Kyra Sedgwick
(1965-)

American Actress, Environmentalist

birthdate: August 19
birthplace:
New York, NY

Kyra Sedgwick is a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress who started out her acting career on TV with a role at 16 on the soap opera, Another World, then appeared in more than 25 movies, including, Born on the Fourth of July, Phenomenon and Singles before starring in her most successful role back on television with the hit TNT drama, The Closer. While on the set of the 1987 TV movie, Lemon Sky, she met Kevin Bacon, and the couple was married the next year. In 2007, her husband created SixDegrees.org to help raise funds for charities and enlisted the help of many celebrities for the project to help connect donors to causes for a better world; Kyra Sedgwick was of course the one of the first to participate. Kyra Sedgwick's passion for a better world is protecting the environment and the cause she helps promote through SixDegrees.org is the Natural Resources Defense Council, which uses lawyers and scientists to protect wildlife and the environment and has 1.2 million members.

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