Since 1999, she's played Olivia Benson, a New York City police detective investigating sex crimes.
Her other famous role was the 1978 movie Harper Valley P.T.A., based on the country song of the same name. Barbara Eden played Stella Johnson, a provocative woman in a small town who's given a hard time by the local parent-teacher association and decides to get even with her uptight counterparts.
It was made into a TV series in which Barbara Eden reprised her role.
More recently, the New Jersey-born actress has appeared in the satirical Nixon comedy Dick, played the title role in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, and performed in movies such as Mona Lisa Smile and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Her most famous role, however, has been in the Spider-Man movies as Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker's love interest.
Joy Bryant is a Bronx-born actress who began her acting at the beginning of the century after having been a model.
Her film credits include Showtime and The Skeleton Key, and now she stars as Jasmine in the NBC-TV drama series "Parenthood." Jasmine is a dancer whom Crosby, the immature son in the extended Braverman family, unkowingly fathered a child with after a fling. The storyline involving Jasmine and Crosby, who is white, is about their concerted efforts at raising their child.
Doesn't it show? :-D
The sister-in-law of tennis star Tracy Austin (Denise married Tracy's brother Jeff), Denise Austin started out as a fitness teacher and has gone on to produce fitness television shows and write columns on physical eduaction. The exercise expert was appointed to a four-year term on the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in 2002 and was re-appointed in 2006.
She appeared in the Eddie Murphy movie Boomerang that year, which produced a major hit theme song ("End of The Road," by Boyz II Men, number one on the Billboard charts for fourteen weeks), but not much else.Check out her Web site here.
They have wonderful smiles in this one.
She plays Gloria Delgado-Prichett, the Colombian trophy wife of Jay Prichett (played by Ed O'Neill). Jay has to play dad to her son even as his gay son and straight daughter have started families of their own. The comedy of the show is based on the interconnected stories of these three very different households.
The Brooklyn-born actress made a big splash in the 1992 comedy My Cousin Vinny, about novice Brooklyn lawyer Vincent "Vinny" Gambini (played by Joe Pesci) defending his cousin on murder charges in the South. Tomei played Vinny's girlfriend.