 She played Sarah Powell on "Charles in Charge" for four seasons.Sarah Powell was a quiet, bookish character, and after "Charles in Charge" wrapped, Davis had a difficult time shedding that image and getting people to forget the character she created and to see her as outgoing.Beginning as a teenager, Davis studied acting with the Brooklyn-born Paul E. Richards—Lee Strasberg's "right-hand man" at the Actors Studio in the 1950s.