Kelly Bishop
Kelly Bishop was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States on February 28th, 1944 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 80, Kelly Bishop biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Carole "Kelly" Bishop (born February 28, 1944) is an American actress and dancer best known for her roles as matriarch Emily Gilmore on the television show Gilmore Girls and as Marjorie Houseman, Jennifer Grey's mother in the film Dirty Dancing.
Sheila played Sheila in A Chorus Line, for which she received the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical.
She appeared in the ABC Family's short-lived comedy-drama series Bunheads as Fanny Flowers.
Early life
Bishop Lenore (née Wahtola) and Lawrence Boden Bishop were born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on February 28, 1944. She grew up in Denver, Colorado, where she learned to be a ballet dancer and attended the San Jose Ballet School. She went to New York City at the age of 18, and began dancing in a year-round ballet company at Radio City Music Hall. Bishop continued to dance in Las Vegas, summer stock, and television until she was cast in 1967 in Golden Rainbow, her first Broadway appearance.
Personal life
Bishop Paul resides in South Orange, New Jersey. Lee Leonard, the TV talk show host, was married to her before his death in 2018.
Career
Bishop's big break came when she was cast as the sexy, hard-edged Sheila in the 1975 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, for which she received the Tony Award for "Outstanding Actress in a Musical" as well as the 1976 Drama Desk Award for "Outstanding Actress in a Musical." She appeared in Six Degrees of Separation, Neil Simon's Proposals, the Tony Award-winning Last Night of Ballyhoo and Bus Stop.
In Paul Mazursky's big-screen drama An Unmarried Woman (1978), she was cast opposite Jill Clayburgh. She had intended for a small role in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing but after Lynne Lipton, the original actor, fell sick during the first week of shooting, she took on the role of Mrs. Houseman.
In the Betty Thomas-directed comedy Private Parts (1997) and Tobey Maguire's in Wonder Boys (2000), Bishop went on to play a "mom" to high-profile stars in film: Howard Stern's in the Betty Thomas-directed comedy Private Parts (1997) and Tobey Maguire's in Wonder Boys (2000). Ich und Er (USA: Me and Him, 1988), Queens Logic (1991), Café Society (1995), and Blue Moon (2002). On television, Bishop starred in The Thorns, opposite Tony Roberts and Marilyn Cooper. On My Wildest Dreams, she appeared as Lisa Ann Walters' mother. Kate & Allie, Law & Order, Order & Order: Special Victims Unit and Murphy Brown have appeared on Kate & Allie.
Bishop appeared in The WB/CW film Gilmore Girls as wealthy New England matriarch Emily Gilmore from 2000 to 2007. On Netflix, she reprised her role in the 2016 miniseries Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. On the ABC Family show Bunheads, she will reunite with Amy Sherman-Palladino, the show's creator, later this year.
Following the conclusion of Gilmore Girls, Bishop returned to theater, appearing in Becky Shaw in 2008 and briefly as Evangeline Harcourt in the 2011 revival of Anything Goes alongside Sutton Foster and Joel Grey.