![]() ![]() ![]() Salome Jens has appeared in lead roles on Broadway in Far Country, Night Life, The Disenchanted, Patriot For Me, A Lie of the Mind. Other acknowledgements of achievement include Prism, Method Fest, and Drama Logue Awards Twitter & Instagram Jens She is the 2nd VP of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation and is current Chair of the Board of Heal The Bay. She has been honored with UNC-Chapel Hill's Outstanding Young Alumni Award, served on the BoD for the University's General Alumni Association. Sharon earned her BA in Journalism in 1983 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, while playing leads in many productions at UNC-CH Playmakers Repertory Theater including THE THREE SISTERS, THE GREEKS, and Juliet in an original musical of Shakespeare's most famous romance called STAR-CROSSED LOVERS. She created the role of Maureen in the premier of Theresa Rebeck's POOR BEHAVIOR at the Mark Taper Forum and her last Broadway appearance was as Velma Kelly in CHICAGO. SONG AT TWILIGHT and as Vivian Leigh in ORSON'S SHADOW for which she was nominated for an Ovation Award, and won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award. LA theatre includes her acclaimed performance in THE MYSTERY OF LOVE AND SEX at the Mark Taper Forum, playing twenty different women in the LOVE, NOEL cabaret at The Wallis, -Noel Coward's final play, A. An accomplished stage actress, and 2012 Lunt-Fontane Ten Chimneys Fellow, Sharon most recently appeared as Katharine Graham in a solo play about the lauded publisher of the Washington Post, and the IAMA Theatre Company member in the West Coast premiere of A KID LIKE JAKE directed by Jennifer Chambers. Other prominent appearances include her much Twittered about stints on ONE TREE HILL and DROP DEAD DIVA Audiences saw her on COMMUNITY, THE MENTALIST, BODY OF PROOF. Film work includes, SOLACE with Sir Anthony Hopkins, THE LOST HUSBAND with Leslie Bibb and Josh Duhamel, OF MIND AND MUSIC with Anjeannue Ellis and and the indie hit MIDDLE OF NOWHERE directed by Ava DuVernay (Best Director at Sundance Film Fest 2012 two GOTHAM AWARD and four SPIRIT nominations.) She headlined her own comedy series FIRED UP with Leah Rimini, Mark Feurestein and Jonathan Banks for NBC and starred in LADIES MAN starring Alfred Molina and Betty White for CBS. She headlined her own comedy series FIRED UP with Leah Rimini, Mark Feurestein and Jonathan Banks for NBC and starred in LADIES MAN starring Alfred Molina and Betty White for CBS. Also, Jenny Mollen's series I LIKE YOU JUST THE WAY I AM for ABC digital, the unforgettable crossover episode of HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER and SCANDAL, BLUNT TALK with Sir Patrick Stewart and NBC's GAME OF SILENCE and several beloved holiday movies including the 2-time GLAAD Award nominated THE CHRISTMAS HOUSE on Hallmark. Many recurring roles include REBEL with Katy Sagal and Andy Garcia, CW's DYNASTY and CBS's CRIMINAL MINDS, Showtime's SHAMELESS, Netflix's THE RANCH opposite Sam Elliott, Amazon's THE LAST TYCOON, and the critically acclaimed series QUEEN SUGAR produced by Ava DuVernay. Previously she starred opposite Kirsten Dunst in the Showtime series ON BECOMING A GOD IN CENTRAL FLORIDA, and HOME BEFORE DARK for Apple. ![]() Her 5th EMMY nomination came in 2021 as Lead Actress in a digital series -THE GAZE Currently you can find her starring in the series JOE PICKETT based on the best seller of the same name. You may know her from her multiple Emmy nominated and SAG Award winning portrayal of ADA Sylvia Costas Sipowitz in the ground breaking NYPD Blue or as a stay-at-home prostitute in DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, or as Izzy's tender but ditzy Mom on GREY'S ANATOMY (for which she earned her 4th EMMY nod) or a murderous realtor on MONK or a sociopathic serial killer on LAW AND ORDER:SVU, coming to terms with her long lost daughter on RIZZOLI & ISLES, speaking out for protection of endangered polar bears for the World Wildlife Fund or beating up Larry David on CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM. ![]()
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