Career
- Theatre
Negro is a founding member of John Houseman's and Margot Harley's The Acting Company in New York City, and of Joseph Stern's Matrix Theatre Company in Los Angeles, and The Antaeus Company. [2]
Her stage performances include Broadway, off-Broadway, and American repertory companies such as The Acting Company, San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, and the O'Neill Playwrights Conference in Connecticut. [2]
Negro was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Arthur Kopit's Wings (1979), directed by John Madden. [2] [8]
- Television and film
In 1976 as part of the Great Performances series, PBS produced and televised William Saroyan's play, The Time of Your Life featuring Keven Kline in which Negro played the role of Society Lady. [9] [10] Also in the 1970s, she began appearing on televisions series such as Kojak (1976) and The Andros Targets (1977), and the television movie The Family Man (1979). In 1983, she appeared on PBS in American Playhouse in an adaption of Kopit's Wings in the role of Amy. [11] Other special appearance roles include Helen Matian in the ABC Afterschool Special episode, "Date Rape" (1988), and Barbara Fitts in the CBS Schoolbreak Special episode "Other Mothers (1993)."
Negro appeared twice on the CBS series The Equalizer . In the 1988 episode "The Child Broker" she played Irene Winters, the hard-working single mother of teenager Danny, played by Christopher Collet, who is being led into criminality by Shep Morrow, played by Thomas G. Waites. In the 1989 episode "Lullaby of Darkness" she portrays Rebecca Morrison, the belittled and battered wife of Joseph Morrison, played by Stephen Lang. Also in the 1980s, Negro appears on Another World (1982), Remington Steele (1983), two 1986 episodes of Spenser: For Hire , and the television movie The Littlest Victims (1989).
She had two roles on NBC's series Law & Order , the first in the 1991 episode "In Memory Of" and the second in 1994, "White Rabbit," in which she portrayed Susan Forrest, an alias for her real name, Rita Levitan. In "White Rabbit," Susan is accused of murdering a police officer twelve years prior, while committing a heist as Rita, a member of a radical militant group. [12] Also in the 1990s, she had a recurring role as Roberta Braun on The Practice (1997), as well as roles on L.A. Law (1990), Touched by an Angel (1998), and the television movie The Patron Saint of Liars (1998).
In the 2001, Negro made guest appearances on NYPD Blue as Mary McElroy, Frasier as Joanne, and again on The Practice, this time in a new role as the plaintiff's attorney, Audrey Turner. She also appeared on Crossing Jordan (2002). In 2004 she appeared in Cold Case as Renee (2004) in a 1969 case hearkening back to the post-Summer of Love era in "Volunteers." That same year Negro played Pam Morton on CBS's legal drama Judging Amy , and appeared on Showtime's Huff . She also had roles on ABC's political drama Commander in Chief as Margaret Shoop, and as Emma Hadley in the medical drama ER , both in 2006
Negro's theatrical film appearances include Dominick and Eugene (1988), Employee of the Month (2004), Moonbeams (2001), and Mont Reve (2012).
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