Vanessa Marano

Personal Life
Vanessa Marano was born October 31, 1992 in Los Angeles, California. She has a younger sister named Laura Marano, who is also an actress, while her mother, Ellen, is the owner of Agoura Children's Theatre. Besides English she also speaks Italian. She is attending a community college.

Career
Vanessa Marano began acting professionally when she was two years old. Since then, she worked for productions at the Stage Door Theater. Her biggest roles on television have been as Jack Malone's older daughter in Without a Trace (she and real life sister Laura play sisters), Valerie's stepdaughter in The Comeback and as April Nardini in Gilmore Girls. She also played Layne Abeley in The Clique based on the books by Lisi Harrison and Samantha Combs in Dear Lemon Lima.

Vanessa played Eden on The Young and the Restless and Hope on Scoundrels.

She now stars as Bay Kennish on the ABC Family show Switched at Birth.