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Kyra Sedgwick Ari Michelson/Provided by the artist
Kyra Segwick s acting career has spanned nearly four decades but it all started on the soap opera
Another World when she was just 16 years old. I felt like a misfit toy. Because suddenly you re different from everyone else. But I was dead serious.
That seriousness led her to roles in the films
Born on the 4th of July, Something to Talk About, Singles and
Phenomenon. Her role as Brenda Leigh Johnson on the TNT series
The Closer that ran for seven seasons earned her an Emmy and a Golden Globe award. In the police procedural her character s signature, catchphrase Thank you; thank you so much. had more to it than it appeared on paper, she was incredible, underestimated wherever she went. And killed people with kindness. So her thank you thank you so much was basically her way of saying eff you. And bless his heart was a way of saying, that person is insane and I want to kill them.
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Sedgwick returns to comedy in new ABC series
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Acclaimed for such dramas as “The Closer,” which earned her an Emmy Award, Kyra Sedgwick also has comedy cred.
The actress shows it in returning to series work in ABC s “Call Your Mother,” premiering Wednesday, she plays Jean Raines, who comes to grips with how much she misses her grown children (Rachel Sennott, Joey Bragg) by traveling far to be with them . and not just temporarily. Mixed emotions result for the offspring, though usually, they re happier than not to have Mom around again. Sherri Shepherd also appears in the sitcom created by executive producer Kari Lizer (“The New Adventures of Old Christine”).
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