Swoosie Kurtz
SWOOSIE KURTZ moves easily from major studio films and independent features to network and cable movies. She has played a wide range of roles in films that include Citizen Ruth, Liar, Liar, Duplex, Bubble Boy, Cruel Intentions, Rules of Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, Reality Bites, The World According to Garp, Against All Odds, Bright Lights, Big City, True Stories, Stanley and Irish and A Shock to the System. On Broadway, Mrs. Kurtz was nominated for the Tony Award, the Outer Critics Circle and the Lucille Lortel Award for her performance in Frozen. Previously, she played Lillian Hellman in Nora Ephron's Imaginary Friends. She was honored with the Tony Awards for her performance in John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves and Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July, for which she also received the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Circle Critics Award, Broadway Triple Crown. She earned the Drama Desk and the Obie Award for Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others, a Drama Desk Award for Christopher Durang's A History of the American Film and a Tony nomination for Tartuffe. She started at Lincoln Center in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation and in Terrence McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart at the Manhattan Theater Club. Off Broadway she was a member of the original three-women cast of The Vagina Monologues. At the Roundabout, Kurtz played both title roles of identical twins in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel's The Mineola Twins. For this critical acclaimed performance, she won her third Obie Award and was nominated for the Drama Desk and the Outer Critics'Circle Award. Swoosie received her ninth Emmy Award nomination for her performance in Huff on Showtime. Previously she was nominated for the Emmy on ER. And for her moving portrayal of a woman dying of AIDS in HBO's landmark film And the Band Played On. She was twice nominated for an Emmy and a SAG Award for her role of "Alex" in the long-running NBC hit Sisters, and twice nominated for Love, Sidney with Tony Randall. She won the Emmy for her performance in Carol and Company and received a nomination for HBO's The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, One Christmas with Katherine Hepburn, and More Tales of the City. Swoosie Kurtz is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Her distinctive name, given to her by the press, comes from the B-17 "The Swoose," now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museam. The airplane, with its record-setting fame, was flown by her father Col. Frank Kurtz who was the most decorated Air Force Pilot of World War II. Bio as of October, 2006. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Leading Ladies - December, 2006 - Watch now. Performance - September, 2003 - Watch now. Performance - April, 1999 - Watch now. Performance - September, 1986 - Watch now. Downstage Center (audio) Swoosie Kurtz - October, 2006 - Listen Now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)