1. Sharon Elizabeth Lawrence was born on June 29,1961 and is an American actress.
23 Facts About Sharon Lawrence
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Sharon Lawrence received three additional Emmy Awards nominations for her later television performances.
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Sharon Lawrence moved from Charlotte to Raleigh in her junior year of high school and graduated from Needham B Broughton High School.
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Sharon Lawrence attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1983.
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Sharon Lawrence began her acting career on Broadway in the 1987 revival of Cabaret.
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Sharon Lawrence appeared in a number of television movies and series in the 1990s, like Cheers and Star Trek: Voyager.
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Sharon Lawrence's consistently praised performance earned the actress three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nominations from 1993 to 1996, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series in 1996.
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Sharon Lawrence later returned to NYPD Blue as a regular, and left the show in 1999, after her character was killed.
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Sharon Lawrence starred with Betty White and Alfred Molina on the short-lived sitcom Ladies Man from 1999 to 2001.
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Sharon Lawrence played Velma Kelly in the Broadway musical Chicago in 2000.
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Sharon Lawrence had a series regular role on the CBS supernatural drama Wolf Lake from 2001 to 2002.
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Sharon Lawrence guest starred on many television dramas and sitcoms in the 2000s.
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Sharon Lawrence starred in TV movie Atomic Twister as Corrine McGuire.
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Sharon Lawrence had a regular role on the short-lived CW teenage drama series Hidden Palms, as Tess Wiatt, and was seen in the Canadian cable television drama The Line in 2009.
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In 2009, Sharon Lawrence was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal as Izzie Stevens' mother on Grey's Anatomy.
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Sharon Lawrence played the lead character mother in a Lifetime comedy-drama Drop Dead Diva from 2009 to 2013.
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In recent years, Sharon Lawrence has starred in several independent films.
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In March 2015, Sharon Lawrence was cast in the ABC comedy-drama pilot Mix.
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In 2017, Lawrence starred in the CBS short-lived comedy series Me, Myself and I The show premiered September 25 but aired only six episodes before the network pulled it from the schedule due to low ratings.
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Sharon Lawrence later had a recurring role as Laura Van Kirk on The CW prime time soap opera Dynasty starting in 2018, and as Louise Garbeau on the Showtime comedy series On Becoming a God in Central Florida in 2019.
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In 2021, Sharon Lawrence had recurring roles in Punky Brewster and Rebel.
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Sharon Lawrence later starred in the Paramount+ neo-Western series, Joe Pickett.
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Sharon Lawrence has played on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home and performed in benefits for the Alzheimer's Association in Los Angeles called Night at Sardi's and the What A Pair show for the John Wayne Breast Cancer Center.