Kyra was born in Manhattan, NY on August 19, 1965. Her father was a venture capitalist and her mother a family therapist. Kyra went to school at the Friends Seminary, a renowned Manhattan private school based in Quaker traditions. At the Seminary, she made her acting debut in a production of “Fiddler on the Roof”, she was 12 years old. Kyra immediately began to pursue acting, landing in an off-Broadway play, “Time Was” in 1981. At age 15, she landed a regular appearance on the daytime soap opera “Another World.” When she graduated high school, she attended Sarah Lawrence College for 1 semester and then transferred to Los Angeles. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a theater degree.

Kyra met her husband, actor Kevin Bacon on the set of American Playhouse’s production of “Lemon Sky” in 1987. They married in September 1988.

Kyra Sedgwick, whose career has included critically acclaimed roles in both film and television, returns to her Golden Globe-winning role as Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson on TNT’s blockbuster series THE CLOSER.

On the big screen, Sedgwick most recently appeared with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the football comedy The Game Plan. She also co-starred in and co-produced the independent film Loverboy. Sedgwick’s other big-screen credits include Cavedweller, which she developed and produced and for which she received a 2005 Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress; Nicole Kassell’s award-winning The Woodsman, a dark drama co-starring Bacon that won the Jury Prize at the Deauville Film Festival, had its world premiere in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and was showcased in Cannes as part of the 2004 Director’s Fortnight line-up; and Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity, which won the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.

Among Sedgwick’s long list of feature film credits are Phenomenon, opposite John Travolta; Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July; the Merchant-Ivory production of Mr. and Mrs. Bridge; Singles; Lemon Sky; Hearts & Souls, with Robert Downey Jr.; and Montana, with Stanley Tucci, Robin Tunney and Philip Seymour Hoffman. She also co-starred in Fisher Stevens’ Just a Kiss; Behind the Red Door, opposite Keifer Sutherland and Stockard Channing; and Secondhand Lions, co-starring Michael Caine, Robert Duvall and Haley Joel Osment.

For television, Sedgwick co-starred opposite William H. Macy and Helen Mirren in TNT’s Peabody Award-winning drama Door to Door. Other credits include Something the Lord Made, Twelfth Night (or What You Will) and Losing Chase, which she executive-produced and in which she starred opposite Mirren and Beau Bridges.

Sedgwick has just completed work on the animated film Justice League: The New Frontier, for which she provides the voice of Lois Lane. And she recently finished shooting the futuristic thriller Game, starring Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall and John Leguizamo.