Jean Smart
1 FOLLOWER • 59 CREDITS • SEP 13, 1951 • 72
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.
Known For
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Frasier
Hawaii Five-0
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Psych
Hot in Cleveland
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Remington Steele
Veep
Batman: The Animated Series
The Facts of Life
The District
Alice
Big Mouth
Arrested Development
Dirty John
Who Do You Think You Are?
$#*! My Dad Says
Harry's Law
Goodnight, Beantown
Watchmen
24
Fargo
A Simple Favor
Life As We Know It
Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
The Brady Bunch Movie
I ♥ Huckabees
Human Resources
Project X
Miss Meadows
Scarlett
The Odd Couple II
The Accountant
Flashpoint
When Calls the Heart
Kim Possible: So the Drama
Sweet Home Alabama
Legion
A Panoramic Canvas Called 'Babylon'
Snow Day
Fire with Fire
The Kid
Kim Possible
Garden State
Babylon
Hope Springs
Wildflower
In-Laws
Piaf
Teachers Only
Center of the Universe
Mare of Easttown
The Oblongs
Hacks
Production Credits
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