Sharon Lawrence
is
currently starring in the Paramount + series JOE PICKETT based on
the best seller of the same name. Previously she starred opposite
Kirsten Dunst in the Showtime series ON BECOMING A GOD IN CENTRAL
FLORIDA, and as an elusive librarian in HOME BEFORE DARK
for Apple TV. Many recurring roles include REBEL with Katy
Sagal and Andy Garcia, a serial killer in CBS's CRIMINAL
MINDS, Fiona's acerbic boss on Showtime's SHAMELESS, Sam
Elliott's love interest in THE RANCH, and in the
critically acclaimed series QUEEN SUGAR produced by Ava
DuVernay.
Sharon continues to be recognized from her multiple Emmy
nominated and SAG Award-winning portrayal of ADA Sylvia Costas
Sipowitz in the groundbreaking NYPD BLUE and as Izzy's tender but
ditzy Mom on GREY'S ANATOMY (for which she earned her 4th EMMY
nod). Her 5th EMMY nomination came in 2021 as Lead Actress in
a digital series -THE GAZE www.thegazeseries.com
Film work includes THE LOST HUSBAND with Leslie Bibb and Josh
Duhamel, OF MIND AND MUSIC with Anjeannue Ellis and
and the indie hit MIDDLE OF NOWHERE directed by Ava DuVernay.
An accomplished stage actress, and 2012 Lunt-Fontane Ten
Chimneys Fellow, Sharon appeared in the West Coast
premiere of A KID LIKE JAKE directed by Jennifer Chambers. LA
theatre credits includes her acclaimed performance in THE MYSTERY
OF LOVE AND SEX at the Mark Taper Forum, playing twenty different
women in the LOVE, NOEL cabaret at The Wallis, at the Pasadena
Playhouse she starred in Noel Coward's final play, A SONG
AT TWILIGHT and as Vivian Leigh in ORSON'S SHADOW for which she was
nominated for an Ovation Award, and won the LA Drama Critics Circle
Award. She was part of a rotating cast in Nora & Delia
Ephron's LOVE, LOSS & WHAT I WORE, and starred opposite Cherry
Jones in TONGUE OF A BIRD at the Public
Theatre. Sharon created the role of Maureen in the
premiere of Theresa Rebeck's POOR BEHAVIOR at the Mark Taper
Forum and her last Broadway appearance was as Velma Kelly in
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