January 21: Happy Birthday Jill Eikenberry

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Jill Eikenberry, who turns 70 today, starred as Ann Kelsey on L.A. Law for its entire run, winning a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama and receiving five Emmy and four Golden Globe nominations. She has also had a significant theater career.

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Happy Birthday Jill!

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Jill Eikenberry, who celebrates her 71st birthday today, graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 1970 and spent a lot of time working on stage in the subsequent decade. She made her Broadway debut in Michael Weller’s Moonchildren in 1972 and appeared in several Broadway productions during the 1970s. She has also had an extensive off-Broadway career that includes winning an Obie Award for a production of Lanford Wilson’s Lemon Sky and receiving a Drama Desk Award nomination for the musical The Kid.

Eikenberry has worked periodically in film, and in the 1980s had prominent roles in Hide in Plain Sight, Arthur, and The Manhattan Project. She began working in television in the early 1970s. She made a number of TV movies, but her best known role by far was as Ann Kelsey on L.A. Law. She received five Emmy and four Golden Globe nominations for the role, winning one of the latter. She has been retired from screen work since about 2011; one of her final appearances was as a guest star on NUMB3RS.