Lee Garlington
Biography
Ann Leslie "Lee" Garlington (born July 20, 1953) is an American actress. She's known for her roles as Kirsten, Rose Nylund's (Betty White) daughter in the final season of The Golden Girls, Ronnie - the mistress of Joey Tribbiani's father on Friends, and a recurring role as Brenda Baxworth on Everwood. She was one of the stars of the series Lenny.
She has guest starred in a number of notable television series, including The West Wing, 7th Heaven, 8 Simple Rules, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Judging Amy, Will & Grace, Matlock, L.A. Law, The Practice, Quantum Leap, Home Improvement, Boston Legal, Roseanne, Get a Life, Profiler, Medium, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Two and a Half Men, Lie to Me and among other series. She also appeared in the sequels to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Psycho II (1983) and Psycho III (1986). She starred alongside Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen in the action/thriller Cobra (1986). In Sneakers (1992), she appeared as Dr. Elena Rhyzkov, a Czechoslovakian mathematics scientist, in a scene with Robert Redford.
She was originally intended to play the lead female role in Seinfeld. She was the female regular in the pilot episode, "The Seinfeld Chronicles", playing the waitress Claire at Pete's Luncheonette. When the series was picked up, however, it was decided that having the female lead be from such a different social status compared to the rest of the cast would be unworkable, so the character of Claire was dropped and replaced by Elaine Benes.
In 2018, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her role as Darlene in Broken.
Acting (90 movies)
Psycho II
1983
Field of Dreams
1989
The Seventh Sign
1988
Hell Comes to Frogtown
1988
Honor Thy Mother
1992
The Hot Chick
2002
A Lot Like Love
2005
Psycho III
1986
Dante's Peak
1997
Cobra
1986
Candy Coated Christmas
2021
Pulse 2: Afterlife
2008
Mortuary
2005
The Babysitter
1995
Stranger Inside
2001
Overnight Sensation
1984
Guarding Eddy
2004
Safelight
2015
Layover
2001
A Buddy Story
2010
River of Rage: The Taking of Maggie Keene
1993
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
2014
The 9th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special
2022
Bar Girls
1990
Dark Skies
1996
Driven
1998
Virtual Obsession
1998
Cold Sassy Tree
1989
Mockingbird
2014
In the Mood
1987
Love Matters
1993
Summer of Fear
1996
Mrs. Harris
2006
Shame
1992
Dying to Love You
1993
When You Remember Me
1990
Sister
2014
Band of Robbers
2016
Whose Daughter is She?
1995
See Jane Run
1995
The Whereabouts of Jenny
1991
Murder Ordained
1987
Just Add Water
2008
Sneakers
1992
Mrs. Washington Goes to Smith
2009
The Conviction of Kitty Dodds
1993
The Extendables
2014
Akeelah and the Bee
2006
American Pie 2
2001
Anthony Perkins, the Actor Behind the Door
2020
One Hour Photo
2002
The Sum of All Fears
2002
My Life
1993
Some Kind of Beautiful
2015
Married by Christmas
2016
When No One Would Listen
1992
The Psycho Legacy
2010
House by the Lake
2017
Boys and Girls
2000
Her Last Will
2016
Kiss of a Killer
1993
Student Exchange
1987
Meet the Applegates
1990
Reflections on a Crime
1994
Do You Take This Man
2017
A Killing in a Small Town
1990
Christmas Harmony
2018
Three Fugitives
1989
Can of Worms
1999
Torch Song
1993
The Coverup
2008
Forever Lulu
2000
Carbon Copy
1981
The Yarn Princess
1994
American Gun
2005
Lovely & Amazing
2002
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
Some Kind of Wonderful
1987
SEGAL
2025
Johnson Family Vacation
2004
The Little Things
2021
Stick It
2006
Something New
2006
Do You Remember Love
1985
Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories
1991
Jack the Bear
1993
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
2001
Freak Talks About Sex
1999
Partner(s)
2005
Prayers for Bobby
2009
Directing (1 movie)
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