
Jean Smart
Jean Elizabeth Smart (born September 13, 1951) is an American actress. She has received numerous accolades including five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, four Critics' Choice Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for a Tony Award and a Grammy Award.
Smart first gained prominence for her leading role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women, in which she starred from 1986 to 1991. She went on to win five Primetime Emmy Awards for her roles as Lana Gardner in the NBC series Frasier (2000–01), Regina Newley in the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? (2007–09), and Deborah Vance in the HBO Max comedy series Hacks (2021–present). She was Emmy-nominated for her roles in The District (2000–04), 24 (2006–07), Harry's Law (2011), Fargo (2015), Watchmen (2019) and Mare of Easttown (2021). She also acted in FX's Legion (2017–2019) and voiced Ann Possible in the Disney Channel animated series Kim Possible (2002–2007).
On stage, she made her Broadway debut portraying Marlene Dietrich in the biographical play Piaf (1981). She returned to Broadway in the revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000) for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Smart's film credits include The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Garden State (2004), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Accountant (2016), A Simple Favor (2018), and Babylon (2022). She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Guinevere (1999).
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.695 |
Birthday | 1951-09-13 |
Place of Birth | Seattle, Washington, USA |
Also Known As | Jean E. Smart, Jean Elizabeth Smart, 진 스마트, ジーン・スマート, ジーン・エリザベス・スマート, Джин Смарт, جین اسمارت, |

2004

Garden State
7.078/1877
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2004

I ♥ Huckabees
6.3/654
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2016

Getting Ed Laid
1/1
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2018

The Messenger
0/0
A man known as The Messenger is employed delivering envelopes that hold life-altering information for their recipients.
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2003

Bringing Down the House
5.982/706
Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time meeting the right women. He tries online dating an...
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2000

The Kid
6.7/1028
Powerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of the moon, he meets Rusty, a chubby, charming 8-year-ol...
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2005

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
6.88/179
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42.6 Years
0/0
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1999

Guinevere
5.9/34
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2000

Snow Day
5.111/211
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2023

Wildflower
7.5/100
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2010

Life As We Know It
6.9/3145
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1996

Edie & Pen
5.611/9
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2008

Hero Wanted
5.4/155
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1992

Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story
2.5/4
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1987

Project X
6.3/262
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1984

Flashpoint
6.2/47
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2003

Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time
6.7/182
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1992

Mistress
5.4/38
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2012

Hope Springs
6.257/777
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1986

Fire with Fire
6.4/52
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1998

Change of Heart
5.3/7
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2004

A Very Married Christmas
4.8/4
Lighthearted Christmas TV Movie about a man whose quiet, boring life begins to unravel when he finds out that his wife is having an affair and wants a...
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2003

Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong
6.7/3
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2013

Waking
5.4/13
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2013

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
6.9/41
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2012

William & Catherine: A Royal Romance
5.4/43
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2023

A Panoramic Canvas Called Babylon
2/1
The cast and crew discuss the inspiration and motivation behind the original story and development of this epic, 15 years in the making.
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2003

Audrey's Rain
3.3/3
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2013

When Calls the Heart
6.9/52
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1995

The Brady Bunch Movie
6.088/295
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1991

Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
0/0
This women in prison drama tells us a story about the mother of three children, who was falsely accused for a crime she did not commit (drug dealing),...
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2014

Miss Meadows
5.9/262
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2014

Warren
5/2
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1994

The Yearling
5.8/8
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2004

Balto III: Wings of Change
6.658/326
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2022

Babylon
7.37/3267
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Too Good
0/0
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1980

Hoodlums
4.2/5
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2002

Sweet Home Alabama
6.4/1550
New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—inc...
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1988

A Place at the Table
0/0
A young student is determined to motivate her community after a friend of hers is found to be suffering from hunger.
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2010

Woke Up Dead
4.3/3
Drex Greene (Jon Heder), a confused zombie who can’t be any deader, tries to solve the case of the mystery pill that left him drowned in a bathtub. Wi...
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1992

Just My Imagination
0/0
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2016

Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
0/0
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2016

The Accountant
7.094/6325
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2003

The Designing Women Reunion
0/0
This five principal original cast members (plus a handful of recurring guests) from the popular sitcom Designing Women (1986) reunite for the first ti...
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1996

Undue Influence
5.7/3
When a senator's new wife is murdered, the prime suspect is his ex-wife, Laurel. Laurel's brother-in-law, lawyer Paul Madriani, still reeling from th...
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1993

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
6.96/1025
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2010

Barry Munday
5.7/88
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2017

Awaken the Shadowman
3.7/51
After the mysterious disappearance of their mother, estranged brothers reunite and discover an unknown supernatural force.
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2000

The Man Who Came to Dinner
10/1
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1979

Before and After
2.7/3
Patty Duke loses weight and discovers her husband has been cheating on her.
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2018

A Simple Favor
6.6/4209
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1984

Protocol
5.5/87
A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar's life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal.
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1998

The Odd Couple II
6.3/136
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2018

Life Itself
7.2/569
As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create rev...
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2018

Brampton's Own
4.5/29
A struggling minor league baseball player retires and woefully returns to his small hometown, carefully dodging old wounds until confronted with the o...
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2018

A Shoe Addict's Christmas
6.2/74
As Christmas approaches, a department store worker whose life lacks fulfillment meets her guardian angel, who offers her a chance to change her circum...
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1999

Forever Fabulous
6/1
Jean Smart stars in the beauty queen road trip about a mother and daughter pageant pros going back home to Texas for a shot at redemption.
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1986

A Fight for Jenny
7/2
When Kelsey remarries, her struggle to get custody of her daughter from her first marriage is complicated by her current husband being black.
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1984

Piaf
0/0
Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This recording presents the Tony Award-winning stage pl...
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1995

A Stranger in Town
6/1
In this made-for-TV movie, Kay's (Jean Smart) small-town life allows her to manage the challenges of caring for her sick baby. But when a mysterious s...
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A Stranger in Town

1984

Single Bars, Single Women
0/0
Men and women gather at local singles bars in search of lasting love or casual action.
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2020

Superintelligence
6/289
When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As...
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2009

Youth in Revolt
6.2/917
As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to...
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Youth in Revolt

1994

The Yarn Princess
6.438/8
Margaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband, Jake, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and the authorities wish to take her...
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Miss Macy
0/0
The true story of a young girl who is plucked from her unhappy home life and set on a path for success by an eccentric woman who sees something specia...
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2007

Lucky You
5.6/266
A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poke...
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2021

Senior Moment
5.7/20
After drag racing his vintage convertible around Palm Springs, a retired NASA test pilot loses his license. Forced to take public transportation, he m...
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1991

A Seduction in Travis County
0/0
An acquitted killer (Lesley Ann Warren) lusts after her lawyer (Peter Coyote), who is a married man.
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2025

Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
0/0
In 1965, Janis Ian, a 14-year-old singer-songwriter from New Jersey, wrote “Society’s Child” about an interracial relationship. Recorded and released...
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2022

Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
9/1
Friends and stars pay tribute to America's comedy sweetheart and her trailblazing television career.
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