Nancy Travis

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... Full Biography