PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

TRAVELING GAL “My father was a mathematician and my mother was a schoolteacher,” says Caldwell, N.J.–born Camryn (here as a high school senior in 1979), whose dad’s job took them to Illinois, Michigan and California. BIG HIT “I started out doing comedy in a one-woman show I wrote [1993’s Wake Up,

I’m Fat!], which is how I got discovered for The Practice,” and she wrote a 1999 memoir of the same name. BACK TO SCHOOL In 1997, she played an enthusiastic reunion coordinator in Romy and

Michele’s High School Reunion (with Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino). “I’m surprised they haven’t done another film. Contact me — I’ll organize it!”

THE WAY HE IS “He’s Robert Redford because he is dynamic and charming and bright and warm,” she said of portraying a waitress opposite the superstar in the 2005 drama An Unfinished Life.

GOOD PALS “There’s nobody on this planet nicer than Jennifer Love Hewitt,” she said of her co-star on Ghost Whisperer from 2006–’10.

GO, GIRL! She plays a camp director in Amazon Prime Video’s new An American Girl Story special, which “inspires girls to think outside thebox.”

MAMA SAID “Now that I have a son, I know that bond and how incredible it can be,” which inspired her to play Gladys Presley in the 2005 TV biopic Elvis.