Sharon Lawrence (born 29 June 1961; age 63) is the actress who played Amelia Earhart in the Star Trek: Voyager second season episode "The 37's".
Career[]
She is best known for her Emmy Award-nominated role as Assistant DA Sylvia Costas in five seasons of NYPD Blue. Her co-stars on this series included fellow Star Trek guest actors Gordon Clapp and Michael Buchman Silver. She also guest-starred in the pilot episode of Boston Legal, starring William Shatner and René Auberjonois and recently had a recurring role as Maisy Gibbons (with whom Steven Culp's character had an affair) on Desperate Housewives, starring Teri Hatcher.
Lawrence voiced the character of DC Comics' Maxima on an episode of Superman: The Animated Series written by Hilary J. Bader. Her character was given to introducing herself in a grandiose fashion reminiscent of Lwaxana Troi.
From 1997 through 1998, she co-starred with Jonathan Banks on Fired Up, executive produced by Kelsey Grammer. From 1999 through 2001, she and Stephen Root were cast members in Ladies Man. In 2001, she starred Wolf Lake. Also starring was Mia Kirshner, with Bruce McGill and Kellie Waymire. Lawrence later starred in Hidden Palms and had a recurring role on Monk (her debut episode was directed by Peter Weller).
Lawrence has also made guest appearances on such television shows as Civil Wars (in an episode with Kevin Brophy, Jenette Goldstein, Jennifer Hetrick, Kenneth Mars, and George D. Wallace), Cheers (with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, and Paul Willson), and Judging Amy (with Barbara Babcock). She also had a brief recurring role on Philly, working with James Avery, Ron Canada, Jerry Hardin, Robert Harper, and Kristanna Loken.
While working on NYPD Blue, Lawrence found time to appear in many made-for-TV movies. These include In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance (1994, co-starring Dean Stockwell, Norman Large, Tina Lifford, Brian Markinson, Ron Taylor, Susanna Thompson, and Dell Yount), The Heidi Chronicles (1995, co-starring Kim Cattrall), A Friend's Betrayal (1996, with John Carroll Lynch), and The Uninvited (1996, with Marnie McPhail and Lawrence Pressman). In addition, Lawrence and Ed Begley, Jr. played husband and wife in The Shaggy Dog (1994, co-starring James Cromwell). In 1997, Lawrence and Daniel Hugh Kelly played a married couple in the TV movie Five Desperate Hours.
Lawrence has worked with Jeffrey Nordling on three television projects. They first worked together in Someone She Knows (1994, co-starring Spencer Garrett), then played relatives in Blue Moon (1999, with Richard Kiley). Lawrence appeared with Nordling on an episode of Dirt (2008).
Some of Lawrence's later TV movie work include Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999, with Mark Rolston), and Atomic Twister (2002, co-starring Corbin Bernsen). Her performance in the 2006 Lifetime movie Augusta, Gone earned her a nomination from from the Prism Awards. She also has appeared in several feature films, including The Only Thrill (1997, featuring sound work by numerous Star Trek sound department members), Gossip (2000) and Little Black Book (2004, starring Holly Hunter, with Kathy Bates and Cress Williams).
Lawrence later starred in Paramount+'s Joe Pickett (2022-2023).