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Tracy Lynn Middendorf is an American television, movie, and stage actress. Middendorf's most notable roles were in the horror film Wes Craven's New Nightmare, the MTV series Scream, and the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. She also appeared in the Broadway production of Ah, Wilderness!. She has won two Ovation Awards, one Drama-Logue Award, and one Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her stage work, and also received an American Movie Award in 2015.

Biography

Acting career

Middendorf was born in Miami Beach, Florida. She attended the Conservatory of Theatrical Arts at SUNY Purchase before breaking into television as Carrie Brady on the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives in 1992. The following year, she made her feature-film debut in Wes Craven's New Nightmare, wherein she played the supporting role of Julie.

During the 1990s, Middendorf built her career as a supporting actress in several television movies and episodes of series, including Beverly Hills, 90210 (the recurring role of Laura Kingman during the show's fourth season), Murder, She Wrote, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The X-Files, Angel, Ally McBeal, Chicago Hope, and Millennium. She also starred in the television movie Dying to Belong, and had a small part in For Love of the Game.
In March 1995, she resumed her stage career in Los Angeles playing Nicole Warren Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night directed by Simon Levy at the Fountain Theatre. The same year she played Jill in Pilgrims by Stephen Metcalfe at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. The following year, she got an Ovation Awards nomination for her performance in Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending. In 1998, she briefly relocated to the East Coast to star in two different plays: Ah, Wilderness! at the Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater (that marked her Broadway debut) and the Big Knife in Massachusetts. She returned to the Los Angeles stage with Tennessee Williams's Summer and Smoke, winning the Ovation Award for the best leading female performance.

During the 2000s, Middendorf had guest-starring stints in Six Feet Under, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Cold Case, among other shows, and had recurring roles in 24, The Division, Alias, and Lost.

On the big screen, she had parts in Mission: Impossible III, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, El Cortez, and Just Add Water. In 2002, she won another Ovation Award for her performance in Stephen Sachs' After the Fall, which ran for 7 sold-out months at the Fountain Theatre. For that production, she also won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award.

In 2010, Middendorf was cast as Babette in Boardwalk Empire, first appearing in the series pilot and featured in other eight episodes through the first and the second seasons. After starring in Reaching for the Moon, she won a recurring role in the action-drama hit show The Last Ship as Darien Chandler.

Middendorf continued her stage work, including the title role in Miss Julie, a Yale Repertory Theatre production of Battle of Black and Dogs, a Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Old Times, and debuted as a director in Louise Rozett's Break during the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2011.

In April 2015, she won an American Movie Award as Best Actress for her performance in Snowflake, a critically acclaimed short film she filmed in New York City opposite Ele Keats After starring in the Beth Henley's play Abundance at the Actors Company Theatre in New York City, Middendorf joined the cast of the MTV series Scream as Maggie Duval.

Personal life

Middendorf is married to writer Franz Wisner (Honeymoon with My Brother), and they have two sons. She has a son from a previous relationship with actor Cameron Dye.

Philanthropy

In 2012, Middendorf created Shutter To Think, a project designed to use photography as a way to support programs for girls around the world. Through the sale of personal photographs taken by well-known actors, writers, directors, and musicians, Shutter to Think is able to help fund programs with globally recognized organizations that are focused on providing opportunities to girls. Contributors include Steve Buscemi, Meryl Streep, and Nicholas D. Kristof, among others.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

References

1. ^ Kinsey Stephenson, Mark (February 1, 2012). "Tracy Middendorf Looks Back on her LA Fountain Years". The Fountain Theatre Blog.
2. Loynd, Ray (March 10, 1995). "Theater Attempts to Scale Mt. Fitzgerald : Stage: The novel 'Tender Is the Night' has never been done as a play. It's a daunting task, and it opens today at Fountain Theatre in Hollywood". Los Angeles Times.
3. Braunagel, Don (August 11, 1995). "Pilgrims". Variety. Retrieved July 16, 2019.
4. "LA Ovation Winners". Playbill.com. November 19, 1996.
5. "L.A.'s Ovation Awards Overcome by 'Reefer Madness'". Playbill.com. November 9, 1998.
6. Shirley, Don (November 10, 1999). "Running Smoke Rings Around the Competition". Los Angeles Times.
7. "2002 Ovation Awards: The list of winners". Los Angeles Times. November 29, 2002.
8. "Snowflake Official Facebook Page". facebook.com. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
9. Andreeva, Nellie (October 28, 2014). "MTV Picks Up 'Scream' To Series". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 20, 2017.
10. RYON, RUTH (13 May 2001). "For Sitcom Star, It's 'Just Move Me'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
11. Parkyn, John (3 February 2002). "Name Dropping". Sun Sentinel. Archived from the original on January 5, 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
12. "Shutter to Think".

External links

• Tracy Middendorf at showmag.com
• Tracy Middendorf at IMDb

• American film actresses
• American people of German descent
• American soap opera actresses
• American television actresses
• Living people
• People from Miami Beach, Florida
• State University of New York at Purchase alumni
• Philanthropists from New York (state)
• People from Jasper, Georgia
• 20th-century American actresses
• 21st-century American actresses