Spoonauer was born in Rahway, New Jersey, and raised in Freehold Township.[2] She attended Brookdale Community College, where she was spotted (in an acting class) by Clerks director Kevin Smith, who was having difficulty casting the part of Caitlin. He offered her the role and a script, and she later accepted.[3] Spoonauer's only other film credit is for the Gabe Torres' film Bartender.
Personal life
Spoonauer began dating her Clerks co-star Jeff Anderson in 1993, and they were married for one year from 1998 to 1999.[4] According to the documentary Snowball Effect: The Story of Clerks, Anderson proposed to Spoonauer on the set of Clerks.
Spoonauer married Tom Caron in 2007[5] and relocated to Jackson Township, New Jersey, where she became a restaurant manager and event planner.[2][3] Spoonauer had one daughter with Caron and a stepson from Caron's previous marriage.[citation needed]
Her brother Mike, on a fundraising page for Patient Advocate Foundation Inc., related that she had been long suffering from a chronic illness. Spoonauer had travelled to the Mayo Clinic in 2014 for treatment; a Facebook post from that time revealed that she had already been seeing "countless other specialists over the last 7 years".[7][8]
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