Melora Hardin(born June 29, 1967)  is an American Primetime Emmy Award nominee, actress and singer who started her acting career as the young star of the television series Thunder (19771978) and starred as Baby in the short-lived 1988 television series Footloose.
She starred as Baby in the short-lived 1988 television series Dirty Dancing (based on the 1987 film of the same name) and two 1992 episodes of Quantum Leap (as Abigail in "Trilogy", Parts 2 and 3). 
