Cady Huffman

Cady Huffman
Huffman with then husband William Healy, December 2007
Born	Catherine Elizabeth Huffman February 2, 1965 Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1985–present
Spouse(s)	William Healy (1994-2011)

Catherine Elizabeth “Cady” Huffman (born February 2, 1965) is a Tony Award-winning American actress.

Biography

Early life

Huffman was born in Santa Barbara, California, to Lorayne, a pre-school assistant director turned realtor, and Clifford Huffman, an attorney.^[1] She is the younger sister of actor Linus Huffman and automotive writer John Pearley Huffman, whose work often appears in Car and Driver magazine and The New York Times. She attended public schools in Santa Barbara (skipping the fourth grade) and graduated from the local San Marcos High School in June 1982. Huffman started performing in Santa Barbara's very active local theater community well before her teenage years. She also studied ballet at The Goleta School of Ballet and performed numerous classical ballets with the school's company.

The Santa Barbara theater also produced such notable actors as Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards, Randolph Mantooth, Howard McGillin and Kathleen Wilhoite.

Career

Huffman first came to Broadway as a replacement cast member in the hit musical La Cage aux Folles (1985), and was quickly cast in Bob Fosse's Big Deal, to be followed by a Tony-Award nomination for her performance in The Will Rogers Follies (1991). In 2001, she played the role of Ulla in the original cast of the Broadway musical The Producers, by Mel Brooks. Huffman received the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the role.

She made her film debut in the film Hero (1992) which stars Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis and Andy García. She has since appeared in Space Marines, Romance & Cigarettes and The Nanny Diaries. She also appeared in the 2010 film The Company Men alongside Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper.

During 2003 and 2004, she produced, starred in and acted as production designer for the independent film Sunday On the Rocks directed by Joe Morton.

On television, she has had guest starring roles on programs such as Frasier, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Mad About You. She appeared as herself in several guest spots on the television series Curb Your Enthusiasm during 2004. The series' fourth season plot involved Larry David joining the cast of The Producers. Beginning in August 2005, Huffman took over for Kimberlin Brown as Dr. Paige Miller on One Life to Live. Her last episode aired on January 23, 2006. During 2011 and 2012, she has appeared in episodes of The Good Wife.

She is a regular food judge on Food Network's Iron Chef America, described by host Alton Brown as "the Kitty Carlisle" of the series.

During July and August 2007, Huffman starred in the off-Broadway play Surface to Air directed by James Naughton, a rare dramatic part for the actress who usually appears on stage in musicals. In May 2009, she appeared in the new musical Pirates! in Boston in anticipation of a Broadway run. She appeared alongside The Producers co-star Nathan Lane in The Nance which opened on Broadway on April 15, 2013. She was nominated for a 2013 Outer Critics Circle Award for her work in that play. In 2014, she played a major role in the off-Broadway rock musical Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson Furniture Painter.

Personal life

Huffman married attorney and basketball coach William Healy in 1994; they divorced in 2010. They had no children.

She now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Hero	Flight Attendant Leslie
1997	Space Marines	Dar Mullins
2004	Sunday on the Rocks	Gayle
2004	Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer!	Billy's Mother	Short film
2005	Romance & Cigarettes	Female Dancer & Singer
2006	Twenty Dollar Drinks	Betty	Short film
2007	Itty Bitty Titty Committee	Lola
2007	Nanny Diaries, TheThe Nanny Diaries	Divorcing Mom
2009	Dare	Dr. Kolton
2010	Company Men, TheThe Company Men	Joanna
2010	Choose	Alice
2012	Young(ish)	Middle Aged Woman	Short film, completed
2013	Molly's Theory of Relativity	Natasha	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	George Carlin Show, TheThe George Carlin Show		Episode: "George Goes Too Far"
1995	Pig Sty	Rita	Episode: "Leap Into an Open Grave"
1995	Mad About You	Barking Woman	Episode: "Up in Smoke"
1996	Vows of Deception	Mary Jo	TV movie
1997	Columbo	Receptionist	Episode: "A Trace of Murder"
2003	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Pamela Winters	Episode: "Cuba Libre"
2004	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Cady Huffman	4 episodes
2004	Frasier	Amber Licious	Episode: "Detour"
2005	Law & Order: Trial by Jury	Penny Sterba	Episode: "The Abominable Showman"
2005-2006	One Life to Live	Dr. Paige Miller	TV series
2010	Submissions Only	Andrea Dodson	Episode: "Old Lace"
2011-2012	Good Wife, TheThe Good Wife	Marina Vassel	4 episodes
2012	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Maureen Manning	Episode: "Home Invasions"
2016	Blue Bloods	Sheila	Episode: "Mob Rules"

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	La Cage aux Folles	Angelique	Replacement
1986	Big Deal	Dancer	Understudy: Pearl
1991	Will Rogers Follies, TheThe Will Rogers Follies	Ziegfeld's Favorite	1991 nominee – Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical
1997	Steel Pier	Rita Racine / Shelby Stevens
1999	Dame Edna: The Royal Tour	The Gorgeous Ednaette #1	Replacement
2001-2003	Producers, TheThe Producers	Ulla	2001 winner – Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical
2013	Nance, TheThe Nance	Sylvie

References

1. "Cady Huffman Biography". filmreference. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-06.

External links

• Cady Huffman at the Internet Broadway Database
  
• Cady Huffman at the Internet Movie Database
• TonyAwards.com Interview with Cady Huffman