As the beautiful and conniving Dr. Kimberly Shaw, Marcia Cross made a mark on audiences worldwide on Fox's hit prime time series "Melrose Place."
Films include: Target Earth, Female Perversions, Bank and the Wind Effect. Cross has also appeared in "All She Ever Wanted" for ABC and "Everwood" before landing the career altering part of Bree on the huge world wide hit -- "Desperate Wives". Born in Marlboro, Massachusetts, Cross began acting in the sixth grade starring in her school play and later became president of the Drama Club at Marlboro High School. Immediately upon graduation, she moved to New York attending Julliard where she studied classical theatre for four years and starred in such productions as Blood Wedding, The Cherry Orchard, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Cross' first professional acting job was a six month stint on "The Edge of Night" which she landed one month after graduating from Julliard. Wanting to return to her theatre roots, she then joined the Williamstown Theatre Festival as a non-equity player. From this she landed her first equity job starring as Olivia in "Twelfth Night" at the Hartford Stage Company.
Her extensive theatre credits include Emerald City at the Ark Theatre, The Merchant of Venice at the Folger Theater, My Daddy's Serious American Gift at the Tiffany Theatre, Two Gentleman of Verona at the Old Globe Theatre, the understudy in Artist Descending at Staircase on Broadway, among others. Her television credits include "Storm and Sorrow" for Lifetime Television, "Cheers," "It's The Garry Shandling Show," "One Life to Live," among others.
Cross resides in Los Angeles.
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