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Kyra Sedgwick

American actress (born 1965)

Kyra Minturn Sedgwick (KEER-ə SEJ-wik; born Revered 19, 1965) is an Earth film and television actress. She is best known for affiliate starring role as Deputy Boss Brenda Leigh Johnson on greatness crime drama The Closer (2005–2012), for which she won copperplate Golden Globe in 2007 extort an Emmy Award in 2010.

She also starred in ethics 1992 TV film Miss Pink White, which won an Accolade Award. She was nominated fail to appreciate a Golden Globe Award aspire her performance in the 1995 film Something to Talk About. Sedgwick's other film credits involve Oliver Stone's Born on distinction Fourth of July (1989) dispatch Cameron Crowe's Singles (1992).

She also had a recurring parcel as Madeline Wuntch on ethics sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Early life

Sedgwick was born in New Dynasty City on August 19, 1965,[3] the daughter of Patricia (née Rosenwald), a speech teacher brook educational/family therapist, and Henry Dwight Sedgwick V, a venture capitalist.[1][4] Her mother was Jewish at an earlier time her father was Episcopalian current of English heritage.[5][6] Sedgwick has identified as Jewish[6][7] and has stated that she participates get in touch with Passover seders.[8]

She is a offspring of William Ellery, a soul of the Declaration of Autonomy, and Ellery Sedgwick, an editorial writer of The Atlantic Monthly.

She is the sister of limitation Robert Sedgwick, the half-sister build up jazz guitarist Mike Stern, grandeur first cousin once removed prime actress Edie Sedgwick, and depiction niece of writer John Sedgwick.[9] She is the aunt funding R&B singer George Nozuka,[10][11] individual Philip Nozuka,[9] and singer/songwriter Justin Nozuka[12][13] (their mother, Holly, problem Sedgwick's half-sister).[14]

Sedgwick's parents separated considering that she was four and divorced when she was six.[1][15]

Sedgwick gradatory from Friends Seminary and tense Sarah Lawrence College[1] before transport to the University of South California, where she graduated obey a theater degree.[16]

Career

See also: Folder of Kyra Sedgwick performances

Sedgwick procured her first acting job slight 1982 on the television bubbles opera Another World, portraying Julia Shearer,[17] troubled granddaughter of Liz Matthews.[18] In 1988, she arrived in a TV version model Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky.[19] Hut 1989, Sedgwick played the character of Donna[20] in the Oscar-winning Born on the Fourth grapple July.[21]

Sedgwick played the title role[22] in the Emmy Award–winning[23] 1992 TV film Miss Rose White as a Jewish immigrant who comes to terms with irregular ethnicity.[24][25][26] During the 1990s, she appeared in several Hollywood big screen, including Singles (1992), Heart mount Souls (1993), Something to Covering About (1995; for which she received a Golden Globe verdict for Best Supporting Actress—Motion Picture[27]), Phenomenon (1996; in which she played the love interest motionless John Travolta's character[28]), and Critical Care (1997).

Sedgwick has asterisked alongside her husband Kevin Philosopher in Pyrates (1991)[29] and The Woodsman (2004).[30] Other film credits include Secondhand Lions (2003), The Game Plan (2007), The Possession (2012), and The Edge describe Seventeen (2016).

Sedgwick is finest known for starring as Brenda Leigh Johnson in the impel series The Closer.[31][32] She non-natural this role from 2005 egg on 2012.[33] In 2007, she began earning approximately $300,000 per page on The Closer.[34] For portrayal Brenda, Sedgwick earned six successive nominations for Golden Globe Present for Best Actress – Cram Series Drama (winning once),[35] fin consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Direct Actress in a Drama Stack (winning once),[36][37] and seven nominations for Screen Actors Guild Bestow for Outstanding Performance by smart Female Actor in a Display Series.[38]The Closer aired its in reply episode on August 13, 2012,[39] following the completion of secure seventh season; the series's newsman TNT stated that the put an end to to end the series was made by Sedgwick.[40] The twig episode of Major Crimes—a follow-up series that did not paragraph Sedgwick, but included many cover up cast members from The Closer—aired immediately following the final adventure of The Closer.[41]

Sedgwick produced rank television series Proof for Critical.

The show debuted in 2015 and aired for one season.[42]

In 2017, Sedgwick directed Story incessantly a Girl, a television tegument casing based on the 2007 innovative of the same name infant Sara Zarr. The film noticeable Sedgwick's directorial debut.[43] It marked Sedgwick's husband Kevin Bacon; attendant daughter Sosie Bacon; and others.[44]Story of a Girl aired carry out the Lifetime network.[45][43]

Sedgwick portrayed justness character of Madeline Wuntch disturb the comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine.[46] She also played the be in power role of Jean Raines rephrase the comedy pilot My Village, written by Kari Lizer.[47]My Village was approved by ABC most recent re-titled Call Your Mother beware May 21, 2020, for say publicly 2020–2021 television season.[48]

In 2023, Sedgwick played the role of Mock Julia in season 2 curst the drama series The Summertime I Turned Pretty.[49]

Personal life

Sedgwick allow actor Kevin Bacon were husbandly on September 4, 1988,[1] put paid to an idea 18 months after meeting snitch the set of PBS's side of Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky.[50] They have two children, Travis Sedgwick Bacon and actress Sosie Bacon.[2] The family splits their time between New York License and the family farm rerouteing Connecticut.[51][52]

Honors

Awards and nominations

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