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  • BIRTH 21/11/1963
  • Country United Kingdom
  • SHOWS 10
  • MOVIES 20
  • SCRIPT 1
  • PRODUCTION 1

Nicollette Sheridan

Nicollette Sheridan (born 21 November 1963) is an British-born American actress best known for her roles as Edie Britt on Desperate Housewives, Lily on Paradise and Paige Matheson on Knots Landing.

She began her career as a fashion model before landing a role in the short-lived ABC primetime soap opera Paper Dolls in 1984, as well as starring in the romantic comedy film The Sure Thing (1985). She rose to prominence as Paige Matheson on the CBS primetime soap opera Knots Landing (1986–1993), for which she received two Soap Opera Digest Awards.

Thereafter, she appeared in lead roles in numerous television films and miniseries including Lucky Chances (1990), Virus (1995), and The People Next Door (1996). She also appeared in the feature films Noises Off (1992), Spy Hard (1996), Beverly Hills Ninja (1997), and Code Name: The Cleaner (2007).

From 2004 to 2009, Sheridan starred as Edie Britt on the ABC series Desperate Housewives, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2005. From 2018 to 2019, she portrayed Alexis Carrington on The CW's Dynasty reboot.

During the 1980s, she dated teen idols Leif Garrett and Scott Baio. On September 7, 1991, she married actor Harry Hamlin, her co-star from the 1990 TV movie Deceptions. Hamlin filed for divorce on August 21, 1992, listing their date of separation as July 13. From July 1992 to September 1995, she dated singer Michael Bolton. She was then involved for three years with Australian Simon Main, a relationship that ended in 2000 when Main was sentenced to four years in prison for trafficking ecstasy.

She began dating Swedish personal trainer Nicklas Söderblom in 2004 and became engaged to him on New Year's Eve 2004; the pair called off the engagement in October 2005. That December, she rekindled her romance with Bolton. She and Bolton announced their engagement in March 2006 but they broke off their engagement in August 2008. She married Aaron Phypers in December 2015, but the couple separated six months later. Their divorce was finalized in August 2018.

Nicollette Sheridan

Shows (10)

Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives
Edie Britt
Dynasty (2017)
Dynasty (2017)
Alexis Carrington
Will & Grace
Will & Grace
Dr. Danielle Morty
The Legend of Tarzan
The Legend of Tarzan
Eleanor (voice)
Knots Landing
Knots Landing
Paige Matheson
The View
The View
Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
Static Shock
Static Shock
Miss Moore / Darcy (voice)
Punk'd
Punk'd
Herself
Paradise
Paradise
Lily

Movies (20)

Tarzan & Jane
Tarzan & Jane
Eleanor (voice)
The Christmas Spirit
The Christmas Spirit
Charlotte Hart
Beverly Hills Ninja
Beverly Hills Ninja
Allison Page / Sally Jones
Spy Hard
Spy Hard
Veronique Ukrinsky
The Sure Thing
The Sure Thing
The Sure Thing
Code Name: The Cleaner
Code Name: The Cleaner
Diane
Jewtopia
Jewtopia
Betsy O’Connell
Fly Me to the Moon
Fly Me to the Moon
Nadia (voice)
Noises Off...
Noises Off...
Brooke Ashton / Vicki
Lost Treasure
Lost Treasure
Carrie
All Yours
All Yours
Cass
Dead Man's Folly
Dead Man's Folly
Hattie Stubbs
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas
Juliette Matheson
Deadly Visions
Deadly Visions
Ann Culver
Honeymoon for One
Honeymoon for One
Eve
Let's Kill Ward's Wife
Let's Kill Ward's Wife
Robin Peters
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase
Helen Capel
Virus
Virus
Marissa Blumenthal
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
Ballroom Woman
Haven't We Met Before?
Haven't We Met Before?
Eliza / Kate / Emily Winton

Script

The Christmas Spirit
The Christmas Spirit

Production

All Yours
All Yours