Nancy Travis
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| Nancy Travis | |
| Born | Nancy Ann Travis September 21, 1961 New York City, New York, USA |
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| Years active | 1985–2009 |
| Spouse(s) | Robert N. Fried (1994-present) 2 children |
Nancy Travis (born September 21, 1961) is an American actress. She is known for supporting roles in both movies and television.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Career
Travis's first job after graduating high school was in the play "It's Hard to be a Jew" at The American Jewish Theatre in New York. She was an intern at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival where she played minor roles and understudied leading actresses. After that, Travis appeared in a stage version of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and was a founding member of the Off-Broadway theater company Naked Angels. She appeared in their Frank Pugliese play "Aven U-Boys", as well as in "King of Connecticut" and "I'm Not Rappaport". She has also starred in Athol Fugard's "My Children, My Africa."
She also starred in 3 Men and a Baby (1987) with Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson.
During the 1990s, Travis starred in several films, including the police drama Internal Affairs with Richard Gere and the Mike Myers comedy So I Married an Axe Murderer.
She starred in two TV series of her own, Almost Perfect and Work with Me, then had a regular role in the television sitcom Becker from 2002-04, replacing Terry Farrell as the love interest of Ted Danson's character (She had previously appeared with him in Three Men and a Baby as well as it's sequel). More recently she has played Susan Pearson, the titular character's wife, on the Bill Engvall Show.
Travis had a recurring role in the TV series Home Improvement.
She also co-starred with Treat Williams in the tv film Safe Harbor on Hallmark Channel.[1]
[edit] Personal life
Travis was born in New York City and raised in Massachusetts. She lived in Baltimore as well as Framingham, Massachusetts during her childhood. Travis graduated from Framingham North High where she had many friends. In 1994, Travis married former President and CEO of Savoy Pictures Robert N. Fried [2]. Travis was raised Catholic and now embraces her husband's Jewish religion, although she has not formally converted[3].
She has two sons, Benjamin who was born in 1998 and Jeremy who was born in 2001.
[edit] Filmography
- Malice in Wonderland (1985)
- Harem (TV) (1986)
- Three Men and a Baby (1987)
- Married to the Mob (1988)
- Eight Men Out (1988)
- I'll Be Home for Christmas (TV) (1988)
- Loose Cannons (1990)
- Internal Affairs (1990)
- Air America (1990)
- 3 Men and a Little Lady (1990)
- Passed Away (1992)
- Chaplin (1992)
- The Vanishing (1993)
- So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
- Duckman (1994)(TV series) (voice)
- Greedy (1994)
- Fluke (1995)
- Lieberman in Love (1995)
- Destiny Turns on the Radio (1995)
- Body Language (1995)
- Almost Perfect (TV series) (1995)
- The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996) (TV series) (voice)
- Bogus (1996)
- Gun - Vol.1 (1996)
- Superman: The Animated Series (1998) (voice)
- Work with Me (TV series) (1999)
- To Live For (TV) (1999)
- Running Mates (2000)
- Beyond Suspicion (2000)
- Stephen King's Rose Red (TV mini-series) (2002)
- Becker (TV series) (2002-04)
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
- The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
- The Bill Engvall Show (2007-08) (TV series)
- Safe Harbor (2009)
