Calista Flockhart

Calista Kay Flockhart ( born November 11, 1964 in Freeport, Illinois ) is an American actress.

Life and career

He grew Flockhart in the U.S. state of New York, after she was forced to move with their parents from Iowa Minnesota, and later to New Jersey. After her high school graduation she studied at Rutgers University in New Jersey Acting and received her bachelor's degree. After first engagements on Broadway, where she played Williams - piece Glass Menagerie Tennessee, among others, they got bigger roles in several films, including 1996 The Birdcage - A paradise for birds shrill and 1997 American Dreamer - Charming liar.

The big breakthrough came Flockhart in 1997 in the role of Ally McBeal in the eponymous television series. Ally McBeal was a huge ratings success and ran until 2002. Nominated she was in the years 1998, 1999 and 2001 for the Emmy. In 1998 she got for her role Golden Globe and 2000 People's Choice Award. Flockhart received in 1998, 2000 and 2001 together with the Ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award. Since then, the career of Flockhart is a bit stalled. From September 2006 to the spring of 2011, she appeared in the broadcast by ABC series Brothers & Sisters. In it she again played a major role as the daughter of Sally Field, and as a sister of Rachel Griffiths.

Flockhart has an adopted son (* 2001), lives since 2002 together with fellow actor Harrison Ford and has been married to him since 15 June 2010.

Filmography

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