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Kelly Bishop (born Carole Bishop on February 28, 1944, in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is an American actress. Bishop grew up in Denver, Colorado, where she trained to be a ballet dancer.

Kelly was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado to English parents. At eighteen, she headed to New York and landed her first job dancing in a year-round ballet company at Radio City Music Hall. Bishop continued to dance in Las Vegas, summer stock and on television until she was cast in 1967 in Golden Rainbow, her first Broadway role.

Her big break came when she was cast as the sexy, hard-edged Sheila in the Broadway production of A Chorus Line. Her performance earned her the 1976 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical), as well as the 1976 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. She also acted in the Broadway productions of Six Degrees of Separation, Neil Simon's Proposals, the Tony Award-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo and Bus Stop.

It wasn't long before she was cast opposite Jill Clayburgh in Paul Mazursky's big-screen drama An Unmarried Woman (1978). She went on to play "mom" to several high-profile stars in numerous features: Jennifer Grey's in the box-office hit Dirty Dancing (1987), Howard Stern's in the Betty Thomas-directed comedy Private Parts (1997), and Tobey Maguire's in Wonder Boys (2000). Her additional feature credits include Ich und Er (USA: Me and Him, 1988), Queens Logic (1991), Café Society (1995), Miami Rhapsody (1995) and Blue Moon (2002). On television, Bishop starred in the Mike Nichols' series The Thorns and plays Lisa Ann Walter's mother on My Wildest Dreams. She has guest-starred on Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Murphy Brown. As of 2006, Bishop stars in the CW Television Network series Gilmore Girls as the third "girl", Emily Gilmore.

When not working, Bishop practices Pilates and aerobics, and enjoys gardening and hiking near her home in New Jersey, where she lives with her husband, TV talk show host Lee Leonard.

External links

• Kelly Bishop cast bio on The CW

• Unofficial Kelly Bishop Website

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