Lauren Michael Holly (born October 28, 1963) is an American-Canadian
actress. She has played the roles of Deputy Sheriff Maxine Stewart in
the television series Picket Fences, Director Jenny Shepard in the
series NCIS, Dr. Betty Rogers on Motive, Mary Swanson in Dumb and
Dumber, Linda Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Darian Smalls in
Beautiful Girls, Cindy Rooney in Any Given Sunday, and Gigi in What
Women Want.Holly was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania. Her mother,
Michael Ann Holly, is an art historian and the Starr Director of
Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, and former professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Her father, Grant Holly, is a screenwriter and professor of literature
at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She has two younger brothers:
Nick and Alexander Innes Holly (1977â€"92). Holly was raised in
Geneva, New York, and is a 1981 graduate of Geneva High School, where
she was a cheerleader. In 1985, she earned an undergraduate degree in
English from Sarah Lawrence College in New York.Holly's acting career
began at the age of 20 when she appeared as Carla Walicki in two
episodes of Hill Street Blues. At age 23, she joined the cast of the
ABC television soap opera All My Children as Julie Rand Chandler
(1986â€"1989). She portrayed the comic book character Betty Cooper in
the TV movie Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again in 1990.In 1992,
Holly's big break came when she was cast as small-town Deputy Sheriff
Maxine Stewart opposite veteran movie actor Tom Skerritt on CBS's
Picket Fences for four seasons, appearing in every episode except one.
She portrayed Linda Lee Cadwell, the wife of martial artist and actor
Bruce Lee, in 1993's Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. She appeared as Mary
Swanson, Lloyd Christmas's love interest, in the 1994 Jim Carrey
comedy Dumb and Dumber; a doctor in Sydney Pollack's 1995 remake of
Sabrina; and Lieutenant Emily Lake in the 1996 comedy Down Periscope
with Kelsey Grammer. She starred in the film Any Given Sunday (1999).
actress. She has played the roles of Deputy Sheriff Maxine Stewart in
the television series Picket Fences, Director Jenny Shepard in the
series NCIS, Dr. Betty Rogers on Motive, Mary Swanson in Dumb and
Dumber, Linda Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Darian Smalls in
Beautiful Girls, Cindy Rooney in Any Given Sunday, and Gigi in What
Women Want.Holly was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania. Her mother,
Michael Ann Holly, is an art historian and the Starr Director of
Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, and former professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Her father, Grant Holly, is a screenwriter and professor of literature
at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She has two younger brothers:
Nick and Alexander Innes Holly (1977â€"92). Holly was raised in
Geneva, New York, and is a 1981 graduate of Geneva High School, where
she was a cheerleader. In 1985, she earned an undergraduate degree in
English from Sarah Lawrence College in New York.Holly's acting career
began at the age of 20 when she appeared as Carla Walicki in two
episodes of Hill Street Blues. At age 23, she joined the cast of the
ABC television soap opera All My Children as Julie Rand Chandler
(1986â€"1989). She portrayed the comic book character Betty Cooper in
the TV movie Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again in 1990.In 1992,
Holly's big break came when she was cast as small-town Deputy Sheriff
Maxine Stewart opposite veteran movie actor Tom Skerritt on CBS's
Picket Fences for four seasons, appearing in every episode except one.
She portrayed Linda Lee Cadwell, the wife of martial artist and actor
Bruce Lee, in 1993's Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. She appeared as Mary
Swanson, Lloyd Christmas's love interest, in the 1994 Jim Carrey
comedy Dumb and Dumber; a doctor in Sydney Pollack's 1995 remake of
Sabrina; and Lieutenant Emily Lake in the 1996 comedy Down Periscope
with Kelsey Grammer. She starred in the film Any Given Sunday (1999).
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