Happy to be in N.Y.

Press, 28 December 1988, Page 11

Happy to be in N.Y.

When word got out that the television series “Leg Work” (tonight at 7.30 on One) would be filmed in its entirety on and around the sidewalks of New York, the happiest person in the Big Apple was the series star, Margaret Colin. Not only was she born and raised in Brooklyn and the South Shore of Long Island, but as the daughter of a 26-year veteran of the New York Police Department, she grew up in the same neighbourhood as Claire

McCarron, the character she plays in the series. Claire is a witty, young private detective. Colin, the second in a close-knit family of five, waited until the first grade before she decided on acting as her eventual career. She debuted in the title role of “The Little Old Lady Who Loved Noise” in that post-kindergarten production. She pursued her chosen profession through grammar school and high school, and

studied drama at Hofstra College in Hampstead, New York, while appearing in community theatre. She got her first big break during her junior years at Hofstra, playing “Paige Madison” in the daytime soap opera “The Edge of Night.” When that character was eliminated after six months, Colin stayed with the genre playing “Margo Montgomery,” the aggressive and passionate policewoman in “As The World Turns.”