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  • Kyra Sedgwick’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine Promo Released

    We got our first look yesterday at former Closer Kyra Sedgwick playing Deputy Chief Madeline Wuntch in the sophomore police comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

    The 49-year-old actress makes her return to the small screen in a two-episode arc. Wuntch is a long-time arch-rival of Captain Holt (Andre Braugher.) And not only does she outrank him, but Wuntch also has plans to take down the Deputy and his entire squad.

    Executive Producer Dan Goor said, “Kyra brings so much presence and gravitas to the role — exactly the traits needed to stand off against Andre Braugher. And she pitched one of the funniest flashbacks that we’ve ever done!”

    The first look picture released by TV Guide on Thursday features Sedgwick staring down Braugher. She may be small, but she looks pretty tough.

    Sedgwick starred in The Closer as Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson for seven seasons. The TNT cable show ended in 2012. Deputy Johnson was the head of the Priority Homicide Division of the LAPD. She had the incredible ability to read people in order to get confessions and solve cases. Sedgwick won a Golden Globe Award in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010 for her role as Johnson.

    Brooklyn Nine-Nine will return for its second season on September 28. The premiere season of the Andy Samberg comedy was a success for Fox. The show won a Golden Globe in 2014 for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Also, Andy Samberg took home a Golden Globe for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy.

    Sedgwick’s two-episode arc on Brooklyn Nine-Nine is scheduled to air on October 5.

  • Kyra Sedgwick Is Returning To TV

    Kyra Sedgwick is slated to fill a guest roll on Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine in the upcoming season.

    She is currently signed for two episodes. The former The Closer star will play Madeline Wuntch, a long-time rival of Captain Holt, played by Andre Braugher.

    Their rivalry between Kyra Sedgwick’s character and Andre Braugher’s is fierce and goes back to their early days at the NYPD. Sedgwick is in a higher position as Deputy Chief (just like her character on The Closer) than that of Braugher’s character, Captain Holt.

    Kyra Sedgwick’s character is hoping to take him down in her inspection of his precinct.

    Executive producer Dan Goor

    The show is incredibly popular and even won a Golden Globe this year. Star of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Andy Samberg, also brought home a Golden Globe. Kyra Sedgwick won an Emmy for her role in The Closer in 2010 and a Golden Globe in 2007. She has been nominated numerous times for both Emmys and Golden Globes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVC36YUPXXU

    This season should be especially exciting with Kyra Sedgwick joining the cast. Andre Braugher describes where this season will begin:

    “The brash young Detective Peralta returns from his undercover duty hoping that the squad and everything will still remain the same, and in the course of his undercover work, the NYPD has gotten a new commissioner,” Braugher said. “So things are radically changing and Holt is on the cutting edge of this. So the old, stodgy captain wants everything to change and the young, brash detective wants everything to stay the same.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VzB8Xrqek4

    This will be Kyra Sedgwick’s first TV role since The Closer ended in 2012. She is sure to be a spectacular addition to Brooklyn Nine-Nine!

    Brooklyn Nine-Nine will air Sundays at 8:30 pm on Fox.

    Image via YouTube

  • Kyra Sedgwick Will Make A Return To Television

    Kyra Sedgwick is making a return to the small screen. It won’t be as Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson in The Closer but as a guest-star in two episodes of the Andy Samberg action comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

    Sedgwick will play Madeline Wuntch, the archrival to Captain Holt, the character played by Andre Braugher. Wuntch is a Deputy Chief with a higher rank than Holt, her job is to evaluate all of the precincts. Her goal is take down Holt and the entire Nine-Nine squad.

    Sedgwick starred in The Closer as Deputy Johnson for seven seasons. The TNT cable show went off the air in 2012. Johnson was in charge of the Priority Homicide Division of the LAPD and had an uncanny ability to read people in order to get confessions and help solve cases. Sedgwick’s performance as Johnson earned her a Golden Globe Award in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010.

    The actress also has several films that are currently completed or in post production, including the Philip Roth adaptation The Humbling. The film was directed by Barry Levinson and also stars Al Pacino and Greta Gerwig.

    Brooklyn Nine-Nine will return for season two on September 28. The premiere season of the comedy was a pleasant success for Fox. The show won a Golden Globe in 2014 for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and its star Andy Samberg also took home a Golden Globe for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy.

    You can see Sedgwick on Brooklyn Nine-Nine in the second episode of season two. It is scheduled to air on October 5 on Fox.

    Image via Kyra Sedgwick, Twitter

  • Kyra Sedgwick: Daughter Miss Golden Globe

    Kyra Sedgwick: Daughter Miss Golden Globe

    Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon’s daughter, Sosie Bacon, has been named Miss Golden Globe 2014. The title comes with duties, and isn’t simply indicative of a pretty face. Typically the daughter of Hollywood celebrities, Miss Golden Globe assists in various ways with the actual Golden Globes ceremony.

    The outgoing 2013 Miss Golden Globe is Francesca Eastwood. Her famous parents are the now-estranged Clint Eastwood and Frances Fisher. Past recipients include Sam Fox (son of Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan–he must have been a Mr. Golden Globe?), Rainey Qualley (daughter of Andie MacDowell), Gia Mantegna (daughter of Joe Mantegna) and Rumer Willis (daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis).

    Sosie Bacon got word of her new title on Thursday at the West Hollywood restaurant Fig and Olive.

    “I’ve been to the Golden Globes once before and it was such fun,” she says. “I was about 16 years old and I went with my mother the year she won. My parents have always had such a good relationship with the HFPA and the Golden Globes, so they are very supportive of me being Miss Golden Globe. I think the HFPA is a great organization and does so much charity work, which is something I’ve been involved in too. Also, I love the fact that it supports both television and film, which most award shows don’t do.”

    The aspiring actress has enjoyed a rather busy lifestyle recently as she actively pursues roles.

    “I’m really looking forward to the next few months. I go back and forth between New York and L.A. and I’ve been auditioning pretty much non-stop…dramatic roles, some comedy…everything,” she says.

    Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick will have to make sure Sosie makes time for the interviews she will need to do between now and January in preparation for her role as Miss Golden Globe. They must be incredibly proud of their daughter and excited about this new honor the Hollywood Foreign Press has bestowed upon her.

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  • Kyra Sedgwick Says Goodbye To “The Closer”

    Kyra Sedgwick Says Goodbye To “The Closer”

    Kyra Sedgwick has inhabited the role of Brenda Leigh Johnson for seven years now. She moved her family from New York to L.A. to focus on the show that would give her career a sudden boost; she’s been nominated for four Emmys (and won one), given credit for propelling a “groundbreaking” show into extraordinarily high ratings, and found a tightly-knit group of friends in the cast and crew of “The Closer”. Fans, therefore, might be surprised to know that she almost didn’t take the role.

    “My manager told me about it for three months, and I said: “Don’t send it. I’m not going to do it because it’s in L.A.,” she said.

    It was her husband, iconic actor Kevin Bacon, who talked her into taking a leap for the show. Also, she says, her children had been her main priority, but they were getting older. It was the perfect time to take a big step in her career. That step would lead to seven years of hard work in a role she felt close to; Brenda is a strong, ballsy woman in her 40’s, much like Kyra herself.

    “I admire her a great deal,” Sedgwick says about her character. “I admire her tenacity. I admire her number-one focus being the people that are gone and who can no longer speak for themselves. I’ll miss her complexities and her flaws.”

    The past season has been full of surprises and sadness for Brenda and her fans, and Sedgwick says she doubts anyone will be disappointed by the series finale, which airs tonight. The last episode will see her tangle with longtime enemy Philip Stroh, which should be interesting.