Tammy Blanchard Biography

Tammy Blanchard (born December 14, 1976) is an American actress and singer. She has worked primarily in films and television, making her professional debut in the soap opera Guiding Light. For her first stage appearance, she played the role of Louise/Gypsy in the 2003 Broadway revival of the musical Gypsy, for which she earned both a Tony Award nomination and a Theatre World Award.

She received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her portrayal of a teenage Judy Garland in the television film Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows. She also appeared as Hedy LaRue in the 2011 Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and was nominated for a 2011 Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Musical for the role.

Life and career

Blanchard was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. She made her professional acting debut on the soap opera Guiding Light in 1997, where she played spoiled rich girl Drew Jacobs. Her role on the show increased over the years, and by the time of her departure in 2000 she had become a major player in the series.

She was then cast as the younger version of Judy Davis's Judy Garland in the 2001 ABC television docudrama Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows. She received glowing reviews for her performance and earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.

She played Marianne Mulvaney in the Lifetime television film We Were the Mulvaneys (2002), and was noted for her "fragile strength" by The New York Times reviewer. In 2004, she played Sally Reid in the CBS made-for-television film, When Angels Come to Town with Peter Falk.

Blanchard earned a Tony Award nomination and a Theatre World Award for her work in her Broadway debut in the 2003 revival of Gypsy, in which she played the title role opposite Bernadette Peters.

Blanchard's film roles include The Good Shepherd (2006), starring as the deaf lover of Matt Damon's character; Bella (2006), which took the top prize at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival; The Ramen Girl (2008); and Deadline (2009). She co-starred with Jessica Lange in the CBS television remake of the 1976 television film Sybil, in which she portrays a woman with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). She appeared in the multi-star cast of the television docudrama Living Proof (2008) as the first woman to have been treated with the breast cancer drug Herceptin.

She plays Amy Roberts, the widow of a murderer, in the made-for-television film Amish Grace, which first aired on the Lifetime Movie Network in March 2010. The movie is based on the West Nickel Mines School shooting. The Huffington Post noted that "This is an amazing young actress and she deserves to get better and better roles." The Hollywood Reporter noted that Blanchard gives "a moving turn".

She appeared in the 2010 film Rabbit Hole alongside Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as Kidman's sister.

Blanchard played the role of "office bombshell Hedy La Rue" in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which opened on March 27, 2011 and closed on May 20, 2012. For this role Blanchard received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

The feature film Union Square, co-written and directed by the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Award Winner, Nancy Savoca, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011, and is being screened in New York City in July 2012. In it, Blanchard co-stars with Patti Lupone, Mira Sorvino, Mike Doyle, Michael Rispoli and Daphne Rubin-Vega. She portrayed Eden in Karyn Kusama's thriller film The Invitation.

In 2014, Blanchard appeared as the stepsister Florinda in director Rob Marshall's film, Into the Woods, an adaptation of the popular stage musical. She appears in the film Tallulah, which debuted on Netflix in 2016.

She appears in the Broadway production of The Iceman Cometh as Cora, which started previews on March 23, 2018.

Personal life

Blanchard lives in her hometown of Bayonne and has a daughter, Ava Jean Blanchard, who was born in 2007.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Stealing Harvard	Noreen Plummer
2006	Bella	Nina
2006	'	Laura
2008	'	Gretchan
2008	Cadillac Records	Isabelle Allen
2009	Deadline	Rebecca
2010	Rabbit Hole	Izzy
2011	'	Tamara
2011	Moneyball	Elizabeth Hatteberg
2011	Union Square	Jenny
2011	Certainty	Melissa
2013	Burning Blue	Susan Stephensen
2013	Blue Jasmine	Jane
2013	La vida inesperada	Jojo
2014	Into the Woods	Florinda	Satellite Award for Best Cast - Motion Picture
2015	'	Wendy Danver
2015	'	Eden	Nominated"?Fright Meter Award for Best Supporting Actress
2016	Tallulah	Carolyn
2018	Fourplay	Anna
2018	The Wrong Sun	Jessie
2018	Boarding School	Mrs. Sherman
2018	Warning Shot	Audrey
2019	'	Young Woman	Post-production
2019	'	Caroline Marrow	Post-production
2019	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Lorraine	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998-2000	Guiding Light	Drew Jacobs	43 episodes
2001	Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows	Judy Garland	2 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Nominated"?Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated"?Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2001	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Kelly D'Leah	Episode: "Consent"
2002	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Sarah Eldon	Episode: "Tomorrow"
2002	We Were the Mulvaneys	Marianne Mulvaney	Television film
2004	When Angels Come to Town	Sally Reid	Television film
2007	Sybil	Sybil	Television film
2008	Living Proof	Nicole Wilson	Television film
2009	Empire State	Beth Cochrane	Television film
2010	Amish Grace	Amy Roberts	Television film
2010	Law & Order	Dana Silva	Episode: "Brazil"
2010	'	Petra Long	Episode: "Taking Control"
2012	'	Louise Mitchell	Episode: "In Case of Heart Failure"
2012	'	Giselle	3 episodes
2012	Of Two Minds	Elizabeth "Baby" Davis	Television film
2014	Madam Secretary	Claire Ionesco	Episode: "Need to Know"
2015	Elementary	Violet de Merville	Episode: "The Illustrious Client"
2016	Bull	Adele Bensimon	Episode: "The Necklace"
2017	Billions	Melanie	2 episodes
2017	Blue Bloods	Valerie Madigan	Episode: "No Retreat, No Surrender"
2017	Daytime Divas	Sheree Ainsley	5 episodes
2018	The Wrong Son	Jessie	Television film

Stage

Year	Title	Role
2003-2004	Gypsy: A Musical Fable	Louise/Gypsy
2011-2012	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying	Hedy LaRue
2015-2016	Dada Woof Papa Hot	Julia
2018	The Iceman Cometh	Cora

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2001	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
2002	American Film Institute Award	Actor of the Year - Female - TV Movie or Mini-Series
	Golden Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film
	Golden Globe Award	Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2003	Tony Award	Best Featured Actress in a Musical	Gypsy: A Musical Fable
	Theatre World Award
2011	Tony Award	Best Featured Actress in a Musical	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying