Blair Brown mini-bio: Blair Brown starred in John Caird's production of "Humble Boy" with Jared Harris for the Manhattan Theatre Club. In 2002, she played Prospera in "The Tempest" directed by Emily Mann at the McCarter Theatre and starred in Mark Brokaw's acclaimed revival of "A Little Night Music" during the Kennedy Center's Stephen Sondheim Festival. Brown won the Tony Award for her performance in Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen" directed by Michael Blakemore in 2000. Other Broadway credits include Sam Mendes' and Rob Marshall's "Cabaret" for the Roundabout Theatre; Richard Nelson's "James Joyce's The Dead" with Christopher Walken for Playwrights' Horizons; Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" directed by Trevor Nunn for Lincoln Center Theatre with Billy Crudup and Robert Sean Leonard; David Hare's "The Secret Rapture" and Richard Foreman's "The Threepenny Opera" for Joe Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival.
Brown’s favorite film credits include Lars Von Trier's film
Dogville starring Nicole Kidman, Clint Eastwood's
Space Cowboy; Victor Nunez's
A Flash Of Green with Ed Harris and Richard Jordan;
The Astronaut's Wife with Johnny Depp; Ken Russell's
Altered States with William Hurt; Michael Apted's
Continental Divide with John Belushi;
Stealing Home with Jodie Foster; David Hare's
Strapless with Bruno Ganz and Bridget Fonda; and
Loverboy directed by Kevin Bacon. In television she is best known for the title role in “The Days And Nights Of Molly Dodd,” created by Jay Tarses for NBC and Lifetime Television for which she received four Emmy nominations and the Cable Ace Award. Recent television appearances include the NBC dramas “ER” and “Law & Order: SVU,” the WB series “Smallville” with John Glover, the CBS drama “CSI: Miami,” and the WB pilot “Dark Shadows” produced by John Wells. She most recently appeared in "The Sentinel" with Michael Douglas. She recently made her New York directing debut with "Lovely Day" Leslie Ayvazian at The Play Company.
Brown is on the board of People for the American Way and served with Christopher Reeve as co-president of The Creative Coalition, an educational and advocacy group made up of people in the entertainment industry.
