Career Blair Brown

1 career

1.1 film
1.2 television
1.3 stage
1.4 voice

career
film

brown s first feature film role in oscar-winning 1973 film paper chase; first major starring role in choirboys in 1977. among other film credits altered states (opposite william hurt), 1 trick pony (with paul simon), film stealing home (opposite mark harmon) , flash of green (1984). arguably highest profile film role date romantic lead opposite john belushi in continental divide (1981) received first golden globe award nomination, in category of best motion picture actress in comedy/musical.

other film roles include: , alone survived (1978), strapless (1989), astronaut s wife (1999), clint eastwood s space cowboys (2000), lars von trier s dogville, kevin bacon-directed loverboy (2005) , sentinel (2006).

television

brown appeared in several television movies , miniseries, during 1980s. high-profile role jacqueline kennedy in 1983 tv miniseries kennedy earned second golden globe nomination, best actress in mini-series or motion picture made television, bafta nomination. appeared in several other programs kennedys, including 1996 miniseries season in purgatory, thinly veiled portrait of family, appearance anna roosevelt in telefilm franklin delano roosevelt , eleanor roosevelt.

brown perhaps best known five-year run (1987–1991) on comedy-drama series days , nights of molly dodd. brown played title role, , she, , show, earned small dedicated following. brown received 5 consecutive emmy award nominations each season, in category of outstanding lead actress in comedy series, never won. show spent 2 years on nbc, moved lifetime cable channel remainder of run.

brown appeared in other prime-time series including rockford files, kojak, frasier, smallville, touched angel, er, , ed. beginning in 2008, brown starred nina sharp in fox television series fringe. since 2015, brown appears on netflix comedy-drama series orange new black fictional television personality judy king, inmate loosely based on martha stewart.

stage

brown has been involved theater since beginning of career. appeared in 1975 new york shakespeare festival production of comedy of errors. among earlier roles run lucy brown in 1976 production of threepenny opera, produced joe papp , directed richard foreman. left production film work, after being away production 8 months, ellen greene, playing part of jenny, fell ill. brown astounded stage manager of production coming in and, 1 hour of rehearsal, put on brilliant performance jenny. first major appearance on broadway came in 1989, in play secret rapture, written david hare.

once molly dodd concluded, brown became prolific broadway actress, appearing in, among other productions, tom stoppard s 1995 lincoln center theater production of arcadia , 2 separate runs frau schneider in revival of cabaret (1998 , 2003). played margrethe, wife of physicist niels bohr, in play copenhagen, role won 2000 tony award in category of best featured actress in play. brown played lead role in sarah ruhl s 2006 play clean house @ lincoln center.

voice

in 1990s, brown expanded career voiceover work, narrating both audiobooks , films , documentaries. audiobooks projects include john grisham s client, lois lowry s number stars, stephen king s rose madder, kevin henkes olive s ocean, sue miller s 2005 novel lost in forest, , isabel allende s inés of soul.

her voiceovers heard on number of documentaries, including pbs s american experience series , 2007 pbs series mysterious human heart. other documentary narrations include scientific series secret life of brain, documentary on aimee semple mcpherson, aired in april 2007, , 2006 pbs documentary marie antoinette. in april, 2010, co-narrated pbs special buddha richard gere.