Jean Smart
Jean Smart ( * September 13, 1951 in Seattle, Washington ) is an American actress.
Career
Jean Smart began her acting career in regional theater groups, including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. After she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Washington, she went to New York. There she had her stage debut in Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, an off- Broadway play, which earned her a nomination for a Drama Desk Award and helped to a role on Broadway. Consequently, they played in 1983, the young Marlene Dietrich in Piaf. Smart led the role not only on stage but also on television, which Hollywood took notice of them. Thanks to this fact, she appeared in several television productions and in 1984 made her film debut in Flashpoint - The border wolves. She got her first major role in the HBO miniseries Maximum Security as Deputy Warden Dr. Allison Brody. It was followed by other film and television productions in which she played with the Hollywood stars Robert De Niro and Bruce Willis.
At a nationally famous television star, she was one of three female leads of the series Designing Women, which ran from 1986 to 1993 on CBS. Other successes celebrated Jean Smart with the television series Frasier and 24 for her guest roles on Frasier in 2000 and 2001 she was awarded with the Emmy Award. In 24, she played a lead role in the fifth season and was involved in the sixth season with a guest role. 2006 and 2007, Smart received for her role in 24 as Martha Logan, First Lady of the United States, Emmy nominations for best supporting actress and best guest role in a drama series.
Jean Smart is married to American actor Richard Gilliland since 1987 and has with him a son, Connor Douglas. Since 2007 she has been in the television series Samantha Who? to see. For the part of the mother of the heroine Christina Applegate she received at the Emmy Awards 2008 the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.