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Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy (born June 13, 1962) is an American actress and author. She made her feature film debut in Bad Boys (1983) and came to prominence as a member of the Brat Pack with roles in Oxford Blues (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), St. Elmo’s Fire (1985), and Blue City (1986). She received three Saturn Award nominations for Best Actress for her performances in WarGames (1983), Fear (1990), and Man’s Best Friend (1993). For playing a drug-addicted lesbian photographer in High Art (1998), Sheedy won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. She also had significant roles in the films Twice in a Lifetime (1985), Short Circuit (1986), Betsy’s Wedding (1990), Only the Lonely (1991), and Life During Wartime (2009), as well as the series Single Drunk Female (2022–2023).

Early life

Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy[1][2] was born on June 13, 1962,[3] in New York City,[4][5] the eldest of three children of Charlotte (née Baum), a literary agent involved in women’s and civil rights movements,[1][6][7] and John Sheedy Jr., an advertising executive.[6][8] Her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish, and her father has Irish Catholic ancestry. Sheedy’s maternal grandmother, Dora, emigrated from Odessa, Ukraine.[9][10] Her parents divorced in 1971.[1]

Sheedy was raised on the Upper West Side.[1][6] She attended the Bank Street School for Children,[4] followed by Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, graduating in 1980.[11][12] In her senior year she directed a stage production of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.[12]

Writing

Sheedy and her mother, Charlotte, in Los Angeles, 1975

Before turning twelve years old, Sheedy had written freelance reviews of kids’ books for The New York Times, Ms. and The Village Voice.[1][6][13][14]

Sheedy often wrote short stories in her youth. She enjoyed novels with animal protagonists such as Stuart Little (1945), and had an interest in the Tudors sparked by the film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), which led to her writing a story about a mouse living at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. She read two chapters to her mother’s friend, Joyce Johnson, who brought it to McGraw Hill Education as a possible project.[15][16] In 1975, McGraw Hill published the story as a novel titled She Was Nice to Mice: The Other Side of Elizabeth I’s Character Never Before Revealed by Previous Historians.[a] It was illustrated by Sheedy’s friend Jessica Ann Levy.[2] The book was well-received[1] and became a best-seller.[18][19] Sheedy appeared on the game show To Tell the Truth to promote the novel.[20][16] An audiobook record, narrated by Sheedy, was released in 1976 on the Caedmon label.[21]

In 1977, Sheedy’s article “How Can Mom and Dad Do This to Me?” was published in the magazine Seventeen.[2]

In 1991, Sheedy’s book of poetry Yesterday I Saw the Sun was published by Summit Books. It was not critically well-reviewed.[1][22][16]

Acting

1981–1983: Early career and Brat Pack

Sheedy danced with American Ballet Theatre in her youth,[1][b] and at the age of 15 she started acting in commercials.[22][14][23][24] At age 18, she relocated to Los Angeles, where she enrolled at the University of Southern California. Sheedy concurrently began her acting career and intermittently completed three years’ worth of courses toward a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama.[14][25][26]

Sheedy in a 1982 press photo for Chicago Story

After appearing in several television films in 1981, as well as three episodes of the television series Hill Street Blues,[citation needed] she appeared in Bad Boys (1983), her first theatrically-released film, in which she played the girlfriend of Sean Penn‘s character.[5][27][28]

During the 1980s, she became a member of the Brat Pack, and had roles in popular films such as WarGames (1983, earning her first Saturn Award nomination), Oxford Blues (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), St. Elmo’s Fire (1985), Twice in a Lifetime (1985), Blue City (1986), Short Circuit (1986), and Maid to Order (1987).[6][29][30]

Sheedy dislike the “Brat Pack” label, calling it in 1986 “condescending and sort of dismissive in a way”.[14]

1989–1998: Career downturn

Around 1989, Sheedy was dropped by her talent agency William Morris,[1][18] having “resisted attempts to be turned into a sex object”.[18][31][25] In the mid-1980s, Sheedy returned to New York and began studying with acting teacher Harold Guskin.[5][6]

In the 1990s, Sheedy appeared in films such as Fear (1990), Betsy’s Wedding (1990), Only the Lonely (1991), and Man’s Best Friend (1993). Fear and Man’s Best Friend earned her two more Saturn Award nominations for Best Actress. Sheedy starred alongside Radha Mitchell in the 1998 independent film High Art, about a romance between two women and the power of art.[32][33] Her performance in High Art was recognized with awards from the Independent Spirit Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and National Society of Film Critics.[34] Sheedy “actively searched” for a role like High Art and[10] impulsively asked the director for the role after reading the script.[1][18] Sheedy stated in 2022 that High Art was her favourite film in her filmography.[28]

1999–present: Later career

Sheedy in 2013

In 1999, Sheedy took over the lead role in the off-Broadway production of the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. She was the first female to play the part of the genderqueer Hedwig, but her run ended early amid “mixed” reviews.[35][5] That same year, she was cast as a lead actress in Sugar Town, an independent film that featured an ensemble cast of actors and musicians.[36]

She was reunited with Breakfast Club co-star Anthony Michael Hall when she became a special guest star on his television show The Dead Zone, in the second-season episode “Playing God”, from 2003.[37]

Sheedy has also appeared in the 2007 episode “Leapin’ Lizards” of C.S.I., in which she played a woman who murdered her boyfriend’s wife while mixed up in a cult. On March 3, 2008, Sheedy was introduced as the character Sarah in the ABC Family show Kyle XY. In 2009, she played the role of Mr. Yang on the USA Network television show Psych (in the third-season finale), a role that she reprised in the fourth season, fifth season, and seventh season finales.[38][39][40][41][26]

As of 2021, Sheedy has been a professor in the theater department at the City College of New York of the City University of New York in the Hamilton Heights section of New York City.[42] From 2022 to 2023, she played the role of Carol in the Freeform series Single Drunk Female.[43][28][44][45]

Personal life

Sheedy became a vegetarian at the age of 12.[14][46][47][10] She has also struggled with bulimia.[6][1][10]

Sheedy had an abortion when she was 16.[6][22][1]

Sheedy dated Richie Sambora, Bon Jovi‘s guitarist, for less than a year in the 1980s. She stated in Los Angeles Times that the relationship led her to abuse drugs, a claim Sambora denied.[48][10] Sheedy has also been romantically associated with Woody Harrelson[10] and musician Steve Ross.[14]

In 1985, Sheedy was admitted to the Hazelden Foundation. In the 1990s, she was treated for a sleeping pill addiction;[1] she drew on the experience for her role as a drug-addicted photographer in High Art.[49] In 1989, she went to the Hazelden Foundation rehab clinic in Minnesota.[22]

On April 12, 1992, Sheedy married actor David Lansbury, the nephew of actress Angela Lansbury and son of Edgar Lansbury. They had a transgender son, Beckett, from whose transition Sheedy says she “learned a lot”.[50] Sheedy and Lansbury met while working in an off-Broadway play.[10] By 2009, Sheedy had filed for divorce from Lansbury.[4]

In January 2018, Sheedy tweeted the #MeToo hashtag along with the names of James Franco and Christian Slater, implying that they had been sexually abusive to her. She later deleted the tweets. Franco later stated that he did not know why Sheedy tweeted the accusations.[51][52]

Sheedy identifies as Jewish.[10]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1983 Bad Boys J.C. Walenski [53]
WarGames Jennifer Mack [54]
1984 Oxford Blues Rona [53]
1985 The Breakfast Club Allison Reynolds [6]
St. Elmo’s Fire Leslie Hunter [55]
Twice in a Lifetime Helen Mackenzie [53]
1986 Blue City Annie Rayford [56]
Short Circuit Stephanie Speck [41]
1987 Maid to Order Jessie Montgomery [57]
1988 She’s Having a Baby Self Uncredited Cameo
1988 Short Circuit 2 Stephanie Speck Vocal cameo [15]
1989 Heart of Dixie Maggie DeLoach [53]
1990 Betsy’s Wedding Connie Hopper
Fear Cayce Bridges [58]
1991 Only the Lonely Theresa Luna [53]
1992 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Pam Block – Ticket Agent Cameo [59]
1993 The Pickle Molly-Girl [60]
Man’s Best Friend Lori Tanner [53]
1994 Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica Karen Video; segment: “The Fling”
1995 One Night Stand Mickey Sanderson [53]
1996 Amnesia Martha Keller [61]
1997 The Definite Maybe[62] Joanne
Macon County Jail Susan Reed [63]
Highball Self [64][65]
1998 High Art Lucy Berliner [6]
1999 Sugar Town Liz [66]
The Autumn Heart Deborah [67]
I’ll Take You There Bernice [68]
Advice from a Caterpillar Jan [69]
2002 Just a Dream Maureen Sturbuck [70]
Happy Here and Now Lois [71]
2003 A Good Night to Die Marie [53]
Shelter Island Louise ‘Lou’ Delamere [72]
2004 Noise Charlotte Bancroft [73]
2005 Shooting Livien Brea Epling [74][75]
2007 Day Zero Dr. Reynolds
The Junior Defenders Jill Fields Video
Steam Laurie [76]
2008 Harold Maureen Clemens [53]
2009 Perestroika Helen
Life During Wartime Helen Jordan [77][78]
2010 Welcome to the Rileys Harriet [53]
Ten Stories Tall Jackie [79]
2014 Sins of Our Youth Vicki [80]
Fugly! Stoddard [81]
2016 Little Sister Joani Lunsford [82]
X-Men: Apocalypse Scott Summers‘ teacher Cameo [83]
2023 Chantilly Bridge Elizabeth [84]
2024 Brats Self [85]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1981 CBS Afternoon Playhouse Cathy Episode: “I Think I’m Having a Baby”
The Best Little Girl in the World Television film [86]
The Violation of Sarah McDavid Tracy Barnes
Homeroom Karen Chase TV short
The Day the Loving Stopped Debbie Danner Television film
Splendor in the Grass Hazel
1982 Chicago Story Episode: “Bright Lights, Big City” [87]
St. Elsewhere Diane Episode: “Samuels and the Kid”
1983 Hill Street Blues Kristen 3 episodes
Deadly Lessons Marita Armstrong Television film [88]
1987 We Are the Children Annie Keats
1990 The Lost Capone Kathleen Hart [89]
1992 Red Shoe Diaries Karen Episode: “Accidents Happen”
Tattle Tale Laura Perot Television film
1993 Lethal Exposure Chris Cassidy
The Hidden Room Julia Episode: “Hungry Girls”
Chantilly Lace Elizabeth Television film
1994 Ultimate Betrayal Adult Mary Rodgers
Parallel Lives Louise [90]
The Haunting of Seacliff Inn Susan Enright
1995 The Tin Soldier Billy’s Mom
1996 The Outer Limits Carter Jones Episode: “I Hear You Calling”
Hijacked: Flight 285 Deni Patton Television film [90]
1997 Country Justice Angie Baker
Buried Alive II Laura Riskin
1998 The Fury Within Joanna Hanlon [91]
1999 Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge Det. Kelly Brooks
2001 Oz Lisa Logan Episode: “Medium Rare”
The Warden Helen Hewitt Television film
Strange Frequency Lee Bonner Episode: “Daydream Believer”
2002 Once and Again Miriam Rose Miller Episode: “Aaron’s List of Dreams”
The Interrogation of Michael Crowe Cheryl Crowe Television film [92]
2003 Life on the Line
The Dead Zone Kate Moore Episode: “Playing God”
2006 The Veteran Sara Reid Television film
2007 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shannon Turner Episode: “Leapin’ Lizards”
2008–2009 Kyle XY Sarah 4 episodes
2009 Citizen Jane Jane Alexander Television film
2009–2013 Psych Yang 4 episodes
2014 Not with My Daughter Melissa Eco Television film; also titled Client Seduction [90][93]
2022–2023 Single Drunk Female Carol Main role [28][44]
2025 Wild Cards Rose Pruett 1 episode

Awards and nominations

Sheedy in 2003 with a Peabody Award for The Interrogation of Michael Crowe.[92]
Year Association Category Work Result Ref.
1983 Saturn Award Best Actress WarGames Nominated
Young Artist Award Best Young Motion Picture Actress in a Feature Film Nominated
1990 Saturn Awards Best Actress Fear Nominated
1993 Man’s Best Friend Nominated
1999 Independent Spirit Awards Best Female Lead High Art Won [94]
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Actress
{tied with Fernanda Montenegro for Central Station) 		Won [95]
National Society of Film Critics Best Actress Won [34]
Boston Society of Film Critics Best Actress (2nd place) Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Best Actress Nominated [96][better source needed]
2005 MTV Movie Awards Silver Bucket of Excellence Award
(accepted by Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson and Anthony Michael Hall) 		The Breakfast Club Won [97][98]
2010 Gotham Independent Film Awards Best Ensemble Performance Life During Wartime Nominated [99]

Books

  • She Was Nice to Mice, McGraw-Hill, 1975, ISBN 0-440-47844-8
  • Yesterday I Saw the Sun: Poems, Summit Books, 1991, ISBN 0-671-73130-0

Notes

  1. ^ Chapter 6 of She Was Nice to Mice was originally published in the August 1975 issue of Seventeen.[17]
  2. ^ Sources differ on her age: “She began dancing with the American Ballet Theater at the age of 8.”;[22] “By the time she was 11, Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy was a dancer in pink tights and tutus at American Ballet Theater.”;[1] “Sheedy, who performed with the American Ballet Theater at age 6”;[18] “I was about 6 when I started dancing…”[5]

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