80s Star Spotted at 73: Guess Who?

80s Star Spotted at 73: Guess Who?

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An actress who starred in a beloved 1980s cult classic and an acclaimed 1990s TV medical drama was spotted this week in .

She was already a Tony-nominated stage star before landing her Hollywood breakthrough in a 1986 fantasy adventure with a cast that included Sean Connery.

Then during the following decade, she spent four years playing a nurse on a hospital show from the .

In more recent years she has acted alongside in a movie he directed and featured on shows ranging from and House to CSI: Scene Investigation and How to Get Away with Murder.

She cut a stylish figure when she surfaced this week in a flowing plaid top and grey jeans accessorized with shades, a jaunty slouched-brim hat and a deep blue scarf.

Can you guess who she is?

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An actress who starred in a beloved 1980s cult classic and an acclaimed 1990s TV medical drama surfaced this week in Los Angeles

She was already a Tony-nominated stage actress before landing her Hollywood breakthrough in a 1986 fantasy adventure with a cast that included Sean Connery

She is none other than Roxanne Hart, known to fans as Brenda Wyatt in the original Highlander and Nurse Camille Shutt on Chicago Hope. 

Born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1952, she caught the theater bug in college through a class in the Greek classics and soon embarked on a stage career.

She is none other than Roxanne Hart, known to fans as Brenda Wyatt in the original Highlander, for which she is pictured in a 1985 publicity still with leading man Christopher Lambert

(from left) Hart is pictured with Adam Arkin, Mandy Patinkin, Hector Elizondo and E.G. Marshall on a 1994 publicity still for the CBS medical drama Chicago Hope

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She cut a stylish figure when she surfaced this week in a flowing plaid top and grey jeans accessorized with shades, a jaunty slouched-brim hat and a deep blue scarf 

On the personal front, she has been married since 1984 to actor Philip Casnoff of the Civil War miniseries North and South, and they have two children

When she first read the screenplay, she 'thought it was the most grotesquely violent script I had read,' she recalled with a laugh in an interview years later. 

She added however that 'Brenda was one of the strongest, most independent characters I had been presented with playing. She was quite bright.' 

Highlander bombed at first but .

From 1994 until 1998, Hart featured as a charity hospital nurse in David E. Kelley's hit drama series Chicago Hope, which starred such names as Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, Hector Elizondo, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Peter Berg and Barbara Hershey.

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Her other TV work has included guest shots on a string of high-profile series like Law & Order; Walker, Texas Ranger; ER; Oz; Bones; The Closer; Criminal Minds; Private Practice; The Blacklist and The Young and the Restless.

In 2013 she acted with Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain in the docudrama Wilde Salomé, directed by Pacino and inspired by Oscar Wilde's play about the execution of John the Baptist, with Hart playing the princess Herodias.

On the personal front, she has been married since 1984 to actor Philip Casnoff of the Civil War miniseries North and South, and they have two children. 

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