Caroline Lagerfelt

Caroline Lagerfelt
Born	Caroline Eugenie Lagerfelt (1947-09-23) September 23, 1947 Paris, France
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1971–present

Caroline Eugenie "Carolyn" Lagerfelt (born September 23, 1947) is a French-born actress, long based in the United States.

Early life and education

Lagerfelt was born in Paris, the daughter of Baron I. Karl-Gustav E. Lagerfelt, Sweden's ambassador to Austria, and Mary Charmian Sara (née Champion de Crespigny). She is descended from Swedish nobility and grew up in Sweden. Lagerfelt moved to the United States after college, where she enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Career

Lagerfelt began her career working in theater. Her first professional job was as a stage manager and understudy for the 1971 Broadway play Four on a Garden. That same year she made her onstage debut as Liz in Christopher Hampton's The Philanthropist at the Royal Court Theatre. She returned to Broadway two years later as Lady Ursula Itchin in the 1973 play The Jockey Club Stakes and again in 1975 as Marie-Louise Durham in The Constant Wife. Her performance in the latter earned her a Drama Desk Award nomination. Her next role on Broadway was as Beth in the 1977 play Otherwise Engaged.

In 1979, Lagerfelt made her first foray into television as a guest star on Archie Bunker's Place. This was followed by numerous appearances on television shows throughout the 1980s, including T. J. Hooker, The Twilight Zone, Cagney & Lacey, Spenser: For Hire, The Equalizer and several television films. Lagerfelt made her film debut as Elizabeth Masters in the 1986 film Iron Eagle.

Lagerfelt remained active in theater throughout the 1980s. She returned to Broadway in 1980 to portray Emma in Betrayal and then appeared as Jean in the 1982 Off-Broadway play The Sea Anchor. Also in 1982, she portrayed Ruth Carson in Night and Day with the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. The following year she appeared as Anita Manchip in two different productions of Quartermaine's Terms, one at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut and the other at Playhouse 91 in New York City.

In 1984, she appeared in the Off-Broadway production of Other Places as Gila/Pauline at the Manhattan Theatre Club and portrayed the role of Annie in the original Broadway cast of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing (1984–1985) at the Plymouth Theatre. In 1988, she starred in The Wall of Water at the Yale Repertory Theatre and portrayed the role of the Governor's wife in Phaedra Britannica with the Classic Stage Company. She returned to Broadway the following year as Diana in Lend Me a Tenor.

Over the years, she has had a variety of short-term and recurring roles on the daytime soaps. As Patricia Devereaux on The Edge of Night in 1983, she was the ex-wife of spy Ian Devereaux who showed up in Monticello to visit Ian and ended up being murdered by Russian spy David Cameron (Norman Parker) who recalled strangling Nora Fulton as he killed Patricia. A few years later, she played Emily Hargrove on As the World Turns who was a witness for the defense in Frannie Hughes' trial for the murder of Douglas Cummings. Ironically, the D.A. in this case was played by Norman Parker who ruthlessly cross-examined Emily on the stand. In between those stints, she had appeared briefly on The Guiding Light as the D.A. in the Charlotte Wheaton murder case. As Roger Gordon's ex-wife Carrie on One Life to Live, she was Sarah's natural mother and Megan's adoptive mother, appearing on occasion from 1988 to 1989.

During the 1990s, Lagerfelt began to focus her career on television; perhaps her best known work to date being the role of Inger Dominguez, the wife of Lt. Joe Dominguez on the television series Nash Bridges from 1996 to 2001. She appeared in the recurring role of Sheila Silver on Beverly Hills, 90210 in 1995 and 1996. She also had a major recurring role on Gossip Girl as CeCe Rhodes from 2007 to 2012.

She appeared Off-Broadway as Izz in Swim Visit (1990), Tekla in Creditors (1992), and Simone in The Workroom (1993). Her only Broadway role of the decade was as Anita in the 1992 play A Small Family Business at the Music Box Theatre. In 2014, she appeared in the Roundabout revival of Tom Stoppard's drama Indian Ink at the Laura Pels Theater. Lagerfelt also appeared in several Regional theatre productions including the roles of Suzanne in Don't Dress for Dinner (1992) at the Paper Mill Playhouse, The Misanthrope (1993) at the Long Wharf Theatre, and Death Takes a Holiday (1997) at the Lobero Theater. More recently she has appeared as Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart (2000) with the Huntington Theatre Company and Off-Broadway as Gareth Peirce in Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom (2004).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Iron Eagle	Elizabeth Masters
1988	Home at Last	Christina	Television film
1995	Bye Bye Love	Mother #1 at McDonalds
1995	No Way Back	FBI Agent in Charge Emily Fukes
1995	Father of the Bride Part II	Check-in nurse
1997	Journey of the Heart	Lady of the house	Television film
1997	Glam	Joleen Lemon
1998	The Lake	Mayor Louise Terry	Television film
2000	Missing Pieces	Serena	Television film
2002	Minority Report	Greta van Eyck
2002	Red Skies	Veronica Peirson	Television film
2005	Mrs. Harris	Madeira School administrator	Television film
2005	Homecoming	Mrs. Carter
2006	Poseidon	Mary
2006	All the King's Men	Mrs. Peyton
2007	Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses	Mary Bergin	Television film
2008	August	Nancy Sterling
2011	Royal Reunion	Elaine	Short film
2011	Rolling on the Floor Laughing	Caroline	Short film
2011	Sunday Dinner	Suzy Goodman	Short film
2012	Girls Against Boys	Professor Sara Randolph
2013	To an Extent	Mom	Short film
2013	The Red Robin	Lillian
2013	March from Innocence	Katherine	Short film
2014	The Homesman	Netti Svendsen
2014	Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend?	Old Emma
2015	I'll See You In My Dreams	Leslie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Archie Bunker's Place	Ruth Kendall	Episode: "The Shabbat Dinner"
1983	The Edge of Night	Patricia Devereaux	Unknown episodes
1985	T. J. Hooker	Julia	Episode: "The Throwaway"
1986	As the World Turns	Elaine Hargrove	Unknown episodes
1986	The Twilight Zone	April Hamilton	Episode: "The Misfortune Cookie"
1986	Cagney & Lacey	Rita Quintero	Episode: "DWI"
1988–89	One Life to Live	Carrie Gordon	Unknown episodes
1988	Spenser: For Hire	Governess	Episode: "Haunting"
1988	The Equalizer	Evelyn	Episode: "Eighteen with a Bullet"
1990	Murphy Brown	Mary Ann Miller	Episode: "But First a Word from Our Sponsor"
1993	Ghostwriter	Sally Lewis	5 episodes
1993	TriBeCa	Irene Woodward	Episode: "The Loft"
1993	Law & Order	Danielle Keyes	Episode: "Black Tie"
1994	NYPD Blue	Kitty Lear	Episode: "Good Time Charlie"
1994	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Makbar	Episode: "Tribunal"
1994	ER	Andrea	Episode: "ER Confidential"
1995–96	Beverly Hills, 90210	Sheila Silver	5 episodes
1995	Amazing Grace	Mrs. Spangler	Episode: "The Shooting"
1995	Chicago Hope	Nurse Holder	Episode: "The Virus"
1995	Central Park West	Rhinebeck Retreat receptionist	Episode: "Showgirls"
1996	The Drew Carey Show	Mrs. Hoyt	Episode: "Atomic Cat Fight"
1996	Picket Fences	Marta Beiler	Episode: "To Forgive Is Devine"
1996–2001	Nash Bridges	Inger Dominguez	29 episodes
1997	Pensacola: Wings of Gold	Rae	Episode: "Bogey Man"
1999	Chicken Soup for the Soul	Mother	Episode: "Egg Lessons"
1999	Snoops	Marcia Zindler	Episode: "The Grinch"
2001	The X-Files	Rustic woman	Episode: "The Gift"
2002	Maybe It's Me	Corinne	Episode: "The Fever Episode"
2002	First Monday	—	Episode: "Right to Die"
2003	Six Feet Under	Alternate wife	Episode: "Perfect Circles"
2003	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Anne	Episode: "Lies My Parents Told Me"
2003	Frasier	Glinka	Episode: "The Doctor Is Out"
2004	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Hannah Heltman	Episode: "The Posthumous Collection"
2006	How I Met Your Mother	Bridal shop lady	Episode: "Cupcake"
2006–07	Six Degrees	J.T.	4 episodes
2007	All My Children	Dr. Massey	Season 38, episode 45
2007	House	Connie	Episode: "Guardian Angels"
2007–12	Gossip Girl	Celia "CeCe" Rhodes	10 episodes
2008	Dirty Sexy Money	Clare George	Episode: "The Star Witness"
2009	Numbers	Rose Harris	Episode: "Shadow Markets"
2009	Brothers & Sisters	Jane	Episode: "The Wine Festival"
2010	Weeds	Cannabis Network lady	Episode: "A Yippity Sippity"
2012	Castle	Anjelica Henley	Episode: "Secret's Safe with Me"
2012	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Marjorie Randell	Episode: "Play Dead"
2013	Masters of Sex	Barb	Episode: "Brave New World"
2014	The Mindy Project	Gladys Dunne	Episode: "Girl Crush"
2015	Gotham	Mrs. Kean	2 episodes

External links

• Caroline Lagerfelt at IMDb
• Caroline Lagerfelt at the Internet Broadway Database
• Caroline Lagerfelt biography at Film Reference
• Caroline Lagerfelt biography at the Wayback Machine (archived March 16, 2008) at the Oakland East Bay Symphony