Tammy Blanchard

Tammy Blanchard (born December 14, 1976) is an American actress. She rose to prominence for her role as teenage Judy Garland in the critically acclaimed television film Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination and a Primetime Emmy Award. Her other notable film roles were in The Good Shepherd (2006), Sybil (2007), Into the Woods (2014) and The Invitation (2015).

Tammy Blanchard
Born	(1976-12-14) December 14, 1976 (age 48) Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.[citation needed]
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present
Children	1

Blanchard has been nominated for two Tony Awards: one for her role as Louise in the 2003 Broadway revival of the musical Gypsy, and the other as Hedy LaRue in the 2011 Broadway revival of the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Career

She made her professional acting debut on the soap opera Guiding Light in 1997, where she played spoiled rich girl Drew Jacobs.^[1] Her first scene was with Taye Diggs, who briefly played a record producer on the show. The character of Drew became more prominent over the years, and by the time of her departure in 2000, had become an audience favorite.

Soon after leaving GL, Blanchard was cast as the younger version of Judy Davis's Judy Garland in the 2001 ABC television docudrama Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.^[2][3] She received glowing reviews for her performance^[4] and earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.^[5]

She played Marianne Mulvaney in the Lifetime television film We Were the Mulvaneys (2002), and was noted for her "fragile strength" by The New York Times reviewer.^[6] In 2004, she played Sally Reid in the CBS made-for-television film When Angels Come to Town, with Peter Falk.^{[citation needed]}

Blanchard earned a Tony Award nomination and a Theatre World Award for her work in her Broadway debut in the 2003 revival of the musical Gypsy, in which she played the title role opposite Bernadette Peters.^[7][8][9]

Blanchard's film roles include The Good Shepherd (2006), starring as the deaf lover of Matt Damon's character;^[10] Bella (2006),^[11] which took the top prize at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival; and The Ramen Girl (2008)^[12] and Deadline (2009), both working with Brittany Murphy. She co-starred with Jessica Lange in the CBS television remake of the 1976 television film Sybil, in which she portrays a woman with dissociative identity disorder (DID).^[13][14] In 2008, she appeared in the multi-star cast of the television docudrama Living Proof as the first woman to have been treated with the breast cancer drug Herceptin.^[15]

In 2010, Blanchard played Amy Roberts, the widow of a murderer, in the made-for-television film Amish Grace, which first aired on the Lifetime Movie Network. The movie is based on the West Nickel Mines School shooting. The Huffington Post noted that "This is an amazing young actress and she deserves to get better and better roles."^[16][17][18] The Hollywood Reporter noted that Blanchard gives "a moving turn".^[19] The same year, she appeared in the film Rabbit Hole, alongside Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart, as Kidman's sister.^[20]

Blanchard played the role of "office bombshell Hedy La Rue" in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which opened on March 27, 2011, and closed on May 20, 2012.^[21] For this role, Blanchard received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.^[22]

Blanchard starred in the film Union Square, co-written and directed by the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Award Winner, Nancy Savoca, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011, and was screened in New York City in July 2012.^[23][24] In 2014, Blanchard appeared as Florinda in director Rob Marshall's film, Into the Woods, an adaptation of the popular stage musical. In 2015, she portrayed Eden in Karyn Kusama's thriller film The Invitation,^[25][26] and in 2016, she appeared in the film Tallulah, which debuted on Netflix.^[27]

She appeared in the Broadway production of The Iceman Cometh as Cora, which started on March 23, 2018,^[28][29] and she played Audrey in the Off Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors, which opened at the Westside Theatre on October 17, 2019.^[30] For this performance, she received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, and a Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theater Album.^[31][32]

Personal life

Blanchard lives in her hometown of Bayonne, New Jersey. She has a daughter.^[33]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Stealing Harvard	Noreen Plummer
2006	Bella	Nina
2006	The Good Shepherd	Laura
2008	The Ramen Girl	Gretchan
2008	Cadillac Records	Isabelle Allen
2009	Deadline	Rebecca
2010	Rabbit Hole	Izzy
2011	The Music Never Stopped	Tamara
2011	Moneyball	Elizabeth Hatteberg
2011	Union Square	Jenny
2011	Certainty	Melissa
2013	Burning Blue	Susan Stephensen
2013	Blue Jasmine	Nora
2014	La vida inesperada (The Unexpected Life)	Jojo
2014	Into the Woods	Florinda	Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture
2015	The Inherited	Wendy Danver
2015	The Invitation	Eden	Nominated—Fright Meter Award for Best Supporting Actress
2016	Tallulah	Carolyn
2018	Fourplay	Anna
2018	The Wrong Sun	Jessie
2018	American Dreamer	Becca
2018	Boarding School	Mrs. Sherman
2018	Warning Shot	Audrey
2018	Beyond the Night	Caroline Marrow
2019	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Lorraine Vogel
2020	The Mimic	The Young Woman
2020	Rifkin's Festival	Doris
2021	Defining Moments	Laurel

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997–2002	Guiding Light	Drew Jacobs	Main cast
2001	Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows	Judy Garland	2 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2001	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Kelly D'Leah	Episode: "Consent"
2002	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Sarah Eldon	Episode: "Tomorrow"
2002	We Were the Mulvaneys	Marianne Mulvaney	Television film
2004	When Angels Come to Town	Sally Reid	Television film
2007	Sybil	Sybil	Television film
2008	Living Proof	Nicole Wilson	Television film
2009	Empire State	Beth Cochrane	Television film
2010	Amish Grace	Amy Roberts	Television film
2010	Law & Order	Dana Silva	Episode: "Brazil"
2010	The Good Wife	Petra Long	Episode: "Taking Control"
2012	A Gifted Man	Louise Mitchell	Episode: "In Case of Heart Failure"
2012	The Big C	Giselle	3 episodes
2012	Of Two Minds	Elizabeth "Baby" Davis	Television film
2014	Madam Secretary	Claire Ionesco	Episode: "Need to Know"
2015	Elementary	Violet de Merville	Episode: "The Illustrious Client"
2016	Bull	Adele Bensimon	Episode: "The Necklace"
2017	Billions	Melanie	2 episodes
2017	Blue Bloods	Valerie Madigan	Episode: "No Retreat, No Surrender"
2017	Daytime Divas	Sheree Ainsley	5 episodes
2018	The Wrong Son	Jessie	Television film
2019–2020	Dare Me	Lana Cassidy	Recurring role
2024	American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez	Terri Hernandez	Main cast

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003–04	Gypsy: A Musical Fable	Louise/Gypsy	Broadway
2011–12	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying	Hedy LaRue	Broadway
2015–16	Dada Woof Papa Hot	Julia	Off-Broadway Lincoln Center
2018	The Iceman Cometh	Cora	Broadway
2019–22	Little Shop of Horrors	Audrey	Off-Broadway

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2001	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows	Won
2002	American Film Institute Award	Actor of the Year – Female – TV Movie or Mini-Series		Nominated
	Golden Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated
	Golden Globe Award	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated
2003	Tony Award	Best Featured Actress in a Musical	Gypsy: A Musical Fable	Nominated
	Theatre World Award	—		Won
2011	Tony Award	Best Featured Actress in a Musical	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying	Nominated
2020	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Actress in a Musical	Little Shop of Horrors	Nominated
2021	Grammy Awards[34]	Best Musical Theater Album		Nominated