Hallie Todd has been an actress for over 25 years. She is especially well known to television viewers for her role as Jo McGuire, Lizzie's mom on the hit series Lizzie McGuire, a role she reprised for The Lizzie McGuire Movie. Her first major role was opposite Ann-Margret in the Emmy-winning movie Who Will Love My Children?  That success was soon followed by The Check Is in the Mail, with Ann Archer and Brian Dennehy, and Sam's Son, written and directed by Michael Landon and starring Eli Wallach and Ann Jackson. Not long after, Hallie starred in Showtime's groundbreaking comedy series Brothers, which depicted television's first openly gay leading characters, and for which she earned two Cable ACE nominations for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal of Penny Waters, a role she played for five years.

Following the success of Brothers, she joined the cast of the long-running hit show Murder, She Wrote.  She also starred in the ABC comedy series Going Places and in the WB series Life with Roger, roles that were specifically written for her. Hallie starred opposite Bryan Cranston in National Lampoon’s Thanksgiving Family Reunion. In addition to her films and series regular roles, she has guest-starred on countless television shows, from Star Trek: The Next Generation to Malcolm in the Middle.

Born in Los Angeles, Hallie is the daughter of actress Ann Morgan Guilbert and producer/writer George Eckstein. In 1998, she and her husband Glenn Withrow founded In House Media, a full service media and actors’ training facility in Burbank, CA, out of which developed what has become Hallie Todd Studios, now located in Sherman Oaks, CA. Her studio and classes have gained national recognition, and have been featured on ABC Primetime, and in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. She recently authored two books for young actors and their parents - Being Young Actors and Parenting The Young Actor.