Wendie Malick

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Wendie Malick (born December 13, 1950) is an American actress and former fashion model.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Malick was born in Buffalo, New York to an Egyptian father.She graduated from Williamsville South High School. [1] In 1972, after graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, she began fashion modeling for the Wilhelmina modeling agency. She began working as an actress in 1982 in the film A Little Sex, and has worked steadily since that time. She was given a special award by the Screen Actor's Guild for her accomplishments in film and television; she has appeared in no less than five television programs or films every year for the past 23 years.

[edit] Career

In 1982, she auditioned for the role of Diane Chambers in the NBC sitcom Cheers. Malick's first lead role on a TV series was on the HBO series Dream On in 1990. She remained on this show until 1996 and then moved on to the role of boozing superficial former model Nina Van Horn on the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me! in 1997, a role she continued until the show's end in 2003. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her work on Just Shoot Me! in 1999 and again in 2002.

Malick also starred in the made-for-TV movie Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story, in which she played the dual roles of identical twin sibling advice columnists Ann Landers (Esther Lederer) and Dear Abby Pauline Phillips (Abigail Van Buren). Malick provided the voice of Principal Folsom on the Disney animated series Fillmore! until its end in 2004.

From early 2005, she has portrayed Naomi on the John Stamos television series Jake in Progress. Malick was part of the cast of upcoming series Modern Men, but due to Jake in Progress's renewal beginning January 2006, her role on Modern Men was recast with Jane Seymour. Both Jake in Progress and Modern Men were quickly canceled in 2006.

Starting in the summer of 2006, Malick provided her voice to radio ads for Marshall's department stores. In August 2006, Maxim magazine named her #8 on their TV's Best Nymphos list for her role as Nina Van Horn.

Malick has made over 80 guest appearances on television shows, including:

5 appearances on Kate & Allie
9 appearances on Baywatch
8 appearances on Frasier as Ronee Lawrence
5 appearances on Father of the Pride
3 appearances on The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius as Beautiful Gorgeous

...as well as appearances on MacGyver, The X-files, Mike Hammer, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Highway to Heaven, NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, Empty Nest, Mad About You, Tales From the Crypt, Seinfeld, Cybill, Kim Possible, Reba, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Frasier, Law & Order, Bratz, and some recent Marshalls commercials.

In 2000, Malick was honored by Women in Film as A Woman of Vision, along with Tipper Gore, Gwen Ifill, and Roseanne. Malick is on the Board of Directors of The Environmental Media Association, the Board of Advocates for Planned Parenthood, and the Advisory Board of The Humane Society. She also voiced Chicha in The Emperor's New Groove and continues in Kronk's New Groove and the Disney Channel Original Series The Emperor's New School.

[edit] Personal life

Wendie Malick has been married twice: from 1982 to 1989 to actor and screenwriter Mitch Glazer, and currently since 1992 to Richard Erickson. Through their charity, A Drop in the Bucket, she and Erickson support a medical center in the Congo and share an ongoing commitment to a women's shelter in Tijuana, Mexico. They live in the Santa Monica Mountains with three dogs, two horses and a cat.