Stacy Edwards

Last updated
Stacy Edwards
Born (1965-03-04) March 4, 1965 (age 59)
Alma mater Lou Conte Dance Studio
Occupations
  • Actress
  • producer
Years active1986present
Known for In the Company of Men
Chicago Hope
Santa Barbara
Primary Colors
SpouseEddie Bowz (m. 1996)

Stacy Edwards (born March 4, 1965) is an American actress. She appeared in a number of B movies before her breakthrough role in the 1997 black comedy film In the Company of Men , [1] for which she received Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead nomination. Edwards later had roles in films such as Primary Colors (1998), Black and White (1999), and Driven (2001), and was a regular cast member in the drama series Chicago Hope (1997–1999).

Contents

Career

Edwards began her career on daytime television. She portrayed Hayley Benson on the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara from 1986 to 1988. (Julia Roberts had unsuccessfully auditioned for the role. [2] ) Edwards spent the following decade appearing in an episodes of television shows such as 21 Jump Street , Quantum Leap , L.A. Law , and Murder, She Wrote , and B movies include Relentless 3 and Skeeter . She also was regular cast member in the comedy-drama series Sons and Daughters in 1991.[ citation needed ]

In 1997, Edwards starred alongside Aaron Eckhart in the black comedy film In the Company of Men , for which she received Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead nomination. [3] She also starred in the drama series Chicago Hope as Dr. Lisa Catera for two seasons from 1997 to 1999. In 1998, Edwards appeared as Jennifer Rogers in Mike Nichols' comedy-drama film Primary Colors , playing the lesbian lover of Kathy Bates' character. She later co-starred in films Black and White (1999), The Bachelor (1999), The Next Best Thing (2000), and Driven (2001). She also starred opposite Johnathon Schaech in the 1998 television movie Houdini . As lead actress, she starred in Four Dogs Playing Poker and Mexico City in 2000.

During the 2000s and 2010s, Edwards had many guest-starring roles in various television shows, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , NCIS , House , Veronica Mars , Criminal Minds , Private Practice , The Mentalist , Hawaii Five-0 , Castle , Grey's Anatomy , How to Get Away with Murder , and Shameless . She also had a recurring role in the series The Lying Game from 2011 to 2012.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1986SubmissWomanShort film
1990 Spontaneous Combustion Peggy Bell
1993Private Lessons IIMrs. Cooper
1993 Relentless 3 Toni Keely
1993 Skeeter Mary Ann
1995The FearBecky
1996The CottonwoodDanielle Rose
1997 In the Company of Men Christine Taormina Film Fest Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead
Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress
1997Men Seeking WomenJennifer
1997Tumbling AfterJill GatesShort film
1998 Primary Colors Jennifer Rogers
1999 Black and White Sheila King
1999 The Bachelor Zoe
2000 The Next Best Thing Finn
2000 Four Dogs Playing Poker Holly
2000 Mexico City Mitch Cobb
2001 Driven Lucretia Clan
2001 Prancer Returns Denise HoltonNominated — DVD Exclusive Award for Best Actress
2002 Local Boys Jessica Dobson
2002 Joshua Maggie
2002 Speakeasy Sophie Hickman
2007 Superbad Evan's Mom
2008 Chronic Town Emily
2013 The Bling Ring Marc's Mom
2014 The Devil's Hand Susan
2018 Pretty Broken Caroline Lou
2022 Alex/October Sara

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1986-1988 Santa Barbara Hayley Benson CapwellSeries regular
Nominated — Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Newcomer: Daytime
1988 Jake and the Fatman Kimberley BauerEpisode: "I'll Be Seeing You"
1988Glory DaysTracy MoranTelevision film
1988 21 Jump Street Rebecca SandersEpisode: "Whose Choice Is It Anyway?"
1989 Valerie SaraEpisodes: "Boy Meets Girl" and "Boy Loses Girl"
1989 Dinner at Eight Paula JordanTelevision film
1989 L.A. Law Nicole CorryEpisode: "Placenta Claus Is Coming to Town"
1990 Quantum Leap Elisabeth SpokaneEpisode: "Animal Frat - October 19, 1967"
1990 Father Dowling Mysteries Laurie BascomEpisode: "The Perfect Couple Mystery"
1990 Murder, She Wrote Officer Frances Xavier RawleyEpisode: "O'Malley's Luck"
1991 Sons and Daughters Lindy HammersmithSeries regular, 7 episodes
1992 The Hat Squad Brian's MotherEpisode: "Pilot"
1992 L.A. Law Sydney PetersEpisode: "Helter Shelter"
1995 Murder, She Wrote Elaine BrownEpisode: "Film Flam"
1995 Matlock Rachel BauerEpisode: "The Scam"
1996Innocent VictimsBarbara RichardsonTelevision film
1996 Pacific Blue Elaine WeinsteinEpisodes: "Pilot" and "Captive Audience"
1997 Silk Stalkings Mildred 'Millie' AustinEpisode: "callme@murder.com"
1998HoudiniBess HoudiniTelevision film
1997-1999 Chicago Hope Dr. Lisa CateraSeries regular, 44 episodes
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (1998)
2001 The Fugitive Jenny ButlerEpisodes: "Jenny" and "Strapped"
2002 Without a Trace Emily MullerEpisode: "He Saw, She Saw"
2002 Touched by an Angel LorenaEpisode: "A Feather on the Breath of God"
2003 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Vickie WinstonEpisode: "Feeling the Heat"
2004 Cold Case Susan CardiffEpisode: "Resolutions"
2004 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Meredith RiceEpisode: "Head"
2004 Back When We Were Grownups BiddyTelevision film
2004 NCIS Commander Janice ByersEpisode: "Heart Break"
2004 House Lucy PalmeiroEpisode: "The Socratic Method"
2005 CSI: NY Debbie MontenassiEpisode: "Tanglewood"
2005 Numbers Gail HokeEpisode: "Sacrifice"
2006 Boston Legal D. A. CheliosEpisode: "The Ass Fat Jungle"
2006 Night Stalker Linda CalecaEpisode: "The Sea"
2006 Veronica Mars Stephanie DenenbergEpisode: "The Quick and the Wed"
2006 Standoff Cathy BarnesEpisode: "Circling"
2007 Criminal Minds Charlotte CutlerEpisode: "Ashes and Dust"
2007 Shark Gail BucknerEpisode: "Strange Bedfellows"
2007 Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses Diana BrawleyTelevision film
2007 Private Practice Maria WilsonEpisode: "In Which We Meet Addison, a Nice Girl from Somewhere Else"
2007 Ghost Whisperer Liz SinclairEpisode: "Bad Blood"
2008 Eleventh Hour Miss Catherine BonatelliEpisode: "Savant"
2008-2009 The Unit Marian ReedEpisodes: "Inquisition" and "The Spear of Destiny"
2009 Lie to Me Dr. Christina KnowltonEpisode: "Do No Harm"
2010 Hawthorne Mary DavisEpisode: "Picture Perfect"
2010 The Mentalist Concetta WaleEpisode: "Cackle-Bladder Blood"
2010 CSI: NY Grace TraversEpisode: "Damned If You Do"
2010 Terriers Beth / Elizabeth KomackEpisode: "Ring-A-Ding-Ding"
2011 Hawaii Five-0 Rebecca BrownEpisode: "Powa Maka Moana"
2011 Make It or Break It MusetteEpisodes: "The Buddy System" and "Life or Death"
2011 Harry's Law Corinne WatersEpisodes: "There Will Be Blood" and "Sins of the Father"
2011–2012 The Lying Game Annie HobbsRecurring role, 5 episodes
2012 Grey's Anatomy Kathleen WheelerEpisode: "The Girl with No Name"
2013 Castle Jessica BanksEpisode: "Watershed"
2014 How to Get Away with Murder Gretchen ThomasEpisode: "He Has a Wife"
2015 Shameless Laura SheltonEpisodes: "I'm the Liver" and "Rite of Passage"
2015Babysitter's Black BookBonnieTelevision film
2015 Rosewood Judy SandersEpisode: "Fireflies and Fidelity"
2016 Pure Genius Constance DurandEpisode: "Around the World in Eight Kidneys"
2017 The Fosters Deb BakerEpisode: "Dirty Laundry"

Awards and nominations

Awards
YearAwardCategoryProductionResult
1988 Soap Opera Digest Awards Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Newcomer: Daytime Santa Barbara Nominated
1997 Taormina Film Festival AwardTaormina Film Fest Award for Best Actress In the Company of Men Won
1998 Independent Spirit Awards Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead In the Company of Men Nominated
1998 Chicago Film Critics Association Award Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress In the Company of Men Nominated
1998 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Chicago Hope Nominated
2001Video Premiere Award DVD Exclusive Award for Best Actress Prancer Returns Nominated

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michelle Trachtenberg</span> American actress (born 1985)

Michelle Christine Trachtenberg is an American actress. Trachtenberg began her career at age three, appearing in a number of commercials, films, and television series as a child. Her starring role on the Nickelodeon television series The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1994–1996) as Nona Mecklenberg was her first credited role. She starred in the Nickelodeon Movies comedy film Harriet the Spy (1996) as the film's eponymous character and in the CBS sitcom Meego (1997) as Maggie, for both of which she won Young Artist Awards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wendy Crewson</span> Canadian actress

Wendy Jane Crewson is a Canadian actress and producer. She began her career appearing on Canadian television, before her breakthrough role in 1991 dramatic film The Doctor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Susan Lucci</span> American actress (born 1946)

Susan Victoria Lucci is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Erica Kane on the ABC daytime drama All My Children during that show's entire network run from 1970 to 2011. The character is considered an icon, and she was called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times citing her as the highest-paid actor in daytime television. As early as 1991, her salary had been reported as over $1 million a year. During her run on All My Children, Lucci was nominated 21 times for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She won only once, in 1999, after the 19th nomination; her status as a perpetual nominee for the award had attracted significant media attention since the late 1980s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Susan Flannery</span> American actress

Susan Flannery is an American actress and director. She made her screen debut appearing in the 1965 Western film Guns of Diablo and later appeared in some television series. From 1966 to 1975, Flannery starred as Laura Horton on the NBC daytime soap opera, Days of Our Lives for which she received her first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Debbi Morgan</span> American actress

Deborah Ann "Debbi" Morgan is an American film and television actress. Morgan has appeared in a number of film and TV productions, and may be best known for the role of Angie Baxter–Hubbard on the ABC soap opera All My Children.

Sydney Margaret Penny is an American actress. She began her career as a child performer appearing in made-for-television movies. She made her big screen debut in the Western film Pale Rider directed by Clint Eastwood. She received total six Young Artist Awards nominations, winning two for playing Young Meggie Cleary in the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983), and for Pale Rider. Penny also starred in the sitcom The New Gidget (1986–1988), and played Bernadette Soubirous in the French drama film Bernadette (1988) and its sequel The Passion of Bernadette (1990) both directed by Jean Delannoy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kathleen Noone</span> American actress (b. 1945)

Kathleen Noone is an American actress. She began her career as a singer in nightclubs and performed in musicals off-Broadway before making her television debut in the CBS daytime soap opera, As the World Turns (1975–1976).

Stacy Haiduk is an American actress. She starred as Lana Lang in the syndicated superhero series Superboy (1988–1992) and as Katherine Hitchcock in the NBC science fiction series, seaQuest DSV (1993–1994). Haiduk also had leading roles in the NBC prime time soap opera, The Round Table (1992) and Fox supernatural horror series, Kindred: The Embraced (1996), and has appeared in a number of feature and made-for-television movies.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tamara Tunie</span> American actress (born 1959)

Tamara Tunie is an American film, stage, and television actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns and as medical examiner Melinda Warner in the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2000–2021). Tunie also appeared in films such as Rising Sun (1993), The Devil's Advocate (1997), The Caveman's Valentine (2001) receiving Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female nomination, Flight (2012), and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Patrika Darbo</span> American actress

Patrika Darbo is an American actress. She made her big screen debut appearing in the 1988 romantic comedy film It Takes Two and later appeared in The 'Burbs (1989), Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will? (1990), Spaced Invaders (1990), Leaving Normal (1992), In the Line of Fire (1993) and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997). Darbo played Roseanne Barr in the 1994 biographical television film Roseanne & Tom: Behind the Scenes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nicole Ari Parker</span> American actress

Nicole Ari Parker Kodjoe is an American actress and model. She made her screen debut with a leading role in the critically acclaimed independent film The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) and went on to appear in Boogie Nights (1997), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lynn Whitfield</span> American actress (born 1953)

Lynn Whitfield is an American actress. She began her acting career in television and theatre before progressing to supporting roles in film. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her breakout performance as Josephine Baker in the HBO biographical film The Josephine Baker Story (1991).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Barbara Babcock</span> American actress (born 1937)

Barbara Babcock is an American actress. She began her career on television in mid-1950s with guest-starring appearances in more than 60 television series through her career. She made several appearances on Star Trek: The Original Series, Mannix and Murder, She Wrote and had a recurring role in the CBS prime time soap opera, Dallas from 1978 to 1982.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kimberly Elise</span> American actress (born 1967)

Kimberly Elise Trammel is an American actress. She made her feature-film debut in Set It Off (1996), and later received critical acclaim for her performance in Beloved (1998).

Shari Headley is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Lisa McDowell in the 1988 box-office hit romantic comedy film Coming to America and its sequel Coming 2 America (2021). Headley also has appeared in films The Preacher's Wife (1996) and Johnson Family Vacation (2004).

Julia Campbell is an American actress. She began her career starring in the daytime television soap operas Ryan's Hope and Santa Barbara, before playing the lead in the short-lived sitcom Women in Prison (1987–1988). Her most noted role to date was "mean girl" Christie Masters in the 1997 comedy film Romy and Michele's High School Reunion.

Allene Damian "Ally" Walker is an American actress. She made her television debut in the NBC daytime soap opera Santa Barbara (1988) before landing the leading roles on the short-lived dramas True Blue (1989–1990), and Moon Over Miami (1993).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rosemary Forsyth</span> Canadian actress

Rosemary Forsyth is a Canadian-born American actress. She made her big screen debut in the 1965 Western film Shenandoah, for which she received Golden Globe Award nomination for New Star of the Year – Actress. Forsyth later starred in films The War Lord (1965), Texas Across the River (1966), Where It's At (1969), What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), Some Kind of a Nut (1969), How Do I Love Thee? (1970), Black Eye (1974) and Gray Lady Down (1978).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dale Dickey</span> American actress

Diana Dale Dickey is an American character actress who has worked in theater, film, and television. She began her career on stage, performing in the 1989 Broadway version of The Merchant of Venice, before appearing in popular revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Sweeney Todd and more off-Broadway and in regional theaters. She's the recipient of two Ovation Awards for her stage work in Los Angeles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alyvia Alyn Lind</span> American actress (born 2007)

Alyvia Alyn Lind is an American actress. She played the roles of Faith Newman on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless (2011–2021), 9-year-old Dolly Parton in the made-for-television movies Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors (2015) and Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love (2016), Angelica Green in the Netflix series Daybreak (2019), and Lexy Cross in the SyFy/USA Network horror television series Chucky (2021–2024).

References

  1. The New York Times Movies
  2. "Santa Barbara". capridge.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  3. Indiewire (9 January 1998). "Duvall's "Apostle" Nabs Most Nominations for 13 - Indiewire". Indiewire. Retrieved 8 August 2015.