Claudia Lamb (born December 3, 1963) is a former radio journalist and child actress known for portraying Heather Hartman in the syndicated

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Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman ''Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'' is an American satirical soap opera that aired in daily weeknight syndication from January 1976 to July 1977. The series follows the titular Mary Hartman, an Ohio housewife attempting to cope with various bizarr ...

'' as well as the show's sequel '' Forever Fernwood''. About six months before being cast in "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," Claudia appeared in a commercial for Nestle's $100,000 bar. Lamb became a talk radio show host, hosting programs in Kansas City, Missouri (at KCMO (AM)) and at

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-AM in

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. Later, she became a radio traffic reporter for radio station

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in Denver. In 2004, her team won a Colorado Broadcasting Award for best coverage in Breaking News. In 2005, she became a news reporter for KLIV in

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. Lamb was also a

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for the Colorado Traffic Management Center in Denver and wrote articles on traffic management for their online

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, ''CoTrip Quarterly'', which has since ceased publication. Lamb worked as a writer and producer for the afternoon news at

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from 2007 to November 2011. During her tenure, her team won the national Edward R. Murrow Award for best coverage of Breaking News. According to Lamb, she resigned from KGO after it was purchased by

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which led to massive layoffs and previous news standards could no longer be maintained.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lamb, Claudia American television actresses Living people 1963 births Place of birth missing (living people) Actresses from Los Angeles American child actresses American radio journalists American women radio journalists 21st-century American women