Jean Smart
Acting
- Born:
- 1951-09-13
- Place of birth:
- Seattle, Washington, USA
Biography
Jean Elizabeth Smart (born September 13, 1951) is an American actress. She has received numerous accolades including five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, four Critics' Choice Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for a Tony Award and a Grammy Award. Smart first gained prominence for her leading role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women, in which she starred from 1986 to 1991. She went on to win five Primetime Emmy Awards for her roles as Lana Gardner in the NBC series Frasier (2000–01), Regina Newley in the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? (2007–09), and Deborah Vance in the HBO Max comedy series Hacks (2021–present). She was Emmy-nominated for her roles in The District (2000–04), 24 (2006–07), Harry's Law (2011), Fargo (2015), Watchmen (2019) and Mare of Easttown (2021). She also acted in FX's Legion (2017–2019) and voiced Ann Possible in the Disney Channel animated series Kim Possible (2002–2007). On stage, she made her Broadway debut portraying Marlene Dietrich in the biographical play Piaf (1981). She returned to Broadway in the revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000) for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Smart's film credits include The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Garden State (2004), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Accountant (2016), A Simple Favor (2018), and Babylon (2022). She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Guinevere (1999). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Smart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Deborah Vance and Friends
E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
Too Good
Garden State - The 20th Anniversary Concert
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
The Studio
A Panoramic Canvas Called Babylon
Wildflower
Babylon
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
Hacks
Mare of Easttown
Senior Moment
Superintelligence
Mad About You
Watchmen
The Kelly Clarkson Show
A Shoe Addict's Christmas
Dirty John
Brampton's Own
Life Itself
A Simple Favor
The Messenger
Big Mouth
Awaken the Shadowman
Legion
The Accountant
Bad Internet
Getting Ed Laid
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
Angie Tribeca
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The McCarthys
Miss Meadows
Halt and Catch Fire
Fargo
Sirens
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Warren
Getting On
When Calls the Heart
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Waking
Hope Springs
William & Catherine: A Royal Romance
Veep
Harry's Law
Woke Up Dead
The Talk
Life As We Know It
$#*! My Dad Says
Hawaii Five-0
Hot in Cleveland
Barry Munday
Who Do You Think You Are?
Youth in Revolt
Hero Wanted
Samantha Who?
Lucky You
Psych
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
A Very Married Christmas
Center of the Universe
I ♥ Huckabees
Garden State
Balto III: Wings of Change
Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
Arrested Development
Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong
The Designing Women Reunion
Audrey's Rain
Bringing Down the House
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Sweet Home Alabama
In-Laws
Kim Possible
24
The Oblongs
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The District
Static Shock
The Kid
Snow Day
Forever Fabulous
Guinevere
Change of Heart
The Odd Couple II
Style & Substance
The View
Hey Arnold!
Undue Influence
Edie & Pen
High Society
A Stranger in Town
The Brady Bunch Movie
Scarlett
The Yearling
The Yarn Princess
Frasier
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Just My Imagination
Batman: The Animated Series
Mistress
Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
A Seduction in Travis County
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
A Place at the Table
Project X
A Fight for Jenny
Designing Women
Fire with Fire
Lime Street
Protocol
Single Bars, Single Women
Piaf
Flashpoint
Reggie
Goodnight, Beantown
Remington Steele
Teachers Only
Hoodlums
Before and After
The Facts of Life
Alice
Saturday Night Live
Tony Awards
The Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Miss Macy
Untitled Nathan Lane Documentary
Egg Baby
The Families Stone