Kyra Minturn Sedgwick
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Kyra Sedgwick earned a Primetime Emmy Award for her lead role as Brenda Leigh Johnson on The Closer 2005-2012. Her breakout film role was in Born on the Fourth of July 1989 opposite Tom Cruise. She has been married to actor Kevin Bacon since 1988 and they have two children, Sosie and Travis.
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Kyra Sedgwick’s first acting role came at age 16 on the soap opera Another World. She was born August 19, 1965 in New York City to Patricia Rosenwald, a family and speech therapist, and Henry Dwight Sedgwick V, a venture capitalist. She attended private schools including Friends Seminary and later studied at HB Studio and Michael Howard Studios.
In 1989, Kyra Sedgwick played Donna, the high-school sweetheart of Tom Cruise, in Born on the Fourth of July. Her performances in Miss Rose White 1992 and Something to Talk About 1995 brought Golden Globe nominations. Her lead role as Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on TNT’s The Closer from 2005 to 2012 won her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2010. She also appeared in films like Mr. & Mrs. Bridge 1990 and The Woodsman 2004.
Kyra Sedgwick met actor Kevin Bacon while filming the television movie Lemon Sky in 1988, and they married on September 4, 1988. They have two children: son Travis Bacon, born in 1989, and daughter Sosie Bacon, born in 1992. The family resides in Sharon, Connecticut. In 2009, they discovered through the PBS show Finding Your Roots that they are ninth cousins once removed.
Kyra Sedgwick’s seven-season run on The Closer from 2005 to 2012 earned her a Primetime Emmy Award in 2010. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television on June 8, 2009, at 6356 Hollywood Boulevard. She made her producing debut with Losing Chase in 1996 and has directed television episodes. Audiences know her best as Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson.
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It’s an Unattainable Goal to Be Good at Everything. – as Quoted in Woman’s World.
Also Everyone’s Hearts Are in the Right Place When You Do a Small Movie. You’re Not Doing It for the Money; You’re Not Doing It for the Possibility of an Oscar Nomination. You Are Doing It Because You Love the Material.
I Have Too Much Respect for the Characters I Play to Make Them Anything but as Real as They Can Possibly Be. I Have a Great Deal of Respect for All of Them, Otherwise I Wouldn’t Do Them. and I Don’t Want to Screw Them by Not Portraying Them Honestly.
I Enjoy Fans Coming Over. I Don’t Do This Job and Then Look to Run Away from People and Hide Behind Security. I Love What I Do. If a Good Play Came Along I’d Grab It, but What I Really Want Is More Films. I’m a Workhorse Actor.
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Daughter of Patricia Ann Rosenwald and Henry Dwight Sedgwick. Her mother’s family were Ashkenazi Jews from Germany who arrived in New York in the 1800s; her father’s family was a Yankee clan of English descent with roots in Colonial Massachusetts. Her middle name Minturn comes from her paternal great-grandmother Sarah May Minturn.
Kyra and Kevin Bacon lost money in the Bernie Madoff scandal, though the amount was never disclosed.
On the PBS show Finding Your Roots, Kyra and Kevin Bacon learned they are ninth cousins once removed.
Favorite actresses include Diane Keaton, Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, and Meryl Streep.
Lives in Sharon, Connecticut with her husband Kevin Bacon and their two children.
Attended Sarah Lawrence College then transferred to USC, earning a theatre degree.
First cousin once removed of actress Edie Sedgwick.
Three months pregnant with son Travis while filming Born on the Fourth of July; returned to work after his birth to start Mr. & Mrs. Bridge.
Studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village, New York City.
Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television on June 8, 2009, at 6356 Hollywood Boulevard.
Auditioned for but did not get a role in Flashdance 1983.
Won the 1988 Theatre World Award for her stage role as Muriel McComber in Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness!
Film acting debut was in War and Love 1985; producing debut was Losing Chase 1996.
Older sister of actor Robert Sedgwick and half-sister of jazz guitarist Mike Stern.
Both Kyra and Kevin have starred in period films set in Baltimore: Kevin in Diner 1982 and Kyra in Something the Lord Made 2004, 22 years later.
Studied acting under Michael Howard at Michael Howard Studios in New York City.
Aunt of Canadian singers Justin Nozuka, George Nozuka, and Philip Nozuka.
Shares a birthday, August 19, with actor Kevin Dillon.
Sister-in-law of Michael Bacon and Betsy Bacon.
Attended Sarah Jessica Parker’s 40th birthday party.
Frequently mistaken for actresses Cameron Diaz and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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