Katie Finneran

Katie Finneran was raised in Miami, Florida. After a brief stint in conservatory training, she left college to make her mark in the entertainment industry. She quickly began racking up credits in theater, film and television. She has appeared in You’ve Got Mail (1998), Liberty Heights (1999) and Night of the Living Dead (1990). Her television work includes appearances on Frasier (1993), Oz (1997) and Sex and the City (1998). Her greatest achievements have been onstage. Katie’s regional theater work includes “Hedda Gabler”” with Kate Burton (Bay Street and Williamstown Theatre Festival) and “”The Smell of the Kill”” (Berkshire Theatre Festival). Her off-Broadway credits include parts in “”Arms and the Man””, “”Edith Stein””, “”Bosoms and Neglect””, “”You Never Can Tell””, “”A Fair Country”” and Encore’s “”Lil’ Abner””. She has also appeared on Broadway with Kevin Spacey in “”The Iceman Cometh””, ‘Neil Simon (I)”s “”Proposals””, “”The Heiress””, “”In the Summer House””, “”My Favorite Year””, “”Two Shakespearean Actors””, “”On Borrowed Time”” and as Sally Bowles in the Tony-winning revival of “”Cabaret””.Katie shot to stardom with her winning, witty turn as Brooke Ashton in Michael Frayn’s farce “”Noises Off!””, for which she received critical acclaim and a 2002 Drama Desk and Tony Award for her portrayal. Katie left the show on July 14, 2002, to begin her work on the CBS sitcom Bram and Alice (2002).”

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Company

Following five couples and their friend Robert (Neil Patrick Harris), the perpetual bachelor, Company explores the true meaning of being in a relationship through a series of vignettes. Winner of the 1971 Tony Award for Best Musical, Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother, Rent) led an all-star cast…

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Wears contact lenses in real life; Brooke Ashton, her character in "Noises Off"" - for which she won a Tony - keeps losing hers.

Replaced Lea Thompson as Sally Bowles in the Broadway revival of ""Cabaret."" She was replaced by Gina Gershon in January 2001. [November 2000]

Attended Carnegie Mellon University for one year before leaving to study acting with Uta Hagen.

Participated in workshops for ""Boys of Syracuse""

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