Kyra Sedgwick

Co-starred with Gerard Butler in the action thriller, "Gamer"

Nominated for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in Drama Series

Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (June)

Starred in "Loverboy" as an unsound mother who surrounds her only son with a magical world for two; directed by and co-starring her husband Kevin Bacon; premiered at Sundance (lensed 2003)

Cast as Brenda Johnson, a CIA-trained interrogator in the crime drama "The Closer" (TNT); earned Golden Globe (2006, 2008, 2009), SAG (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) and Emmy (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) nominations for Best Actress in a Drama Series

Cast in the HBO movie "Something the Lord Made" a dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) and Vivien Thomas (Mos Def)

Co-starred with husband Kevin Bacon in "The Woodsman"

Re-teamed with Bacon for "Cavedweller"; earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination Female Lead

Appeared opposite William H. Macy in the TNT movie "Door to Door"

Played Julianna Margulies' lover in "What's Cooking?"; film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival

Starred in the failed ABC sitcom "Talk to Me"; also co-executive produced

Hosted Lifetime documentary, "Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America"

Played Olivia in Broadway's triumphant Lincoln Center run of "Twelfth Night" (aired live on PBS)

Served as associate producer (also starred) for HBO's "Montana"

Portrayed the sexpot daughter of the comatose man in Bed 5 in Sidney Lumet's "Critical Care"; reunited with Mirren

Delivered a vivid turn as Southern woman with a fondness for married men and red wine in "The Low Life"

Producing debut, "Losing Chase" (Showtime); also starred as a young woman hired as a companion to a depressed, older female (Helen Mirren); helmed by husband Kevin Bacon

Starred as a single mother romanced by John Travolta in the feature "Phenomenon"

Was the face for designer Emmanuel Ungaro's new couture line

Had a small role in "Murder in the First" playing a hooker opposite Kevin Bacon's imprisoned character

Offered an acclaimed, scene-stealing turn as Julia Roberts' straight-shooting sister in "Something to Talk About"

Starred opposite Anjelica Huston in the ABC miniseries "Family Pictures"

Had featured role in Cameron Crowe's "Singles"; re-teamed with Matt Dillon and Campbell Scott

Won praise for her title performance in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production "Miss Rose White" (NBC)

First feature with husband Kevin Bacon, "Pyrates"

Re-teamed with Dillon to play a married couple in HBO's "Women & Men 2"

Played Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward's daughter in the Merchant Ivory Film "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge"

Portrayed Tom Cruise's high school sweetheart in Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July"

Broadway debut in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness!"; co-starred with Campbell Scott

First prominent role in a feature, playing a prostitute opposite Matt Dillon in "Kansas"

Feature acting debut, "War and Love"

Played the title role in the ABC Afterschool Special "Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale"

TV debut in the regular role of Julia Shearer on the NBC daytime drama "Another World"

Professional acting debut at age 15 in the Off-Broadway play "Time Was"

Performed in a school production of "Fiddler on the Roof" at age 12