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Emmy Award winner Holland Taylor is a veteran of film, television and theater.  She will star in the upcoming film "The Chosen One" with Steve Buscemi    Her other film credits include "Baby Mama," "Legally Blonde," "Wedding Date," "Keeping the Faith," "D.E.B.S., " "Spy Kids 2 and 3," "The Truman Show," "George of the Jungle," "One Fine Day," "To Die For," "How to Make an American Quilt," "Alice," "She's Having a Baby," "Jewel of the Nile" and "Romancing the Stone."

In 2005, 2007 and 2008 Taylor received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Evelyn Harper.  Taylor's additional television credits include the series "The Practice," for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, "The Naked Truth," Norman Lear's "The Powers That Be" and "Bosom Buddies," and the movies "Counterfeit Contessa," "Concealed Enemies" and "People Like Us"  as well as "A Walton Wedding," and "Bitter Blood," both on CBS.  She has also guest-starred in "Ally McBeal," "ER," and "The L Word."

Taylor's Broadway theater credits include "The Devils," "Butley," "Breakfast with Les and Bess," "Moose Murders," "Murder Among Friends," "Something Old, Something New" and "We Interrupt This Program."  She also performed in the world premieres of "Cocktail Hour," "Drinks Before Dinner," "Children," "Fashion" and "Colette," and in "Love Letters" and "The Vagina Monologues."  She spent her summer 2009 hiatus in New York appearing in the off-Broadway premiere of Lisa Ebersole's "Mother."  Taylor is also researching and working on a play about former Texas governor Ann Richards and expects to have it at a regional theater in 2010.

Taylor was born in Philadelphia and lives in Los Angeles.  Her birth date is Jan. 14.