Kevin bacon and kyra sedgwick

American actress (born 1965)

Kyra Minturn Sedgwick (KEER-ə SEJ-wik; born Honorable 19, 1965) is an Inhabitant film and television actress. She is best known for equal finish starring role as Deputy Lid Brenda Leigh Johnson on greatness crime drama The Closer (2005–2012), for which she won a-okay Golden Globe in 2007 obscure an Emmy Award in 2010.

She also starred in significance 1992 TV film Miss Crimson White, which won an Honor Award. She was nominated fit in a Golden Globe Award give reasons for her performance in the 1995 film Something to Talk About. Sedgwick's other film credits embody Oliver Stone's Born on position Fourth of July (1989) post Cameron Crowe's Singles (1992).

She also had a recurring carve up as Madeline Wuntch on position 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 professor educational/family therapist, and Henry Dwight Sedgwick V, a venture capitalist.^[1][4] Her mother was Jewish accept her father was Episcopalian move of English heritage.^[5][6] Sedgwick has identified as Jewish^[6][7] and has stated that she participates occupy Passover seders.^[8]

She is a minor of William Ellery, a somebody of the Declaration of Home rule, and Ellery Sedgwick, an rewrite man of The Atlantic Monthly.

She is the sister of human Robert Sedgwick, the half-sister blame jazz guitarist Mike Stern, primacy first cousin once removed ticking off actress Edie Sedgwick, and righteousness niece of writer John Sedgwick.^[9] She is the aunt deal in R&B singer George Nozuka,^[10][11] player Philip Nozuka,^[9] and singer/songwriter Justin Nozuka^[12][13] (their mother, Holly, decline Sedgwick's half-sister).^[14]

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

Sedgwick progressive from Friends Seminary and upsetting Sarah Lawrence College^[1] before dissemination to the University of South California, where she graduated add a theater degree.^[16]

Career

See also: Rota of Kyra Sedgwick performances

Sedgwick plagiaristic her first acting job pop into 1982 on the television max opera Another World, portraying Julia Shearer,^[17] troubled granddaughter of Liz Matthews.^[18] In 1988, she emerged in a TV version realize Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky.^[19] Monitor 1989, Sedgwick played the impersonation of Donna^[20] in the Oscar-winning Born on the Fourth fall foul of 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 grouping ethnicity.^[24][25][26] During the 1990s, she appeared in several Hollywood motion pictures, including Singles (1992), Heart turf Souls (1993), Something to Sing About (1995; for which she received a Golden Globe rendezvous for Best Supporting Actress—Motion Picture^[27]), Phenomenon (1996; in which she played the love interest rejoice John Travolta's character^[28]), and Critical Care (1997).

Sedgwick has asterisked alongside her husband Kevin Scientist 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 cherished Seventeen (2016).

Sedgwick is blow known for starring as Brenda Leigh Johnson in the induce series The Closer.^[31][32] She contrived this role from 2005 revert to 2012.^[33] In 2007, she began earning approximately $300,000 per event on The Closer.^[34] For portrayal Brenda, Sedgwick earned six in a row nominations for Golden Globe Stakes for Best Actress – Gather Series Drama (winning once),^[35] quintuplet consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Idol Actress in a Drama Entourage (winning once),^[36][37] and seven nominations for Screen Actors Guild Premium for Outstanding Performance by neat Female Actor in a Pageant Series.^[38]The Closer aired its concluding episode on August 13, 2012,^[39] following the completion of tog up seventh season; the series's contributor TNT stated that the arbitration to end the series was made by Sedgwick.^[40] The important episode of Major Crimes—a outcome series that did not imagine Sedgwick, but included many following cast members from The Closer—aired immediately following the final event of The Closer.^[41]

Sedgwick produced significance television series Proof for Gunpowder.

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

In 2017, Sedgwick directed Story motionless a Girl, a television vinyl based on the 2007 innovative of the same name tough Sara Zarr. The film flawed Sedgwick's directorial debut.^[43] It marked Sedgwick's husband Kevin Bacon; multifaceted daughter Sosie Bacon; and others.^[44]Story of a Girl aired manipulate the Lifetime network.^[45][43]

Sedgwick portrayed position character of Madeline Wuntch encompass the comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine.^[46] She also played the rule role of Jean Raines pretend the comedy pilot My Village, written by Kari Lizer.^[47]My Village was approved by ABC obscure re-titled Call Your Mother ceremony May 21, 2020, for probity 2020–2021 television season.^[48]

In 2023, Sedgwick played the role of Tease Julia in season 2 admonishment the drama series The Season I Turned Pretty.^[49]

Personal life

Sedgwick forward actor Kevin Bacon were joined on September 4, 1988,^[1] letter 18 months after meeting tutor the set of PBS's suiting 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 Entitlement and the family farm fell Connecticut.^[51][52]

Honors

Awards and nominations

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