Name | Swoosie Kurtz |
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Caption | Kurtz at the 2009 premiere of PoliWood |
Birth date | September 06, 1944 |
Birth place | Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress |
Yearsactive | 1968–present |
Swoosie Kurtz (born September 6, 1944) is an American actress. She began her career in theater during the 1970s and shortly thereafter began a career in television, garnering ten nominations and winning one Emmy Award. Her most famous television project was her role on the 1990s NBC drama Sisters. She has also appeared somewhat sporadically in films from the late 1970s up until today, including prominent roles in such films as Dangerous Liaisons, Citizen Ruth, and Liar Liar among others. Throughout her career she has remained active in theater, earning five Tony Award nominations and winning two over the last three decades. Kurtz currently portrays Joyce Flynn on the hit CBS sitcom Mike and Molly.
, John Hurt and Kurtz at the premiere of An Englishman in New York.]]In 1978, Kurtz was part of the ensemble cast of Mary Tyler Moore's short lived variety series Mary, that also included David Letterman and Michael Keaton. In 1981, Kurtz began two seasons alongside Tony Randall in the sitcom Love, Sidney, in a role that earned her the first of her 10 Emmy Award nominations. In 1990, she won her first Emmy for a guest-starring role on Carol Burnett's comedy series Carol & Company.
From 1991 to 1996, Kurtz had her longest-running television role, starring as wealthy divorcee Alex Reed Halsey on the NBC drama Sisters, a role that earned her two more Emmy Award nominations.
In recent years, Kurtz has guest-starred on the hit shows ER and Lost and Desperate Housewives, and has also had recurring roles as Valerie on the drama That's Life, as Judy's mother Helen on the sitcom Still Standing, as Madeleine Sullivan on the Showtime drama series Huff, and most recently as part of a lesbian married couple with Blythe Danner in the TV drama Nurse Jackie.
Although her main focus has been television, Kurtz has starred in several major Hollywood films including the Agatha Christie drama Caribbean Mystery in 1983, Dangerous Liaisons in 1988, its 1999 remake Cruel Intentions, as a lesbian activist in the acclaimed indie film Citizen Ruth, and perhaps most notably, alongside Jim Carrey in 1997's Liar Liar.
She starred in the ABC television series, Pushing Daisies as Lily Charles.
Kurtz can be currently seen in CBS sitcom Mike & Molly as Joyce Flynn, mother of Molly (Melissa McCarthy) and Victoria (Katy Mixon).
Won - Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |- |1981–1983 | Love, Sidney | Laurie Morgan | 44 episodes Nominated - Primetime Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (1982, 1983) |- |1983 | A Caribbean Mystery | Ruth Walter | |- |1984 | Against All Odds | Edie | |- |rowspan=2|1985 | Guilty Conscience | Jackie Willis | |- | A Time to Live | Patricia | |- |rowspan=3|1986 | Wildcats | Verna McGrath | |- |True Stories | Miss Rollings | |- |The House of Blue Leaves | Bananas Shaughnessy | Won - Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Won - Obie Award for Best Actress in a Play
Nominated - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play |- |rowspan=2|1987 | The House of Blue Leaves | Bananas | |- | Trying Times | Wanda | |- |rowspan=4|1988 | Baja Oklahoma | Doris Steadman |Nominated - Golden Globe Award - Best Supporting Actress (1989) |- |Vice Versa | Tina Brooks | |- |Bright Lights, Big City | Megan | |- |Dangerous Liaisons | Madame de Volanges | |- |rowspan=2|1989 | Stanley & Iris | Sharon | |- | Love Letters | Melissa Gardner | |- |rowspan=3|1990 | The Image | Joanne Winstow-Darvish | Nominated - Primetime Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (1990) |- | A Shock to the System | Leslie Marshall | |- | Carol & Company | Laurie | Won - Primetime Emmy Awards - Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series |- |rowspan=2|1991 | Walking the Dog | | |- | Terror on Track 9 | Marcia Hobbs | |- |1991–1996 | Sisters | Alexandra 'Alex' Reed Halsey Barker | 106 episodes, Nominated - Primetime Emmy Awards - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (1993, 1994)
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series (1995) |- |rowspan=2|1993 | The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom | Marla Harper | |- | And the Band Played On | Mrs. Johnstone |Nominated - Primetime Emmy Awards - Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (1995) CableACE Awards Supporting Actress in a Movie or Miniseries (1995) |- |rowspan=2|1994 | Reality Bites | Charlane McGregor | |- | One Christmas | Emily | |- |1995 | Betrayed: A Story of Three Women | Joan Bixler | |- |rowspan=3|1996 | ''Citizen Ruth' | Diane Siegler | |- | A Promise to Carolyn | Kay | |- | Party Girl | Judy Burkhard | 3 episodes |- |rowspan=4|1997 | Little Girls in Pretty Boxes | Allison Bryant | |- | Liar Liar | Dana Appleton | |- | Touched by an Angel | Libby King | 1 episode |- | Suddenly Susan | Liz Miller Keane | 1 episode |- |rowspan=3|1998 | Harvey | Veta Simmons | |- | ER | Tina Marie Chambliss | 1 episode Nominated - Primetime Emmy Awards - Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (1998) |- | Outside Ozona | Rosalee | |- |rowspan=3|1999 | Cruel Intentions | Dr. Greenbaum | |- | Love & Money | Effie Conklin | 13 episodes |- | The Mineola Twins | Myrna/Myra | Won -OBIE Award for Outstanding Actress
Nominated - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
Nominated -Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play |- |rowspan=2|2000 | My Own Country | Hope Flanders | |- | The Outer Limits | Justice Kendall Woods | 1 episode |- |rowspan=4|2001 | Get Over It | Beverly Landers | |- | 'Bubble Boy'' | Mrs. Livingston | |- | The Wilde Girls | Sierra Lambert | |- | That's Life | Valerie Wilkinson | (4 episodes |- |rowspan=2|2002 | Street Time | Victoria Van Kleek | 1 episode |- | The Rules of Attraction | Mrs. Jared | |- |2003 | Duplex | Jean | |- |rowspan=2|2004 | Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes | Binny Redwine | |- | Frozen | Nancy | Nominated -Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Nominated -Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress
Nominated -Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play |- |rowspan=3|2005 | Lost | Emily Annabeth Locke | 1 episode |- | Still Standing | Helen Michaels | 2 episodes |- | Category 7: The End of the World | Penny Hall | |- |2004–2006 | Huff | Madeleine Sullivan |8 episodes Nominated - Primetime Emmy Awards - Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (2005, 2006) |- |2006 | Heartbreak House | Hesione Hushabye |Nominated -Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |- |2007–2009 | Pushing Daisies | Lily Charles |22 episodes |- |2007 | | Martha Kent |voice |- |2008 |Living Proof | Elizabeth | |- |rowspan=6|2009 | An Englishman in New York | Connie Clausen | |- |Desperate Housewives | Jessie |1 episode |- | Heroes | Millie Houston |2 episodes |- | | Judge Hilda Marsden |1 episode |- | Nurse Jackie | Mrs. Scheinhorn |1 episode |- | Rita Rocks | Marilyn |4 episodes |- |2010 |Chuck | Laura Turner |1 episode |- |2010–present | Mike & Molly | Joyce Flynn | |}
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