Brennan Elliott

Get ready for the new year with new movies from Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries starring such staples as Alison Sweeney, Jen Lilley, Lacey Chabert, Erica Durance and more.

Vanessa Marcil, 40, may have quit daytime in 2003 and hit it big in primetime from then on, but she has never forgotten her roots. In fact, she put a little bit of herself in Kate Hewitt, her character in the Hallmark Channel Original Movie “The Nanny Express.”