Tawnia Baker

Marla Heasley

Tawnia Baker (1984-1985)

Tawnia (misspelled as 'Tanya' on a computer screen in the character's introductory episode "The Battle Of Bel Air") was a relatively short-lived second season replacement for Amy during late 1983 - early 1984. She was also a reporter, who had heard of the Team through Amy, and helped the A-Team out a few times; although she never fully incorporated herself into the team as Amy had done (reflected by the fact that she was never added to the opening credits, and was not present in two stories, "Harder Than It Looks" and "Semi-Friendly Persuasion", during her time in the series). The character was dropped in "The Bend In The River", the feature-length second story of the third season, again said to be much to do with Peppard's insistence that the show didn't need a female character, but was given the dignity of being written out properly, as she married explorer Brian Leftcourt (Barry Van Dyke) who the Team rescued from river pirates in the Amazon. Marla Heasley had appeared in a small role previously in the second season, as Cherise in the episode "Bad Time On The Border".

Marla Heasley (born. September 4, 1959 in Hollywood , California )

Marla's only feature film roles were The Marrying Man in 1991, and Born to Race and Amore! in 1993.

She has made guest appearances on many TV shows such as, TJ Hooker , The Love Boat , Riptide , Mike Hammer , The Highwayman and many more.

She was once engaged to singer Wayne Newton for eight years ending in 1992. She is currently married to Christopher Harriman an international business developer. Harriman was a successful recording artist in the early 1980s in Europe .

Her character from The A-Team , Tawnia Baker, was named after the creator of the series Stephen J. Cannell's daughter, Tawnia Cannell. Marla made a guest appearance as a character called Cherise in an another episode of The A-Team ("Bad Time On The Border") a couple of months prior to playing Tawnia Baker.

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