedy and His Times," as young Pat Kennedy (with River Phoenix and Chad Lowe), the ABC After School Special "Just a Regular Kid- An AIDS story" (with Christian Hoff and Dana Ashbrook), Danny Thomas' "One Big Family" (w/Michael DeLuise), "Spenser for Hire," (w/Robert Ulrich and Ron LcLarty), "Lou Grant," (w/Ed Asner) the TV Movie "Home Fires" (w/Guy Boyd and Juliette Lewis) and the Michael McKean TV Movie, "Town and Gown."
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