Vanessa Dorman

Best known for her role on the soap opera Sunset Beach, Vanessa Dorman played spoiled socialite Caitlin Richards-Deschanel. Although Vanessa was not working in Hollywood as a child actor, she knew she wanted to go into acting at a very young age. Vanessa's childhood aspiration was to become an actor, and her family gave her a lot of freedom to pursue her dream. Growing up in Niantic, Connecticut, she turned down a national ad campaign at a very young age just to… (plus)