By Heidi Parker for Dailymail.com
15:34 20 February 2024, updated 16:20 20 February 2024
She had a thriving career in the 1980s and 1990s, and is still working today.
This beauty has made very successful films, with some of her stars being some of the sexiest men of their day.
Among the handsome male actors with whom she shared the screen were Tom Selleck, Richard Gere and Robert Downey Jr.
This lady also starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in Married To The Mob in the 1980s.
There's also a Blake Lively connection.
She was seen on Monday at the premiere of her new movie with Hilary Swank. Who is she?
It's Nancy Travis.
This girl-next-door actress was in Three Men And A Baby in 1987 with Selleck as well as Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg, which put her on the map.
Next came 1988's Married to the Mob with Pfeiffer.
That same year she starred in the famous baseball film Eight Men Out with John Cusack, as well as I'll Be Home for Christmas with Hal Holbrook.
In the 1990s, I suffered one beating after another.
In 1990, she starred in the movie “Lose Cannons” as Reva opposite Downey.
Then she had a bigger role in… Internal Affairs – also in 1990 – as Kathleen “Kathy” Avila opposite era hunk, Richard Gere.
Also in 1990 she was in Air America with Downey again as well as Mel Gibson. It also appeared in Three men and a little lady.
In 1992, she starred in the film Passed Away as Cassie Slocombe.
She had a meaty role as Joan Barry with Downey again in the 1992 Chaplin classic that garnered Oscar attention.
In 1993, she played the role of Rita Baker in the film The Vanishing, which starred Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland.
In 1993, she was the star of the film So I Married an Ax Murderer with Mike Myers.
It has worked continuously ever since.
In 1995, Travis moved to television with the sitcom Almost Perfect.
Then there was the 1999 Lifetime romantic drama My Last Love
In 2002, Travis played the lead role of psychology professor Dr. Joyce Reardon in a four-hour television adaptation of Stephen King's novel Rose Reed.
She then returned to cinema: she starred in the film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants with Blake in 2005.
In 2007, she was seen in the Jane Austen Book Club, based on the 2004 novel of the same name.
In 2009, she starred in the Hallmark Channel movie Safe Harbor, about a happy couple.
She then guest starred on two episodes of Desperate Housewives.
Next came roles in Grey's Anatomy and How I Met Your Mother.
In 2011, Travis was cast in the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing opposite Tim Allen.
Last Man Standing was canceled in 2017, after six seasons and 130 episodes, but was revived by Fox in the fall of 2018.
From 2017 to 2018, Travis played Brendan Gleeson's ex-wife in the crime thriller series Mr. Mercedes.
In 2018, Travis starred opposite Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin in the series The Kominsky Method.
She is now in Ordinary Angels with Swank.
In 1994, Travis married Robert N. Fred, a movie studio executive. They have two sons: Benjamin E. and Jeremy.
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