Actor
Sharon Barr
An American actress who achieved cult status in the 1970s with her participation in the neo-expressionist off-off Broadway movement with roles in Women Behind Bars and The Dirtiest Show in Town.
Barr was raised in Lake Forest, Illinois. She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and began her career in the 1971 Los Angeles production of Tom Eyen's Dirtiest Show in Town. She went on to star in Eyen's Women Behind Bars, and play Anita Bryant in Ronald Tavel's The Ovens of Anita Orange Juice at Williamstown Theater Festival and later again in New York, among many other productions. She also appeared in Eyen's White Whore and the Bit Player, Ms Neffertiti Regrets and Give My Regards to Off-Off Broadway at Ellen Stewart's La MaMa ETC. And performed at Theater Genesis at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, and Manhattan Theater Club.
Notable work
Often works with
Ted Danson
2 titles together
Cheers, A Fine Mess
Richard Moll
2 titles together
Night Court, The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
Thomas Haden Church
2 titles together
Wings, Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
Billie Bird
2 titles together
Jury Duty, Max Headroom
Howie Mandel
2 titles together
St. Elsewhere, A Fine Mess
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Mark Watson
2 titles together
Cheers, Wings
Full filmography · 19
Jury Duty
as Libby Starling
19954.4
Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
as Phyllis
1993
Trauma
as Hilda Volkman
19935.8
Double Your Pleasure
as Millie
1989
Dark Holiday
as Hikmet
1989
Walker
as Darlene
19876.4
Nuts
as Dayroom Woman #1
19876.4
A Desperate Exit
as Iris's Mother
1986
A Fine Mess
as Director's Wife
19864.6
Antony and Cleopatra
as Octavia
1983
The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
as Mandra the Horse Chief
1981
Bad Georgia Road
as Chamberlin
1977