Lois Bromfield is a Canadian-American

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actor, writer, and television producer originally from

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. Her credits include ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 1990, Bromfield appeared with

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in her first television interview, along with her HBO comedy video on Aable's show, '' Hollywood Today'' where she was interviewed along with her then-husband Steve Moore . She was in a

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to comedian Steve Moore from 1980 to 1995, which ended after they both decided to publicly

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as gay. Bromfield officially came out as

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in 1994 on ''

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''. She gained American citizenship in the 1990s, and has been living with her partner near

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, since 2009. She is the sister of

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and film director

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Filmography

* 1985: actor, "Sorority Girls from Hell" segment, ''

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* 1990: celebrity guest, '' Hollywood Today'' * 1991–1995: co-producer, writer, ''

'' (

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) * 1996: consulting producer, ''

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'' (ABC) * 1997: producer, writing supervisor, ''

'' (ABC) * 1998: consulting producer, '' Brother's Keeper'' (ABC) * 2001–2002 – talk show executive co-producer (

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) * 2006: producing promotional shorts for ''At the Cineplex'' (HBO)

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