Bill Nye
Nye at Bridgewater State University in 2007
Born	(1955-11-27) November 27, 1955 (age 56)[1] Washington, D.C.[1]
Residence	Los Angeles
Fields	Mechanical engineering
Institutions	Boeing Cornell University Planetary Society
Alma mater	Cornell University (BS)
Known for	Bill Nye the Science Guy
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William Sanford "Bill" Nye (born November 27, 1955),^[2] popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, mechanical engineer, and scientist. He is best known as the host of the Disney/PBS children's science show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–1998) and for his many subsequent appearances in popular media as a science educator.

Early life and career[link]

William Sanford Nye was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Jacqueline (née Jenkins; c. 1920–2000), a codebreaker during World War II, and Edwin Darby "Ned" Nye (died 1997), also a World War II veteran whose experience in a Japanese prisoner of war camp led him to become a sundial enthusiast.^[3][4][5] Nye is a fourth-generation Washington, D.C. resident on his father's side of the family. After attending Lafayette Elementary and Alice Deal Junior High in the city, he was accepted to the private Sidwell Friends School on a partial scholarship, graduating in 1973.^[6][7] He studied mechanical engineering at Cornell University, where one of his professors was Carl Sagan,^[8] and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1977.^[9] He was awarded an honorary doctorate by The Johns Hopkins University in May 2008. In May 2011, Nye was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Willamette University where he was the keynote speaker for that year's commencement exercises.^[10]

Nye began his career in Seattle at Boeing, where, among other things, he starred in training films and developed a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor still used in the 747. Later he worked as a consultant in the aeronautics industry. Nye told the St. Petersburg Times in 1999 that he applied to be a NASA astronaut every few years but was always rejected.^[11]

The Science Guy[link]

Nye began his professional entertainment career as an actor on a local sketch comedy television show in Seattle, Almost Live!; Nye attempted to correct the host of Almost Live! after the host pronounced "gigawatt" as "jigowatt."^[12][13] The character name came from the host's comment "Who do you think you are—Bill Nye the Science Guy?" and Nye was thereafter known as such on the program. His other main recurring role on Almost Live! was as Speedwalker, a speedwalking Seattle superhero.

Coincidentally, in 1991–93 he appeared in the live-action educational segments of Back to the Future: The Animated Series with a nonspeaking role as an assistant to Dr. Emmett Brown, played by Christopher Lloyd, in which he would demonstrate science with Lloyd's voice-over. The segments' national popularity led to Nye's hosting the educational television program Bill Nye the Science Guy from 1993 to 1998. Each of the 100 episodes aimed to teach a specific topic in science to a preteen audience, yet it garnered a wide adult audience as well. The show was very popular as a school resource and is still used to this day. He has written several books as The Science Guy. In addition to hosting the show, he was also a writer and producer for the series, which was filmed entirely in Seattle.

When portraying "the Science Guy", Nye wears a light blue lab coat and a bow tie and takes on the persona of an excited, jocular science educator. This popular image of Nye has been parodied by numerous sources, including the webcomic xkcd^[14] and the satirical news organization The Onion.^[15][16] In response to the fake headline "Crack Nearly Killed Me," Nye took the joke in good humor and sent The Onion an email thanking them for "dealing compassionately with this matter."^[17]

He appeared in his Science Guy persona alongside Ellen DeGeneres and Alex Trebek in Ellen's Energy Adventure, an attraction that has played since 1996 at the Universe of Energy pavilion inside Epcot at Walt Disney World. He also has a voice-over at the DINOSAUR attraction in Disney's Animal Kingdom park, where he tells guests about the dinosaurs while they queue for the ride. In addition, he appears in the "Design Lab" of CyberSpace Mountain inside DisneyQuest at Walt Disney World, where he refers to himself as "Bill Nye the Coaster Guy."

[edit] Post-Science Guy career

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Bill Nye "The Science Guy" and Executive Director of The Planetary Society received the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's "In Praise of Reason" Award at CSICON 2011 in New Orleans

Nye remained interested in science education through entertainment. He created a 13-episode PBS KCTS-TV series about science, called The Eyes of Nye, aimed at an older audience than his previous show had been. Airing in 2005, it often featured episodes based on politically relevant themes such as genetically modified food, global warming, and race.

He played a science teacher in Disney's 1998 TV movie The Principal Takes a Holiday; he made a hovercraft in order to demonstrate science in an unusual classroom manner. From 2000 to 2002, Nye was the technical expert in BattleBots. In 2004 and 2005, Nye hosted 100 Greatest Discoveries, an award-winning series produced by THINKFilm for The Science Channel and in high definition on the Discovery HD Theater. He was also host of an eight-part Discovery Channel series called Greatest Inventions with Bill Nye.

Nye has guest-starred in several episodes of the crime drama Numb3rs as an engineering faculty member. A lecture Nye gave several years ago on exciting children about math was an inspiration for creating the Numb3rs show.^[18]

Bill joined the American Optometric Association in a multimedia advertising campaign to educate parents on the importance of getting their children a comprehensive eye examination.^[19]

He was a regular in TV Land discussions. He has also made guest appearances on the VH1 reality show America's Most Smartest Model.^[20]

Nye appears in segments of The Climate Code on The Weather Channel, telling his personal ways of saving energy. He still makes regular appearances on the show, often asking quiz questions.

As of fall 2008, Nye also appears on the daytime game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire as part of the show's reintroduced "Ask the Expert" lifeline. In 2008, he also hosted Stuff Happens, a show on the then new Planet Green network.

In November 2008, Nye appeared in an acting role as himself in the fifth-season episode "Brain Storm" of Stargate Atlantis alongside fellow television personality and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.^[21]

Nye has appeared numerous times on the talk show Larry King Live, speaking about topics such as global warming^[22] and UFOs.^[23] He argued that global warming is an issue that should be addressed by governments of the world in part because it could be implicated in the record-setting 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. On UFOs he has been skeptical of extraterrestrial explanations for sightings such as those at Roswell and Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967.

In 2009, portions of Bill Nye's shows were used as lyrics and portions of the second Symphony of Science science education music video by composer John Boswell.

Nye recorded a short YouTube video (as himself, not his TV persona) advocating clean energy climate change legislation on behalf of Al Gore's Repower America campaign in October 2009.^[24]

Nye (as his TV persona) also made a guest appearance on The Dr. Oz Show.

On March 12, 2011, Nye made an appearance on CNN to discuss the evolving nuclear incidents in Japan as a result of the devastating earthquake and tsunami there. Nye erroneously stated that cesium is used to "slow and control" the nuclear reaction. ^[25] In reality, cesium (specifically cesium-137) is a nuclear fission product, not a control rod material. Nye also erroneously stated that the nuclear reactor involved in the Three Mile Island incident is still running and that the use of boron to slow the nuclear chain reaction is uncommon, when in fact boron-10 is commonly used in control rods, and is circulated in the coolant of reactors in the United States, as well as stored on site as a method of emergency shutdown.^[26][27]

A solar noon clock atop Rhodes Hall was gifted from Nye to Cornell on Aug. 27 following a public lecture that filled the 715-seat Statler Auditorium. Nye talked about his father's passion for sundials and timekeeping, his time at Cornell, his work on the sundials mounted on the Mars rovers and the story behind the Bill Nye Solar Noon Clock. ^[28]

Life outside television[link]

Nye speaking in 2010.

In the early 2000s, Nye assisted in the development of a small sundial that was included in the Mars Exploration Rover missions. Known as MarsDial, it included small colored panels to provide a basis for color calibration in addition to helping keep track of time.^[29] From 2005 to 2010 Nye was the vice president of The Planetary Society, an organization that advocates space science research and the exploration of other planets, particularly Mars.^[30] He became the organization's second Executive Director in September 2010 when Louis Friedman stepped down.^[31][32]

In November 2010, Nye became the face of a new permanent exhibition at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, CA. Bill Nye’s Climate Lab features Nye as commander of the Clean Energy Space Station, and invites visitors on an urgent mission to thwart climate change. Beginning with a view of Planet Earth from space, visitors explore air, water, and land galleries to discover how climate change affects Earth’s connected systems, and how to use the Sun, wind, land, and water to generate clean energy. In an interview about the exhibit, Nye said, “Everything in the exhibit is geared to showing you that the size of the problem of climate change is big. Showing you a lot about energy use... It’s a huge opportunity... We need young people, entrepreneurs, young inventors, young innovators to change the world.” ^[33]

He holds several United States patents,^[34] including one for ballet pointe shoes^[30] and another for an educational magnifying glass created by filling a clear plastic bag with water.^[35][36] From 2001–2006 Nye served as Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor at Cornell University.^[9][37] Nye supported the 2006 reclassification of Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union.^[38]

Since 2006, Nye has lived in Los Angeles in a house with modifications, though has owned a house on Mercer Island.^{[citation needed]} As of July 2007, Nye and environmental activist Ed Begley, Jr. are engaging in a friendly competition "to see who could have the lowest carbon footprint," according to Begley.^[39] In a 2008 interview, Nye joked that he wants to "crush Ed Begley" in their environmental competition.^[40] Nye and Begley are neighbors in Los Angeles, and sometimes dine together at a local vegetarian restaurant.^[40] Nye often appears on Begley's Planet Green reality show Living with Ed.

Nye made an appearance in Palmdale's 2010 video "Here Comes the Summer"^[41]; the band's lead singer Kay Hanley is his neighbor.

Nye is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, a U.S. non-profit scientific and educational organization whose aim is to promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims.^[42]

Interviewed by John Rael for the Independent Investigation Group IIG, Nye stated that his "concern right now... scientific illiteracy... you don't [the public] have enough rudimentary knowledge of the universe to evaluate claims."^[43]

Personal life[link]

Nye announced his engagement during an appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and was married briefly to his fiancée of five months, author Blair Tindall, on February 3, 2006. The ceremony was performed by Rick Warren at The Entertainment Gathering at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Yo-Yo Ma provided the music.^[44] Nye left the relationship seven weeks later when the marriage license was declared invalid;^[45] their impromptu ceremony, which preceded the license purchase, violated California state law, said Tindall in a radio interview.^[46] Nye later secured a temporary restraining order against Tindall after she entered his property late at night to pour weed killer in his garden.^[45]

Nye enjoys baseball and occasionally does experiments involving the physics of the game. As a longtime Seattle resident before becoming an entertainer, he is said to have been a fan of the Seattle Mariners, although recently he has voiced his preference (as a D.C. native) for the Washington Nationals.^[6]

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Robert Reed
Reed in 1971.
Born	John Robert Rietz, Jr. (1932-10-19)October 19, 1932 Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.
Died	May 12, 1992(1992-05-12) (aged 59) Pasadena, California, U.S.
Resting place	Skokie, Illinois
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1957–1992
Spouse	Marilyn Rosenberg (1954–1959)

Robert Reed (October 19, 1932 – May 12, 1992) was a prolific American character actor of stage, film and television. In his first big break, he played Kenneth Preston on the popular 1960s TV legal drama, The Defenders, alongside E. G. Marshall. But he was best remembered for portraying the father, Mike Brady, on the popular sitcom, The Brady Bunch, from 1969 to 1974. He also had a recurring role as Lt. Adam Tobias on Mannix.

Life and career[link]

Early life[link]

An only child, Reed was born John Robert Rietz, Jr., in the northeast Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois. His parents were Helen (born Teaverbaugh) and John Robert Rietz, Sr.^[1] His parents, high school sweethearts, were married since they were 18. The family lived in Des Plaines, Illinois at 621 Parsons Street, and Reed attended the West Division School in Community Consolidated School District 62 until 1939. His father worked in the government, and his mother was a housewife. Reed spent his later childhood years in Muskogee, Oklahoma, as well as Navasota, Texas, and later studied Shakespeare in college. In Oklahoma his father, John Sr., worked as a turkey farmer, raising 200 turkeys annually. Reed seems not to have taken in interest in his father's farm work.

In his youth, he joined the 4-H agricultural club, and showed calves. But he was more interested in acting and music. While attending Central High School in Muskogee, he participated in both activities. He was a handsome, popular student in high school, hanging out with classmates at the nearby ice cream parlor. John Jr. also took to the stage, where he performed and sang. During breaks, he also put on plays himself, practicing all night long.

John Jr. knew he was going to make it and was very serious about becoming an actor. He appeared in every school play and landed the majority of lead roles. He was a consummate professional, who demanded the same of his teen peers. In his junior year, he took a radio and speech class. His charming delivery led him to a job as the city's radio disc jockey, reading news and commercials. John Jr. graduated from Muskogee Central in 1950. His drama teacher told him the next step in his theatrical training should be at Northwestern University. John also wanted to attend the university, with a major in theater; however, his parents had other plans for him. They wanted him to study law or any other profession in college. But he took acting classes anyway, choosing to be an actor.

At Northwestern he was a member of Beta Theta Pi, and later transferred to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, in London.

During his years at Northwestern, he appeared in several plays under the direction of Alvine Krause, a celebrated Northwestern drama coach. He also appeared in Summer Stock in Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania. John performed in more than 8 plays in college all with leading roles and mastered Shakespeare as well. He practiced his skills for a camera while revealing a rarely seen, comical side. While he was working hard in college, he was keeping a private secret. He would not reveal that he was gay, especially to his best friend, Tam Spiva. Despite his sexual orientation, he was dating a woman.

When he became an actor, he adopted the stage name Robert Reed.

Well-known character actor[link]

Reed made his first guest-starring appearance in an episode of Father Knows Best, a role which led him to co-star in The Defenders. The part also led to other roles such as: Men into Space, Family Affair, Ironside, The Mod Squad, Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre, Lawman, 4 episodes of Love, American Style, Chase, Harry O, McCloud, Jigsaw John, The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, Crazy Like a Fox, The Paper Chase, among many others.

Career[link]

He first gained fame in the early 1960s for starring along with E. G. Marshall in the television drama series The Defenders from 1961 to 1965. He also appeared in the 1968 film Star!

[edit] The Brady Bunch

Appearing in the Neil Simon play, Barefoot in the Park led him to two new contracts, at Paramount Studios and ABC, both in 1968. The minute that studio decided to turn the television version of Barefoot in the Park into an African-American show, they planned for Reed to star in something else. Originally titled, The Brady Bunch, the show featured a widowed man, who had 3 kids from a previous marriage, marrying a divorcee, also with 3 kids, from a previous marriage. According to former Gilligan's Island creator Sherwood Schwartz, he said about the show's plan for 6 kids (meaning 3 boys/3 girls) to create a well-blended family: "I read a small item in the Los Angeles Times. It said that that year, 29% of all marriages had a previous spouse with a child or children from that other marriage. It was a social phenomenon that was occurring, and I said, 'I could take advantage of that.'"^{[citation needed]}

Reed was actually the producers' second choice for the role of Mike Brady, after Gene Hackman was rejected because he was too unfamiliar at the time. Also starring on The Brady Bunch was a popular singer/unknown actress Florence Henderson, who played the role of Mike's wife Carol Brady; after her best friend Shirley Jones turned down that role, in favor of another sitcom, The Partridge Family, which debuted a year later, also on ABC. Also cast on the show was the only familiar actress Ann B. Davis, as the maid, Alice Nelson, along with a half-dozen unknown stars: Maureen McCormick as the oldest girl in the family, Marcia Brady, Eve Plumb as the middle girl in the family, Jan Brady, Susan Olsen as the youngest girl in the family, Cindy Brady, Barry Williams as the oldest boy in the family, Greg Brady, Christopher Knight as the middle boy in the family, Peter Brady and Mike Lookinland as the youngest boy in the family, Bobby Brady. Reed was notoriously difficult to work with both on and off the set; despite that, the cast got along well with him. Olsen became friends with Reed's real-life daughter, who in turn made a guest appearance on the show.

However, unlike The Defenders, The Brady Bunch was a lighthearted comedy. Despite not being a Top 30 show during its five season run, which competed against two highly-rated TV series, The High Chaparral for 2 seasons (1969–1971) and Sanford and Son for 3 1/2 seasons (1972–1974), The Brady Bunch was an audience favorite of the 1970s, and appeared on dozens of magazines. It was one of five series to be canceled in 1974 (along with other ABC shows such as Room 222, The F.B.I., The Partridge Family and Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law), after 5 seasons, and 117 episodes, due to low ratings, however, the show had continued to enjoy its success in strong syndication, including TV Land.

From the beginning of The Brady Bunch, Reed was unhappy with his role of Mike Brady. He felt that acting in the often silly sitcom was beneath his serious Shakespearean training. Despite his discontent with the show, by most accounts, he genuinely liked his co-stars and was a beloved father figure to the younger cast members. In his efforts to bring more realism to the show, Reed often locked horns with the show's creator and executive producer, Sherwood Schwartz. Reed presented Schwartz with frequent, usually hand-written memorandums detailing why a certain character's motivation did not make sense, and/or why it was wrong for a certain episode to combine elements of different styles, such as farce and satire.

Reed was particularly appalled by The Brady Bunch's fifth season finale, "The Hair-Brained Scheme". He sent Schwartz a memo picking apart the episode, but Schwartz did not receive the memo promptly enough to change the show as Reed wanted. As a result, the disgusted Reed told Schwartz they'd have to do the episode without him, which they did, changing the shooting schedule and giving Mike Brady's lines to other characters. As a result Schwartz fired him from the series — which turned out not to make a difference because The Brady Bunch was canceled after that.

Reed reprised the role of Mike Brady in the variety show The Brady Bunch Hour, as well as The Brady Brides, several made-for-TV Brady movies, and another series that followed, The Bradys.

During the run of The Brady Bunch, Reed also had a recurring role as Lieutenant Adam Tobias on the television drama Mannix from 1967 to 1975.

[edit] After The Brady Bunch

After the end of The Brady Bunch in 1974, Reed acted on the stage and made many guest star appearances on other television shows and television movies, including Pray for the Wildcats and SST: Death Flight. He won critical acclaim for his portrayal of a doctor who wants to undergo a sex change operation in a two-part episode of Medical Center in 1975. Reed also appeared in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Rich Man, Poor Man and Roots. He also guest starred on Wonder Woman, playing the Falcon. Other notable guest appearances include: Hawaii Five-O, Charlie's Angels, Galactica 1980, Vega$, and Murder, She Wrote for at least three appearances. Reed played the regular role of Dr. Adam Rose on the critically acclaimed (though short-lived) hospital drama Nurse during the 1981–1982 television season. In 1986, he played the role of Lloyd Kendall on the daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow. He also made multiple appeances in Hunter (U.S. TV series) and Jake and the Fatman as well as The Love Boat.

In 1971, Reed was the defendant in Anglia TV v. Reed, an important case in English contract common law. Reed lost the lawsuit for £2,750.^[2]

Personal life[link]

Reed was married to Marilyn Rosenberg (1954–1959). The couple had one daughter, Karen Rietz, who was born in 1956. Karen had a small role in an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "The Slumber Caper." Her character's name was Karen and she is credited as "Carolyn Reed." This episode also reunited Reed with his co-star from The Defenders, E. G. Marshall.

Reed felt his career required him to be secretive about his homosexuality.^[3] Nonetheless, most of the Brady Bunch cast members—most notably Barry Williams and Florence Henderson—knew of his sexual orientation, and expressed outrage at the media's exploitation of it after his death.

In 1972, at the end of the third year of The Brady Bunch, Reed took his own family, his parents, along with his on-screen Brady Bunch family on vacation to New York City and London, England. In New York, he introduced the young actors to Broadway, then they headed on a crossing aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 to England. Reed enjoyed spending time with his on-screen kids, as he rarely had time to spend with his own daughter, Karen. Years after the divorce, his former wife, Marilyn, moved back to Chicago, where she remarried. Reed allowed Karen to be adopted by her stepfather.^[4]

He purchased a home in South Pasadena, California, with the money he made from The Brady Bunch, and invited his parents to live with him.

His father, John Rietz, Sr., died in 1975; his mother continued to live with her son after her husband's death, while she served as a hostess. The two got along well. Just before Reed's death, when his relationship with his mother diminished, she moved back to Oklahoma.

Reed was very close friends with actress Anne Haney. It was she who informed his daughter of his homosexuality and his having contracted HIV. She often got his HIV medication for him under a pseudonym to protect his private life.

Death[link]

Reed died on May 12, 1992, at his home in South Pasadena, California, after a six month battle with colon cancer and lymphoma; he tested HIV positive the previous year but did not have AIDS at the time of his death, as has been reported in the media. He was cremated and his ashes are interred in Memorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, Illinois next to his grandparents, Harvey and Elizabeth Rietz, and an uncle who died in childhood. Joined by many mourners at a private memorial were the cast of The Brady Bunch, and his best friends Anne Haney and E. G. Marshall. Both his mother, Helen, and daughter, Karen, declined to attend his memorial.

Actor[link]

• 1992: Jake and the Fatman (TV series) –– Happy Days Are Here Again (1987) … Kyle Williams / – Ain't Misbehavin' (1992) … Alexander Baldwin
• 1991: Prime Target Agent Harrington
• 1990: Murder, She Wrote (TV series) Adrian Winslow / Jackson / Truman Calloway, Esq. 1985/1989
• 1990: The Bradys (TV series) Michael Paul "Mike" Brady
• 1989: Free Spirit (TV series) Albert Stillman – The New Secretary … Albert Stillman
• 1989: Day by Day (TV series) – A Very Brady Episode … Mike Brady
• 1988: A Very Brady Christmas (TV movie) Mike Brady
• 1988: The Law and Harry McGraw (TV series) – Beware the Ides of May
• 1987: Duet (TV series) Jim Phillips
• 1987: Hunter (TV series) Judge Warren Unger
• 1987: The Love Boat (TV series) Barney Mason / Carl Gerra / Frank McLean / … 1977-1987 See all 6 episodes
• 1986: Search for Tomorrow (TV series) Lloyd Kendall
• 1986: Hotel (TV series) Jason Beck / Larry Dawson / Phil Jamison 1983-1986
• 1986: Crazy Like a Fox (TV series) – Just Another Fox in the Crowd
• 1985: Glitter (TV series) – Suddenly Innocent
• 1985: International Airport (TV movie) Carl Roberts
• 1985: Finder of Lost Loves (TV series) – From the Heart … Tim Sanderson
• 1984: Cover Up (TV series) – A Subtle Seduction … Martin Dunbar
• 1984: Matt Houston (TV series) – Stolen … Bradley Denholm
• 1984: The Mississippi (TV series) – Abigail … Tyler Marshall
• 1983: Fantasy Island (TV series) Leo Drake / Shakespeare 1978-1983
• 1982: ABC Afterschool Specials (TV series) – Between Two Loves … Henry Forbes
• 1981: Nurse (TV series) Dr. Adam Rose - See all 25 episodes 1981-1982
• 1981: Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (TV movie) David Palmer
• 1981: The Brady Girls Get Married (TV movie) Mike Brady
• 1980: Casino (TV movie) Darius
• 1980: Charlie's Angels (TV series) Glenn Staley
• 1980: Nurse (TV movie) Dr. Kenneth Rose
• 1980: Scruples (TV mini-series) Josh Hillman
• 1980: Galactica 1980 (TV series) Dr. Donald Mortinson / Professor Mortinson
• 1979: The Seekers (TV movie) Daniel Clapper
• 1979: Hawaii Five-O (TV series) Matthew Meighan / Richard Slade
• 1979: Vega$ (TV series) Johnny 'J.T. Rodmore' Roth / Mike Logan 1978-1979
• 1979: Love's Savage Fury (TV movie) Commander Marston
• 1979: The Paper Chase (TV series) – Once More with Feeling … Professor Howard
• 1979: Mandrake (TV movie) Arkadian
• 1978: Bud and Lou (TV movie) Alan Randall
• 1978: Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery (TV movie) Jack Kimball
• 1978: The Runaways (TV series) David McKay
• 1977: The Hunted Lady (TV movie) Dr. Arthur Sills
• 1977: Barnaby Jones (TV series) – Death Beat … DeWitt Robinson
• 1977: The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (TV series) Mike Brady - See all 9 episodes 1976-1977
• 1977: SST: Death Flight (TV movie) Captain Jim Walsh
• 1977: The Love Boat II (TV movie) Stephen Palmer
• 1977: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV series) Captain John C. Fremont
• 1977: Kit Carson and the Mountain Men (TV movie) Capt. John C. Fremont
• 1977: Roots (TV mini-series) Dr. William Reynolds
• 1976: The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (TV series) – The Pluto File … The Falcon
• 1976: Revenge for a Rape (TV movie) Sheriff Paley
• 1976: The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (TV movie) Johnny Lubitch
• 1976: Nightmare in Badham County (TV movie) Supt. Dancer
• 1976: Lanigan's Rabbi (TV series) – Pilot … Morton Galen
• 1976: Law and Order (TV movie) Aaron Levine
• 1976: Rich Man, Poor Man (TV mini-series) Teddy Boylan
• 1976: Jigsaw John (TV series) – Promise to Kill … Alan Bellamy
• 1976: The Streets of San Francisco (TV series) … Dr. Arnold Stephen Holtfield/Dr. Martin Avery/Peter Callahan/Dr. Raymond Faraday/Dr. William M. Debner
• 1975: McCloud (TV series) – Fire! … Jason Carter
• 1975: Medical Center (TV series) Dr. Pat Caddison
• 1975: The Secret Night Caller (TV movie) Freddy Durant
• 1974: Harry O (TV series) – Accounts Balanced … Paul Virdon
• 1968: Mannix (TV series) Lt. Adam Tobias / Lieutenant Adam Tobias See all 22 episodes 1968-1975
• 1969: The Brady Bunch (TV series) Mike Brady / Grandpa Brady See all 117 episodes 1969-1974
• 1974: Chase (TV series) – Remote Control … Dr. Playter
• 1974: Pray for the Wildcats (TV movie) Paul McIlvain
• 1973: The World of Sid & Marty Krofft at the Hollywood Bowl (TV movie) Audience member (uncredited)
• 1973: The Man Who Could Talk to Kids (TV movie) Tom Lassiter
• 1973: Intertect (TV movie) Blake Hollister
• 1973: Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law (TV series) – They've Got to Blame Somebody
• 1973: Snatched (TV movie) Frank McCloy
• 1972: Mission: Impossible (TV series) – Hit … Assistant District Attorney Arthur Reynolds
• 1972: Haunts of the Very Rich (TV movie) Reverend John Fellows
• 1972: Mod Squad (TV series) – The Connection … Jerry Silver
• 1972: Assignment: Munich (TV movie) Doug Mitchell 'Mitch'
• 1971: Love, American Style (TV series) … Wayne 1969-1971
• 1971: The City (TV movie) Sealy Graham
• 1969: The Maltese Bippy Police Lt. Tim Crane
• 1968: Journey to the Unknown (TV series) – The New People … Hank Prentiss
• 1968: Star! Charles Fraser
• 1968: Journey Into Darkness (episode 'The New People') Hank Prentiss
• 1967: Ironside (TV series) – Light at the End of the Journey … Jerry Pearson
• 1967: Hondo (TV series) – Hondo and the Superstition Massacre … Frank Davis
• 1967: Li'l Abner (TV movie) Senator Cod
• 1967: Hurry Sundown Lars Finchley
• 1966: Family Affair (TV series) – Think Deep … Julian Hill
• 1966: Preview Tonight (TV series) – Somewhere in Italy... Company B! … Lieutenant John Leahy
• 1966: Operation Razzle-Dazzle (TV movie) Lieutenant John Leahy
• 1965: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV series) – The Admiral … Lieutenant Chris Callahan
• 1965: Dr. Kildare (TV series) … Judd Morrison See all 6 episodes
• 1961: The Defenders (TV series) … Kenneth Preston See all 132 episodes 1961-1965
• 1961: Bloodlust! Johnny Randall
• 1961: Tallahassee 7000 (TV series) – Hostage
• 1960: Lawman (TV series) – Left Hand of the Law … Jim Malone
• 1960: Bronco (TV series) – Volunteers from Aberdeen … Tom Fuller
• 1960: Men Into Space (TV series) – Earthbound … Russell Smith
• 1959: Father Knows Best (TV series) Tom Cameron – The Impostor
• 1958: Torpedo Run Woolsey (uncredited)
• 1958: The Hunters Jackson (uncredited)
• 1957: Pal Joey (film) Boy Friend (uncredited)

References[link]

External links[link]

Biography portal

• Robert Reed at the Internet Movie Database
• Robert Reed at the Internet Broadway Database
• Robert Reed at Find a Grave

Diane Sawyer
Sawyer at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Jesus Henry Christ
Born	Lila Diane Sawyer (1945-12-22) December 22, 1945 (age 66) Glasgow, Kentucky, United States
Education	Wellesley College, B.A., 1967
Occupation	Television journalist
Years active	1962–present
Spouse	Mike Nichols (m. 1988–present)
Website
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/DianeSawyer/diane-sawyers-biography/story?id=9380180

Lila Diane Sawyer (born December 22, 1945) is the current anchor of ABC News' flagship program, ABC World News. Previously, Sawyer had been co-anchor of ABC News's morning news program, Good Morning America (GMA).

Early life and education[link]

Born in Glasgow, Kentucky, Diane Sawyer is the daughter of Jean W. Sawyer – an elementary school teacher – and Erbon Powers "Tom" Sawyer, a judge.^[1] Soon after her birth, her family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where her father rose to local prominence as a Republican politician and community leader; he was Kentucky's Jefferson County Judge/Executive when he was killed in a car accident on Louisville's Interstate 64 in 1969. E. P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park, located in the Frey's Hill area of Louisville, is named in his honor.

Sawyer attended Seneca High School in the Buechel area of Louisville. In 1963, she won the "America's Junior Miss" scholarship pageant as a representative from the State of Kentucky.

During the period from 1962–1965, Sawyer was "America's Junior Miss" touring the country to promote the Coca-Cola Pavilion at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair.

In 1967, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in English from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. There, she was a member of the Wellesley College Blue Notes, an a capella group and Phi Sigma Lecture Society. She attended one semester of law school at the University of Louisville before turning to journalism.

Career[link]

Sawyer began her professional career in Republican Party politics. In 1970, White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler hired her to serve in the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Sawyer continued through Nixon's resignation from the presidency in 1974 and worked on the Nixon-Ford transition team in 1974–1975, after which she decamped with Nixon to California and helped him write his memoirs, published in 1978. She also helped prepare Nixon for his famous set of television interviews with journalist David Frost in 1977.^[2]

Years later, Sawyer would be suspected of being Deep Throat, the source of leaks of classified information to journalist Bob Woodward during the Watergate scandal. In 2005 Deep Throat was identified as W. Mark Felt, but prior to that, Rabbi Baruch Korff – a longtime Nixon confidant and defender known as "Nixon's rabbi" – said on his deathbed that he believed Sawyer was Deep Throat. Sawyer laughed it off, and she was one of six people to request and receive a public denial from Woodward.^[3][4]

In 1978, Sawyer joined CBS News as a political correspondent and became a co-anchor, with Bill Kurtis, of the CBS Morning News in 1981. In 1984, she became a correspondent for 60 Minutes, a CBS News investigative television newsmagazine; she remained for five years.

In 1989, she moved to ABC News to co-anchor newsmagazine Primetime Live, with Sam Donaldson. From 1998 to 2000, she would become a co-anchor for ABC's 20/20, also a newsmagazine, co-anchoring on Wednesdays with Donaldson and on Sundays with Barbara Walters.

In 1999, Sawyer returned to morning news (GMA) as the co-anchor of GMA with Charles Gibson. The assignment was putatively temporary, but her success in the position, measured by a close in the gap with front-runner Today, NBC News's morning program, sustained her in the position far longer than anticipated. The GMA program has never regained the lost viewers, nor beaten its early morning competition since Joan Lunden retired after 17 years as co-host in 1997. On September 2, 2009, she was announced as the successor to Gibson, who retired as ABC World News anchor on Friday, December 18, 2009. She left GMA on December 11, 2009, and was scheduled to become the ABC World News anchor in January 2010. However, on December 1, 2009, The New York Times reported that instead of moving to ABC World News in January 2010, Sawyer would start on December 21, 2009, three days after Gibson's departure .^[5] For over a year in 2010–2011 with Katie Couric then anchor of CBS News, two of the three network news anchors on broadcast television were women.^[6] Ratings jumped 8% for 60 days after her first four weeks, averaging 8.8 million viewers.^[7] She signs off at the end of her nightly broadcast with "I'll see you right back here tomorrow night." The show, like its competitor evening newscasts, ended the year with ratings 14% below that of the preceding year.

Career timeline[link]

• 1967–1970: WLKY-TV news and weather reporter
• 1970–1974: White House press aide
• 1974–1978: Literary assistant to former President Richard Nixon
• 1981–1984: CBS Morning News anchor
• 1984–1989: 60 Minutes correspondent^[8][9]
• 1989–1998, since 2000: Primetime Live co-anchor^[8][9]
• 1998–2000: 20/20 co-anchor^[9]
• January 1999 – December 11, 2009: Good Morning America co-anchor
• December 21, 2009 – present: ABC World News anchor^[5]

Recognition[link]

In 2001 she was named one of the thirty most-powerful women in America by the Ladies' Home Journal. In 2007 she ranked 62nd on "Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women". She has won multiple awards, including a 2009 Peabody Award for her work on A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains.^[10]

Notable interviews (selected)[link]

Sawyer has interviewed many political figures including U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. She conducted the first interview with U.S. President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton after his first election to the presidency in 1992.^[8]

On February 12, 2007, she interviewed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Her interview^{[clarification needed]} with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was his first Western television interview in a decade.

On November 14, 2011, Diane secured another exclusive by being the first person to interview Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, ten months after she survived an assassination attempt. Sawyer spent the day with the wounded politician and her husband, Mark Kelly and observed her during a speech therapy session. Diane since told People Magazine, "Of all the people I've interviewed, she's right there at the top." Diane's comment about Gabby

She has also interviewed:

Fidel Castro, President of Cuba Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense Manuel Noriega, general and the military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989 Nancy Pelosi, the first female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Richard Nixon, President of the United States[11] Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States Hyman G. Rickover, U.S. Admiral Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Jaycee Lee Dugard

She was allowed to take a special tour of North Korea.^{[clarification needed]}

From the entertainment world, Sawyer has interviewed, especially as a host of GMA:

Clay Aiken, singer (interviewed twice) Bobby Brown, singer Ellen DeGeneres, comedian Dixie Chicks, country-music group Michael J. Fox, actor Mel Gibson, actor (interviewed twice) Whitney Houston, singer Winona Ryder, actress

Michael Jackson, singer Madonna, singer Roman Polanski, film director Lisa Marie Presley, singer-songwriter Rihanna, singer Britney Spears, singer Brian Wilson, musician (The Beach Boys) Meryl Streep, actress

Sawyer also interviewed drug kingpin Rayful Edmond III of Washington, D.C., in 1989 and once again in 1997 on 60 Minutes.^{[citation needed][clarification needed]}

Personal life[link]

On April 29, 1988, she and Mike Nichols, a film director, were married. They have no children. Nichols has 3 from previous marriages: Daisy, born in 1964; Max, born in 1974; and Jenny, born in 1977. Sawyer had previously had relationships with Frank Gannon, a Nixon aide, and Richard Holbrooke, a U.S diplomat.^[12] Forbes reported that she made $12 million in 2005.^[13]

References[link]

1. ^ ^{[verification needed]}"Diane Sawyer Biography (1955?-)". filmreference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/38/Diane-Sawyer.html. Retrieved September 17, 2009. 
2. ^ Sherr, Lynn (December 6, 2008). "Diane Sawyer on Fact vs. Fiction in Frost/Nixon — The Good Morning America Host—Who Worked for Richard Nixon at the Time of His Interview with David Frost—Talks with The Daily Beast about Her Memories of Her Ex-Boss.". Blog at The Daily Beast. Accessed December 12, 2009.
3. ^ ^{[dead link]}Carlin, John (June 28, 1995). "Dying Rabbi 'Names' Watergate's 'Deep Throat'". FindArticles (The Independent). http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950628/ai_n13991211/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1. Retrieved January 10, 2009. 
4. ^ Staff writer (June 17, 2002). "Just Who is Deep Throat?". CNN. http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/06/17/deep.throat.facts/. Retrieved December 12, 2009. 
5. ^ ^{a b} Stelter, Brian; Carter, Bill (December 1, 2009). "ABC Plans Low-Key Handoff for ‘World News’". Blog at The New York Times. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/in-a-low-key-hand-off-abcs-gibson-to-depart-on-dec-11/. Retrieved December 12, 2009. 
6. ^ ^{[dead link]}Bauder, David (September 2, 2009). "Sawyer to Take Over as Anchor of ABC Evening News". The Associated Press via Yahoo! News. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090902/ap_on_en_tv/us_abc_gibson. Retrieved September 16, 2009. ^{[dead link]}
7. ^ Diane Sawyer sees 8 percent boost in ratings as ABC's 'World News' anchor, Sherryl Connelly, New York Daily News, January 25, 2010
8. ^ ^{a b c} Staff writer (April 26, 2007). "Diane Sawyer's Biography — Anchor, Good Morning America. ABC News. Accessed December 12, 2009.
9. ^ ^{a b c} Staff writer (undated). "Diane Sawyer". Internet Movie Database. Accessed December 12, 2009.
10. ^ COMPLETE LIST OF RECIPIENTS OF THE 69th ANNUAL PEABODY AWARDS
11. ^ http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20089065,00.html
12. ^ Howard, Margo (November 5, 1984). "60 Minutes' Newest Correspondent, Diane Sawyer — It Doesn't Take America's No. 1 Ex-Weathergirl to Know That the Wind Is Blowing Onward and Upward for 60 Minutes' Newest Correspondent". People. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20089065,00.html. Retrieved December 12, 2009. 
13. ^ Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/53/AU0O.html. 

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Diane Sawyer

• "Diane Sawyer Biography — Anchor, Good Morning America", at ABC News, dated December 19, 2009. (Accessed December 21, 2009).
• Diane Sawyer at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Sawyer, Diane
Alternative names
Short description	American journalist
Date of birth	December 22, 1945
Place of birth	Glasgow, Kentucky, U.S.
Date of death
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Kate Walsh
Walsh at the HBO Post-Emmys Party, Pacific Design Center, September 21, 2008
Born	Kathleen Erin Walsh (1967-10-13) October 13, 1967 (age 44) San Jose, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Alex Young (2007–2010; divorced)
Website
http://www.katewalsh.com

Kathleen Erin "Kate" Walsh (born October 13, 1967) is an American film and television actress, currently known for her role as Dr. Addison Montgomery on the ABC dramas Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice.

Early life[link]

Walsh was born in San Jose, California, the daughter of Angela C. (née Bochetto) and Joseph P. Walsh.^[1] She grew up in Tucson, Arizona. Her father was Irish, being a native of Navan in County Meath, Ireland, and mother was of Italian descent.^[2][3][4] Her mother lives in Nevada and Walsh has four older siblings. She has two sisters and two brothers, Sean and Joe, who are film-makers. Walsh graduated from Catalina Magnet High School and later studied at the University of Arizona for a while,^[5] where she got involved in regional theater. She now lives in Los Angeles. She was raised Roman Catholic.^[6]

Career[link]

Early career[link]

Before modelling, Walsh worked at Burger King and Dairy Queen. She began as a model in Japan in the 1980s where she also taught English. Later she moved to Chicago and worked with the Piven Theatre Workshop. She also performed on National Public Radio in the production of the radio play Born Guilty. Walsh later moved to New York City and joined the comedy troupe Burn Manhattan on June 27, 1987, performing in a number of Off-Broadway plays.

Television roles[link]

After playing Cathy Buxton in the "Stakeout" episode of Homicide: Life on the Street in 1996, her first major television appearance was in 1997, when she appeared on The Drew Carey Show as Carey's character's girlfriend Nicki. She wore a fatsuit in some episodes of the show, as the Nicki character was a formerly obese woman who lost weight and slowly started to gain it back. She went on to portray Carol Nelson in HBO's The Mind of the Married Man television series, and played Norm Macdonald's romantic interest in the sitcom The Norm Show. Walsh also made a guest appearance on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Mimosa, a transsexual. She sometimes appeared in sketches on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. She had a recurring role on Karen Sisco as Detective Marley Novak in 2003 and 2004. In 2005, she was cast in the ABC series, Grey's Anatomy, as Dr. Addison Montgomery, the estranged spouse of Derek Shepherd ("Dr. McDreamy", played by Patrick Dempsey).

It was announced in February 2007 that Walsh's Grey's Anatomy character Addison would be in a spin-off of Grey's Anatomy that began airing in September 2007. Taye Diggs, Tim Daly, Amy Brenneman, Chris Lowell and Audra McDonald have been cast in the spin-off, which has been given the name Private Practice.^[7][8] Walsh returned to Seattle Grace as a guest star for episode thirteen in Season 4 and episodes 15 and 16 in Season 5 of Grey's Anatomy. She also briefly returned for an episode of the sixth season of Grey's Anatomy to help Mark Sloan with his newfound daughter, who is pregnant. Later in season 7 she returned to operate on Dr. Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez) because she had been in a car crash and needed an emergency c-section. Also she returned in the eighth season in the episode If/then.

She is currently playing the character of Addison Montgomery in the fourth season of Private Practice, for which ABC has ordered a full season of episodes.^[9] On January 10, 2011 ABC picked up "Private Practice" for the 2011–2012 fall season (5th season). Walsh guest-starred in the musical episode of Grey's Anatomy, season 7 episode 18, "Song Beneath The Song".

Beginning in September 2007, Walsh has appeared in television commercials for the 2008 Cadillac CTS.^[10] She is also the current spokeswoman for Caress' Exotic Oil Infusions body wash.^[11]

Film roles[link]

The crime drama Normal Life marked her film debut; she played the sister of a bank robber played by Luke Perry. She portrayed a kleptomaniac in the film Peppermills. Walsh also appeared in the cult movie, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part 2. She had her first significant role in a major Hollywood production as Will Ferrell's wife in the family comedy, Kicking & Screaming, alongside Robert Duvall and Mike Ditka. Walsh has also appeared in several other films with Ferrell, including Bewitched (also with Nicole Kidman) and an "alternate film" to Anchorman titled, Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie.

In 2003, Walsh appeared in Under the Tuscan Sun, with Diane Lane and Sandra Oh. She played the partner of Sandra Oh's character. Regarding her various lesbian roles, Walsh said: "Do I give off a girl-on-girl vibe, I wonder? Or is it because I’m tall? I guess the chicks just dig me!"^[12]

Walsh was also set to star opposite John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson in the supernatural thriller 1408, but she had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.^[13] Walsh starred alongside Dennis Quaid and Paul Bettany in the biblical horror film Legion, that was released on January 22, 2010.^[14] On May 9, 2011, she announced, via her Twitter, that she had begun filming The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Theatre[link]

In May 2010, Walsh made her off-Broadway debut opposite Paul Sparks in Atlantic Theater Company's world premiere of Stephen Belber's Dusk Rings a Bell. The new play began previews on May 19 and opened May 27 at Atlantic Stage 2 and played through June 26. The New York Times called it "a sublime, beautifully acted drama."^[15]

She also had a long theater career in Chicago, which included roles in Happy Birthday Wanda June, The Danube, Moon Under Miami and Troilus and Cressida.

In New York, Walsh was a member of the improvisational comedy troupe Burn Manhattan and the New York City Players theater ensemble.^[16]

Fashion[link]

Kate Walsh founded Boyfriend LLC, a beauty and lifestyle company in 2010. The company launched its first product in November 2010: a perfume called "Boyfriend".^[17] HSN, a leading multichannel retailer, and Walsh partnered to launch the "Boyfriend" fragrance with live appearances by the actress/entrepreneur on HSN, November 11 and 12.^[18] Walsh's fragrance train case, including Boyfriend eau de perfume, pulse point oil and votive candles, sold out on day one exceeding sales expectations.^[19]

Leading up to the launch of Boyfriend, Walsh released 8 webimercials written and directed by the actress herself, relaying the sentiments the Boyfriend scent was developed to evoke. Launched via various social media channels, including Twitter, YouTube and select blogs, the Boyfriend webimercials have been viewed more than 200,000 times to date and were released by Walsh prior to her appearance on HSN to drive excitement and anticipation.

Personal life[link]

Walsh married movie executive Alex Young on September 1, 2007. They were married in the Ojai Presbyterian Church in Ojai, north of Los Angeles.^[20] On December 11, 2008, it was announced that Young filed for divorce after 15 months of marriage.^[21] On December 24, 2008, Walsh counterfiled for divorce, contesting the date of separation listed in Young's divorce papers.^[22] The divorce was finalized February 5, 2010.^[23]

In September 2009, Walsh launched her official website.^[24]

Social and political activism[link]

Since the summer of 2007, Walsh has been the spokesperson for Narcolepsy Network, working to promote national awareness of narcolepsy through infomercials and DVDs.^[25]

In January 2008, Walsh participated in a video for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama called, "Yes We Can", produced by will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas.^[26] She also campaigned for Obama in Arizona, Texas, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.^[27]

In July 2008, Walsh was nominated as a candidate on the Unite for Strength slate for a place on the national governing board of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in elections scheduled for 18 September 2008.^[28] On September 18, 2008, Walsh was elected to serve on the SAG board for a three year term. Walsh ran as a candidate with the Unite for Strength party who won 6 of the 11 Hollywood Division seats which were up for contention in the recent Screen Actor's Guild National Board elections.^[29]

Walsh supports pet adoption and frequently campaigns for the cause. On February 7, 2008, she cut the ribbon to a new dog adoption center named Pedigree(R) Dogstore in Times Square.^[30]

In 2005, Walsh joined the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)'s Board of Advocates, and in 2008 received the PPFA Maggie Award for an Artist who Stands Up for Reproductive Health and Freedom. Kate has participated in numerous Planned Parenthood activities, including national fundraisers, local Planned Parenthood affiliate events, the PPFA Awards Gala, and lobby day on Capitol Hill promoting the need for comprehensive sex education. In January 2009, Kate spoke at the Planned Parenthood Presidential Inauguration Brunch in Washington, DC.^[31]

As announced in late 2009, Walsh partnered with the ocean conservancy and advocacy group Oceana to call for increased sea turtle protections. She joined experts from the group on a trip to the Virgin Islands to witness the turtles' hatching and moving to the sea. In her own words: "I want to get the word out and make people aware about the challenges facing sea turtles. I also want to help get legislation enacted to keep harmful fishing techniques to a minimum and help protect the sea turtles."^[32]

Walsh referenced Oceana during a September 16, 2010 appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She told Leno that her dress was covered in sushi and sashimi as an homage to a dress made of beef worn by Lady Gaga at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. While she claimed it was sustainable seafood, Walsh later admitted via her twitter account that the sushi was fake.^[33]

She recently attended a meeting on Capitol Hill in which they marked the one year anniversary since the BP oil spill.^[34]

Filmography[link]