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ASHLEY JUDD
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Born
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Occupation
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Actress
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Years active
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1991–present
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Spouse(s)
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Dario Franchitti (m. 2001–13)
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Parent(s)
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Naomi Judd
(mother)
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Relatives
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Wynonna Judd
(older sister)
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Banyak orang tak menyadari bahwa
Ashley Judd mempunyai hubungan erat
dengan Naomi dan Wynona Judd yang penyanyi country. Dengan Naomi, Ashley memanggil ibu, sedangkan Wynona adalah saudaranya. Namun ia
membuktikan bahwa tanpa pengaruh nama Judd itu, ia bisa berhasil di dunia
akting.
Ashley Judd
(born Ashley Tyler Ciminella; April 19, 1968) is an American actress and
political activist. She grew up in a family of successful performing artists as
the daughter of country music singer Naomi
Judd and the sister of Wynonna
Judd. While she is best known for an
ongoing acting career spanning more than two decades, she has increasingly
become involved in global humanitarian efforts and political activism.
Judd has had leading roles in such
films as Ruby in Paradise
(1993), Norma Jean & Marilyn
(1996), Kiss the Girls
(1997), Double Jeopardy
(1999), Where the Heart Is
(2000), High Crimes
(2002), De-Lovely
(2004), Dolphin Tale
(2011), Divergent
(2014), and Dolphin Tale 2
(2014). She starred as Rebecca Winstone in the 2012 television series Missing,
for which she was nominated for a Primetime
Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
In 2010, she earned a one-year mid-career master's
degree in public administration
from Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government.
Early life
Ashley Judd was born in Granada Hills, California.
She is the daughter of Naomi Judd,
a country music
singer and motivational speaker, and Michael Charles Ciminella, a marketing
analyst for the horseracing
industry. Ashley's elder sister, Wynonna,
is also a country music singer. Her paternal grandfather was of Sicilian
descent, and her paternal grandmother was a descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster.
At the time of her birth, her mother was unemployed; she did not become well
known as a singer until the early 1980s. Judd's parents divorced in 1972. The
following year, her mother took Ashley back to Naomi's native Kentucky,
where Judd spent the majority of her childhood. She also lived in Marin County, California,
for two years during grade school.
Judd attended 13 schools
before college, including the Sayre
School (Lexington, Kentucky),
Paul G. Blazer High School
(Ashland, Kentucky)
and Franklin High School
in Tennessee.
She briefly tried modeling
in Japan during a school break. An alumna
of the sorority
Kappa Kappa Gamma
at the University of Kentucky,
she majored in French and minored in anthropology, art history, theater, and women's
studies. She spent a semester studying in
France as part of her major. She graduated from the UK Honors Program and was
nominated to Phi Beta Kappa,
but did not graduate with her class. Forgoing her commitment to join the Peace
Corps, after college she drove to Hollywood,
where she studied with well-respected acting teacher Robert Carnegie at
Playhouse West. During this time, she worked as a hostess at The Ivy
restaurant and lived in a Malibu
rental house, which burned down in 1993. Around that time, her half-sister
Wynonna Judd leased her a historic farmhouse and 10 acres of land in Williamson County, Tennessee.
She moved to Tennessee and lived near her mother Naomi and sister Wynonna.
Career
Judd appeared as Ensign
Robin
Lefler, a Starfleet
officer, in two 1991 episodes of Star Trek: The Next
Generation, "Darmok" and
"The Game".
From 1991 to 1994, she had a recurring role as Reed, the daughter of Alex (Swoosie
Kurtz), on the NBC drama Sisters.
She made her feature film debut with a small role in 1992's Kuffs.
In 1993, Judd fought for and was cast in her first starring role playing the
title character in Victor
Nuñez's Sundance Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize dramatic winner Ruby
in Paradise. On her way to the audition, she was
so nervous about getting a role that she felt defined her life, she nearly
wrecked her car. "From the first three sentences, I knew it was written
for me", she told the San Jose Mercury News. She received rave reviews
playing Ruby Lee Gissing, a young woman trying to make a new life for herself,
and it was this performance that would launch her career as an actress. Nuñez
told author James L. Dickerson that the resonance of the character was Judd's
creation: "The resonance, those moments, was not contrived. It was just a
matter of creating the scene and trusting that it was worth telling."
Oliver Stone,
who had seen her in Nuñez's film, cast Judd in Natural Born Killers,
but her scenes were later cut from the version of the film released theatrically.
The following year, she gained further critical acclaim for her role as Harvey
Keitel's estranged daughter in Wayne
Wang's Smoke
and also as Val Kilmer's
wife in Michael Mann's
Heat.
That same year she also played the role of Callie in Philip
Ridley's dark, adult fairy tale, The Passion of Darkly
Noon. In 1996, she co-starred with Mira
Sorvino as Marilyn
Monroe in Norma Jean and Marilyn,
where she recreated the photo shoot for the centerfold for the first issue of Playboy.
By the end of the 1990s, Judd had managed to achieve significant fame and
success as a leading actress, after leading roles in several thrillers that
performed well at the box office, including Kiss the Girls
in 1997 and 1999's Double Jeopardy.
Several of her early 2000s films,
including 2001's Someone Like You
and 2002's High Crimes,
received only mixed reviews and moderate box office success; although she did
receive positive recognition, and a Golden
Globe nomination for Best Actress, for her
performance in the 2004 biography of Cole
Porter, De-Lovely,
opposite Kevin Kline.
In the same year, however, she starred in Twisted,
the worst-reviewed movie of 2004 with 131 of 133 critics panning it. To date, Twisted
is the last major Hollywood film in which she received top billing.
In June 2007, Goody's Family Clothing
announced they were going to be releasing three fashion clothing lines with
Judd in the fall to be called "AJ", "Love Ashley" and
"Ashley Judd". Goody's declared bankruptcy a year later due to slow
sales and its last store closed in February 2009.
Judd is currently the magazine
advertising "face" of American Beauty, an Estée Lauder
cosmetic brand sold exclusively at Kohl's
department stores, and H. Stern
jewelers. In early 2012, however, her image suddenly disappeared from American'
Beauty's web site.
In 2011, Judd co-starred with Patrick
Dempsey in the film Flypaper.
It grossed only $1,100 total in its theatrical release and received a 17%
Rotten Tomatoes rating (15 of 18 critics panned it). That April, Judd released
her memoir All That is Bitter and Sweet, where she talks about her
trials and tribulations from adolescence to adulthood. In 2012, Judd starred as
Rebecca Winstone on the ABC
series Missing.
The series aired from March 15 to May 17, 2012. Due to low ratings, it was not
renewed for a second season.
Personal life
In December 1999, Judd became engaged
to Scottish racing driver Dario
Franchitti, who was driving in the Champ Car World Series.
Since the demise of the Champ Car World Series, Franchitti has raced in IndyCar
and NASCAR.
The couple married in December 2001 at Skibo
Castle. They have no children, with Judd
telling the Sunday Mail
that "it's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are
starving to death in impoverished countries". They divorced in 2013.
Judd is known to attend University of
Kentucky basketball games regularly (frequently sitting in
the student section),
and has also attended several Kentucky football
games. She has been a guest columnist for a local Kentucky newspaper, writing
about the NCAA
championships. She posed for a poster wearing only an ice
hockey jersey for fundraising purposes for
the University of Kentucky's
hockey team. She is an avid practitioner of yoga
and enjoys cooking and gardening.
In February 2006, Judd entered a
program at Shades of Hope Treatment Center in Buffalo Gap, Texas
and stayed for 47 days.[24]
She was there for treatment of depression, insomnia, and codependency.
A disagreement between Judd and Indy
race car driver Milka Duno
took place during the 2007 Indy Racing League
season. After the final race of the 2007 season, she stated to the media:
"I know this is not very sportsmanlike, but they've got to get the 23 car
(Duno) off the track. It's very dangerous. I'm tired of holding my tongue. She
shouldn't be out there. When a car is 10 miles (an hour) off the pace, it's not
appropriate to be racing. People's lives are at stake."
On May 9, 2007, it was announced that
Judd had completed her bachelor's degree
in French at the University of Kentucky. In a May 2007 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show,
she explained that she had completed her degree requirements in 1990 with 27
more credit hours taken than the required 120 hours, but had mistakenly thought
she was one class short of the necessary requirements. At this time, she
realized that she only needed to "sign a piece of paper" in order to
graduate and receive her diploma. DeGeneres then surprised Judd by presenting
her with her diploma, which DeGeneres had acquired from the university.
Judd was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
from Union College
in Barbourville, Kentucky
on May 9, 2009. She subsequently earned a Mid-Career Master of Public
Administration degree (MC/MPA) from the John F. Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University
in 2010 through the Mid-Career Master of Public administration program
(MC/MPA).
On March 17, 2015, Judd stated that she
planned to file police reports against Twitter users who had tweeted her
offensive tweets containing sexual and personal attacks. Judd stated that it
would take her the entire day to write and fill out the police reports, saying
that "The amount of gender violence that I experienced is absolutely
extraordinary".
Judd is Christian.
Humanitarian work
Ashley Judd's humanitarian work has
revolved around becoming a global ambassador for YouthAIDS,
a prevention program under Population Services
International. She has been a member of their Board
of Directors since 2004, also. Judd has travelled with YouthAIDS to places
affected by illness and poverty such as Cambodia,
Kenya, Rwanda,
and many others.
Inspired by her travels, which allowed
her to witness the life of the poor and uneducated, she has since become an
advocate for preventing poverty and promoting awareness internationally. She
has met with political and religious leaders, heads of states, diplomats, and
leaders on behalf of the deprived to convey the message to those who have the
power to bring about political and social change. Judd has also narrated three
documentaries for YouthAIDS which aired internationally on the Discovery
Channel, in National Geographic,
and on VH1.
In 2011, she joined the Leadership Council
of the International Center
for Research on Women (ICRW).
Other organizations Judd has been
involved with include Women for Women
International and Equality
Now, along with other non-governmental
organizations that direct attention to social, educational, health, economic,
cultural and financial funding of the unfortunate.
Judd is active on the speakers'
circuit, giving speeches about humanitarian topics.
Other work
Judd has supported the following
charities and foundations:
- Children's Medical Research Institute
- Creative Coalition
- Defenders of Wildlife
- Eracism Foundation
- Five & Alive
- Jeans for Genes
- International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
- Listen Campaign
- Malaria No More
- Population Services International
- SixDegrees.org
- YouthAIDS
- Women for Women International
- Equality Now
- San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center
Political activities
In 2008, Judd supported Barack
Obama's presidential campaign. In 2009, she
appeared in a one-minute video advertisement for the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund,
in which Judd condemned Alaska governor
Sarah
Palin for supporting aerial wolf
hunting. In response, Palin stated the reason
these wolves are killed is to protect the caribou
population in Alaska, and she called the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund an
"extreme fringe group". In 2010, Judd signed the Animal Legal Defense Fund's
petition to urge Governor Steve Beshear
to protect Kentucky's homeless animals through tough enforcement of the state's
Humane Shelter Law.
Judd is active in humanitarian and
political causes. She was appointed Global Ambassador for YouthAIDS, an education
and prevention program of the international NGO Population Services
International (PSI), promoting AIDS prevention and treatment. Judd was honored
November 10, 2009, as the recipient of the fourth annual USA Today
Hollywood Hero, awarded for her work with PSI. On October 29, 2006, Judd
appeared at a "Women for Ford" event for Democratic
Tennessee Senate
candidate Harold Ford, Jr.
She has also campaigned extensively locally and nationally for a variety of
Democratic candidates, including President Barack
Obama in critical swing states.
On September 8, 2010, CNN
interviewed Judd about her second humanitarian mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Judd traveled with the Enough
Project, a project to end genocide and crimes
against humanity. In the interview, Judd discussed her efforts to raise
awareness about how conflict
minerals fuel sexual violence in Congo. During
her trip, Judd visited hospitals for victims of sexual violence, camps for
displaced persons, mines, and civil society organizations. On September 30,
2010, cnn.com published an op-ed titled "Ashley Judd: Electronics fuel
unspeakable violence" by Judd and Enough Project co-founder John Prendergast
regarding the continued violence in Congo. Her op-ed discussed the recent
provision in the Dodd-Frank
Reform bill that requires companies to prove where
their minerals originated. On November 26, 2010, The Huffington Post
published an op-ed by Judd, "Costs of Convenience". The op-ed is
excerpted from Ashley Judd's trip diary from her trip to eastern Congo. Judd
describes the link between her cell phone, laptop, MP3 player and e-reader and
the continued rape and sexual violence in Congo. Judd also explains the
immediate need for electronics companies to commit to tracing, auditing, and
certifying the minerals in their products to guarantee a clean supply chain.
Judd again supported Democrats in the
2012 elections, endorsing President Barack Obama for re-election although she
did not contribute financially to his campaign. She represented Tennessee as a
delegate to the 2012 Democratic
National Convention. She also considered returning to Kentucky
and challenging U.S. Sen. Mitch
McConnell in 2014. In response, the Conservative
Super PAC "American Crossroads" released an attack
ad against Judd in Kentucky.
In February 2013, she invited her
Twitter followers to join a mailing list, hinting that she might ultimately
announce a run for the Senate to those on the list. However, she announced on
her Twitter feed on March 27, 2013, that she would not run, citing her
"need to be focused on my family". Judd endorsed Alison Lundergan Grimes,
Secretary of State of
Kentucky after she announced her candidacy.
Filmography
Film
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Role
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1992
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Paint store owner's wife
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1993
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Ruby Lee Gissing
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1994
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Grace Mulberry
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1994
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Ashley Judd
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1995
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Charlene Shiherlis
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1995
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Felicity
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1995
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Callie
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1996
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Carla Brigance
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1996
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Pam Anderson
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1997
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Dr. Kate McTiernan
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Nominated:
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1997
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Kitty
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1998
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Rebecca Wenteworth
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1999
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Elizabeth "Libby" Parsons
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Won:
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1999
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Joanna Eris
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2000
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Lexie Coop
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2001
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Jane Goodale
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2002
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2002
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Younger Vivi Abbott Walker
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Nominated:
Phoenix Film Critics Society Award
for Best Supporting Actress
Prism Award for Best Performance in a Theatrical Feature Film |
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2002
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Claire Kubik
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2004
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Nominated:
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2004
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Jessica Shepard
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2006
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Lucy Fowler
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2007
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Agnes White
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Nominated:
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2007
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India's Hidden
Plague
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Herself
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2009
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Helen Leonard
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2009
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Denise Frankel
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2010
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Carly Harris
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2011
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Lorraine Nelson
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2011
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Kaitlin
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2013
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First Lady Margaret Asher
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2014
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Natalie Prior
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2014
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Louise Wade
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2014
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Lorraine Nelson
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2014
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Ave Maria Mulligan
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2014
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The Reader of the text
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A documentary by Terry Spencer Hesser
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2015
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Natalie Prior
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Television
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Year
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Title
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Role
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Notes
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1991
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1991–94
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Reed
Halsey
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32
episodes
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1994
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Herself
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Episode:
Elevator
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1996
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Nominated:
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2012
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Becca
Winstone
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10
episodes (canceled at end of first season)
Nominated: |
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2013
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Directed
"Maggie" segment
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2014
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Salvation
(Pilot)
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Jennifer
Strickland
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Was
not picked up for fall schedule
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