ABC News has a new interview & article up about Kyra, The Closer, and the Emmys. Check it out over on our Kyra Sedgwick Press Archive.

For five years, Kyra Sedgwick has thrilled viewers with the glee of swiftly served justice as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, head of the LAPD’s Major Crimes Division, on TNT’s hit drama “The Closer.”

Perhaps the next major crime Johnson’s team should be solving is why there’s no Emmy or SAG Award gracing Sedgwick’s mantel for the role, despite nominations for each honor every season since the show’s inception.

Maybe it’s because she makes it look easy. Never mind that animating Johnson is a titan task: Professionally she’s a tiger disguised as a kitten; personally her life is a tangled ball of yarn that often ends up collecting dust in a corner. In either case, she seems to be going in a million directions at once.

“She’s looking for something while speaking her lines while walking down a hall while trying to eat a piece of chocolate while trying to manipulate somebody,” says Sedgwick of a typical scene involving her character.

“I think one of the things that the writers like to do, because they like to see Brenda in difficult, complex situations, is to give me a lot of difficult, complex situations where I’m juggling 20 different things.”

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