Barbara Garrick

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Barbara Garrick is an American actress. Garrick has appeared on stage, television and in film.

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Life and career

Garrick was born in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama, she has several stage credits, including Eastern Standard , Stanley , and A Thousand Clowns .

Juilliard School American performing arts conservatory in New York City

The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. Established in 1905, the school trains about 850 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely regarded as one of the world's leading drama, music and dance schools, with some of the most prestigious arts programs.

Eastern Standard is a play by Richard Greenberg. Set in 1987, it focuses on yuppies, AIDS, the stock market and insider trading scandals, homelessness, and urban malaise.

<i>Stanley</i> (play) play

Stanley is a 1996 play written by English playwright, Pam Gems. The play was premiered at the Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in London.

She performed on several New York-based television shows, including several stints on soap operas. She portrayed the villainous nurse Charlotte Wheaton on Guiding Light in 1985, and on As the World Turns in 1999. She had several stints as cult follower Allison Perkins on One Life to Live , and first appeared as the character from 1986 to 1987, with subsequent stints from 2001 to 2003, and in 2008. Garrick returned to the show in its final few months and was a prominent part of its final episode on January 13, 2012. Her character Allison narrated the entire episode and spoke the show's final words, "Things are rarely what they appear."

<i>Guiding Light</i> television series

Guiding Light is an American television soap opera. It is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running drama in television in American history, broadcast on CBS for 57 years from June 30, 1952, until September 18, 2009, overlapping a 19-year broadcast on radio from 1937 to 1956. With an uninterrupted 72 years of radio and television runs, Guiding Light is the longest running soap opera, ahead of General Hospital, and the fifth-longest running program in all of broadcast history; only the American country music radio program Grand Ole Opry, the BBC religious program The Daily Service (1928), the CBS religious program Music and the Spoken Word (1929), and the Norwegian children's radio program Lørdagsbarnetimen (1924-2010) have been on the air longer.

<i>As the World Turns</i> television series

As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2, 1956, to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light. Running for 54 years, As the World Turns holds the third-longest continuous run of any daytime network soap opera on American television, surpassed only by General Hospital and Guiding Light. As the World Turns was produced for the first 43 years in Manhattan and in Brooklyn from 2000 until 2010.

Allison Perkins

Allison Perkins is a fictional character on the American soap opera One Life to Live.

Garrick played DeDe Halcyon Day in four television miniseries based on Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels: Tales of the City (1993), More Tales of the City (1998), Further Tales of the City (2001), and Tales of the City (2019). She was nominated for a Gemini Award in 1999 for Further Tales of the City. She also appeared in several episodes of the New York City-based procedural shows Law & Order , Law & Order: Criminal Intent , and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , and was featured in the 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle .

Armistead Maupin American writer

Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. is an American writer, best known for Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco.

<i>Tales of the City</i> Series of novels written by Armistead Maupin

Tales of the City is a series of nine novels written by American author Armistead Maupin from 1978 to 2014. The stories from Tales were originally serialized prior to their novelization, with the first four titles appearing as regular installments in the San Francisco Chronicle, while the fifth appeared in the San Francisco Examiner. The remaining titles were never serialized, but were instead originally written as novels.

<i>Tales of the City</i> (1993 miniseries) Television miniseries directed by Alastair Reid

Tales of the City is a 1993 television miniseries based on the first of the Tales of the City series of novels by Armistead Maupin.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1988 Eight Men Out Helen Weaver
1988 Working Girl Phyllis Trask
1990 Days of Thunder Lauren Daland
1990 Postcards from the Edge Carol
1993 The Firm Kay Quinn
1993 Sleepless in Seattle Victoria
1995 Miami Rhapsody Terri
1996 A Couch in New York Lizbeth Honeywell
1997 The Ice Storm Weather Reporter
2000 Pollock Betty Parsons
2002 Far from Heaven Doreen
2005 Brooklyn Lobster Lynn Miller
2008 Jumper Ellen
2008 The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond Mrs. Dobyne
2013 The Devil You Know Joan Stone
2013 Blue Jasmine Hal and Jasmine's Friend
2014 That Awkward Moment Chelsea's Mother
2016 You're Killing Me Susana
2016My Father's PrisonersLisaShort

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1985 Guiding Light Charlotte WheatonTV series
1985 Spenser: For Hire Cathy Lowington"Discord in a Minor"
1986 The Campbells Mrs. Sims"The Haunting"
1987 The Equalizer Deborah Whitten"Hand and Glove"
1988 Spenser: For Hire Valentine"Haunting"
1990Kojak: It's Always SomethingStacy WainwrightTV film
1991 The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd Carolyn"Here's Why You Shouldn't Talk to Strangers in the Park"
1993Dottie Gets SpankedLorraine GaleTV short
1993 Tales of the City DeDe Halcyon DayTV miniseries
1994Normandy: The Great CrusadeKarla King (voice)TV film
1995 Law & Order Jenny Sandig"Savages"
1996 Lifestories: Families in Crisis Zoe Rossi"Someone Had to Be Benny"
1996 The Outer Limits Dr. Ellen Kersaw"Afterlife"
1997 Ellen Foster Aunt BetsyTV film
1998 More Tales of the City DeDe DayTV miniseries
1998–1999 As the World Turns Rita RenfieldTV series
2000 Mary and Rhoda Gallery CuratorTV film
2000 Law & Order Mrs. Sims"Trade This"
2000 Sex and the City Celia"Attack of the Five Foot Ten Woman"
2001 Amy & Isabelle TV film
2001 Further Tales of the City DeDe DayTV miniseries
2001 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Hannah's Mother"Pixies"
2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Jennifer Barish"The Good Doctor"
2003 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Kelly Wolcott"Serendipity"
2006 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Pam Williams"Cruise to Nowhere"
2008–2012 One Life to Live Allison Perkins Recurring role
2019 Tales of the City DeDe DayMain cast
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