Sharon Elizabeth Lawrence (born June , ) is an American actress,
singer, and dancer. She is best known for the role of Sylvia Costas
Sipowicz in the ABC drama series NYPD Blue. The role garnered her
three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting
Actress in a Drama Series.Lawrence was born in Charlotte, North
Carolina, the daughter of Earlyn Lawrence, an education administrator
and Head Start supervisor, and Tom Lawrence, a television news
reporter for WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina. She moved from
Charlotte to Raleigh in her junior year of high school and graduated
from Needham B. Broughton High School. She attended the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in journalism in .Lawrence began her acting career on Broadway
in the revival of Cabaret. In , she performed in Fiddler on the Roof.
She appeared in a number of television movies and series in the s,
like Cheers and Star Trek: Voyager. In she was cast as Assistant
District Attorney Sylvia Costas in the ABC police drama series NYPD
Blue created by Steven Bochco. Her consistently praised performance
earned the actress three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nominations from to , and the
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female
Actor in a Drama Series in . In she left the show for her own comedy
series Fired Up on NBC. The series was canceled after two seasons. She
later returned to NYPD Blue as a regular, and left the show in , after
her character was killed.Lawrence starred with Betty White and Alfred
Molina on the short-lived sitcom Ladies Man from to . She played
Velma Kelly in the Broadway musical Chicago in . She also had a series
regular role on the CBS supernatural drama Wolf Lake from to . In
film, she co-starred in Gossip (), Little Black Book (), and The Alibi
().
singer, and dancer. She is best known for the role of Sylvia Costas
Sipowicz in the ABC drama series NYPD Blue. The role garnered her
three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting
Actress in a Drama Series.Lawrence was born in Charlotte, North
Carolina, the daughter of Earlyn Lawrence, an education administrator
and Head Start supervisor, and Tom Lawrence, a television news
reporter for WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina. She moved from
Charlotte to Raleigh in her junior year of high school and graduated
from Needham B. Broughton High School. She attended the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in journalism in .Lawrence began her acting career on Broadway
in the revival of Cabaret. In , she performed in Fiddler on the Roof.
She appeared in a number of television movies and series in the s,
like Cheers and Star Trek: Voyager. In she was cast as Assistant
District Attorney Sylvia Costas in the ABC police drama series NYPD
Blue created by Steven Bochco. Her consistently praised performance
earned the actress three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nominations from to , and the
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female
Actor in a Drama Series in . In she left the show for her own comedy
series Fired Up on NBC. The series was canceled after two seasons. She
later returned to NYPD Blue as a regular, and left the show in , after
her character was killed.Lawrence starred with Betty White and Alfred
Molina on the short-lived sitcom Ladies Man from to . She played
Velma Kelly in the Broadway musical Chicago in . She also had a series
regular role on the CBS supernatural drama Wolf Lake from to . In
film, she co-starred in Gossip (), Little Black Book (), and The Alibi
().
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