
Jean Smart
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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).
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Known For

Saturday Night Live

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Tony Awards

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Kelly Clarkson Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Frasier

Celebrity Family Feud

Hawaii Five-0

The Late Late Show with James Corden

Psych

Hot in Cleveland

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Remington Steele

Veep

Batman: The Animated Series

The Facts of Life

The District

Alice

Big Mouth

Arrested Development

Dirty John

Who Do You Think You Are?

Halt and Catch Fire

$#*! My Dad Says

Harry's Law

Goodnight, Beantown

Life As We Know It

24

Fargo

I ♥ Huckabees

A Simple Favor

Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama

The Brady Bunch Movie

Before and After

Balto III: Wings of Change

Human Resources

Watchmen

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Project X

Miss Meadows

Scarlett

The Odd Couple II

The Accountant

Sweet Home Alabama

Legion

Flashpoint

When Calls the Heart

Snow Day

Fire with Fire

A Panoramic Canvas Called 'Babylon'

The Kid

Kim Possible

Garden State

Wildflower

Babylon

In-Laws

Hope Springs

Teachers Only

Piaf

Mare of Easttown

Center of the Universe

The Oblongs

Hacks
Production Credits
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