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aloner and voracious bookworm in her
youth, felt a close kinship with the straight-
A striver. “I was a very good student,” the
actress told People in 1994. “Like Andrea.”
Unlike her peers, Carteris’s character
didn’t come from money—she had to use
her grandmother’s upscale address to at-
tend West Beverly High—and rather than
worry about cute boys or designer jeans, she
devoted her time to studying and working as
editor of the West Beverly Blaze. Only after
Brandon signed up for the school paper did
Andrea fall in with the popular Minnesota
transplant and the rest of his cool crowd.
Inevitably she developed a massive crush on
Brandon—who didn’t?—but the two were
destined to always remain just good friends.
Despite Andrea’s lifelong dream of at-
tending Yale, the high school valedictorian
turned down the Ivy League institution
to attend California University with her
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stockbroker husband, Charles Isaacs. She
didn’t want to hide her pregnancy, Carteris
tells People. Nor did she want her husband
to watch her 90210 love scenes. “That’s
uncomfortable for him,” she says.
Carteris left 90210 the following year to
host her own talk show, Gabrielle, which
lasted just one season. The actress has con-
tinued to work in television, appearing in a
number of series and made-for-TV movies,
while also raising her two daughters, Kelsey
Rose and Mollie Elizabeth, with Isaacs. In
2016 Carteris was elected to the prestigious
position of president of Hollywood’s actors’
union SAG-AFTRA, where she has focused
on issues including fair pay for women and
on-set safety. “We are working to protect
our members and to shift the culture now,”
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