JEAN SMART

'Jean E. Smart' (born September 13, 1951^[1][2][3]) is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actress. She is best known for the roles of Charlene Frazier Stillfield on ''Designing Women'' and Martha Logan on ''24''.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Personal life

Filmography

References

External links

Biography

Early life

Smart was born in Seattle, Washington to Kay and Douglas Smart, a teacher.^[4][5] The second of four children, she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was thirteen. She is a graduate of Ballard High School, located in Seattle. It is there that she gained an interest in acting in the drama program. Smart is a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, from University of Washington.

Career

Smart starred as the character Charlene Frazier Stillfield on ''Designing Women'' from 1986 to 1991. In 2004, she was part of the short-lived sitcom ''Center of the Universe''. Recent appearances on the big screen include ''Disney's The Kid'', ''Sweet Home Alabama'', ''Bringing Down The House'', and ''Garden State''. She also provided the voice of the alcoholic chain-smoking Pickles Oblong on ''The Oblongs'', and guest starred on ''Frasier'' as Frasier's short-fused high school crush, Lana Gardner (for which she received two Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series").
In the early 2000's, Jean Smart played the role of Supervisor of Detectives and ex-wife to Chief Jack Mannion of the Metropolitan Police Department on The District.
In January 2006, Smart joined the cast of ''24'' playing the mentally-unhinged First Lady of the United States, Martha Logan, to actor Gregory Itzin's President Charles Logan. Her work was critically-praised and she received back-to-back Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama for the role in 2006 and 2007.

Personal life

Smart is married to actor Richard Gilliland, whom she met while working on the set of ''Designing Women''. They have one son, Connor. Her husband, Richard, played an unnamed pilot on ''24'' while she was on as Martha Logan in season 5. (He was in the 2:00am to 3:00am episode.)

Filmography

★ ''Gangsters'' (1979)

★ ''Before and After'' (1979)

★ ''Reggie'' (1983) (TV Series)

★ ''Teachers Only'' (1983) (TV Series)

★ ''Single Bars, Single Women '' (1984)

★ ''Maximum Security'' (1984) (TV Series)

★ ''Piaf'' (1984)

★ ''Flashpoint'' (1984)

★ ''Protocol'' (1984)

★ ''Fire with Fire'' (1986)

★ ''A Fight for Jenny'' (1986)

★ ''Designing Women'' (1986) (TV Series)

★ ''Place at the Table'' (1987)

★ ''Project X'' (1987)

★ ''A Seduction in Travis County'' (1991)

★ '' (1991)

★ ''Baby Talk'' (1992)

★ ''Mistress'' (1992)

★ '' (1992)

★ ''Just My Imagination'' (1992)

★ '' (1993)

★ ''The Yarn Princess'' (1994)

★ ''The Yearling'' (1994)

★ ''Scarlett'' (1994)

★ ''The Brady Bunch Movie'' (1995)

★ ''A Stranger in Town'' (1995)

★ ''High Society'' (1995) (TV Series)

★ ''Edie and Pen'' (1996)

★ ''Undue Influence'' (1997)

★ ''Style and Substance'' (1998)

★ ''The Odd Couple II'' (1998)

★ ''A Change of Heart'' (1998)

★ ''Guinevere'' (1999)

★ ''Forever Fabulous'' (2000)

★ ''Snow Day'' (2000)

★ ''Disney's The Kid'' (2000)

★ ''The Man Who Came to Dinner'' (2000)

★ ''Static Shock'' (2000 - 2004)

★ ''The Oblongs'' (2001) (TV Series; voice only)

★ ''Kim Possible'' (2002) (TV Series)

★ ''Frasier'' (1993) (TV Series)

★ ''Sweet Home Alabama'' (2002)

★ ''In-Laws'' (2002)

★ ''Bringing Down the House'' (2003)

★ ''Audrey's Rain'' (2004)

★ '' (2003)

★ ''Garden State'' (2004)

★ ''I Heart Huckabees'' (2004)

★ '' (2004)

★ ''Center of the Universe'' (2004) (TV Series)

★ ''A Very Married Christmas'' (2004)

★ ''24'' (2006) (TV Series)

★ ''Lucky You'' (2007)

★ ''Tales from Earthsea (anime)''

References

1. Smart's birth date is September 13, 1951, but there have been various dates suggested in the media. Some sources have claimed years such as 1953 and 1959, but since she is Ballard High School Class of 1969 and University of Washington 1975 graduate, 1951 is the correct year of Ms. Smart's birth
2. Who's News
3. Who's News
4. http://www.filmreference.com/film/84/Jean-Smart.html
5. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019011/bio

External links

★ Official Jean Smart Website

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