A ravishingly beautiful, blue-eyed actress who has appeared as both a blonde and a redhead, Lauren Holly made her feature debut (with first husband Danny Quinn) in Paul Michael Glaser’s “Band of the Hand” (1986). Her initial TV appearance that year in an episode of “Spenser: For Hire” (ABC) preceded her tenure as the sweet, virginal Julie Chandler on the ABC soap “All My Children”, for which she earned a Daytime Emmy nomination as Outstanding Ingenue in a Drama Series for the 1987-88 season. Holly had a recurring part on “My Two Dads” (NBC) and then co-starred as a hard-nosed prosecutor in the short-lived “The Antagonists” (CBS, 1991) before striking primetime series pay dirt portraying the sensitive but steely Deputy Maxine ‘Max’ Stewart in the critically acclaimed “Picket Fences” (CBS, 1992-96). At about the same time, she landed her first leading role in a feature opposite Jason Scott Lee in the surprisingly romantic biopic “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story” (1993), turning in a credible and affecting performance as the tough and resourceful Linda Lee, the Swedish-American wife of the tormented Chinese actor/martial artist.
