Jean Smart Biography

Jean Smart earned a B.A. degree in fine arts from the University of Washington and made her professional debut in 1975 at the prestigious Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Following several seasons in regional theater Jean Smart headed for New York where her acclaimed Off-Broadway debut in Last Summer at Bluefish Cove garnered her a Drama Desk nomination and a role on Broadway in Piaf. The taping of Piaf for PBS brought Jean Smart to Hollywood where she landed a multitude of roles in television and film. Jean Smart starred in the series Teachers Only Reggie and the HBO dramatic series Maximum Security and appeared in feature films Project X Protocol and Mistress with Danny Aiello and Robert De Niro. In 1986 Jean Smart helped launch the hugely popular CBS sitcom Designing Women during which she met and married co-star Richard Gilliland and gave birth to their son Connor. Jean Smart took a big risk and left Designing Women at its peak moving on to strong performances in several television movies including a dramatic turn as America's first female serial killer in Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story and a mentally-challenged mother in The Yarn Princess. Major film credits include The Brady Bunch Movie The Odd Couple II Disney's The Kid Snow Day and a critically acclaimed scene-stealing performance in Guinevere.

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