Calista Flockhart

Played Kitty Walker, a conservative TV-news personality in the ABC drama "Brothers & Sisters"

Appears opposite Matthew Broderick in "The Last Shot"

Appeared for two-week stint in the Off-Broadway production of "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler

Had featured role in the Sundance-screened "Things You Can Tell by Just Looking at Her"; aired on Showtime in 2001

Had featured role as Helena in the big screen remake of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Returned to the NYC stage in Off-Broadway production "Bash: Latter-Day Plays", by Neil LaBute; reprised roles for TV adaptation aired on Showtime in 2000

Co-starred in the Broadway production of "Three Sisters" alongside Lili Taylor, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Amy Irving; played Natasha

TV series debut as regular, portrayed the titular fantasy-prone lawyer seeking Mr Right in the award-winning "Ally McBeal" (Fox)

Appeared on stage at the Berkshire Theater Festival in "Jitta's Atonement", opposite Wiest

Breakthrough screen role as the mousy daughter of Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest in "The Birdcage"

Played female lead in "Milk and Money"

First important film role, "Drunks" (received limited theatrical release as well as airings on Showtime)

Broadway debut, as Laura in revival of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie"

Feature debut in bit part in "Quiz Show"

Had featured role in the Off-Broadway production of Caryl Churchill's "Mad Forrest"

Debut in a TV-movie, "Darrow" (PBS)

TV debut, "An American Story" (CBS)

New York stage debut in "Beside Herself"

After college, moved to NYC to pursue career

Family settled in New Jersey in the late 1970s

Raised in Iowa, Minnesota and upstate New York

Won acclaimed for her performance in the off-Broadway play "The Loop"