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Lee Garlington

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  • Producer
  • Director
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Lee Garlington
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The American actress was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, and grew up in Delaware, Illinois, West Virginia, and Washington D.C. Garlington was recently nominated for a 2018 Primetime Emmy Award / Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her role as 'Darlene' in Broken. Garlington was a series regular on several series Lenny, Townies, and Blame it on Ernie as well as eleven other pilots that did not go to series. She had recurring roles in several notable television series, including The West Wing, The Killing, Flashforward, Everwood, The Riches, The Bridge, Will & Grace, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Mistresses, and Roseanne. She also played Kirsten, Rose Nylund's (Betty White) daughter in the final season of The Golden Girls, Ronni, the mistress of Joey Tribbiani's father on Friends, and the waitress Claire at Pete's Luncheonette in the pilot episode, The Seinfeld Chronicles. Her first professional acting job was "Myrna the Mean Waitress" in the sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Psycho II in 1983 and its successor, Psycho III in 1986. The same year she starred alongside Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen in the action/thriller Cobra. Garlington feels she was blessed that writer/director Phil Alden Robinson decided she was his "good luck charm" and cast her in almost all of his movies: In The Mood, Field of Dreams, Sneakers, Sum of All Fears, and The Angriest Man in Brooklyn. Garlington was also nominated for a 2015 (ISA) Indie Series Award / Best Guest Actress- Comedy for Mentor. Having appeared in over 25 plays in Los Angeles and winning numerous Dramalogue Awards, she won the 1999 Ovation Award (L.A.'s answer to the Tony's) for a Featured Role in the play Risk Everything.
BornJuly 20, 1953
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BornJuly 20, 1953
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  • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
    • 1 win & 3 nominations total

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John McCook, Lee Garlington, Molly McCook, Aaron O'Connell, and Landry Townsend in Candy Coated Christmas (2021)
Lee Garlington and Molly McCook in Candy Coated Christmas (2021)
Lee Garlington in Dante's Peak (1997)
Lee Garlington in Band of Robbers (2015)
Molly Ringwald and Lee Garlington in Townies (1996)
Molly Ringwald, Jenna Elfman, Dion Anderson, Lee Garlington, and Lauren Graham in Townies (1996)
Dion Anderson and Lee Garlington in Townies (1996)
Lee Garlington in Townies (1996)
Alyson Hannigan, Sam Anderson, Thomas Dekker, Lee Garlington, Anthony Rapp, Jonathan Bennett, Hutchi Hancock, and Alona Tal in Do You Take This Man (2016)
Alyson Hannigan, Sam Anderson, Mackenzie Astin, and Lee Garlington in Do You Take This Man (2016)
Lee Garlington in Do You Take This Man (2016)
Sam Anderson and Lee Garlington in Do You Take This Man (2016)

Known for

Morgan Freeman and Ben Affleck in The Sum of All Fears (2002)
The Sum of All Fears
6.4
  • Mary Pat Foley
  • 2002
Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, Robert Redford, David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell, and Sidney Poitier in Sneakers (1992)
Sneakers
7.1
  • Dr. Elena Rhyzkov
  • 1992
Psycho II (1983)
Psycho II
6.6
  • Myrna
  • 1983
Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton in Dante's Peak (1997)
Dante's Peak
6.0
  • Dr. Jane Fox
  • 1997

Credits

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Actress

  • Higher Education
    • Faye
    • Released
    • TV Series
    • 1994
  • Total Security
    • Karen Des Moines
    • Released
    • TV Series
    • 1997
  • Dead to Me (2019)
    Dead to Me
    • Nurse Francine
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • P-Valley (2020)
    P-Valley
    • Georgia Anne 'Georgie' Batson
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Freddie Highmore in The Good Doctor (2017)
    The Good Doctor
    • Joan
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Molly McCook, Aaron O'Connell, and Ree Drummond in Candy Coated Christmas (2021)
    Candy Coated Christmas
    • Kim Winters
    • TV Movie
    • 2021
  • Denzel Washington, Jared Leto, and Rami Malek in The Little Things (2021)
    The Little Things
    • Landlady
    • 2021
  • Before We Go (2019)
    Before We Go
    • Elsee
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Oliver Hudson, Jenna Fischer, Van Crosby, Sander Thomas, and Olivia Keville in Splitting Up Together (2018)
    Splitting Up Together
    • Dottie Apple
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Adam Mayfield and Kelley Jakle in Christmas Harmony (2018)
    Christmas Harmony
    • Debbie
    • 2018
  • North Blvd (2018)
    North Blvd
    • Liz
    • 2018
  • Ana's Murder (2018)
    Ana's Murder
    • Diane
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Broken (2018)
    Broken
    • Darlene
    • TV Series
    • 2018
  • Paris Berelc and Isabel May in Alexa & Katie (2018)
    Alexa & Katie
    • Loretta
    • TV Series
    • 2018
  • House by the Lake (2017)
    House by the Lake
    • Dr. Llywelyn
    • 2017
  • Stella Maeve, Summer Bishil, Hale Appleman, Olivia Taylor Dudley, and Arjun Gupta in The Magicians (2015)
    The Magicians
    • Dana
    • TV Series
    • 2017
  • Her Last Will (2016)
    Her Last Will
    • Ruth
    • 2016

Producer

  • Before We Go (2019)
    Before We Go
    • producer
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Self, E (2019)
    Self, E
    • executive producer
    • Short
    • 2019

Director

  • P.A.N.I.C in Griffith Park (1987)
    P.A.N.I.C in Griffith Park
    • Director
    • 1987

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Hell Comes to Frogtown
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Hell Comes to Frogtown
Guarding Eddy
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Guarding Eddy
Candy Coated Christmas Official Trailer
Trailer 2:00
Candy Coated Christmas Official Trailer
Official Trailer
Trailer 1:02
Official Trailer
U.S. Version
Trailer 3:19
U.S. Version
The Coverup
Trailer 1:27
The Coverup
Cobra
Trailer 1:27
Cobra
The Psycho Legacy
Trailer 2:51
The Psycho Legacy
Mockingbird
Trailer 1:37
Mockingbird

Personal details

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  • Height
    • 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
  • Born
    • July 20, 1953
    • Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
  • Spouse
    • Howard Nugent1991 - present (1 child)

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    Originally, she was part of the Seinfeld (1989) cast. She was going to play a waitress who would give Jerry and George friendly advice. When they examined the pilot, they dropped her character and hired Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who played Jerry's ex-girlfriend, Elaine.
  • Quotes
    [on Seinfeld (1989)] When we shot the pilot, I was the girl in 'Seinfeld.' They didn't pick up my contract... It didn't bother me the first five years. But the second five years drove me nuts. I don't know why. I still see Jason [Alexander] regularly. He's best friends with a friend of mine and I've never talked about it with him, but I'm sure for him he's like, 'Oh, poor Lee! Poor Lee!' Oh, it's funny.

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