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Blair Brown / Nina Sharp
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Date of birth: April 23, 1946
Blair's birth place: Washington D.C., USA
Eye color:Green
Height: 5' 8" (1.73 cm)
Blair's family: Son, Robert.
Education: Graduated from Canada's National Theater School in 1969.
Blair Brown mini-bio: According to Blair, her father, Milton Henry Brown, was career CIA. Her mother, Elizabeth Ann Brown, was a teacher. She originally intended to have a career in the medical field. Instead, she trained at Canada's National Theater School, graduating in 1969.

This attractive, redheaded leading lady began her stage career with the Canadian Stratford Shakespeare Festival. She then moved onto work with the New York Shakespeare Festival. It did not take long for Blair to move onto Hollywood.
Although her screen roles have been sporadic, Brown has proven to be a capable performer. She starred opposite William Hurt in "Altered States" (1980) and gave one of her best performances as a take-charge naturalist romanced by John Belushi in the overlooked "Continental Divide" (1981). Brown also amassed several notable TV credits, including the NBC miniseries "Captains and the Kings" (1976, opposite off-screen companion Richard Jordan, with whom she had a son, Robert) and in the title role of the popular series, "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd".
In the mid-80s, Brown was romantically involved with British playwright-director David Hare who tailored the role of an American doctor living in London in "Strapless" (1989) for her. She subsequently starred in Hare's Broadway play "The Secret Rapture" (1989). Putting her family life first, the actress often worked in NYC on stage and in TV productions. After a seven-year absence, Brown returned to features with a supporting role in "The Astronaut's Wife" (1999)

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BLAIR BROWN CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Blair Brown as Nina Sharp on J.J. Abram's Fringe
Non-acting careers:
Movies: The Paper Chase, Altered States, One Trick Pony, Stealing Home, Continental Divide, The Astronaut's Wife
TV: The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Law & Order, The American Experience, Fringe
Stage: First major appearance on Broadway was in 1989, "Secret Rapture" and on to Heidi Chronicles, A Little Night Music and The Threepenny Opera, as well as the lead in The Clean House.
Big break: Blair's first film appearance was as Miss Farranti in The Paper Chase in 1973. However, her "official" career in films came four years later with The Choirboys.
Best known for: Molly Dodd in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (65 episodes and 5 seasons)
Awards: Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Copenhagen (2000) Blair was nominated 5 years in a row for the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, in The Days And Nights Of Molly Dodd, but never won.
Upcoming projects:
BLAIR BROWN QUOTES

  • I don't want to be a man. I want to be a woman in a world that's more accepting of us.

  • A director's job is to take what is literally written on the page, find the reality of the relationships between the actors, but then also the larger halo or aura of something else

  • I think that whatever aspect of my career hasn't happened has to do with the fact that when I was younger, I didn't think it was that important to play the game. I thought you didn't actually have to. I see now that's not the case. Still, I couldn't have done it differently. I couldn't actually deal, and I still can't, with that nonsense in California. I don't have the gift.
BLAIR BROWN TRIVIA

  • Esquire Magazine labeled her 'The Thinking Man's Bombshell.'

  • She has narrated more than 50 documentary films and has recorded at least 15 audio books. Brown has also hosted The Poet's Voice for NPR and the Unterberg Poetry Center.

  • Brown is on the board of People for the American Way and served with Christopher Reeve as co-president of The Creative Coalition, an educational and advocacy group made up of people in the entertainment industry.
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 Blair Brown as Nina Sharp on J.J. Abram's Fringe



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