Tammy Blanchard

Tammy Blanchard
Born	December 14, 1976 (1976-12-14) Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.
Years active	1997-present

Tammy Blanchard (born December 14, 1976) is an American actress. She has worked primarily in films and television, making her professional start in the soap opera Guiding Light. For her first stage appearance, she played the role of Louise/Gypsy in the 2003 Broadway revival of the musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable, for which she earned both a Tony Award nomination and a Theatre World Award. She received the Emmy Award for her portrayal of a teenage Judy Garland in the television movie Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows. She stars as Hedy LaRue in the 2011 Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and was nominated for a 2011 Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Musical for the role.

Life and career

Blanchard was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. She made her professional acting debut on the soap opera Guiding Light in 1997, where she played spoiled rich girl Drew Jacobs. Her role on the show increased over the years, and by the time of her departure in 2000 she had become a major player on the series. She was then cast as the younger version of Judy Davis's Judy Garland in the 2001 television docudrama Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows. She received glowing reviews for her performance and earned an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries. She played Marianne Mulvaney in the Lifetime television movie We Were the Mulvaneys (2002), and was noted for her "fragile strength" by The New York Times reviewer. In 2004, she played Sally Reid in the CBS made-for-television movie, When Angels Come to Town with Peter Falk.

Blanchard earned a Tony Award nomination and a Theatre World Award for her work in her Broadway debut in the 2003 revival of Gypsy: A Musical Fable, in which she played the title role opposite Bernadette Peters.

Blanchard's film roles include The Good Shepherd (2006), starring as the deaf lover of Matt Damon's character; Bella (2006), which took the top prize at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival;The Ramen Girl (2007); and Deadline (2009). She co-starred with Jessica Lange in the CBS television remake of the 1976 television film Sybil, in which she portrays a woman with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). She appeared in the multi-star cast of the television docudrama Living Proof (2008) as the first woman to have been treated with the breast cancer drug Herceptin.

She plays Amy Roberts, the widow of a murderer, in the made-for-television movie Amish Grace, which first aired on the Lifetime Movie Network in March 2010. The movie is based on the Amish school shooting. The Huffington Post noted that "This is an amazing young actress and she deserves to get better and better roles." The Hollywood Reporter noted that Blanchard gives "a moving turn".

She appeared in the 2010 film Rabbit Hole alongside Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as Kidman's sister, and in Nancy Savoca's Union Square, co-starring Patti Lupone and Mira Sorvino.

Blanchard is currently playing the role of "office bombshell Hedy La Rue" in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which officially opened on March 27, 2011. For this role Blanchard received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

In 2011, the feature film Union Square, co-written and directed by the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Award Winner, Nancy Savoca, is being premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. In it, Tammy co-stars with Patti Lupone, Mira Sorvino, Mike Doyle, Michael Rispoli and Daphne Rubin-Vega.

Personal life

Blanchard lives in her hometown of Bayonne and has a daughter, who is 3 years old as of 2011.

Awards

Won

• 2003 Theatre World Award (Gypsy: A Musical Fable)
• 2001 Emmy Award - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Life With Judy Garland....)

Nominated

• 2011 Tony Award - Best Featured Actress in a Musical (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
• 2003 Tony Award - Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Gypsy: A Musical Fable)
• 2002 American Film Institute Award - AFI Actor of the Year - Female - Movie or Miniseries (Life with Judy Garland....)
• 2002 Golden Globe Award - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television (Life with Judy Garland....)
• 2002 Satellite Award - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television (Life with Judy Garland....)

Work

Filmography

• Union Square (2010) (A Nancy Savoca film.)
• Rabbit Hole (2010) (as Izzy)
• Deadline (2009) (as Rebecca)
• Cadillac Records (2008) (as Isabelle Allen)
• The Ramen Girl (2008) (as Gretchen)
• The Good Shepherd (2006) (as Laura)
• Bella (2006) (as Nina)
• Stealing Harvard (2002) (as Noreen Plummer)

Television

• Law & Order: "Brazil" (2010, NBC)
• Amish Grace (2010, Lifetime) (as Amy Roberts)
• Living Proof (2008, Lifetime)
• Sybil (2007, CBS) (as Sybil)
• When Angels Come to Town (2004, CBS) (as Sally Reid)
• We Were the Mulvaneys (2002, Lifetime) (as Marianne Mulvaney)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent: "Tomorrow" (2002, NBC) (as Sarah Eldon)
• Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001, ABC) (as Judy Garland)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: "Consent" (2001, NBC) (as Kelly D'Leah)
• Guiding Light (1997–2000, CBS) (as Drew Jacobs)

Stage

• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2011)(as Hedy LaRue)
• Gypsy: A Musical Fable (2003–2004) (as Louise/Gypsy)

External links

• Tammy Blanchard at the Internet Movie Database
• Tammy Blanchard at the Internet Broadway Database
• Tammy Blanchard at AllRovi
• Tammy Blanchard at the TCM Movie Database
• Tammy Blanchard at Yahoo! Movies
• Playbill.com article June 27, 2003