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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.