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Nancy Travis

Nancy Travis was born in New York and grew up in both Baltimore and Boston. She returned to New York to study drama at New York University. Soon after, she joined the national touring company of Neil Simon's hit play Brighton Beach Memoirs. Her additional theatre credits include Broadway's I'm Not Rappaport and Athol Fugard's My Children, My Africa, which the author directed at the La Jolla Playhouse. She is a founding member of the off-Broadway theatre company Naked Angels.

Travis just landed the lead role in UPN's new pilot Talk Show Diaries, a story that follows the lives and antics of three female morning talk show hosts.

Last year, she returned to the stage in Boy Gets Girl for director Randall Arney, at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.

Travis made her feature film debut in the blockbuster comedy Three Men and a Baby. Her additional film credits include Internal Affairs, Air America, Three Men and a Little Lady, So I Married an Axe Murderer, The Vanishing Greedy, Fluke, Destiny Turns on the Radio and Bogie. On the small screen, she starred in Becker with Ted Danson; Almost Perfect for CBS; and the television movies My Last Love and Fallen Angels.

Travis resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.


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Nancy Travis Facts

OccupationActress
BirthdaySeptember 21, 1961 (48)
SignVirgo
BirthplaceNew York, New York, USA
Height5' 4" (1m63)

Selected Filmography

Rose Red
Becker: The Second Season
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Three Men and a Baby / Three Men and a Little Lady
Air America
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Three Men and a Baby
Greedy
Internal Affairs
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