Deirdre Lovejoy was born on June 30,1962 and is an American actress.
14 Facts About Deirdre Lovejoy
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Deirdre Lovejoy is best known for her role as Assistant State's Attorney Rhonda Pearlman on HBO's The Wire.
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Deirdre Lovejoy is known for her roles as serial killer Heather Taffet on the Fox series Bones and White House Counsel Cynthia Panabaker on NBC's series The Blacklist.
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Deirdre Lovejoy's father was in the Air Force, and was stationed at Dyess Air Force Base.
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Lovejoy lived in Connecticut, then Pittsburgh, before moving with her mother to Elkhart, Indiana, while Lovejoy was still in the fourth grade.
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Deirdre Lovejoy subsequently appeared in several productions at the Elkhart Civic Theatre, often alongside her mother.
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Deirdre Lovejoy earned a Master of Fine Arts from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts three years later.
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In 1990 Deirdre Lovejoy appeared in her first television role as Rosemary Kennedy in the ABC mini-series The Kennedys of Massachusetts.
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From 2002 to 2008 Deirdre Lovejoy starred as Assistant State's Attorney Rhonda Pearlman on HBO's The Wire.
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In 2011 Deirdre Lovejoy appeared in the role of the mother of a student in the film Bad Teacher starring Cameron Diaz.
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Deirdre Lovejoy has appeared in several Broadway productions, including Six Degrees of Separation, Getting and Spending, The Gathering and Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy starring Tom Hanks.
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In 2019, Deirdre Lovejoy took part in Promethea in Prison, a theatrical project that involved a reading of the ancient Greek play Prometheus Bound.
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Also in 2019, Deirdre Lovejoy starred in a one-person play she wrote, titled Bird Elephant China.
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The autobiographical play dealt with a series of unexplained seizures that Deirdre Lovejoy experienced in 2009.