Suzanne Cryer

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Suzanne Rossell Cryer (born January 13, 1967 in Rochester , New York ) is an American actress . She is best known for her roles in internationally broadcast television series.

life and career

Childhood, youth, school education and the start of a career

Suzanne Cryer was born on January 13, 1967 not far from the Canadian border in the city of Rochester in the US state of New York, where she also spent part of her childhood, but mainly grew up in the neighboring state of Connecticut . Here she graduated from Greenwich High School , a public high school in Greenwich , about 400 kilometers as the crow flies from her place of birth Rochester. Subsequently, from 1985 she attended the renowned Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut, from which she graduated in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in English literature. After graduating from college, she stayed in New Haven, where she had an official residence up to and including 2004, and attended the Yale School of Drama on the same campus , from which she left in 1995 after having performed several times on local stages, as well as in film and Television, had occurred, going on with a Master of Fine Arts . During this time she also played one summer at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in 1994 , including as Rosalind in As You Like It and as Anne in Richard III. , where she met several well-known actors, including Gary Armagnac , Tyler Layton and Tobin Atkinson . After graduating, she appeared on various stages on the east coast, including the Hartford Stage in Hartford , Connecticut, in the play The Rivals by Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan or, not far from her hometown, in Baltimore on the Center Stage , the state theater of Massachusetts, in Don Juan . Her graduating class in 1995 included actors like Stephen DeRosa and Sanaa Lathan , as well as the Oscar-winning filmmaker Tom McCarthy , playwright Melissa James Gibson and film critic Charles McNulty .

She was able to convince the critics above all with her role as Lisa Morrison in the play Collected Stories by Donald Margulies , which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in the theater . In the play, which premiered in 1996 at the South Coast Repertory , she played one of the two leading roles alongside the more experienced actress Kandis Chappell . The play was subsequently performed on Off-Broadway and from 2010 also on Broadway and has received various awards over the years. At the same time, Cryer made his first appearances in films and television series while still a student. She was seen in 1992 in the 55-minute short film Vaudeville by her fellow student Ira Sachs , as well as in an episode of Law & Order . She also came in the 1990s, also in a leading role in the play Ballet of the Beast of Warren Etheredge in New Ohio Theater in New York City used where they are as Sterling saw. In 1997 she was also seen in the play Arcadia by Tom Stoppard and directed by Robert Egan at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles . While she was seen in 76 performances and ten previews as Josie Hines in the Broadway play Proposals by Neil Simon and directed by Joe Mantello at the Broadhurst Theater from November 6, 1997 to January 19, 1998 , she also celebrated her first major Breakthrough on television.

She had previously performed the play at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles in 1997 and was also involved in the world premiere. The shows in New York grossed 2.2 million US dollars in just under two and a half months ( adjusted for inflation in 2016: just under 3.3 million US dollars) and had a total of just over 51,000 visitors, but lagged largely behind in terms of audience numbers , which is why the performances were stopped early. After she appeared in George Hickenlooper's short film Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade in 1994, alongside Billy Bob Thornton , Molly Ringwald , JT Walsh and Jefferson Mays , Cryer came to a number of guest television shows from 1996 onwards. and short appearances in television series. She had other theater appearances in the 1990s, among others, in Shakespeare's What You Want at the Yale Repertory Theater at her training facility at the Yale School of Drama in 1995, in Georges Feydeau's The Flea in the Ear at the Kalita Humphreys Theater of the Dallas Theater Center in Dallas , Texas , and from October 1991 to April 1992 in the musical Annie Get Your Gun at the Westchester Broadway Theater in Elmsford , New York.

Breakthrough as a sitcom actress

In 1996 she appeared in one episode each of New York News - Hunting for the Front Page , Lifestories: Families in Crisis and Caroline in the City and was, after a not insignificant role in an episode of Seinfeld , in the two - time Oscar nomination in 1997 Feature film Wag the Dog directed by Barry Levinson as Amy Cain in action. After a leading or supporting role in Secrets of the Night by Juliane Glantz in 1998, she also appeared in an episode of the prematurely discontinued sitcom Conrad Bloom with actors such as Mark Feuerstein , Lauren Graham , Jessica Stone , Paula Newsome , Steve Landesberg , Linda Lavin and Ever Carradine , as well as in the Oscar-winning short film My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York by Rex Pickett and directed by Barbara Schock . Her breakthrough was mainly due to her leading role as Ashley Walker in the ABC sitcom A Trio to Bite , where she appeared alongside Ryan Reynolds , Richard Ruccolo , Traylor Howard and Nathan Fillion . By the end of the series in 2001 after four seasons, Cryer was in 60 of the 81 episodes in use.

During this time she married in 1999 and briefly appeared under the family name of her husband, with whom she has three children today, as Suzanne Rossell Lukeman. In 1999, she also appeared in Friends & Lovers , a romantic drama about a group of people in their twenties on a ski vacation in Park City , Utah. On this film, among other things worked Claudia Schiffer with her few film roles in one. In 1999 and 2001, she also had guest appearances in two episodes of the ABC sitcom Irgendwie LA from series creator Peter Mehlman . During this time, too, she moved her residence to Santa Monica and used New Haven exclusively as a second home. A year later, she also had housing in Cambridge , Massachusetts. During this time, a letter to the editor she wrote was published in the New York Times . She was also directed by David Warren in 2001 in his production of The Night Before the Wedding of Philip Barry again on the Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut.

Guest and short appearances in the following years

In subsequent years, it has been largely quiet about the Yale graduate who, after in December 2002 off-Broadway -Stück What Did not Happen by Christopher Shinn and directed by Michael Wilson in on Duke 42nd Street occurred while played the character Emily , in the following years had only guest and short appearances in various television series. In chronological order, this was an appearance in an episode of A Prankster by the Name of Carey in 2002 or in an episode of the short-lived ABC sitcom I'm With Her by Chris Henchy and Marco Pennette , followed by a recurring role in two episodes of Frasier in 2002 and in the following year 2003. After that she came to guest appearances in each episode of Dr. Vegas (2004), King of Queens (2005), Inconceivable (2005), Emergency Room - Die Notaufnahme (2005), Out of Practice - Doktor, Single sucht ... (2005), The PTA (2006), Bones - Die Kniejägerin ( 2006), CSI: Miami (2006) and Shark (2006). In 2007 she then took on a film role again, in the multi-award-winning independent short film The Happiest Day of His Life , a Five Sisters Productions , played the maid of honor Cynthia . She was also booked in 2007 for guest roles in one episode each of Desperate Housewives , Grey's Anatomy , Veronica Mars and Criminal Minds . A year later, she was also seen in an episode of the ABC crime series Women's Murder Club , where she met Angie Harmon , Paula Newsome or Ever Carradine , with whom she had already worked before.

After appearing on an episode of Without a Trace in 2008 and a brief appearance in Sex and the City , and moving to Los Angeles that year , she was also featured on a recurring character in The Starter Wife - Everything booked at the beginning with Debra Messing . In the USA Network series, which was discontinued after only 16 episodes in two seasons , she was seen in four episodes as talent scout and agent Jolie Driver . The next year she appeared in series such as Nip / Tuck - Beauty Has Its Price or Southland , where she appeared in one episode, as well as a speaking role in an episode of American Dad , and a recurring engagement in the Showtime crime and drama series Dexter , in which she took on the role of the mother of two and the later murder victim Tarla Grant in two episodes at the beginning of the fourth season . After appearing in one episode each of Medium - Nothing Remains Hidden (2010), Big Love (2011), Drop Dead Diva (2011), CSI: Vegas (2011), Tripp's Rockband (2011) and The Closer (2011), she was off 2011 also used in film productions again. In Get the Gringo with Mel Gibson , who also appeared as one of the scriptwriters and one of the producers of the action thriller, she only played an insignificant minor role. In Lisanne Sartor's short film Six Letter Word from the same year she appeared in a somewhat larger role alongside Rumer Willis , Josh Braaten and Rio Mangini , before she was seen again in a smaller supporting role in Teen Beach Movie a year later . Cryer was also seen this year in a guest role in an episode of the again short-lived ABC sitcom Family Tools , which was discontinued after only ten episodes broadcast.

Comeback as a series actress

More than a decade after her breakthrough, she was able to build on these old successes again from 2014/15 and was booked again for various leading roles or took on recurring characters in television series. For example in two episodes of Shameless , in which she was seen as the wife of Kevin “Kev” Ball , one of the protagonists , played by Steve Howey . With the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley , she had a comeback as a long-term actress from 2015. From the second season of the series, she was cast in the role of Laurie Bream , where she took on the part of the character Peter Gregory , who died a series death after the actor who played him, Christopher Evan Welch, died of cancer on December 2, 2013. At the same time, she appeared in one episode in 2013 and two episodes in 2015 as Jenna Paul in the series The Fosters , which has been produced by Jennifer Lopez and her production company Nuyorican Productions since 2012 . She starred in the supporting role of Barbara in the 2015 comedy Take It From Us directed by Emmy winner Gail Mancuso . She also took on a role in JJ Abrams ' mystery thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane in the leading and supporting roles with Mary Elizabeth Winstead , John Goodman , John Gallagher Jr. and Bradley Cooper , which was released in 2016 and in which Dan Trachtenberg made his directorial debut.

Filmography

Film appearances (also short appearances)

Series appearances (also guest and short appearances)

Theater appearances (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photo of an appearance as Rosalind in "As You Like It" (together with Gary Armagnac) (English), accessed on March 10, 2016
  2. ↑ THEATER; Mrs. Malaprop and Friends Sprung to Life , accessed March 14, 2016
  3. ↑ Review: 'Arcadia' , accessed on March 14, 2016
  4. ^ On Stage, and Off , accessed March 14, 2016
  5. ↑ THEATER REVIEW; A Lone Woman in the Forest? Is This a Neil Simon Play? (English), accessed on March 14, 2016
  6. ↑ THEATER; 'Twelfth Night' At Yale Repertory , accessed March 14, 2016
  7. ^ Westchester Broadway Theater Main Stage Productions , accessed March 14, 2016
  8. ↑ THEATER; 'Annie Get Your Gun' Revived in Elmsford , accessed March 14, 2016
  9. ^ Wanton With Water , accessed March 14, 2016
  10. ↑ THEATER; A 'Philadelphia Story' With Social Conscience , accessed March 14, 2016
  11. ^ Eloquent Silences Among the Words , accessed March 14, 2016
  12. ^ "The Happiest Day of His Life" at filminamerica.com (English), accessed on March 10, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Cryer, Suzanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cryer, Suzanne Rossell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester , New York , United States