CAMRYN MANHEIM (Mrs. Finkle) has received both an Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award for her portrayal of defense attorney Ellenor Frutt on the Emmy® Award-winning drama “The Practice.” Her feature-film credits include “Twisted,” “Scary Movie 3,” “What Planet Are You From” with Garry Shandling and Annette Bening, “The Road to Wellville,” “Jeffrey,” “Eraser” and “Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion.” She received a National Board of Review Award for her portrayal of a homicidal loner in the controversial movie “Happiness,” written and directed by Todd Solondz. Manheim will next be seen sharing the screen with Robert Redford and Jennifer Lopez in director Lasse Hallström’s “An Unfinished Life.”
Her television credits include the recent miniseries “Elvis,” starring as Gladys Presley, “The Tenth Kingdom” and “It’s A Girl Thing.” She has been seen in the telefilm “The Loretta Claiborne Story” and the series “Will and Grace,” “Chicago Hope,” “Ally McBeal” and “Gideon’s Crossing.” She also had a cameo role in the Emmy®- and Golden Globe®-winning HBO film “The Laramie Project.” Manheim made her producing debut with the telefilm “Kiss My Act!” and will next team with Marlee Matlin and Showtime, producing and starring in “Sound and Fury.”
Manheim’s career began on stage in New York after she earned her master’s degree from the prestigious Acting Program at New York University. She spent the next eight years performing at such renowned theatres as the New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center, Yale Repertory, and the New York Theater Workshop, among others. In 1995 she won an Obie Award for her portrayal of Gemma in Craig Lucas’ “Missing Persons,” and in 1996 she wrote and starred in her one-woman show, “Wake Up, I’m Fat!” which played to sold-out audiences at The Public Theater. In 1999, Manheim turned her one-woman show into a New York Times best seller; Wake Up, I’m Fat! was published by Broadway Books.
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