Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Sedgwick was born in New York City, New York, United States on August 19th, 1965 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 59, Kyra Sedgwick 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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Kyra Minturn Sedgwick (born August 19, 1965) is an American actress, producer, and director.
She is best known for her appearance on TNT's crime drama The Closer, as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson.
Sedgwick's portrayal of Johnson received a Golden Globe Award in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010.
Following the conclusion of its seventh season, the series came to an end on August 13, 2012.
Sedgwick is also known for her appearance on the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Madeline Wuntch. Sedgwick was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her role in Something to Talk About (1995).
Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Cameron Crowe's Singles (1993), Phenomenon (1993), The Game Plan (2005), and The Possession (2012).
She appeared in The Edge of Seventeen, a critically acclaimed 2016 comedy-drama film.
Early life
Sedgwick was born in New York City, the daughter of Patricia (née Rosenwald), a speech coach and educational/family therapist, and Henry Dwight Sedgwick V, a venture capitalist. Her mother was Jewish and her father was Episcopalian and of English origins. Sedgwick has identifies herself as Jewish and has stated that she participates in Passover seders.
Margaret Appleton, John Lathrop of Boston, Massachusetts, and her brother Henry Dwight Sedgwick III (the father of the Sedgwick family), William Sedgwick (the founder of the Groton School), William Ellery (a signer of the Declaration of Independence), and her brother Ellery Sedgwick (1908-1938) of The Atlantic Monthly are descendants. Sedgwick is also a niece of writer John Sedgwick and a cousin of actor Robert Sedgwick, the first cousin of jazz guitarist Mike Stern, who was half-sister of actress Edie Sedgwick, and the niece of writer John Sedgwick. She is the aunt of R&B/pop singer George Nozuka and his younger singer-songwriter brother Justin Nozuka (their mother, Holly, is Sedgwick's half-sister).
Sedgwick's parents divorced when she was four and divorced when she was six years old; her mother later married Ben Heller, an art dealer.
Sedgwick graduated from Friends Seminary and Sarah Lawrence College before heading to the University of Southern California, where she earned a theater degree.
Personal life
Kevin Bacon, a teen actor who played Kevin Bacon, was married in Sedgwick on September 4, 1988. Sedgwick discovered that she and Bacon are ninth cousins, once removed, when she appeared on Henry Louis Gates' television show Finding Your Roots in 2012.
Travis Sedgwick Bacon and actress Sosie Ruth Bacon have two children, and Sosie Ruth Bacon has two children. The family lives in Sharon, Connecticut.
Career
Sedgwick made her debut at the age of 16 on the television soap opera Another World as Julia Shearer, troubled granddaughter of Liz Matthews. In 1988, she appeared in a TV version of Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky. During the 1990s, she appeared in several Hollywood movies, including Singles (1992), Heart and Souls (1993), Something to Talk About (1995), and Phenomenon, in which she played the love interest of John Travolta's character. Acted in Critical Care (1997). She starred in the Emmy Award–winning 1992 made-for-TV film Miss Rose White as a Jewish immigrant who comes to terms with her ethnicity. She played the parts of Mae Coleman in 2003's Secondhand Lions and Stella Peck in the 2007 film The Game Plan. She also starred alongside her husband Kevin Bacon in two films: the 1991 sex comedy Pyrates, and the 2004 drama The Woodsman. She dubbed the voice of Batwoman in the animated movie Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman.
Sedgwick starred in the television series The Closer from 2005 to 2012. In 2007, she began earning roughly $300,000 per episode. Over the life of the series, she was nominated for and won several awards for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson. She received a Golden Globe award in 2007 for her performance as lead actress and won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2010. In 2009, Sedgwick was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television.
The Closer ended on August 13, 2012, following the completion of its seventh season; the series's broadcaster, TNT, said that the decision to retire the series was made by Sedgwick. A sequel series starring most of the same cast called Major Crimes continued in its place.
Sedgwick produced the television series Proof for TNT which debuted in 2015 for one season. She is also featured in the NBC comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine portraying the character of Madeline Wuntch.
Sedgwick will play the lead role of Jean Raines in the ABC comedy pilot My Village, written by Kari Lizer. The series was green-lighted by ABC and re-titled Call Your Mother on May 21, 2020, for the 2020–2021 television season.