The ever-fascinating Nancy Travis excelled in edgy, neurotic characterizations during the 1990s; she sounds like a chain-smoker or Valium-popper even when not playing one. Graduating with a BA degree from New York University, Travis apprenticed at Circle in the Square, acted in the touring company of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, and starred on Broadway with Judd Hirsch in I'm Not Rappaport. As a means of continually recharging her creative batteries, she helped found the Naked Angels, an off-Broadway acting troupe. After laboring in virtual anonymity in such TV movies as Malice in Wonderland (1985), Travis was afforded top billing in the 1986 two-parter Harem, lending a little artistry and dignity to an otherwise trivial affair. Her movie breakthrough was in the role of the errant, unmarried British mother Sylvia in Three Men and a Baby (1987) and its 1990 sequel Three Men and a Little Lady. More complex roles came her way in Internal Affairs (1992), The Vanishing (1993) and Chaplin (1993); in the latter film, she appeared as the real-life Joan Barry, whose spiteful and unfounded paternity suit against Charlie Chaplin (Robert Downey Jr.) was the beginning of the end of The Little Tramp's Hollywood career. Even when playing comedy in So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993), Travis retained her ticking-bomb, "don't turn your back on me" aura. Nancy Travis' television credits of the 1990s include her gravelly voiceover work as Aunt Bernice on the animated weekly Duckman (1993- ) and her starring stint on the so-so 1995 sitcom Almost Perfect.
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The Pregnancy Pact
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2010 | |||
Safe Harbor
Actor |
2009 | |||
Medium: Do You Hear What I Hear
TV Guest Appearance |
2008 | |||
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Numb3rs: Season 05
Actor |
2008 | |||
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2007 | |||
The Party Never Stops
Actor |
2007 | |||
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2005 | |||
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Becker: Season 06
Actor |
2003 | |||
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Becker: Season 05
Actor |
2002 | |||
Rose Red
Actor |
2002 | |||
Beyond Suspicion
Actor |
2000 | |||
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Running Mates
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2000 | |||
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Work With Me [TV Series]
Actor, Co-producer |
1999 | |||
My Last Love
Actor, Producer |
1998 | |||
Bogus
Actor |
1996 | |||
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1996 | |||
Body Language
Actor |
1995 | |||
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1995 | |||
Fluke
Actor |
1995 | |||
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Lieberman In Love
Actor |
1995 | |||
Greedy
Actor |
1994 | |||
Fallen Angels, Vol. 1
Actor |
1993 | |||
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1993 | |||
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The Vanishing
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1993 | |||
Chaplin
Actor |
1992 | |||
Passed Away
Actor |
1992 | |||
Air America
Actor |
1990 | |||
Internal Affairs
Actor |
1990 | |||
Loose Cannons
Actor |
1990 | |||
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1990 | |||
Eight Men Out
Actor |
1988 | |||
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Married to the Mob
Actor |
1988 | |||
Three Men and a Baby
Actor |
1987 | |||
Harem
Actor |
1986 | |||
Malice in Wonderland
Actor |
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