Laurie Heineman is an American actress probably best known for originating the role of Sharlene Frame on Another World and for her role of Myra in the film, Save the Tiger, a film which gained Jack Lemmon an Oscar.
She played the role of Sharlene Frame Watts Matthews from 1975 to 1977 and was awarded the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series in 1978. She beat out fellow cast members Beverlee McKinsey (Iris) and Victoria Wyndham (Rachel) who had also been nominated that same year.
Coincidentally, when the role of Sharlene was recast years later, actress Anna Kathryn Holbrook also won a Daytime Emmy as Outstanding Supporting Actress for her performance (1996).
She had an earlier daytime role on As the World Turns (as Mary Jackson, 1961–1966). Other movies include, The Lady in Red and the satire All the President's Women, with Zero Mostel. She has also made periodic guest appearances on such primetime series as Kaz, Lou Grant, Hart to Hart, The Incredible Hulk, Rafferty (TV Series), and Law & Order, She co-starred in the TV miniseries Studs Lonigan, and in many TV movies including Terror on the 40th Floor.
Most recently she appeared as herself in the documentaries A Touch of Greatness, and the BBC The Hollywood Greats" documentary on Jack Lemmon.
Heineman appeared on, off and off-off Broadway and in theatrical productions around the nation, including comedies, dramas, and numerous Shakespearean productions. She was an original member of the improv group, "The Proposition". As a child she was in Naked City opposite Robert Duvall, East Side, West Side opposite George C. Scott, and appeared on live TV in U.S. Steel Hour. She has appeared in numerous commercials and has done voice-overs for ads and provided the voice of Marianne Moore in a PBS documentary about the poet.
She is also an art therapist, and the author of a book on teaching Shakespeare.
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