Veanne Cox
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Born | Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. | January 19, 1963
Occupation(s) | Actress, ballet dancer |
Years active | 1982–present |
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Veanne Cox (born January 19, 1963) is an Emmy[1] and Tony-nominated[2] American stage and screen actress and former ballet dancer.
Early life
[edit]Cox was born in Norfolk, Virginia. She is a 1981 graduate of Manchester High School in Chesterfield, Virginia. She studied ballet at the Washington School of Ballet, acting at the Studio Theatre (Washington, D.C.) and voice at Catholic University of America.[3]
Career
[edit]Her Broadway debut was in the Marvin Hamlisch musical Smile in 1986 as Sandra-Kay Macaffee.[4] She appeared in the Roundabout Theatre revival of Stephen Sondheim's Company in 1995 as "Amy", for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actress in a Musical.[5] She appeared in The Public Theater (2003) and the Broadway productions of Caroline, or Change (2004) as Rose Stopnick Gellman.[6]
Cox appeared in the made-for-television movie Cinderella (1997) as one of the stepsisters,[7] and appeared in Erin Brockovich as Theresa Dallavale.[8]
She has appeared in episodes of many television series, such as Seinfeld (playing Toby in the episode The Fire), Blue Bloods in 2016,[9] and Odd Mom Out.[10]
She starred in the Guthrie Theatre production of Private Lives as Amanda in 2007.[11]
Selected stage credits
[edit]- Summer Stock — Goodspeed Opera House — 2023[12]
- The Music Man — Kennedy Center — 2019
- An American in Paris — Palace Theatre — 2015
- La Cage aux Folles — Broadway revival — 2010
- The Beaux' Stratagem — The Shakespeare Theatre — 2006
- The Wooden Breeks — Lucille Lortel Theatre — 2006
- Caroline, or Change — Eugene O'Neill Theater – 2004
- House/Garden — Manhattan Theatre Club — 2002[13]
- The Dinner Party - Music Box Theatre NYC - 2001
- The Altruists — Vineyard Theatre — 2000[14]
- Company — Roundabout Theatre — 1995
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1982 | Bristlelip | Haughty Princess | Short |
1989 | Miss Firecracker | Tessy Mahoney | |
1997 | Henry Fool | Laura | |
1997 | Cinderella | Calliope | TV movie |
1998 | Dangerous Proposition | Eryn | |
1998 | You've Got Mail | Miranda Margulies | |
2000 | Erin Brockovich | Theresa Dallavale | |
2000 | Big Eden | Mary Margaret Bishop | |
2001 | Beethoven's 4th | Martha Sedgewick | Video |
2002 | Two Weeks Notice | Melanie Corman | |
2003 | Marci X | Caitlin Mellowitz | |
2004 | Our Italian Husband | Sonya | |
2006 | The Sasquatch Gang | Lenora | |
2006 | Out There | Maggie | |
2008 | Sex and the City | Halloween Woman #1 | |
2009 | The Rebound | Haley | |
2014 | The Better Angels | Aunt Elizabeth | |
2014 | The Rewrite | Clara Foss | |
2016 | Little Boxes | Sarita | |
2017 | Stay at Home Dad | Marjorie | Video short, completed |
2018 | Radium Girls | Dr. Katherine Drinker |
Television
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1984 | ABC Afterschool Special | Robin Miller | "Out of Step" |
1994 | The George Carlin Show | Alice Jean | "George Expresses Himself" |
1994 | Island City | Helen | TV film |
1994 | Seinfeld | Toby | "The Fire" |
1994 | Love & War | Ellen | "A Lonely Nation Turns Its Eyes to You" |
1994 | The 5 Mrs. Buchanans | Katie | "Nothing on Delilah" |
1995 | Hope and Gloria | Mary | "Falling in Bed Again" |
1995 | Pride & Joy | Lisa | "Are You My Mother?" |
1997 | Cinderella | Calliope | TV film |
1998 | Caroline in the City | Alice | "Caroline and the Big Night" |
1999 | The Norm Show | Judy | "My Name Is Norm" |
2000 | Madigan Men | Sandy Whitlow | "Love's Labor Lost" |
2001 | One Life to Live | Melissa Miller | TV series |
2002 | The Education of Max Bickford | Rachel Kane | "Money Changes Everything" |
2002 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Martha Strick | "Maledictus" |
2003 | Judging Amy | Mrs. Margolis | "Picture of Perfect" |
2004 | My Sexiest Mistake | Kristen | TV film |
2005 | Joan of Arcadia | Personable Woman God | "The Rise & Fall of Joan Girardi" |
2005 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Faith Hollis | "Unbearable" |
2006 | Numbers | Trish Schane | "Rampage" |
2007 | Boston Legal | Dr. Kathleen Ryan | "Duck and Cover" |
2007 | Side Order of Life | Celia Larabee | "Whose Sperm Is It Anyway?" |
2009 | Law & Order | Ms. Barsett | "Rapture" |
2009 | Royal Pains | Lois | "No Man Is an Island" |
2011 | Louie | Ellie Bormer | "Halloween/Ellie" |
2011 | Pan Am | Miss Havemeyer | "Pilot", "We'll Always Have Paris", "The Genuine Article" |
2012 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | ACS Case Worker | "Child's Welfare" |
2013 | Smash | Actress | "The Read-Through", "The Fringe", "Musical Chairs" |
2014 | 2 Broke Girls | Amy | "And the Not Broke Parents" |
2016 | Odd Mom Out | Trixie | "The High Road" |
2016 | Blue Bloods | Camilla Lawson | "Personal Business" |
2017 | Incorporated | "Burning Platform", "Golden Parachute" | |
2019 | NCIS: New Orleans | Parker | "X", "Crab Mentality", "The River Styx, Part II" |
2019–2023 | The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel | Corinne | 4 episodes |
2020 | New Amsterdam | Debra Keating | "In the Graveyard" |
2020 | Tommy | Jane | "Lifetime Achievement" |
References
[edit]- ^ "NOMINEES FOR THE 47TH ANNUAL DAYTIME EMMY® AWARDS – the Emmys". Emmy Awards. NATAS. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
- ^ "Veanne Cox – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". IBDB. Broadway LEague. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
- ^ Horwitz, Jane. "Veanne Cox, Time Traveler" Washington Post, November 21, 2006
- ^ " Smile on Broadway" Playbill, retrieved September 26, 2017
- ^ " Company Broadway" Playbill, retrieved September 26, 2017
- ^ " Caroline, or Change Broadway" Playbill, retrieved September 26, 2017
- ^ Cinderella tcm.com, retrieved September 26, 2017
- ^ Erin Brockovich tcm.com, retrieved September 26, 2017
- ^ " 'Blue Bloods', November 11, 2016, CBS" thefutoncritic.com, retrieved September 27, 2017
- ^ " 'Odd Mom Out' Cast" hollywood.com, September 27, 2017
- ^ "Playbill News: Veanne Cox to Star in Guthrie Private Lives ", Playbill, accessed June 16, 2017
- ^ https://www.goodspeed.org/summer-stock-cast [bare URL]
- ^ Jones, Kenneth. "Colin, Cox, Countryman and Gerroll Roam MTC's 'House & Garden' " Playbill, March 19, 2002
- ^ Sommer, Elyse. "A CurtainUp Review 'The Altruists' " curtainup.com, March 2, 2000