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Biographical
Information |
Full
Name: |
Calista
Kay Flockhart |
Height: |
5'
5" |
Birthplace: |
Freeport,
Illinois, USA |
Date
of Birth: |
November
11, 1964 |
Husband/Partner: |
Currently
dating Harrison Ford |
Contact
Info: |
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Personal
Trivia: |
Did
you know that Calista is named after her great-grandmother? |
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Her
name started rolling off the tongues of couch potatoes
and critics across the nation following the breakout success
of her Fox television series, Ally McBeal. Flockhart seemed
to be an overnight hit, but the actress has labored in
onstage semi-obscurity for more than a decade before her
sitcom cash cow came home. So, what's the story behind
that fab name? The charmingly modest actress, who is named
after her Greek great-grandmother, has reluctantly admitted
to interviewers that Calista means "most beautiful."
She was born
to a Kraft Foods executive father and a schoolteacher
mother. She moved alot as a kid and her family eventually
settled in Medford, New Jersey, and following her high
school graduation, she enrolled at nearby Rutgers University.
There, she made the fateful decision to enroll in the
fine arts program, only because she didn't want to have
to list her major as undeclared. While at Rutgers, Flockhart
studied acting under drama coach William Esper and gained
her first performing experience through appearances
in university and community theater productions.
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When
she graduated in 1987, she moved to New York to devote
her energies to acting full-time. Over the course of the
next seven years, Flockhart appeared in everything from
a Williamstown Theater Festival presentation of Death
Takes a Holiday to an off-Broadway production of Wrong
Turn at Lungfish helmed by Pretty Woman director Garry
Marshall. She reaped praise for her performances in off-Broadway
roles in such productions as Sophistry and All for One.
Just as her
Broadway acting career began to take off friends succeeded
in dragging her to an audition with Kelley, who offered
her the title role after their first meeting; she promptly
relocated from New York to Los Angeles to begin filming.
This show was obviously, Ally McBeal. Critics were raving
about Ally McBeal even before the first episode aired,
and they haven't let up since (Flockhart has already
been awarded a Best Actress Golden Globe for her work
on the series). Audience response turned out to be equally
fervent.
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Films:
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Milk & Money (1997)
Telling Lies in America (1997)
Drunks (1997)
The Birdcage (1996)
Pictures of Baby Jane Doe (1995)
Getting In (1994)
Quiz Show (1994)
Naked in New York (1993)
Made for
TV:
100 Greatest TV Characters, The (2001)
Bash: Latterday Plays (2000)
Darrow (1991)
Direct to
Video:
None
TV Shows:
Ally (1999)
Ally McBeal (1997)
Lifestories: Families In Crisis (1995)
The Guiding Light (1952)
Cartoon Voices:
None
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