While she has tried her hand at other roles, including the voice of Velma Dinkley in Cartoon Network Studios ' What's New Scooby-Doo and its direct-to-video feature spinoffs, she has not approached the success she enjoyed with The Facts of Life . She has come to peace with that, although she had said on an E! True Hollywood Story that she hated being "everybody's chubby best friend." directopedia.org
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Graduated from Loyola Marymount in 1995 with a degree in sociology. Attended Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, when she was discovered for "The Facts of Life" (1979). Actress Charlotte Rae discovered Mindy Cohn, and she also named her character Nata www.imdb.com/name/nm0169934/