Kyra Sedgwick hails from Upper Manhattan's socialite circles - her cousin is Edie Sedgwick, who inspired "
Like A Rolling Stone" and "
All Tomorrow's Parties".
She is best known as Georgia-born, CIA-trained Brenda Leigh Johnson, Chief of the LAPD's Major Crimes Division, on TNT's crime drama
The Closer. She has been Emmy-nominated six times for the role - finally winning in 2010 - and won a Golden Globe in 2007.
She has been married to
Footloose star
Kevin "
Six Degrees"
Bacon since 1988 and has two children, Travis and Sosie. On
Discovering Your Roots, she and Bacon were discovered to be (distant) cousins.
Tropes:
- Blue Blood: About as blue as it gets.
- Creator Couple: Her husband Kevin Bacon has directed several episodes of The Closer, and she was an executive producer on one of his films.
- Fake Southern: She hails from Manhattan. Brenda hails from Georgia.
- Real-Life Relative: She's co-starred with Kevin Bacon four times. Their daughter Sosie played Brenda's niece Charlene during Season 4 of The Closer.
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