Marcia Cross

Born on March 25, 1962, in Marlborough (Massachusetts) Marcia Anne Cross is the daughter of a teacher and a personal assistant of British origin who raised her under the precepts of the Catholic religion. She was always a serious girl and an exemplary student, and she won a scholarship to study at Juilliard, one of the most prestigious acting schools in New York. When she graduated she also earned a Master’s in Psychology.

After getting a contract to intervene in an episode of The Edge of Night , he settled in Los Angeles, where he began a prolific career, almost always in the field of television. He starred with two country greats, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash , in the telefilm The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James , and appeared in series such as Across Time , Murder She Wrote , Ally McBeal or California , where his character faced to that of Nicollette Sheridan , later a co-star in Desperate Housewives . She stood out above all in Cheers, where she was the younger sister of the waitress played by Kirstie Alley , and as the lead’s dermatologist girlfriend on Seinfeld . She made her film debut in 1990, with the thriller Bad Influences , one of Curtis Hanson ‘s early works , although she has barely returned to the big screen since then.

For many years, Marcia Cross had Richard Jordan as a boyfriend , a prestigious off-Broadway actor who also appeared in films such as Interiors , and who was 25 years her senior. But he died as a result of a brain tumor in 1993.

The most remembered character from the first stage of Marcia Cross’s career is undoubtedly Dr. Kimberly Shaw, one of the very bad bad guys from the posh neighborhood of Melrose Place , a series that became a phenomenon, especially among the public in around thirty, like the protagonists. Although the actress initially signed on for a single episode, her work so impressed executives that they offered her a permanent contract. She was becoming more and more important and she was even about to blow up the apartment complex where the action was taking place. She was also another doctor at Everwood , where she seduced the lead, played by Treat Williams .

Thus, she had caught the attention of Marc Cherry , a self-declared admirer of Cross (especially for Melrose Place ) who immediately thought of her to embody the character that most disturbed him when he was writing the Desperate Housewives series.. To create Bree Van De Kamp, the housewife obsessed to the point of neurosis with cleanliness, order, cooking and ‘what will they say’, Cherry had been based on her own mother, to whom Cross even had the opportunity to know. “Everyone on Wisteria Lane thought she was a perfect wife and mother; everyone except her family,” she told herself on the show. The character became very popular, and the actress received three Golden Globe nominations and one Emmy. Despite the conviction with which she played Bree, she declares herself completely different from her character. “I am very unorganized,” she has commented herself. “And cooking is not my thing. At best I can make cappuccinos. Of course, they are excellent.”

While this dramatic comedy was all the rage throughout the world, Marcia Cross fell in love with Tom Mahoney, a stockbroker, whom she married after six months of dating in 2006. Soon, she became pregnant, and although the doctor forbade her to go out from home, she was so invested in her work on the series that she had the crew shoot her character sequences in her bedroom, converted by decorators from her Wisteria Lane ranch. She shortly after she gave birth to two twin girls. “I’ve spent a lot of time on the dark side, but now I’m in a very sweet moment,” said the actress, who faces her future after the end of the Marc Cherry series.