ABOUT KAREN AKERS
Stage and screen actress who performed in the original Broadway production of Nine, earning a Theatre World Award and a Tony nomination for her role in the musical.
She graduated from Manhattanville College.
She guest-starred in a 1987 episode of Cheers.
Her marriage to Jim Akers produced two children. She later married Kevin Power.
She appeared in director Woody Allen 's 1985 film The Purple Rose of Cairo.
