Jill Clayburgh has starred in over 25 feature films, including "Running with Scissors," "I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can," "Silver Streak," "Semi Tough" and "Never Again."

In 1978 she rose to screen prominence with her performance in "An Unmarried Woman." Her portrayal of a newly-divorced woman coping with life earned her nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, and she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Clayburgh also received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe nomination for her role in "Starting Over." Additional Golden Globe nominations were garnered for her work in "First Monday in October" and Bernardo Bertolucci's "Luna."

Television audiences know her from numerous series and movies, including "The Practice," "Ally McBeal," "Trinity," "Everything's Relative" and her Emmy-nominated roles in "Hustling" and "Nip/Tuck."

On Broadway Clayburgh appeared in the recent revival of Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park," Richard Greenberg's "A Naked Girl on the Appian Way," a revival of Noel Coward's "Design for Living," the original production of Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers" and the Tony Award-winning musicals "Pippin" and "The Rothschilds."

Off-Broadway she originated the role of Sunny in "The Exonerated." She also appeared in "The Busy World is Hushed," and was nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award as well as a Drama League Award. At Lincoln Center Clayburgh was recently seen as Virginia in "The Clean House," for which she received nominations for both an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama League Award.