Nancy Travis
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Biography
After a good start playing the mother of the titular tot in the popular "Three Men and a Baby" (1987), Travis was lost amid a passel of colorful crazies in a small supporting role in "Married to the Mob" (1988) and suffered a similar fate amid the male bonding of "Eight Men Out" (1988). Despite major roles in films toplining the likes of Gene Hackman, Dan Aykroyd and Mel Gibson, Travis received little exposure in "Loose Cannons" (1989) and "Air America" (1990). She did, though, make an indelible impression as a sensuous art dealer in the uneven melodrama "Internal Affairs" (1990). "Passed Away" (1992) and the American remake of "The Vanishing" (1993), though, quickly followed the suggestion of their titles. Travis had a good cameo role as Joan Barry, the woman who brought a paternity suit against Charles Chaplin, in "Chaplin" (1992) and followed up with a lead as the suspected killer wedded to Mike Myers in "So I Married an Axe Murderer" (1993). She made her TV series debut in the CBS sitcom, "Almost Perfect" (1995-96) as an ambitious TV producer of an "NYPD Blue"-like cop show conducting a romance with an overworked district attorney. After a hiatus to start a family, Travis returned to the small screen in the short-lived CBS sitcom "Work With Me" (1999).
Filmography
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Life Events
1980
Moved back to New York to study at NYU (date approximate)
1985
Cast in first notable TV role, a small supporting part in the TV-movie "Malice in Wonderland" starring Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Alexander
1986
Acted in her first TV miniseries "Harem" (ABC)
1986
Made Broadway debut in "I'm Not Rappaport,'" starring Judd Hirsch and Cleavon Little (date approximate)
1987
Made her film-acting debut in the comedy hit "Three Men and a Baby"
1990
Reprised the role of Sylvia in the sequel, "Three Men and a Little Lady"
1994
Provided voice for Bernice on the hard-boiled animated series "Duckman"
1995
Played a TV producer and writer on the CBS series "Almost Perfect"
1999
Returned to series TV as Kevin Pollak's co-star on "Work With Me," a short-lived CBS fall sitcom; also served as a co-executive producer
2005
Joined the cast of the coming-of-age story "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," based on the novel by Ann Brashares
2007
Played a supporting role in the romantic drama "The Jane Austen Book Club"
2007
Portrayed the wife of therapist and family man Bill Pearson on "The Bill Engvall Show" (TBS)
2010
Acted in the Lifetime TV-movie "Pregnancy Pact"
2011
Co-starred with Tim Allen on the ABC sitcom "Last Man Standing"
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