Sharon Lawrence

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Sharon Lawrence

Sharon Lawrence (born June 29, 1961, in Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American television actress. She is best known for playing Sylvia Costas Sipowicz in the TV program NYPD Blue. She also played the role of Maisy Gibbons, a housewife/prostitute in Desperate Housewives. She was also the star of the short-lived sitcom Fired Up (1997-1998).

She has also guest starred in Boston Legal, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Monk, and played Amelia Earhart in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The 37s."

Lawrence also plays on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the Alzheimer's Association and Project ALS charity.

In 2002, she married Dr. Tom Apostle; their wedding was held at the Greek Orthodox Church Saint Sophia, the same Los Angeles church in which her character, Sylvia Costas, in NYPD Blue got married to Detective Andy Sipowicz.

Lawrence is a "Style Ambassador" for the Sustainable Style Foundation

[edit] Partial filmography

The Alibi (2006)
Little Black Book (2005)
Word of Honor (2003)
Atomic Twister (2002)
Wolf Lake (2001)
Gossip (2000)
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)
Blue Moon (1999)
Ladies' Man (1999)
The Only Thrill (1997)
The Uninvited (1996)
A Friends Betrayal (1996)
Degree of Guilt (1995)
The Face on the Milk Carton (1995)
The Shaggy Dog (1994)
Someone She Knows (1994)

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NYPD Blue
Characters	Andy Sipowicz \| John Kelly \| Bobby Simone \| Danny Sorenson \| John Clark, Jr. \| Lt. Arthur Fancy \| Greg Medavoy \| Sylvia Costas \| Diane Russell \| Baldwin Jones \| Lt. Tony Rodriguez \| Rita Ortiz \| Laura Murphy \| Lt. Thomas Bale
Actors	Dennis Franz \| David Caruso \| Jimmy Smits \| Rick Schroder \| Mark-Paul Gosselaar \| James McDaniel \| Gordon Clapp \| Nicholas Turturro \| Sharon Lawrence \| Kim Delaney \| Sherry Stringfield \| Gail O'Grady \| Andrea Thompson \| Bill Brochtrup \| Henry Simmons \| Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon \| Charlotte Ross \| Esai Morales \| Jacqueline Obradors \| John F. O'Donohue \| Currie Graham \| Bonnie Somerville
Creators	Steven Bochco \| David Milch
Episodes	Season 1 \| Season 2 \| Season 3 \| Season 4 \| Season 5 Season 6 \| Season 7 \| Season 8 \| Season 9 Season 10 \| Season 11 \| Season 12