Career
Tesreau is best known for her role as Melinda “Mindy” Lewis on the Columbia Broadcasting System soap opera Guiding Light, which she portrayed from 1983 to 1989. Tesreau also played Andie Klein on Santa Barbara from August 20, 1992 to January 15, 1993, and "whirling dervish" Tina Lord on One Life to Live from July 6, 1994 to January 24, 1997. Reappeared on Guiding Light as Mindy briefly in 2002, 2004, and again starting March 6, 2009.