Biography
Jean Smart is an Emmy-Award Winning American stage, film and television actress, best known for her starring roles in Hacks and Designing Women. After beginning her career in regional theater in the Pacific Northwest, she appeared on Broadway in 1981 as Marlene Dietrich in the biographical play Piaf. Smart was later cast in a leading role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women, in which she starred from 1986 to 1991.
Smart was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the 2000 Broadway revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner, and she received two Primetime Emmy Awards for her role as Lana Gardner on the NBC sitcom Frasier. She won a third Emmy Award for her starring role as Regina Newley on the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? In the past decade she's appeared in TV projects such as FX's Fargo and Legion, both created by Noah Hawley, as well as in the HBO's Watchmen, Mare of Easttown, and Hacks. The latter three earned her Primetime Emmy Award nominations, with Hacks winning her the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Smart's film credits include The Brady Bunch Movie, Sweet Home Alabama, Garden State, I Heart Huckabees, Youth in Revolt, The Accountant, and A Simple Favor. She also received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for 1999's Guinevere.
Filmography
all 112
Movies 65
TV Shows 47
Voice 8
self 6
A Panoramic Canvas Called 'Babylon' (2023)
Wildflower (2023)
Babylon (2022)
Hacks (2021)
Mare of Easttown (2021)
Senior Moment (2021)
Superintelligence (2020)
Watchmen (2019)
The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
A Shoe Addict's Christmas (2018)
Dirty John (2018)
Brampton's Own (2018)
Life Itself (2018)
The Messenger (2018)
A Simple Favor (2018)
Big Mouth (2017)
Awaken the Shadowman (2017)
Legion (2017)
The Accountant (2016)
Bad Internet (2016)
Getting Ed Laid (2016)
Angie Tribeca (2016)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
Missing (2014)
Miss Meadows (2014)
Fargo (2014)
Sirens (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
Warren (2014)
When Calls the Heart (2013)
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
Waking (2013)
Hope Springs (2012)
William & Catherine: A Royal Romance (2012)
Veep (2012)
Harry's Law (2011)
Life As We Know It (2010)
$#*! My Dad Says (2010)
Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Hot in Cleveland (2010)
Barry Munday (2010)
Who Do You Think You Are? (2010)
Youth in Revolt (2009)
Hero Wanted (2008)
Samantha Who? (2007)
Lucky You (2007)
Psych (2006)
Kim Possible: So the Drama (2005)
A Very Married Christmas (2004)
Center of the Universe (2004)
I ♥ Huckabees (2004)
Garden State (2004)
Balto III: Wings of Change (2004)
Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time (2003)
Arrested Development (2003)
Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong (2003)
Audrey's Rain (2003)
Bringing Down the House (2003)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
In-Laws (2002)
Kim Possible (2002)
24 (2001)
The Oblongs (2001)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000)
The District (2000)
Static Shock (2000)
The Kid (2000)
Snow Day (2000)
Forever Fabulous (1999)
Guinevere (1999)
Change of Heart (1998)
The Odd Couple II (1998)
Style & Substance (1998)
The View (1997)
Hey Arnold! (1996)
Undue Influence (1996)
Edie & Pen (1996)
High Society (1995)
A Stranger in Town (1995)
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
Scarlett (1994)
The Yearling (1994)
The Yarn Princess (1994)
Frasier (1993)
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
Batman: The Animated Series (1992)
Mistress (1992)
Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story (1992)
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage (1991)
A Seduction in Travis County (1991)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
Project X (1987)
A Fight for Jenny (1986)
Designing Women (1986)
Fire with Fire (1986)
Lime Street (1985)
Protocol (1984)
Single Bars, Single Women (1984)
Maximum Security (1984)
Piaf (1984)
Flashpoint (1984)
Reggie (1983)
Goodnight, Beantown (1983)
Remington Steele (1982)
Teachers Only (1982)
Hoodlums (1980)
Before and After (1979)
The Facts of Life (1979)
Alice (1976)
42.6 Years
Miss Macy
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1951-09-13 (72 years old)
Birth PlaceSeattle, United States of America
SpouseRichard Gilliland
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsJean E. Smart, Jean Elizabeth Smart, 진 스마트, ジーン・スマート, ジーン・エリザベス・スマート, Джин Смарт
AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
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