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Nicollette Sheridan

Nicollette Sheridan

Birthday: 1963-11-21 | Place of Birth: Worthing, Sussex, England, UK

Nicollette Sheridan (born 21 November 1963) is an British-born American actress best known for her roles as Edie Britt on Desperate Housewives, Lily on Paradise and Paige Matheson on Knots Landing. She began her career as a fashion model before landing a role in the short-lived ABC primetime soap opera Paper Dolls in 1984, as well as starring in the romantic comedy film The Sure Thing (1985). She rose to prominence as Paige Matheson on the CBS primetime soap opera Knots Landing (1986–1993), for which she received two Soap Opera Digest Awards. Thereafter, she appeared in lead roles in numerous television films and miniseries including Lucky Chances (1990), Virus (1995), and The People Next Door (1996). She also appeared in the feature films Noises Off (1992), Spy Hard (1996), Beverly Hills Ninja (1997), and Code Name: The Cleaner (2007). From 2004 to 2009, Sheridan starred as Edie Britt on the ABC series Desperate Housewives, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2005. From 2018 to 2019, she portrayed Alexis Carrington on The CW's Dynasty reboot. During the 1980s, she dated teen idols Leif Garrett and Scott Baio. On September 7, 1991, she married actor Harry Hamlin, her co-star from the 1990 TV movie Deceptions. Hamlin filed for divorce on August 21, 1992, listing their date of separation as July 13. From July 1992 to September 1995, she dated singer Michael Bolton. She was then involved for three years with Australian Simon Main, a relationship that ended in 2000 when Main was sentenced to four years in prison for trafficking ecstasy. She began dating Swedish personal trainer Nicklas Söderblom in 2004 and became engaged to him on New Year's Eve 2004; the pair called off the engagement in October 2005. That December, she rekindled her romance with Bolton. She and Bolton announced their engagement in March 2006 but they broke off their engagement in August 2008. She married Aaron Phypers in December 2015, but the couple separated six months later. Their divorce was finalized in August 2018.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2023
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas

as    Juliette Matheson

2016
All Yours

as    Cass

2014
Let's Kill Ward's Wife

as    Robin Peters

2013
The Christmas Spirit

as    Charlotte Hart

2011
Honeymoon for One

as    Eve

2011
XXIT

as    Nikki Williams

2008
Fly Me to the Moon

as    Nadia (voice)

2007
Code Name: The Cleaner

as    Diane

2006
The Karate Dog

as    White Cat (voice)

2004
Deadly Visions

as    Ann Culver

2003
Lost Treasure

as    Carrie

2003
Deadly Betrayal

as    Donna Randal

2002
Haven't We Met Before?

as    Eliza / Kate / Emily Winton

2002
.com for Murder

as    Misty

2000
The Spiral Staircase

as    Helen Capel

2000
Raw Nerve

as    Izabel Sauvestre

1998
Dead Husbands

as    Alexandra Elston

1997
Beverly Hills Ninja

as    Allison Page / Sally Jones

1997
Murder in My Mind

as    Callain Pearson

1996
The People Next Door

as    Anna Morse

1996
Spy Hard

as    Veronique Ukrinsky

1995
Virus

as    Marissa Blumenthal

1995
Silver Strand

as    Michelle Hughes

1994
A Time to Heal

as    Jenny Barton

1994
Shadows of Desire

as    Rowena Ecklund

1992
Noises Off...

as    Brooke Ashton / Vicki

1992
Somebody's Daughter

as    Sara