Sharon Lawrence
Sharon Lawrence was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States on June 29th, 1961 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 62, Sharon Lawrence biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Sharon Elizabeth Lawrence (born June 29, 1961) is an American actor, singer, and dancer.
Sylvia Costas Sipowicz plays the role in ABC's drama series NYPD Blue.
She received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
Early life and education
Lawrence was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She went from Charlotte to Raleigh in her junior year of high school and graduated from Needham B. Broughton High School. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1983.
Personal life
Lawrence married Dr. Tom Apostle in 2002. Their wedding took place at the Greek Orthodox church Saint Sophia, the same Los Angeles church in which her character, Sylvia Costas, was born. Detective Andy Sipowicz of NYPD Blue married Detective Andy Sipowicz. Lawrence has appeared on the World Poker Tour in Hollywood, as well as in activities for the Alzheimer's Association in Los Angeles' Night at Sardi's and the What A Pair exhibit for the John Wayne Breast Cancer Center.
Lawrence is a director of the Women In Film Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Women In Film, which has, since 1973, expanded career opportunities for women in the global entertainment industry. She supports the Global Green and World Wildlife Fund, which help protect the climate and endangered species. She is an avid scuba diver.
Career
Lawrence began her acting career on Broadway in the 1987 revival of Cabaret. She appeared on Fiddler on the Roof in 1990. She appeared in a number of television shows and series in the 1990s, including Cheers and Star Trek: Voyager. In 1993, she was introduced as Assistant District Attorney Sylvia Costas in the ABC police drama series NYPD Blue, directed by Steven Bochco. Her consistently lauded appearances earned her three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nomination from 1993 to 1996, as well as the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series in 1996. Fired Up on NBC left the show in 1996 for her own comedy series Fired Up. After two seasons, the series was cancelled. She returned to NYPD Blue as a regular and then left the program in 1999 after her character was killed.
On the short-lived sitcom Ladies Man from 1999 to 2001, Lawrence starred with Betty White and Alfred Molina. In 1999, Velma Kelly appeared in the Broadway musical Chicago. She appeared on television as a regular character on Wolf Lake from 2001 to 2002. She co-starred in Gossip (2000), Little Black Book (2004), and The Alibi (2006), as a female actress in film.
In the 2000s, Lawrence guest appeared on many television dramas and sitcoms. In season one of Desperate Housewives, Maisy Gibbons, a housewife/prostitute, appeared. She also appeared in Law & Order: The Special Victims Unit, Boston Medical, Monk, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Mentalist, and Body of Evidence. Corrine McGuire appeared in the television film Atomic Twister as Corrine McGuire. As Tess Wiatt, she appeared on the short-lived CW teenage drama series Hidden Palms (2008) and was filmed in the Canadian cable television drama The Line in 2009.
Lawrence was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2009 for her role as Izzie Stevens' mother on Grey's Anatomy. Lawrence joined Josh Schwartz' CBS pilot Hitched in April 2010. Sylvia Baker, the mother of Julian Baker (Austin Nichols), arrived in Los Angeles in October 2010 to plan Julian and Brooke Davis' forthcoming wedding (Sophia Bush). She appeared in a Lifetime comedy-drama Drop Dead Diva from 2009 to 2013. In addition, she appeared in the TNT television series Rizzoli & Isles (Sasha Alexander), although the actresses are only 12 years apart. Lawrence has appeared in several independent films over the years. She appeared in Chris Carter's thriller drama series The Following in 2013. In 2014, the show was supposed to premiere on Amazon Studios. In 2015, Amazon cancelled the series before the series premiered on January 5, 2015. Lawrence appeared in the ABC comedy-drama pilot Mix in March 2015.
Lawrence appeared in the CBS short-lived comedy series Me, Myself, and I in 2017. The show premiered on September 25, but only six episodes were broadcast before the network pulled it from the schedule due to poor ratings. In the second season of Netflix comedy The Ranch, she appeared as Dawn-Lyen Gardner's character mother in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series Queen Sugar, alongside Sam Elliott. Margo Mierzejewski, a real estate mogul, appeared in the Showtime comedy-drama series Shameless from 2016 to 2019. Lawrence had a recurring role as Laura Van Kirk on The CW prime time soap opera Dynasty from 2018 and as Louise Garbeau on the Showtime comedy series On Becoming a God in Central Florida in 2019.