Biography

Overcame an eating disorder and self-harm addiction.

Her father served in the United States Marine Corps and was in the same platoon as Lee Harvey Oswald.

Father, Donald P. Bellisario, wrote the Quantum Leap (1989) episode, A Portrait for Troian - February 7, 1971 (1989), which aired in 1989, when Troian was four. Troian's mother, Deborah Pratt, played "Troian" in the episode.

Is the second youngest of nine children.

(December 10, 2016) Married her partner of 7 years Patrick J. Adams in Santa Barbara, California following a 2-year-long engagement.

I have a lot to be happy about and a lot more I want to do.

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in LA and had nothing to do with the industry. It's not a glamorous thing to me. It's just a different type of business. I've seen friends go down the path of drugs or letting the spotlight go to their heads. I've witnessed that. It's not a very good option if you want to have a long career like I do and do a lot of different things.

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director, and writer. Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress. I knew the actors and the paparazzi. It was just kind of always in my landscape. It was never directed at me, but it was always somewhere so I could see how it operated and I could see it from afar and go 'Wow, that's not really glamorous, it's kind of exhausting not having any privacy.'

I grew up with brothers. Girls terrified me. If a boy was mad at you, he hit you or he'd yell at you. I'm thinking about my brothers. Boys didn't go around just hitting me. But it was easy. With girls all of a sudden she'll tell you 'That skirt looks ugly on you.' And you're like 'Oh you're mad at me! I have to figure out what I've done.'