Blair Brown

At 77 years old, Blair Brown has this physical status:

Bonnie Blair Brown (born April 23, 1946) is an American theater, film, and television actress.

She has appeared in a variety of high-profile roles, including in the film Copenhagen on Broadway, the leading actress in the films Altered States (1980), Continental Divide (1981) and Strapless (1989), as well as a role in Molly Dodd's comedy-drama television series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, which aired from 1990 to 1991.

Nina Sharp appeared on the Fox television series Fringe and Judy King on Netflix's Orange Is the New Black.

Early life

Brown was born in Washington, D.C. Her mother was a teacher and her father worked with the Central Intelligence Agency, and her father worked with the Central Intelligence Agency. She graduated from The Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, and then moved to National Theatre School of Canada, graduating in 1969. She came to prominence as a participant actor at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and spent several years on stage.

Personal life

Brown had a friendship with actor Richard Jordan, whom she encountered while filming the miniseries Captains and the Kings in 1976. Both the couple lived together from 1976 to 1985; their son Robert Anson Jordan III was born in 1983. She dated playwright David Hare from 1985 to 1990; he referred to her as his muse. On The Tonight Show in 1989, she declared herself a Democrat.

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Career

Brown's first film appearance was in the award-winning 1973 film The Paper Chase; her first major starring role was in the Choirboys. Altered States (opposite William Hurt), One Trick Pony (with Paul Simon), Stealing Home (opposite Mark Harmon), and A Flash of Green (1984) were among her film credits. In the category of Best Motion Picture Actress in a Comedy/Musical, John Belushi, her arguably highest profile film role to date, was the romantic lead opposite John Belushi in Continental Divide (1981) for which she received her first Golden Globe Award nomination.

And I Alone Survived (1978), Strapless (1989), Clint Eastwood's Space Cowboys (1999), Lars von Trier's Dogville, Kevin Bacon-directed Loverboy (2005) and The Sentinel (2006).

Brown appeared in several television shows and miniseries, mainly during the 1980s. Jacqueline Kennedy's role in the 1983 TV miniseries earned her her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, as well as a BAFTA nomination. Anna Roosevelt appeared in several other Kennedy programs, including the 1996 miniseries A Season in Purgatory, which was a barely revealed portrait of the family, as well as the 1996 film about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Brown's fame increased during her five-year tenure (1987-1991) on Molly Dodd's comedy-drama series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. She appeared in the title role and gained a small but dedicated fanbase. Brown received five Emmy Award nominations for each season in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, but never took home a single award. The show lasted on NBC for two years before moving to the Lifetime cable channel for the remainder of its run.

Brown appeared in other prime-time shows, including The Rockford Files, Kojak, Frasier, Smallville, Touched by an Angel, ER, and Ed. In 1975, she appeared in one episode of the television mini-series Wheels. Brown debuted as Nina Sharp in the Fox television series Fringe in 2008. Brown has appeared in numerous seasons of Netflix's Orange is the New Black as fictional television presenter Judy King, an inmate loosely based on Martha Stewart.

Brown has been involved with theater from the start of her career. She appeared in The Comedy of Errors, a 1975 New York Shakespeare Festival performance. Lucy Brown appeared in The Threepenny Opera in 1976, which was produced by Joe Papp and directed by Richard Foreman, one of her earlier roles. Ellen Greene, who was playing Jenny, stunned the stage manager of the film by coming in and giving a "brilliant" performance as Jenny after being away from the theater for eight months. In 1989, she made her first major appearance on Broadway, in David Hare's play Secret Rapture.

Brown became a prolific Broadway actress after "Molly Dodd" concluded, appearing in, among other productions, Tom Stoppard's 1995 Lincoln Center Theater production of Arcadia and two separate runs as Frau Schneider in Cabaret's revival (1998 and 2003). In the play Copenhagen, she played Margrethe, the wife of physicist Niels Bohr, for whom she was named Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2000. In Sarah Ruhl's 2006 play The Clean House at Lincoln Center, Brown was the leading role.

Brown converted her career into voiceover work in the 1990s, narrating both audiobooks and films as well as documentary films. The Client, Lois Lowry's Number the Stars, Stephen King's Rose Madder, Kevin Henkes' Olive's Ocean, Sue Miller's 2005 book Lost in the Forest, and Isabel Allende's Inés of My Soul are among John Grisham's audiobooks projects.

PBS' American Experience series and the 2007 PBS documentary The Mysterious Human Heart are among her voiceovers. The scientific series The Secret Life of the Brain, a documentary about Aimee Semple McPherson, which aired in April 2007, as well as a 2006 PBS documentary about Marie Antoinette. She co-narrated the PBS special The Buddha with Richard Gere in April, 2010.

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