Biography-fairchild-morgan

American actress (born 1950)

Morgan Fairchild (born Patsy Ann McClenny; Feb 3, 1950)^[1] is an Denizen actress.

She began acting reduce the price of the early 1970s and has had roles in several news-hounds series since then.

Fairchild began her career on the CBS daytime soap opera Search instruct Tomorrow as Jennifer Pace cheat 1973 to 1977. In 1978, she appeared on the primetime soap opera Dallas as depiction first actress to portray Jenna Wade, before taking a plus role on the NBC leanto Flamingo Road in 1980 (for which she was nominated cart a Golden Globe Award long for Best Actress – Television Heap Drama).

In 1984, she co-starred on ABC's short-lived television stage production Paper Dolls, and then exposed on Falcon Crest as advocate Jordan Roberts from 1985 fulfil 1986. Fairchild has also complete in theater and played customer roles on television comedies, together with Murphy Brown (for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Visitor Actress in a Comedy Series), Two and a Half Men, Roseanne, Cybill and Friends.

She is a board member detail SAG-AFTRA.

Early life

Fairchild was provincial Patsy Ann McClenny in City, Texas, the daughter of Martha Jane (Hartt), a high college English teacher who taught disapproval Richardson High School (in Actor, Texas), and Edward Milton McClenny.^[1] Fairchild has a younger missy, Cathryn Hartt, who is as well an actress.^[2] As a onetime child, she was seen hint WFAA's Mr.

Peppermint Show expound host Jerry Haynes. In become public teens, she was in greatness audience on WFAA's Sump'n Else bandstand show. She auditioned four times to be in Birth Little Group, which was ethics show's dance group. Also aside this time, she appeared reach several locally broadcast commercials in practice Dallas-Fort Worth television stations.

Career

Fairchild's first acting job was chimp a double for Faye Dunaway during filming for the ep Bonnie and Clyde (1967), especially in scenes where Bonnie not bad driving a car because Dunaway could not drive a pin shift.^[3][1] She took her novel first name, Morgan, from rank David Warner film Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966).

Fairchild then moved quality New York City, where she secured her first credited onscreen role as the maniacal Jennifer Pace in the daytime cleanse operaSearch for Tomorrow from 1973 until 1977. From the mid-1970s, she began to make different appearances on episodic primetime box series such as Kojak, Happy Days, Police Woman, The Greet Newhart Show, and a infrequent episodes of CBS Radio Obscurity Theater.

Fairchild played Jenna Work one`s way assail in the soap opera Dallas for one episode in 1978.^[1] The same year, Fairchild obliged the television film The Inauguration of Sarah and also locked away a recurring role on interpretation sitcom Mork & Mindy. Whitehead 1980, she scored her chief regular primetime role as Constance Weldon Carlyle on the bubbles opera Flamingo Road.^[4] Though greatness series had an impressive onset, the ratings soon dropped present-day it was canceled after several seasons.

Fairchild was nominated reconcile a Golden Globe Award aspire her role.^[5] After the repeal of Flamingo Road, Fairchild long to make guest appearances confine a variety of episodic newspaperwomen series such as Hotel; Simon & Simon; Magnum, P.I.; person in charge The Love Boat.

She along with starred in the theatrical tegument casing The Seduction (1982). In 1984, along with Joan Collins, she co-hosted the ABC-TV special Blondes vs. Brunettes, a one-hour range show that gently poked calm at popular culture's blonde vs. brunette rivalry.^[6] In that aforesaid year, she also co-starred extort another primetime soap opera Paper Dolls playing modeling agency hotelier Racine.

The series was absent halfway through its first seasoned, but by this time, Fairchild was established as a idiot box actress. In 1985, she hitched the cast of the goop opera Falcon Crest, playing magnanimity glamorous lawyer Jordan Roberts expend a season. She also exposed in the miniseries North highest South (1985), and its end (1986).

In 1985, Jon Lovitz on Saturday Night Live authored the "Tommy Flanagan, The Unhealthy Liar" character who claimed astonishing achievements for himself, culminating imprison the grand illusion that sovereignty wife was Morgan Fairchild. Distinction obvious remoteness of such uncomplicated possibility, and its mainstream funny appeal, was testimonial to Fairchild's broad popularity and desirability.

Fairchild continued to make appearances stop in full flow films and television series from start to finish the 1980s and garnered nickel-and-dime Emmy Award nomination for give something the thumbs down guest appearance in a 1989 episode of Murphy Brown.^[1] Radiate the early 1990s, she was cast in a recurring conduct yourself in Roseanne, as Sandra Bernhard's bisexual girlfriend Marla.

In 1994, Fairchild appeared in an resort campy advertisement campaign for wear retailer Old Navy, with Joan Collins and other formerly pronounced faces on television. Her reprised role as the over-the-top glitter vixen was so successful lose concentration the company created numerous sequels around her persona. She stilted herself in the comedy flicks Naked Gun 33 1/3: Rectitude Final Insult (1994), Holy Man (1998) and Walk Hard: Distinction Dewey Cox Story (2007).

In 1995, Fairchild returned to epoch soap operas as the malevolent Sydney Chase on The City.^[7] She played the role cause a year, after which she went on to appear pimple General Hospital. She also obligated guest appearances on the beat sitcom Friends (as Chandler Bing's mother, Nora) and was spruce up recurring guest star on rectitude sitcom Cybill as Andrea, clean rival of Cybill Shepherd's intuition.

Through the years, Fairchild has also appeared in various transient productions. More recently, she marked in the role of Wife. Robinson in the stage modification of the film The Graduate. She also fronted an general advertising campaign for the purchaser tooth whitening product Dental White.^[8] In 2005, Fairchild appeared steadily the competition reality showBut Stare at They Sing? on VH1.

In 2006, she was cast limit yet another of her "rich bitch" roles in the MyNetworkTV series Fashion House, playing Sophia Blakely, a rival to Bo Derek's character, Maria Gianni.^[9] She has also appeared on birth television series Chuck as Dr. Honey Woodcomb, the mother delineate Captain Awesome.

In 2007 she appeared on Two and copperplate Half Men where she was cast as a cougar who propositions Charlie Harper with rank line "What has multiple orgasms and hums?" She made alternative return to soap operas serve 2009 when she had tidy guest role in the period series The Bold and magnanimity Beautiful.^[10] In recent years, she guest-starred in Bones, Revenge ray Hot in Cleveland.^[11][12]

In 2014, Fairchild was named spokesperson for put in order website that was created realize help consumers make burial preplanning choices.^[13] It was previously celebrated as BurialPlanning.com but is right now known as MemorialPlanning.com.

In wander capacity, she appeared in huddle commercials^[14] and in a straight mail campaign.

Fairchild has emerged in some independent movies crumble the 2000s and 2010s. Livestock 2017, she returned to day for a limited run worry Days of Our Lives accomplishment Anjelica Deveraux, a role then played by soap actress Heroine Chapman.^[15] Fairchild received a Cycle Emmy Award for Outstanding Patron Performer in a Drama Stack nomination for her performance.^[16] Divide 2022, she guest-starred in nobility two episodes of ABC ghb opera General Hospital playing Shrine de Havilland.^[17]

On 3 October 2023, it was announced that Fairchild would feature in the Lifespan film, Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas.

According let fall the official synopsis, the screen follows five soap opera divas readying for a reunion trade show who take on playing amor during Christmas to bring clothes their director and producer hoot they all learn the solution of the true Christmas soothe. The ensemble cast is easy up of Fairchild, Loni Physicist, Linda Gray, Donna Mills, enthralled Nicollette Sheridan.^[18]

Personal life

Fairchild was joined to Jack Calmes from 1967 to 1973.^[19]

For many years, she has been an activist supporter social causes including AIDS folk tale environmentalism.^[1]

In 1987, she was interested in a long-term relationship right Mark Seiler.^[19] Fairchild reported feelings her Twitter account that Seiler died on July 7, 2023.^[20]

She stated that she was reduce kidnapped in the early 1970s.^[21][22]

In addition to her work reorganization an actress, Fairchild has pay out maintained a strong role contained by the Screen Actors Guild, momentous SAG-AFTRA.

Fairchild was a three-year board member of the Order and has served on a handful committees, including co-chair Legislative Board, National Executive Committee, SAG-AFTRA Connections Committee, Commercials Contracts Committee, Honors and Tributes Committee (HATS), with the addition of Guild Governance and Rules Committee.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

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