Veanne Cox

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Veanne Cox
Born (1963-01-19) January 19, 1963 (age 60)
Occupation(s)Actress, ballet dancer
Years active1982–present
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Veanne Cox (born January 19, 1963) is an Emmy [1] and Tony-nominated [2] American stage and screen actress and former ballet dancer.

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Early life

Cox was born in Norfolk, Virginia. She is a 1981 graduate of Manchester High School in Chesterfield, Virginia. She studied ballet at the Washington School of Ballet, acting at the Studio Theatre (Washington, D.C.) and voice at Catholic University of America. [3]

Career

Her Broadway debut was in the Marvin Hamlisch musical Smile in 1986 as Sandra-Kay Macaffee. [4] She appeared in the Roundabout Theatre revival of Stephen Sondheim's Company in 1995 as "Amy", for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actress in a Musical. [5] She appeared in The Public Theater (2003) and the Broadway productions of Caroline, or Change (2004) as Rose Stopnick Gellman. [6]

Cox appeared in the made-for-television movie Cinderella (1997) as one of the stepsisters, [7] and appeared in Erin Brockovich as Theresa Dallavale. [8]

She has appeared in episodes of many television series, such as Seinfeld (playing Toby in the episode The Fire ), Blue Bloods in 2016, [9] and Odd Mom Out . [10]

She starred in the Guthrie Theatre production of Private Lives as Amanda in 2007. [11]

Selected stage credits

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1982BristlelipHaughty PrincessShort
1989 Miss Firecracker Tessy Mahoney
1997 Henry Fool Laura
1997 Cinderella CalliopeTV movie
1998Dangerous PropositionEryn
1998 You've Got Mail Miranda Margulies
2000 Erin Brockovich Theresa Dallavale
2000 Big Eden Mary Margaret Bishop
2001 Beethoven's 4th Martha SedgewickVideo
2002 Two Weeks Notice Melanie Corman
2003 Marci X Caitlin Mellowitz
2004 Our Italian Husband Sonya
2006 The Sasquatch Gang Lenora
2006Out ThereMaggie
2008 Sex and the City Halloween Woman #1
2009 The Rebound Haley
2014 The Better Angels Aunt Elizabeth
2014 The Rewrite Clara Foss
2016 Little Boxes Sarita
2017Stay at Home DadMarjorieVideo short, completed
2018 Radium Girls Dr. Katherine Drinker

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1984 ABC Afterschool Special Robin Miller"Out of Step"
1994 The George Carlin Show Alice Jean"George Expresses Himself"
1994 Island City HelenTV film
1994 Seinfeld Toby"The Fire"
1994 Love & War Ellen"A Lonely Nation Turns Its Eyes to You"
1994 The 5 Mrs. Buchanans Katie"Nothing on Delilah"
1995 Hope and Gloria Mary"Falling in Bed Again"
1995 Pride & Joy Lisa"Are You My Mother?"
1997 Cinderella CalliopeTV film
1998 Caroline in the City Alice"Caroline and the Big Night"
1999 The Norm Show Judy"My Name Is Norm"
2000 Madigan Men Sandy Whitlow"Love's Labor Lost"
2001 One Life to Live Melissa MillerTV series
2002 The Education of Max Bickford Rachel Kane"Money Changes Everything"
2002 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Martha Strick"Maledictus"
2003 Judging Amy Mrs. Margolis"Picture of Perfect"
2004My Sexiest MistakeKristenTV film
2005 Joan of Arcadia Personable Woman God"The Rise & Fall of Joan Girardi"
2005 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Faith Hollis"Unbearable"
2006 Numbers Trish Schane"Rampage"
2007 Boston Legal Dr. Kathleen Ryan"Duck and Cover"
2007 Side Order of Life Celia Larabee"Whose Sperm Is It Anyway?"
2009 Law & Order Ms. Barsett"Rapture"
2009 Royal Pains Lois"No Man Is an Island"
2011 Louie Ellie Bormer"Halloween/Ellie"
2011 Pan Am Miss Havemeyer"Pilot", "We'll Always Have Paris", "The Genuine Article"
2012 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ACS Case Worker"Child's Welfare"
2013 Smash Actress"The Read-Through", "The Fringe", "Musical Chairs"
2014 2 Broke Girls Amy"And the Not Broke Parents"
2016 Odd Mom Out Trixie"The High Road"
2016 Blue Bloods Camilla Lawson"Personal Business"
2017 Incorporated "Burning Platform", "Golden Parachute"
2019 NCIS: New Orleans Parker"X", "Crab Mentality", "The River Styx, Part II"
2019–2022 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Corinne"Marvelous Radio", "A Jewish Girl Walks Into the Apollo…", "Everything is Bellmore"
2020 New Amsterdam Debra Keating"In the Graveyard"
2020 Tommy Jane"Lifetime Achievement"

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