Kyra Sedgwick

Kyra Sedgwick in New Line's Secondhand Lions - 2003

Biography

Born 08/19/1965

Kyra Sedgwick enjoyed a steady dramatic career in film and on stage and television for nearly two decades before breaking through to “household name” status as the lead of the TNT crime drama, “The Closer.” Prior to her Emmy, S.A.G. and Golden Globe award nods for the show, Sedgwick had...
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Awards

  • In 2007, received Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama
  • In 1989, received Theatre World Award

Highlights

  • In 2009, Nominated for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in Drama Series
  • In 2009, Co-starred with Gerard Butler in the action thriller, "Gamer"
  • In 2009, Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (June)

Family & Companions

  • Henry Dwight Sedgwick: father (Divorced from Sedgwick's mother when Kyra was six )
  • Patricia Rosenwald: mother (Divorced from Sedgwick's father when Kyra was six; re-married to Ben Heller)
  • Endicott Peabody: great-grandfather (Founder of the Groton School; was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's headmaster at Groton)

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