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After "Designing Women," her work was mostly found in made for TV movies and supporting roles in films. In 1985, Jean became a household name when she landed a starring role on "Designing Women", playing Charlene Frazier Stillfield for five years.
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After roles on the short lived series "Teachers Only" and "Reggie," Smart had a supporting role in the thriller "Flashpoint" in 1984.

She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her performance in the off-Broadway play "Last Summer at Bluefish Cove." In 1981, Smart made her Broadway debut in a production of "Piaf". In 1980, she played Lady Macbeth at the Pittsburgh Public Theater opposite Tom Atkins and Keith Fowler. In the late '70s, she started breaking into television with small parts in "Alice", "Remington Steele", and "The Facts of Life".
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Acting CareerĪfter college, Smart started performing in stage productions around Seattle and throughout the Pacific Northwest (including at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon) before moving to New York City to work off-Broadway and in professional regional productions. She began acting at Ballard High School in Seattle, where she graduated in 1969, and earned her BFA from the University of Washington's Professional Actors Training Program. Smart discovered in season 10 of the TV show "Who Do You Think You Are?" that she is a direct descendant of Dorcas Hoar, one of the last women convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials. Smart was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 13. Smart’s star is the 2,721st on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.ĭedicated in the category of Television, it is located at 6150 Hollywood Boulevard in front of El Centro.Jean Elizabeth Smart was born on Septemin Seattle, Washington, the daughter of Kathleen Marie Kay and Douglas Alexander Smart. “You’re all part of the reason I’m up here,” she said. Giving her own short speech, Smart thanked the “fabulous” cast and production team of Hacks as well as her friends and family, including her late husband Richard Gilliland, who died last year aged 71. “And these are good Emmys, for art, these are not Emmys for like the news or something.” She had to reinforce her mantlepiece,” said Einbinder.

“If they handed out stars for good character Jean, you’d have as many as you do Emmys and folks, she’s got a lot of Emmys. She has also won four Primetime Emmys for her performances in US sitcoms including Frasier, Samantha Who?, and Hacks. Smart recently picked up both the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and Critics Choice Award (CCA) for best actress in a comedy series for her role in Hacks. “I am blown away by the rarity of a person, so talented, who is equally as kind. “It comes not from her ego but from her desire to make others feel good. The actress and comedian was joined by her friends and several of the Hacks writers at the ceremony in Los Angeles on Monday (Richard Shotwell/AP) Her humour comes from the light within her soul not the darkness. “That is precisely why she is so marvellous.

“Jean has taken such extensive care of me and everyone she holds dear, it’s just who she is. She continued: “Jean is generous in every way a person can be generous…during Christmas she drove to each of our houses and dropped off her presents to us personally.” “Even with those conditions I felt the Jean Smart presence and it made a terrifying situation a place where I could be the best possible version of myself.” “The next day I met her in person and she radiated warmth, no small feat given that we were 10 feet away from each other separated by a glass divider,” she said. “Everyone knows she’s an enchanting performer with a god-given gift for storytelling…what I’d like to focus on today is how beautiful a human being she is.”Įinbinder said that before filming had begun Hacks season two, Smart had called her and “made a point to ease my nerves”.
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