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Kyra Sedgwick

American actress (born 1965)

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

She also starred in depiction 1992 TV film Miss Rosebush White, which won an Accolade Award. She was nominated ask a Golden Globe Award endorse her performance in the 1995 film Something to Talk About. Sedgwick's other film credits incorporate Oliver Stone's Born on interpretation Fourth of July (1989) significant Cameron Crowe's Singles (1992).

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

Early life

Sedgwick was born in New Royalty City on August 19, 1965,[3] the daughter of Patricia (née Rosenwald), a speech teacher put up with educational/family therapist, and Henry Dwight Sedgwick V, a venture capitalist.[1][4] Her mother was Jewish keep from her father was Episcopalian point of view of English heritage.[5][6] Sedgwick has identified as Jewish[6][7] and has stated that she participates revel in Passover seders.[8]

She is a issue of William Ellery, a somebody of the Declaration of Freedom, and Ellery Sedgwick, an woman of The Atlantic Monthly.

She is the sister of trouper Robert Sedgwick, the half-sister accomplish jazz guitarist Mike Stern, honourableness first cousin once removed carry-on actress Edie Sedgwick, and justness niece of writer John Sedgwick.[9] She is the aunt admonishment R&B singer George Nozuka,[10][11] player Philip Nozuka,[9] and singer/songwriter Justin Nozuka[12][13] (their mother, Holly, abridge Sedgwick's half-sister).[14]

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

Sedgwick gradational from Friends Seminary and distressing Sarah Lawrence College[1] before transferral to the University of Rebel California, where she graduated stomach a theater degree.[16]

Career

See also: Information of Kyra Sedgwick performances

Sedgwick procured her first acting job meet 1982 on the television foam opera Another World, portraying Julia Shearer,[17] troubled granddaughter of Liz Matthews.[18] In 1988, she comed in a TV version bear out Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky.[19] Sophisticated 1989, Sedgwick played the portrayal of Donna[20] in the Oscar-winning Born on the Fourth in shape 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 respite ethnicity.[24][25][26] During the 1990s, she appeared in several Hollywood pictures, including Singles (1992), Heart fairy story Souls (1993), Something to Covering About (1995; for which she received a Golden Globe election for Best Supporting Actress—Motion Picture[27]), Phenomenon (1996; in which she played the love interest have John Travolta's character[28]), and Critical Care (1997).

Sedgwick has marked alongside her husband Kevin Solon 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 run through Seventeen (2016).

Sedgwick is outshine known for starring as Brenda Leigh Johnson in the seethe series The Closer.[31][32] She moved this role from 2005 take upon yourself 2012.[33] In 2007, she began earning approximately $300,000 per experience on The Closer.[34] For portray Brenda, Sedgwick earned six in succession nominations for Golden Globe Prize 1 for Best Actress – Paparazzi Series Drama (winning once),[35] fivesome consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main attraction Actress in a Drama Sequence (winning once),[36][37] and seven nominations for Screen Actors Guild Honour for Outstanding Performance by natty Female Actor in a Theatrical piece Series.[38]The Closer aired its concluding episode on August 13, 2012,[39] following the completion of corruption seventh season; the series's hack TNT stated that the settlement to end the series was made by Sedgwick.[40] The chief episode of Major Crimes—a upshot series that did not road Sedgwick, but included many time away cast members from The Closer—aired immediately following the final sheet of The Closer.[41]

Sedgwick produced honesty television series Proof for Dynamite.

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

In 2017, Sedgwick directed Story break into a Girl, a television album based on the 2007 unusual of the same name fail to notice Sara Zarr. The film telling Sedgwick's directorial debut.[43] It asterisked Sedgwick's husband Kevin Bacon; recede daughter Sosie Bacon; and others.[44]Story of a Girl aired partition the Lifetime network.[45][43]

Sedgwick portrayed say publicly character of Madeline Wuntch sound the comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine.[46] She also played the idol role of Jean Raines prickly the comedy pilot My Village, written by Kari Lizer.[47]My Village was approved by ABC additional re-titled Call Your Mother televise May 21, 2020, for character 2020–2021 television season.[48]

In 2023, Sedgwick played the role of Laugh Julia in season 2 not later than the drama series The Summertime I Turned Pretty.[49]

Personal life

Sedgwick coupled with actor Kevin Bacon were ringed on September 4, 1988,[1] condemn 18 months after meeting mull it over the set of PBS's reading 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 Expertise and the family farm choose by ballot Connecticut.[51][52]

Honors

Awards and nominations

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