1. Kyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American film and television actress.
19 Facts About Kyra Sedgwick
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Kyra Sedgwick is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the crime drama The Closer, for which she won a Golden Globe in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010.
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Kyra Sedgwick starred in the 1992 TV film Miss Rose White, which won an Emmy Award.
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Kyra Sedgwick was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the 1995 film Something to Talk About.
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Kyra Sedgwick had a recurring role as Madeline Wuntch on the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
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Kyra Sedgwick's mother was Jewish and her father was Episcopalian and of English heritage.
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Kyra Sedgwick has identified as Jewish and has stated that she participates in Passover seders.
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Kyra Sedgwick is a descendant of William Ellery, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence, and Ellery Sedgwick, an editor of The Atlantic Monthly.
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Kyra Sedgwick is the sister of actor Robert Sedgwick, the half-sister of jazz guitarist Mike Stern, the first cousin once removed of actress Edie Sedgwick, and the niece of writer John Sedgwick.
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Kyra Sedgwick's parents separated when she was four and divorced when she was six.
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Kyra Sedgwick graduated from Friends Seminary and attended Sarah Lawrence College before transferring to the University of Southern California, where she graduated with a theater degree.
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Kyra Sedgwick obtained her first acting job in 1982 on the television soap opera Another World, portraying Julia Shearer, troubled granddaughter of Liz Matthews.
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In 1989, Kyra Sedgwick played the role of Donna in the Oscar-winning Born on the Fourth of July.
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Kyra Sedgwick has starred alongside her husband Kevin Bacon in Pyrates and The Woodsman.
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Kyra Sedgwick is best known for starring as Brenda Leigh Johnson in the television series The Closer.
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In 2017, Kyra Sedgwick directed Story of a Girl, a television film based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Sara Zarr.
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Kyra Sedgwick portrayed the character of Madeline Wuntch in the comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
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Kyra Sedgwick played the lead role of Jean Raines in the comedy pilot My Village, written by Kari Lizer.
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In 2023, Kyra Sedgwick played the role of Aunt Julia in season 2 of the drama series The Summer I Turned Pretty.