Nicolette Sheridan (born November 21, 1963, in Worthing, Sussex, England) is a British actress world health organization is probably better known for her role when "Edie Britt" on the primetime dramedy Desperate Housewives. Sheridan's greatest fame has are from either primetime drama: she debuted around 1984's Paper Dolls and wwhen very popular as "Paige Matheson" on the CBS night-time a measure of laundry detergent Knots Landing. Inside 1990 she won the Soap Opera Digest Award for "Outstanding Lead Actress: Prime Time" for that role; a as punishment month she won in the "Outstanding Heroine: Prime Time" category. At a instance she wwhen credited as Nicollette Sheridan.

She is the girl of British actress Sally Adams (the.k.the. Sally Sheridan), however she is non a grand-daughter of British actress Dinah Sheridan as has been wrongly asserted in the past. She was likewise a step-daughter of the late actor Telly Savalas during the length of her mother's marriage to Savalas, by whom she has the half-half brother, tumultuous actor Nick Savalas.

Sheridan was recognized by the "worst dressed" award from Mr. Blackwell in 2004.

In November 15, 2004, Sheridan was cited by the FCC for the introductory skit which opened that evening's Monday Night Football telecast, in which Terrell Owens and the Eagles played the Dallas Cowboys at Texas Stadium. A citatiin was late dropped on March 14, 2005. the skit -- which showed Sheridan inside merely a towel, which she dropped to attract Owens' attention -- wwhen widely condemned as existence sexually suggestive (watch cd[http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2656474]) & ABC was forced to apologize for airing it. Seven days late, WWE RAW opened the indicate by using the parody of this in the skit featuring Trish Stratus, Shelton Benjamin, and Vince McMahon.

Sheridan was married to actor Harry Hamlin from 1991 through 1993 and dated singer Michael Bolton for a instance. Her hanker relationship was the hexad-month involvement (1979-1985) with teenaged idol Leif Garrett; she met him when she was fifteen years old & for the instance swallow him inside his mother's personal. Numbers of years around the future, Sheridan was included in an abortive attempt for Garrett slay of doses. Inside January 2005, Sheridan announced her engagement to Swedish actor Nicklas Soderblom.

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Filmography
The Sure Thing (1985) Noises Off (1992) Spy Hard (1996) Beverly Hills Ninja (1997) I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998) Raw Nerve (1999) .com for Murder (2002) Lost Treasure (2003) The Cleaner (2006) (currently filming)

TV Work
Paper Dolls (1984) (canceled after Thirteen episodes) ''Dead Man's Folly (1986) Dark Mansions (1986) Knots Landing (cast member from 1986-1993) Deceptions (1990) Lucky/Chances (1990) (miniseries) Somebody's Daughter (1992) A Time to Heal (1994) Shadows of Desire (1994) Silver Strand (1995) Virus (1995) Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995) The People Next Door (1996) Murder in My Mind (1997) Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac (1997) (miniseries) Dead Husbands (1998) The Spiral Staircase (2000) Haven't We Met Before? (2002) Deadly Betrayal (2003) Deadly Visions (2004) Desperate Housewives'' (2004-present)