Jean Smart

Jean Smart is an Emmy Award winning television and film actress who is known for playing a range of unique roles. From playing Charlene Frazier Stillfield, the hopeless romantic who works with the uptight Sugarbaker sisters in Designing Women to First Lady of the United States in 24, Smart's career has shown her extensive range in talent. She won a 2008 Emmy for her role as Regina Newly, the mother of an amnesiac on the sitcom Samantha Who?.

Born in Seattle, Smart attended the University of Washington where she studied acting. A number of film roles came Smart's way beginning in 1979 when she starred in Gangsters. She then joined Goldie Hawn in the comedy Protocol, but it was her role on Designing Women which aired from 1989 to 1991 that would break her into mainstream notoriety. When the show left the air, Smart continued with television starring in High Society with Mary McDonnell and the cop show The District.

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• September 13, 1951: Born

• 1986: Designing Women

• 1992: Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story

• 1993: Frasier

• 1994: The Yarn Princess

• 1999: Guinevere

• 2000: Snow Day

• 2000: The District

• 2001: 24

• 2002: Sweet Home Alabama

• 2003: Bringing Down the House

• 2003: Audrey's Rain

• 2003: Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong

• 2003: Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time

• 2004: Garden State

• 2004: I Heart Huckabees

• 2007: Lucky You

• 2007: Samantha Who?

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