Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the TNT crime drama The Closer. Sedgwick's role in the series won her a Golden Globe Award in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010. The series ended on August 13, 2012, following the completion of its seventh season...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth19 August 1965
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him.
While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to.
When I connect to my soul, project it into another # character , and then bring it to the stage or to a film--that has always been for me the great joy of # acting . It's been as if my soul kind of leaps out of my body and is able to be free and dance around.
I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.
I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.
You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl.
We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.
It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.
Yes, I have something else that I produced and he directed. We have something else that we're trying to get off the ground that we have a script for.
Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role.
I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.
I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.
I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.
Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.