You may know her from her multiple EMMY nominated and SAG Award winning portrayal of ADA Sylvia Costas Sipowitz in the ground breaking NYPD Blue or as a stay-at-home prostitute in DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, a murderous realtor on MONK or a sociopathic serial killer on LAW AND ORDER:SVU. Speaking out for protection of endangered polar bears for the World Wildlife Fund or beating Larry David up on CURB YOUR ENTHUASISM.
She has headlined her own comedy series FIRED UP produced by Kelsey Grammar for NBC and starred with class acts Alfred Molina, Betty White and Dixie Carter in CBS’s sit com LADIES MAN.
Sharon received her fourth Emmy nomination for her work on GREY’S ANATOMY. Other appearances include COMMUNITY for NBC, THE MENTALIST GHOST WHISPERER on CBS, DIRT for FX, HIDDEN PALMS and PRIVILIDGED for CW and DROP DEAD DIVA, RIZZOLI & IVES for TNT and CAPTURE OF THE GREEN RIVER KILLER for Lifetime Movie Network.
As a seasoned stage actress, Sharon recently completed a run in NY company of the hit LOVE LOSS AND WHAT I WORE. She was nominated for an Ovation Award and won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for her acclaimed performance as Vivian Leigh in Pasadena Playhouse’s Off Broadway hit "Orson’s Shadow." Her lastest Broadway appearance was as Velma Kelly in "Chicago." Film work includes the independent feature THE PERFECT FAMILY with Kathleen Turner, LIES AND ALIBIES with Rebecca Romjin, LITTLE BLACK BOOK with Holly Hunter and GOSSIP with Kate Hudson.
She has starred in many films for television and produced for NBC, FIVE DESPERATE HOURS co-starring Giancarlo Esposito. Currently in development on buzz, a multi-platform series about college journalists, this takes Sharon back to her educational roots since she earned her BA in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She has been honored with UNC-CH’s Outstanding Young Alumni Award, the Prism, Method Fest, and Drama Logue Awards
Sharon is married to physician Dr. Thomas Apostle, chaired the Women In Film Foundation for three years and also supports Global Green Greenwish and the Alzheimer’s Association.
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Gracie (Annika Marks) knows hangovers. She’s intimately acquainted with them. But this time, why did she wake up, half-dressed, on a Florida beach, 1100 miles from home? Suspicious and distrustful of everyone, including a café owner (Sharon Lawrence) with a troubled history of her own, Gracie prefers the relief of alcohol – which had always worked for her. However, when she’s arrested for public drunkenness, Gracie is given a choice: six months in jail or 90 meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous in 90 days, and she has to do it in the small town she’s landed in. And though she’s not used to strangers caring about her, perhaps the power of community can help her sidestep the landmines lining her path to sobriety – especially the ones she’s laid herself. Rooted in powerful performances by Annika Marks (“The Sessions”) and Sharon Lawrence (“NYPD Blue”), GRACE compassionately looks at the disease of addiction through a young woman inching towards redemption.