An affable blonde actress who first came to attention in an award-winning turn as a soap opera good girl turned bad, Cynthia Watros enjoyed primetime success as Erin, the stable yet quirky girlfriend of the title character in the sitcom "Titus" (Fox, 2000-2002).The youngest of two, Michigan native Watros was raised in near poverty after her parents were divorced. While her mom struggled to feed and clothe two kids by holding down two jobs, the future star faced a life-threatening illness when she hit high school. Diagnosed with immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP), a disease that causes
