Career
She is best known for portraying April O"Neil in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film in 1990, and as Gwen Cromwell Piper in the Disney Channel Halloweentown television films series. She is also known for her role as Tandy Hampton in the American Broadcasting Company drama series Nashville. Hoag has acted professionally since 1986.
That year, she got one of her first gigs as a series regular in the American Broadcasting Company daytime soap opera Loving in the role of Charlotte "Lotty" Bates Alden.
The series was canceled after a single season. In 1990 she starred in films A Matter of Degrees and Cadillac Manitoba, and later was cast as April O"Neil in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.
Hoag is most well known for her role as April O"Neil in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. The film turned out to be a huge success at the box office, eventually making over $135 million in North America, and over $66 million outside North America for a worldwide total of over $200 million, making it the ninth highest grossing film of 1990 worldwide.
After Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame, Hoag starred in a number of pilots not picked up as a series, and appeared in several television films, including Fine Things by Danielle Steel, and Switched at Birth opposite Bonnie Bedelia.
Hoag starred as Gwen Cromwell Piper in the Disney Channel Halloweentown television films series: Halloweentown (1998), Halloweentown II: Kalabar"s Revenge (2001), Halloweentown High (2004) and Return to Halloweentown (2006). She also appeared in the films Armageddon (1998), Flying By (2009), I Am Number Four (2011) and Hitchcock (2012). Hoag has made over 60 guest appearances on television shows, including Quantum Leap, Melrose Place, Roseanne, The Nanny, Murder, She Wrote, The X-Files, Six Feet Under, Ghost Whisperer, New York City Police Department Blue, Grey"s Anatomy, Private Practice, Computer Society of India: New York, Criminal Minds, Sons of Anarchy, Castle, The Middle, Grimm and among other notable television series.
From 2006 to 2011, Hoag also appeared as Cindy Price on the Home Box Office drama series Big Love.
She plays the poised and driven Tandy Hampton, daughter and protégé of Lamar Wyatt. Hoag will appear in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, but this time in a different role which has yet to be revealed.