We’re excited to announce that Emmy-nominated actress Sharon Lawrence will be performing at our Over the Edge for Veterans event taking place on October 7 & 8! She has joined the Event Committee as well.
Sharon will be singing with the Late Night Jazz Orchestra at the VIP Reception for the event being held on the evening of October 7.
We so appreciate Sharon’s endless support of Habitat for Humanity SF/SCV and our mission! 100% of the funds you raise will go to build homes for veteran families in North Los Angeles County. #HabitatVeterans
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About Sharon Lawrence
You may know her from her multiple EMMY nominated and SAG Award winning portrayal of ADA Sylvia Costas Sipowitz in the ground breaking NYPD Blue or as a stay-at-home prostitute in DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, as Issy’s tender but ditzy Mom on GREY’S ANATOMY (for which she earned her 4th EMMY nod) or a murderous realtor on MONK or a sociopathic serial killer on LAW AND ORDER:SVU, coming to terms with her long lost daughter on RIZZOLI & ISLES, speaking out for protection of endangered polar bears for the World Wildlife Fund or beating up Larry David on CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM. Most recent work includes BLUNT TALK opposite Sir Patrick Stewart and villainous arc on NBC’s summer series GAME OF SILENCE.
Film work includes the up coming SOLACE with Sir Anthony Hopkins, the indie hit MIDDLE OF NOWHERE Ava DuVernay (Best Director at Sundance Film Fest 2012; two GOTHAM AWARD and four SPIRIT nominations). In the summer of 2013 Sharon shot three independent social issue films, GRACE about addiction recovery, OF MUSIC AND MIND about Alzheimer’s and THINSPO about eating disorders. Currently on the festival circuit are Award winning short films SOMEBODY’S MOTHER with Christine Lakin and Missy Pyle and THE BRIDGE PARTNER opposite Beth Grant. She also appeared in THE PERFECT FAMILY with Kathleen Turner, LIES AND ALIBIES with Rebecca Romjin, LITTLE BLACK BOOK with Holly Hunter and GOSSIP with Kate Hudson and THE ONLY THRILL with Diane Keaton and Diane Lane.
She has headlined her own comedy series FIRED UP produced by Kelsey Grammar for NBC and starred with class acts Alfred Molina, Betty White and Dixie Carter in CBS’s sit com LADIES MAN. Her work for the web also includes the Anthony Zukier’s genre series SILVERWOOD on YouTube and the political drama ChasingTheHill.com.
Other prominent appearances include her much Twittered about stints on ONE TREE HILL and DROP DEAD DIVA Audiences saw her on COMMUNITY, THE MENTALIST, BODY OF PROOF, THE GLADE, GHOST WHISPERER, BOSTON LEGAL, DIRT and PRIVILEGED. She has starred in many films for television and produced for NBC, FIVE DESPERATE HOURS co-starring Giancarlo Esposito.
An accomplished stage actress, Sharon recently completed an acclaimed performance in The Mystery Of Love and Sex at the Mark Taper Forum. She played twenty different women in the Noel Coward cabaret Love, Noel at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Area audiences have seen her in two dramas set in the ‘60’s -Noel Coward’s final play, A Song at Twilight and as Vivan Leigh in Orson’s Shadow for which she was nominated for an Ovation Award and won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award. She created the role of Maureen in the premier of Theresa Rebeck’s Poor Behavior at the Mark Taper Forum and her last Broadway appearance was as Velma Kelly in Chicago.
Sharon earned her BA in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has been honored with UNC-Chapel Hill’s Outstanding Young Alumni Award and now serves on the BoD for the University’s General Alumni Association. Other acknowledgements of achievement include Prism, Method Fest, and Drama Logue Awards
Sharon previously chaired the Women In Film Foundation where she incubated and managed corporate partnerships with Netflix and the Scholl Foundation, She is still active on the Advisory Board. She serves on the Board of Directors of two effective environmental organizations, Heal The Bay and Green Wish, and is a Trustee of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. She lives in Los Angeles and Idyllwild, California and is married to physician Dr. Thomas Apostle. She is a member of First Congregational Church Of Los Angeles. Twitter @sharonlawrence & Instagram @sharonelawrence