| Full Name: |
Calista
Kay Flockhart
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| Height: |
5'5"
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| Birthplace: |
Freeport,
Illinois, USA
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| Date of Birth: |
November
11, 1964
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| Husband/Partner: |
Currently dating Harrison Ford
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| Contact Info: |
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| Personal
Trivia: |
Did
you know that Calista is named after her
great-grandmother?
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Her
name started rolling off the tongues of couch potatoes
and critics across the nation following the breakout
success of her Fox television series, Ally McBeal.
Flockhart seemed to be an overnight hit, but the
actress has labored in onstage semi-obscurity for
more than a decade before her sitcom cash cow came
home. So, what's the story behind that fab name?
The charmingly modest actress, who is named after
her Greek great-grandmother, has reluctantly admitted
to interviewers that Calista means "most beautiful."
She was born to a Kraft Foods executive father and
a schoolteacher mother. She moved alot as a kid
and her family eventually settled in Medford, New
Jersey, and following her high school graduation,
she enrolled at nearby Rutgers University. There,
she made the fateful decision to enroll in the fine
arts program, only because she didn't want to have
to list her major as undeclared. While at Rutgers,
Flockhart studied acting under drama coach William
Esper and gained her first performing experience
through appearances in university and community
theater productions.
When she
graduated in 1987, she moved to New York to devote
her energies to acting full-time. Over the course
of the next seven years, Flockhart appeared in everything
from a Williamstown Theater Festival presentation
of Death Takes a Holiday to an off-Broadway production
of Wrong Turn at Lungfish helmed by Pretty Woman
director Garry Marshall. She reaped praise for her
performances in off-Broadway roles in such productions
as Sophistry and All for One. Just as her Broadway
acting career began to take off friends succeeded
in dragging her to an audition with Kelley, who
offered her the title role after their first meeting;
she promptly relocated from New York to Los Angeles
to begin filming. This show was obviously, Ally
McBeal. Critics were raving about Ally McBeal even
before the first episode aired, and they haven't
let up since (Flockhart has already been awarded
a Best Actress Golden Globe for her work on the
series). Audience response turned out to be equally
fervent. |
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Last
Update:
June 15, 2003
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Films:
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Milk & Money (1997)
Telling Lies in America (1997)
Drunks (1997)
The Birdcage (1996)
Pictures of Baby Jane Doe (1995)
Getting In (1994)
Quiz Show (1994)
Naked in New York (1993)
Made for TV:
100 Greatest TV Characters (2001)
Bash: Latterday Plays (2000)
Darrow (1991)
Direct to Video: Moby: Play (2001)
TV Shows:
Ally (1999)
Ally McBeal (1997)
Lifestories: Families In Crisis (1995)
The Guiding Light (1952)
Cartoon Voices: None
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