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East Rockaway baby featured on OWN network series

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Autumn Bries Braguglia, 9 months old, of East Rockaway, landed the starring role in Mystery Diagnosis TV series on the new Oprah Winfrey Network on January.

On a segment called “When the body shuts down,” Autumn plays a baby with a medical issue. In the segment, she had to act sick and helpless. “Am amazing performance,” according to her grandmother, Morgan Avila. “It’s a very scary episode but, it has a happy ending,” she said.

Autumn is the daughter of Karen Locke and Michael Braguglia, and the granddaughter of Morgan and Michael Avila and Margaret and Robert Braguglia, all of East Rockaway.