Age: 74
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Jean Elizabeth Smart (born September 13, 1951) is an American actress. She has received numerous accolades including five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, four Critics' Choice Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for a Tony Award and a Grammy Award. Smart first gained prominence for her leading role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women, in which she starred from 1986 to 1991. She went on to win five Primetime Emmy Awards for her roles as Lana Gardner in the NBC series Frasier (2000–01), Regina Newley in the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? (2007–09), and Deborah Vance in the HBO Max comedy series Hacks (2021–present). She was Emmy-nominated for her roles in The District (2000–04), 24 (2006–07), Harry's Law (2011), Fargo (2015), Watchmen (2019) and Mare of Easttown (2021). She also acted in FX's Legion (2017–2019) and voiced Ann Possible in the Disney Channel animated series Kim Possible (2002–2007). On stage, she made her Broadway debut portraying Marlene Dietrich in the biographical play Piaf (1981). She returned to Broadway in the revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000) for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Smart's film credits include The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Garden State (2004), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Accountant (2016), A Simple Favor (2018), and Babylon (2022). She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Guinevere (1999). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Smart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jean Smart
Margaret Ives
for Margaret Ives in Great big beautiful life
Suggested by sadgirl55
Alice Scott, a bubbly celebrity journalist tracks down the Paris Hilton-like heiress of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Margaret Ives, in an effort to write a biography of her extravagant and tragedy-ridden life. When Alice arrives on Margaret’s coastal Georgia island, she quickly realizes she is competing to write Margaret’s story with Pulitzer prize-winning biographer and broad-shouldered grump Hayden Anderson. Now in her eighties, the former tabloid princess puts Alice and Hayden each on a one-month trial in which they separately interview her, with a decision of who will tell her story to come at the end of the month. However, the stories Margaret provides Alice and Hayden aren’t the same, and neither writer knows why. Navigating NDAs, burgeoning romance, and professional ambitions, Alice and Hayden must put aside their differences and unravel the mystery that is Margaret Ives and her family’s empire.
