Kyra Sedgwick
KYRA SEDGWICK
(Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson)
Kyra Sedgwick has achieved success on stage and screen. She starred in "The Woodsman," which won the Jury Prize at the Deauville Film Festival and also received rave reviews at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Sedgwick received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead in the cable film "Cavedweller," which she also developed, produced and starred in. Other recent appearances include HBO's Emmy Award-nominated "Something the Lord Made" and the independent film "Loverboy."
In 2002, Sedgwick starred with Parker Posey in Rebecca Miller's independent film "Personal Velocity," winning the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Other recent credits include the Emmy Award nominated TNT movie "Door to Door," opposite William H. Macy, Helen Mirren and Kathy Baker; "Just a Kiss"; "Behind the Red Door," opposite Kiefer Sutherland and Stockard Channing; and "Secondhand Lions," starring Michael Caine, Robert Duvall and Haley Joel Osment.
Other films include John Turteltaub's "Phenomenon," "What's Cooking?," "Labor Pains," "Critical Care," "Born on the Fourth of July," "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge," "Singles," "Lemon Sky," "Hearts and Souls," "Montana" and "Losing Chase," which she executive produced, starring opposite Helen Mirren. "Losing Chase" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received a Golden Globe Award nomination and a CableAce Award nomination.
Sedgwick's theatre credits include The Culture Project's New
York production of "The Exonerated"; "Twelfth Night"; "Ah
Wilderness!," for which she won a Theater Award; and David Mamet's
"Oleanna," for which she won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle
Award and a Drama Logue Award.
