Veronica Hamel Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Q Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Quality Drama Series at the1985 Viewers for Quality Television Awards for "Hill Street Blues․"
• Model agency executive Eileen Ford discovered her while she was working as a secretary for an ironing board cover manufacturing company
• As a model, she posed for many cigarette and cosmetic advertisements
• Often plays intensely dramatic roles on television and in made-for-television movies
• After purchasing a home formerly owned by Marilyn Monroe, the contractors she hired to remodel the house discovered that every room was monitored by eavesdropping and telephone tapping systems
• Appeared in the last ever commercial for cigarettes aired on television