Blair Brown

Blair Brown is an American actress, producer, director, and voice-over actor. She was born in Washington, D.C., but received her thespian training at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal. She is the mother of Robert Jordan, born in 1983, as a result of her long relationship with Richard Jordan.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001974/bio

Brown has appeared in numerous television shows, feature films, and stage productions. She plays a recurring role as Nina Sharp, a pharmaceutical executive, on the television series Fringe. Earlier credits include appearances on 1970s-era shows Kojak and The Rockford Files. In the 1980s, she portrayed First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the TV miniseries Kennedy.http://www.fox.com/fringe/bios/blair-brown.htm#type:actor

Brown didn't originally intend to be an actress; originally, she had been planning to pursue a career in medicine. However, a sudden decision to apply to Canada's National Theater School changed the course of her professional life.http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/195786/Blair_Brown_Credits#collapse17

Her Broadway credits include The Secret Rapture, Arcadia, Cabaret, and The Dead with Christopher Walken. Brown has also credits off-Broadway, as well. She performed in the Shakespeare work The Tempest in addition to A Comedy of Errors at the New York Shakespeare Festival. She also worked for entire seasons at the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival and Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minn.

Brown has directed several theater productions, too: Rosemary and I, Lovely Day, and A Feminine Ending. She has also narrated or done voice work on at least 50 documentaries and audio books.http://www.fox.com/fringe/bios/blair-brown.htm#type:actor

On the big screen, Brown's credits include Stealing Home (with Mark Harmon), Strapless, Altered States, The Astronaut's Wife (with Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp) Dogville, Space Cowboys, and more.

An interesting side note to Brown's career is that she played the first woman President of the U.S. in the 1992 TV-movie Majority Rule.http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/195786/Blair_Brown_Credits

• 2008: Fringehttp://www.tvrage.com/person/id-27748/Blair+Brown

• 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004: American Experience (voice - narrator) http://www.tvrage.com/person/id-27748/Blair+Brown

• 2004: Law & Order: Special Victims Unithttp://www.tvrage.com/person/id-27748/Blair+Brown

• 2004: ERhttp://www.tvrage.com/person/id-27748/Blair+Brown

• 2004, 2003: Edhttp://www.tvrage.com/person/id-27748/Blair+Brown

• 2003: Law & Orderhttp://www.tvrage.com/person/id-27748/Blair+Brown

• 2002: CSI: Miamihttp://www.tvrage.com/person/id-27748/Blair+Brown

• 2002: Smallvillehttp://www.tvrage.com/person/id-27748/Blair+Brown

• 2001: Hallmark Hall of Famehttp://www.tvrage.com/person/id-27748/Blair+Brown

• 1995: Frasierhttp://www.tvrage.com/person/id-27748/Blair+Brown

• 1985: The ABC After School Special: "Don't Touch"http://www.tvrage.com/person/id-27748/Blair+Brown

• 1976: Kojakhttp://www.tvrage.com/person/id-27748/Blair+Brown

• 1975: The Rockford Fileshttp://www.tvrage.com/person/id-27748/Blair+Brown

"Because the show is so complicated, the best part is that when people come up to you on the street it's less about 'I love the show,' and more about 'Can you tell me why...?' Which is why I have to keep up. Even the episodes I'm in I always read."--thetvaddict.com