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COPYRIGHT 2006 Knight Ridder/Tribune
Byline: Luaine Lee
PASADENA, Calif. _ When actress Victoria Pratt was a little girl her father gave her a pogo stick to keep her from constantly bugging the family to play games.
"I'd have a contest with myself to see how many times I could jump without falling off," she says over lunch in a crowded restaurant here. "I remember being in the garage bouncing and bouncing, and my mom saying it was time for dinner. `I can't until I beat my last record.' I had boundless energy."
She still does. It was partly that energy and her competitive spirit that first introduced her to acting. Following a stint with a fitness magazine (both as a model and writer) she started studying acting. And Pratt found herself reacting to "action" in more ways than one. First on "Xena: the Warrior Princess" and later on "Mutant X" and "Cleopatra 2525," she exploited her athletic prowess as well as her feminine charms.
"I guested on `Xena' and the producers were looking for a show to replace `Hercules.' They got three of the girls they'd worked with before and enjoyed and put together this fabulous sci-fi show called `Cleopatra 2525,' which was a complete lark, and it was just a hoot ... It was a fantastic opportunity for me. It allowed...
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