The Jean Louisa Kelly Handbook - Everything you need to know about Jean Louisa Kelly

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Jean Louisa Kelly (born March 9, 1972) is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her long-running role as Kim Warner on the television sitcom Yes, Dear.

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• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 19 février 2013
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• EAN13: 9781486470327
• Langue: English
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Contents

Articles Jean Louisa Kelly Cold Feet Cold Feet (U.S. TV series) Harvest of Fire Hero Factory Into the Woods

Joey McIntyre Lucy Lambert Hale Mr. Holland's Opus Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders Stolen Women: Captured Hearts The Fantasticks (film) Uncle Buck Yes, Dear

References Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

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Jean Louisa Kelly

Jean Louisa Kelly

Born

Jean Louisa Kelly

March 9, 1972 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Other namesJean Kelly

Occupation

Years active

Spouse(s)

Actress/Singer

1989–present

James Pitaro (1997-present)

Website

[1] JeanLouisaKelly.com

Jean Louisa Kelly(born March 9, 1972) is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her long-running role as Kim Warner on the television sitcomYes, Dear.

Career [2] Before attending college, she already had roles in the original Broadway cast of Sondheim'sInto the Woodsand as Tia Russell in the filmUncle Buckwith John Candy. She also took roles in college productions, including with the Barnard College Gilbert and Sullivan Society. After graduation from college, Kelly became well known in the mid-1990s for a series of television commercials she [2] did for MCI long distance, in which she played a telephone operator who challenged AT&T. In 1995, she starred as Louisa in the musical filmThe Fantastickswith Joey McIntyre and Joel Grey, although the film was shelved until 2000. The same year, she appeared in her most prominent role since Tia, as Rowena Morgan, the muse for the title character ofMr. Holland's Opus. Other films followed in the 1990s. Later starring roles in films have included Landfall(2001),Little Red Light(2003) andAspects of Love(2005). Kelly appeared Off Broadway at the York Theatre as the title role in Paul McKibbins and B.T. McNicholl'sThe It Girl, based on the 1927 movieIt. She also appeared in the York's "Mufti" series as Lois Lane inIt's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman. In 1996, Kelly voiced the title role in the second season of the animated seriesPrincess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders. After several made-for-TV movies, Kelly's broadest exposure came from her roles in situation comedies, first guest starring in such shows asMad About You, and then as a cast member of the short-lived NBC version ofCold

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Feet. From 2000 to 2006, she starred as Kim Warner on the long-running sitcomYes, Dear. On April 30, 2006, she guest starred in the ABC dramaGrey's Anatomyand has continued to guest star in television dramas.

Also in 2010, she was cast in a guest starring role in an episode of the television spy dramaBurn Notice-- playing a widow who had been swindled out of her life savings by a con man.

Personal life She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her father was a high school English teacher and her mother taught piano. Jean attended Easton High School, [2] located in Easton, Maryland. Kelly graduated in 1994 from Columbia University's Columbia College with a B.A. in English. [3] She married James Pitaro in 1997.

As of 2010, Kelly resides in Los Angeles. She is close friends with Jennifer Garner, and was the host of the baby shower for Garner's daughter Violet Anne Affleck. She also interviewed Garner forSelfmagazine in 2005.

Filmography

Film

Television

Year

Title

1989Uncle Buck

1992American Shaolin

1995The Fantasticks

1995Mr. Holland's Opus

1998

1999

Origin of the Species

A Stranger in the Kingdom

2001Landfall

2003Little Red Light

2005

Aspects of Love

2010Locked Away

2010

2013

Public Access

1000 to 1

Role

Tia Russell

Maria

Luisa Bellamy

Rowena Morgan

Laura

Athena Allen

Marguerite Harris

Amanda Meyer

Jenny Dillingham

Chloe

Nancy

Notes

Short film

Short film

Post-production

2

Julie Lazer

Cherie Green

Amy Wells

Sarah White

Stolen Women: Captured Hearts

Sarah Langdon

The Cyberstalking

Becky

Holly Moon

Coral Galvin

1997

1997

Rose Ward

Kim Warner

Lisa

Beth

Sheila DeMarcus

Darla

TV film

tV film

TV film

Emily

Homicide: Life on the Street

1999

Diane

Diane

Ruby Bridges

1998

Mad About You

1998

1999

Mad About You

1998

Law & Order

Jane Coles

Lucy Lambert Hale

Natalie Breez / Operator

Shelley Sullivan

Episode: "Desperate Housewife"

Jennifer Quinlan / Nora Sutherland

Main role (8 episodes)

Melissa Mann

Episode: "Blind Spot"

Recurring role (6 episodes)

Episode: "Code Blue Plate Special"

TV film

Episode: "A Perfect Storm"

2008

Gary Unmarried

2006

Grey's Anatomy

2008

Ghost Whisperer

Episode: "Gary and Allison Brooks"

Yes, Dear

2000-2006

Eli Stone

Ally McBeal

2008

2001

Episode: "Heal the Pain"

TV film

Episode: "First Do No Harm"

TV film

Episode: "Scrambled"

Episode: "The Honeymoon"

Episode: "Kaddish"

Episode: "Blues for Sister Someone"

Episode: "Stoned Cold"

Episode: "The Ex-Files"

Main role (122 episodes)

Episodes: "A Pain in the Neck", "The Buried Fight"

2009

Surviving Suburbia

Notes

3

Mary Graves

Rachel

Role

Daisy

1998

The Day Lincoln Was Shot

Cold Feet

1999

Princess Gwenevere (voice)

TV film

TV film

Paul the Male Matchmaker

TV film

Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders

1996

Main role (10 episodes)

2011

The Three Gifts

The Glades

2010

2009

2011

2010-2013

Hero Factory

Burn Notice

2010

2012

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Episodes: "Never Give Up on Love", "Fear Can Make Someone Love You"

Julia Taft

1994

Breathing Lessons

One More Mountain

Tad

Title

1994

1995

Year

Jean Louisa Kelly

Harvest of Fire

1996

CSI: Miami

Jean Louisa Kelly

Notes [1] http://www.jeanlouisakelly.com/ [2] "College Grad Is Someone to Watch" (http:/ /www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss19/record2119.19.html), Columbia University Record, Vol. 21, No. 19, March 8, 1996. [3] "Jean Louisa Kelly, James A. Pitaro" (http:/ /www.nytimes.com/1997/05/25/style/jean-louisa-kelly-james-a-pitaro.html).The New York Times. May 25, 1997. .

External links  Official website (http://www.jeanlouisakelly.com/) Selfmagazine interview transcript (http://jen-garner.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1200) (June 2005)  March 1996 article (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss19/record2119.19.html) in theColumbia University Record  Jean Louisa Kelly (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446465/) at the Internet Movie Database  Jean Kelly (http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=72257) at the Internet Broadway Database

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Manchester, Greater Manchester

James Nesbitt Helen Baxendale John Thomson Fay Ripley Robert Bathurst Hermione Norris Kimberley Joseph

Comedy-drama

Composer(s)

Mark Russell

Cold Feet(pilot)

Granada Television

Christine Langan Spencer Campbell Emma Benson

Cold Feet

Executive producer(s)

Production

32 (List of episodes)

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No. of episodes

No. of series

Cold Feetis a British comedy-drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network. The series was created and principally written by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his award-winning 1997 Comedy Premiere of the same name. The storyline follows three couples experiencing the ups-and-downs of romance. Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley (James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale) are a new couple who go through dating, marriage and the birth of a child. Pete and Jenny Gifford (John Thomson and Fay Ripley) are a married couple with a newborn son; they experience parenthood, adultery, separation and eventually divorce when Jenny leaves for a job in New York. Pete starts a new relationship with Jo Ellison (Kimberley Joseph). Karen and David Marsden (Hermione Norris and Robert Bathurst) live an upper-middle-class lifestyle, employing a nanny for their son and holding dinner parties with friends. Their marriage disintegrates after each has an affair.

Producer(s)

United Kingdom

Country of origin

Starring

Preceded by

Chronology

Location(s)

Original run

ITV

Original channel

Broadcast

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Cold Feet

Mike Bullen

Andy Harries Christine Langan Mike Bullen

Cold Feet

Created by

Production company(s)

15 November 1998–rahc2a00361Ma

Genre

Cold Feetintertitle

Related shows

Cold Feet(U.S. TV series) Usta usta šeřPpyla

Cold Feet

The series was executive-produced by Bullen with Granada's head of comedy Andy Harries, and produced by Christine Langan, Spencer Campbell and Emma Benson. 32 episodes were broadcast over five series from 15 November 1998 to 16 March 2003. The series is set in Greater Manchester and was primarily filmed there for all five years. Filming occasionally went overseas to locations such as Belfast, Paris and Sydney. To distinguish the look of the series from regular sitcoms, all episodes were shot on film stock and were overseen by directors with little television experience, creating a visual style more akin to advertisements; Jon Jones was nominated for a British Academy Television Craft Award for his work on the third series. The show was a critical and ratings success for ITV, which has struggled to recaptureCold Feet's kind of audience since the series ended. Critics analysed the depiction of social issues, the use of popular music, and the relevance of the series to contemporary audiences when compared to the big-budget BBC costume dramasVanity Fair(1998) and The Way We Live Now(2001). Mike Bullen's style of writing has served as inspiration to British screenwriters Danny Brocklehurst and Sanjeev Kohli. The series was a regular nominee at the British Comedy Awards—at which it won four out of five "Best TV Comedy Drama" nominations—the National Television Awards, and television societies worldwide. It has been broadcast in over 34 countries and has been remade for local audiences in the United States and European countries. Merchandise, including soundtracks, DVDs and spin-off books, has been released.

Background Series creator Mike Bullen's working relationship with Granada Television began in 1994 when his agent sold his first screenplay, a one-off comedy-drama calledThe Perfect Match, to the company's head of comedy Andy Harries. Harries had been looking for television scripts that would reflect the lives of people from his generation—people in [1] their 30s who were under-represented on television.The Perfect Match, about a man who proposes to his girlfriend at the FA Cup Final and has to deal with constant media attention afterwards, was made and then broadcast in 1995. [2] Harries asked Bullen to pitch more ideas for television toThe Perfect Match's assistant producer Christine Langan. As a fan of American television such asThirtysomething,FrasierandHill Street Blues, Bullen pitchedCold Feet, a traditional "boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-wins-girl-back" story told from both sides of the relationship but [3][4] using elements of fantasy and flashback to distort events to fit a character's point of view. The initial pitch centred on Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley (James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale), which Harries believed would diminish the storytelling potential if the ITV Network Centre commissioned a full series after the pilot, so Bullen "tacked on" plots for two other couples—Adam and Rachel's respective friends Pete and Jenny Gifford (John [5] Thomson and Fay Ripley) and David and Karen Marsden (Robert Bathurst and Hermione Norris). The pilot was directed byFather Ted's Declan Lowney over 12 days in 1996 on location around Greater [6][7] Manchester. The programme was one of four one-off Comedy Premieres made by Granada for ITV.Cold Feet was eventually broadcast on 30 March 1997. It received only 3.5 million viewers and little critical attention. As ITV's comedy portfolio was so thin,Cold Feetwas submitted as the network's comedy entry at the Montreux Television Festival in May 1997. There it won the Silver Rose for Humour and the Rose d'Or, the highest accolade of the festival. ITV scheduled a repeat broadcast a few days afterwards but did not commission a series. Not until David Liddiment's appointment as director of programming at ITV in August 1997 was a six episode series [8][9] ordered.

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Cold Feet

Series synopses

Series 1 The first series begins nine months after the pilot episode. After Pete and Jenny's baby is born in Episode 1, the couple have a hard time getting any sleep. Pete has to cope with the death of his father in Episode 4. Adam and Rachel decide to rent a house together. He is horrified to discover in Episode 2 that she is married to another man. While he is staying with Pete and Jenny, Rachel has sex with her visiting husband (Lennie James)—who leaves soon after—and is pregnant by Episode 6. Just as hers and Adam's relationship is recovering, she tells him that he might not be the father and is moving to London until the birth. Karen and David have recently hired Ramona as a nanny to their young son Josh. At her publishing job, Karen edits the novel of a renowned author (Denis Lawson), whom she becomes attracted to. She plans to sleep with him on a book tour but is humiliated when she finds out he is not attracted to her. David tries to sleep with Ramona to get back at Karen, which causes friction between the couple. They seek guidance counselling to repair their marriage.

Series 2 Six months after the last series, Rachel returns from London and tells Adam that she aborted the baby, and their relationship seems over for good. They both start seeing other people—he one of Pete's colleagues (Rosie Cavaliero) and she a man much younger than her (Hugh Dancy)—but reconcile after Adam is diagnosed and treated for testicular cancer in Episode 5. David is made redundant at work and decides to be a stay-at-home dad for Josh. After some interference from Karen, he takes a new job. Their relationship improves from the first series; they spend their wedding anniversary in Paris and Karen announces in Episode 6 that she is pregnant. Pete and Jenny's marriage deteriorates when she reveals she had a crush on Adam. Pete later sleeps with a co-worker—who Adam was briefly involved in—and Jenny tells him to move out of the house. They decide to give their marriage another chance when Adam's cancer puts things into perspective. In Episode 6, all three couples see in the new millennium on a trip to Lindisfarne, where Pete and Jenny's relationship worsens again as the others' improve.

Series 3 Half a year after the Lindisfarne trip, Pete and Jenny have separated. He moves from house to house, eventually finding a houseshare with a gay landlord. He has a brief fling with Ramona, which is followed by some dates with a teacher (Pooky Quesnel). Jenny begins a relationship with a dotcom millionaire (Ben Miles), who decorates her house with flowers and takes her on a trip to New York. The fling ends when Jenny realises he does not love her. She and Pete reconcile after briefly considering a divorce. David and Karen bring home their newborn twins, and Karen's ex-pat mother (Mel Martin) moves in for a couple of episodes. Karen is reunited with an old boyfriend (Richard Dillane), who is in Manchester for a photography exhibition. Karen is rivalled by Jenny, who has returned to working to pay the bills while Pete is living elsewhere. David takes a sudden interest in politics after meeting local residents' activist Jessica (Yasmin Bannerman). He starts an affair with her but she dumps him after being offended by his insensitivity. Karen finds out about the affair in Episode 8 but is adamant that she and David will stay together for the children. Adam and Rachel decide to have children but are distraught to discover that she is infertile from complications with her abortion. They decide to get married instead but Adam is briefly tempted when he reunites with a long-lost love (Victoria Smurfit) on his stag weekend to Belfast.

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