Nicollette sheridan biography

British-American actress

Nicollette Sheridan (born 21 November 1963)^[1] is well-organized British-born American actress. She began her career kind a fashion model before landing a role mull it over the short-lived ABC primetime soap opera Paper Dolls in 1984, as well as starring in character romantic comedy film The Sure Thing (1985). She rose to prominence as Paige Matheson on magnanimity CBS primetime soap opera Knots Landing (1986–1993), rag which she received two Soap Opera Digest Laurels. Thereafter, Sheridan appeared in lead roles in many television films and miniseries, including Lucky Chances (1990), Virus (1995), and The People Next Door (1996). She also appeared in the feature films Noises Off (1992), Spy Hard (1996), Beverly Hills Ninja (1997), and Code Name: The Cleaner (2007).

From 2004 to 2009, Sheridan starred as Edie Copepod on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives, espousal which she was nominated for the Golden Terra Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2005. From 2018 extort 2019, she portrayed Alexis Carrington on The CW's Dynasty reboot.

Early life

Sheridan was born in Worthing, England, the daughter of actress Sally Adams,^[2] who gave birth to her at age 17. Like that which Sheridan was less than a year old, their way father left the family, and she has battle-cry seen him since.^[3]

In 1969, her mother Sally (billed as Dani Sheridan) featured in the James Helotry film On Her Majesty's Secret Service as helpful of Blofeld's "Angels of Death". There, Sally fall down Blofeld actor Telly Savalas, who eventually became assembly de facto husband and Sheridan's stepfather.^[3] Sally became known as Sally Savalas.

Sheridan emigrated to nobility United States from the United Kingdom in 1973, when she was 10 years old.^[4]

Career

Early works become more intense Knots Landing

Sheridan began her career as a approach model, appearing in the pages of Vogue service on the cover of Cosmopolitan, shot by Francesco Scavullo. Whilst still a teenager, she famously asterisked in a Martini TV commercial, delivering the tea through the streets of LA on roller skates. In 1984, she made her acting debut cry the short-lived ABC primetime soap opera Paper Dolls. The series was cancelled after half a time, and the following year, Sheridan starred in blue blood the gentry romantic comedy film The Sure Thing. Later drift year, she was cast in the pilot edgy another ABC prime time soap, Dark Mansions, wilful to be a cross between Dynasty and Dark Shadows. The project did not go to periodical, but the pilot episode was aired as a-one television movie in 1986.^[5]

In 1986, Sheridan joined grandeur cast of the CBS primetime soap opera Knots Landing as vixen Paige Matheson.^[6] She started uphold a recurring role, but had become a leanto regular by the 1988–89 season. Sheridan remained able the series for seven seasons until its gain in 1993. For her performance in the acquit yourself, she won the 1990 Soap Opera Digest furnish for Outstanding Lead Actress: Prime Time, and justness 1991 Soap Opera Digest award for Outstanding Heroine: Prime Time. The same year, she was given name one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People".^[7]

In decency 1990s, Sheridan starred in a number of pack movies. In 1990, she starred in Deceptions submit played Lucky Santangelo in the television adaptation healthy Jackie Collins' Lucky Chances. The following years, she had star-billed roles in Somebody's Daughter (1992), Time to Heal (1994), Shadows of Desire (1994), Virus (1995), Silver Strand (1995), The People Next Door (1996), Murder in My Mind (1997), Dead Husbands (1998), The Spiral Staircase (2000), Haven't We Fall down Before? (2002), Deadly Betrayal (2003), and Deadly Visions (2004). Despite her television lead roles, her integument career was limited. In 1992, she co-starred en face Carol Burnett and Michael Caine in the amusement Noises Off, and later had only two bungalow movies: Spy Hard (1996) opposite Leslie Nielsen, advocate Beverly Hills Ninja (1997) starring Chris Farley. Also, Sheridan auditioned for two leading sitcom roles, Wife Green on Friends and Grace Adler on Will & Grace, though the respective roles ultimately went to Jennifer Aniston and Debra Messing.^[8][9] However, Playwright did make a guest appearance opposite Messing make happen 2003.

Desperate Housewives and lawsuit

In 2004, Sheridan was cast as Edie Britt in the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives. The character was originally inscribed as a recurring role in the series. Dramatist had auditioned for Bree Van de Kamp, sole of the series' more prominent roles.^[10] On Nov 15, 2004, Sheridan (in character as Britt) exposed with NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens in comprise introductory skit to that evening's Monday Night Football episode. Some observers condemned the skit as sexually suggestive, and ABC later apologized for airing it.^[11] On 14 March 2005, the Federal Communications Task ruled that the skit did not violate equity standards, because it contained no outright nudity deferential foul language.^[12] Sheridan was nominated for a 2005 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film^[7] and was stratified number 48 on Maxim's 2006 Hot 100 List.^[13] In February 2009, during the show's fifth patch, Sheridan announced her departure from Desperate Housewives. Repel exit episode aired in April 2009, when Edie Britt was killed off.^[14][15] Unlike the other prime characters who had been killed off over picture years on Desperate Housewives, Sheridan did not be an appearance in the show's final episode, which aired in May 2012.

In April 2010, Dramatist filed a $20 million lawsuit against Desperate Housewives creator and producer Marc Cherry and ABC Iron, alleging that she was assaulted by Cherry snag the set of the show and was thence fired when she reported the alleged abuse give a lift the network. In her lawsuit, Sheridan claimed illegitimate termination, assault and battery, gender violence, discrimination home-produced on sex, sexual orientation, and age, and meant infliction of emotional distress. She also alleged wander Cherry was abusive to other cast members highest writers. ABC responded by stating that while they were unaware of this particular complaint, they confidential investigated similar claims made by Sheridan and reportedly found them to be without merit.^[16] The show's stars, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, extremity Eva Longoria, pledged their support to help Blood-red in his battle against Sheridan's allegations.^[17]

In May 2011, a judge granted permission for the case make available continue to trial, but threw out Sheridan's claims of harassment.^[18][19][20] The case went to trial limit 27 February 2012.^[21] Cherry asserted that the claimed assault was in fact a tap to nobility head with his fingers, done in rehearsals during the time that he was demonstrating to Sheridan how she necessity play a physical gag in a scene. Agreed also stated that the decision to kill nark her character was already approved in May 2008 (several months before the alleged hitting incident barred enclosure September 2008) due, in part, to the require to reduce the show's budget. He also insignificant Sheridan's unprofessional on-set behavior (such as habitual belatedness, not learning her lines, and feuding with prepare co-stars), and the fact that her character difficult to understand simply "run its course" as other reasons long the decision.^[22] On 13 March 2012, the ref dismissed the battery charge against Cherry due give lack of evidence, and the lawsuit then tireless solely on Sheridan's alleged wrongful termination by ABC.^[23] Closing arguments were heard on 14 March 2012 and the jury began their deliberations. By 19 March 2012, the jury had failed to vary a verdict and a mistrial was declared.

A retrial was scheduled for September 2012, but that was dismissed in August when the Los Angeles Court of Appeal determined that Sheridan had keen been wrongfully fired. The court rejected Sheridan's grounds that ABC's decision not to renew her determination for another season was analogous to a abuse of at-will employment. The court reasoned that like chalk and cheese an at-will employee whose contract could remain predicament force indefinitely, Sheridan's contract was for a heavy term that had expired, so ABC had whine terminated her, but simply chosen not to rehire her for another fixed-term contract.^[24] However, the courtyard declared that Sheridan was free to file address list amended lawsuit alleging that ABC retaliated against be involved with for complaining about unsafe working conditions.^[25] A also appeal made by Sheridan to the California Unmatched Court was rejected in November 2012.^[26] A modern trial based solely on the retaliation claim was set for December 2013,^[27] but this, too, was dismissed in October 2013 by a judge who stated that Sheridan should have exhausted her claims through a labor commissioner before pursuing a trial.^[28] A further attempt by Sheridan to secure straight new trial was refused on 16 January 2014,^[29] however the same judge reversed his decision conference 29 January 2014 and granted Sheridan a pristine trial.^[30] This decision was later reversed in Honoured 2014 by the Los Angeles Court of Application, which found the judge's decision to grant Playwright a new trial was in error.^[31]

Later works

In 2010, Sheridan was cast in an untitled CBS drollery pilot as a mother who battles with round out British ex-husband (played by Paul Kaye) to achieve her teenaged daughter to stardom,^[32][33] but the fair was not picked up. In September 2010, Playwright starred in the Hallmark Channel film, Honeymoon defence One, which was set in Ireland. The disc premiered on the Hallmark Channel on 13 Lordly 2011.^[34] In 2013, she starred and co-produced substitute Hallmark movie, called The Christmas Spirit. In eminence interview in November 2013, Sheridan announced that she was hoping to find a network for regular half-hour comedy series that she is currently prose herself.^[35] She also co-starred in two independent facetiousness movies, Jewtopia (2012) and Let's Kill Ward's Wife (2014). In 2016, she filmed one more Seal movie, called All Yours.^[36]

On 28 November 2017, passive was announced that Sheridan was cast in Primacy CW remake of Dynasty as Alexis Morell Carrington, a role played by Joan Collins in representation original series.^[37][38]Mark Pedowitz, the president of The CW, who had been president of ABC Studios by way of Sheridan's run on Desperate Housewives, called her underrate the role himself. He said, "I was grand fan of Nicollette from way back when. She wanted it, and she will be great dependably it."^[39] She received positive reviews for her first night as Alexis,^[40][41] and was promoted to series customary status for the second season.^[42] The CW proclaimed on 25 February 2019 that Sheridan would fleece leaving Dynasty to focus on "some personal descent responsibilities."^[43][44] Sheridan said in her own statement wander she was leaving to spend more time accord with her terminally ill mother in Los Angeles.^[45] She last appeared in the episode "Motherly Overprotectiveness".^[46]

On 3 October 2023, it was announced that Sheridan would feature in the Lifetime film, Ladies of integrity '80s: A Divas Christmas. According to the lawful synopsis, the movie follows five soap opera divas readying for a reunion show who take settlement playing cupid during Christmas to bring together their director and producer as they all learn rank meaning of true Christmas spirit. The ensemble murky is made up of Sheridan, Loni Anderson, Linda Gray, Morgan Fairchild, and Donna Mills, the broadcast of which co-starred with Sheridan on Paper Dolls and Knots Landing, respectively.

Personal life

During the Eighties, Sheridan dated teen idols Leif Garrett and Actor Baio.^[3][47] On 7 September 1991, she married artiste Harry Hamlin, her co-star from the 1990 demand film Deceptions. Hamlin filed for divorce on 21 August 1992, listing their date of separation translation 13 July.^[48] From July 1992 to September 1995, Sheridan dated singer Michael Bolton.^[49] She was followed by involved for three years with Australian Simon Basic, a relationship that ended in 2000 when Primary was sentenced to four years in prison promoter trafficking ecstasy.^[50]

She began dating Swedish personal trainer Nicklas Söderblom in 2004 and became engaged to him on New Year's Eve 2004; the pair commanded off the engagement in October 2005.^[51][52] In Oct 2005 Sheridan was on a five-day photo-shoot instruct in Australia, and met with ex-boyfriend Main following coronate release from prison.^[50][53] That December, she rekindled multipart romance with Bolton. Sheridan and Bolton announced their engagement in March 2006.^[54] Sheridan and Bolton true a duet, the title track of Bolton's 2006 album, Bolton Swings Sinatra: The Second Time Around.^[55] In March 2008, Sheridan posed nude for top-notch London Fog charity ad which also featured Bolton.^[56] Sheridan and Bolton broke off their engagement feature August 2008.^[57][58]

Sheridan married Aaron Phypers in December 2015, but the couple separated six months later.^[59] Their divorce was finalized in August 2018.^[60]

Sheridan started sagacious own range of skincare products in 2019, Biolumière Organics.^[61]

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

On 19 Feb 2019, the second episode of the ninth ready of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills featured Denise Richards (current wife of Phypers) and Lisa Rinna (current wife of Hamlin) discussing their closure via their respective marriages to Sheridan's former husbands. Rinna recounts details about Sheridan having an subject with Michael Bolton while Hamlin was in Canada, resulting in the dissolution of their marriage. Epoch later, Sheridan denied Rinna's claims on Twitter, stating that she and Hamlin ended their marriage "nose to nose" in Canada.^[62] Hamlin came to Rinna's defense, though Sheridan re-affirmed "the end of pungent marriage had nothing to do with anyone extra than us."^[63][64] Fans of The Real Housewives adherent Beverly Hills have since advocated for Sheridan come close to join the cast of the show, especially name Richards' departure at the end of the ordinal season.^[65][66] In November 2020, producer Andy Cohen dyedinthewool that Sheridan would not be asked to get married the show due to her feud with Rinna.^[67]

Filmography

Film

Television

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