21 Facts About Blair Brown

Bonnie Blair Brown was born on April 23,1946 and is an American theater, film and television actress.

Blair Brown has had a number of high-profile roles, including in the play Copenhagen on Broadway, the leading actress in the films Altered States, Continental Divide and Strapless, as well as a run as the title character in the comedy-drama television series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, which ran from 1987 to 1991.

Blair Brown graduated from The Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, and then pursued acting at the National Theatre School of Canada, graduating in 1969.

Blair Brown gained notice as a participating actor at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and spent several years working on the stage.

Blair Brown appeared in several television movies and miniseries, primarily during the 1980s.

Blair Brown appeared in several other programs about the Kennedys, including the 1996 miniseries A Season in Purgatory, which was a thinly veiled portrait of the family, as well as an appearance as Anna Roosevelt in a telefilm about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Blair Brown's visibility rose during her five-year run on the comedy-drama series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.

Blair Brown played the title role, and she, and the show, earned a small but dedicated following.

Blair Brown received five consecutive Emmy Award nominations for each season, in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, but never won.

Blair Brown appeared in other prime-time series including The Rockford Files, Kojak, Frasier, Smallville, Touched by an Angel, ER, and Ed.

Blair Brown appeared in several seasons of the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange is the New Black as fictional television personality Judy King, an inmate loosely based on Martha Stewart.

Blair Brown has been involved with theater since the beginning of her career.

Blair Brown appeared in the 1975 New York Shakespeare Festival production of The Comedy of Errors.

Blair Brown left the production for film work, but after being away from the production for eight months, Ellen Greene, who was playing the part of Jenny, fell ill.

Blair Brown astounded the stage manager of the production by coming in and, with one hour of rehearsal, put on a "brilliant" performance as Jenny.

Once "Molly Dodd" concluded, Blair Brown became a prolific Broadway actress, appearing in, among other productions, Tom Stoppard's 1995 Lincoln Center Theater production of Arcadia and two separate runs as Frau Schneider in the revival of Cabaret.

Blair Brown played Margrethe, the wife of physicist Niels Bohr, in the play Copenhagen, a role for which she won a 2000 Tony Award in the category of Best Featured Actress in a Play.

Blair Brown played the lead role in Sarah Ruhl's 2006 play The Clean House at Lincoln Center.

Blair Brown's voiceovers are heard on a number of documentaries, including PBS's American Experience series and the 2007 PBS series The Mysterious Human Heart.

Blair Brown had a relationship with actor Richard Jordan, whom she met while filming the miniseries Captains and the Kings in 1976.

Blair Brown dated playwright David Hare from 1985 to 1990; he referred to her as his muse.