Blair Ross (born April 29, 1960) is an American actress.

Biography

Ross grew up in

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

. She attended

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States, closely follo ...

where she majored in

art history Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

. After college, Ross lived in

Nashville Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and the ...

for two years before moving to

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Career

She has toured as part of a production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's '' Cinderella''. She has also guest starred in the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Crafts & Burn, and Entrepreneur along with voice work in the animated television series

Spy Groove ''Spy Groove'' (also known as SG) is an American adult animated series that aired for one season on Teletoon Detour in Canada and for six episodes on MTV in the United States. It premiered on June 26, 2000 and ended on July 13, 2002. ''Spy G ...

and in the 2006 video game

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from Rockstar Games as the art and photography teacher Ms. Philips. Ross' performance of Dorothy Brock in ''42nd Street'' was called "a zesty performance" by the ''

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''. The ''

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'' wrote that Ross played Brock as a "peroxided diva with a throaty belt and a haughty comic style." The ''

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'' reported that Ross loved playing the part of Dorothy Brock and said that Ross was "looking every bit the sultry vamp" in the show. In the performance of 2009's ''Being Audrey'', '' Variety'' noticed her in the ensemble cast and wrote that she "does a nifty impersonation of Kay Thompson in '' Funny Face''." The ''

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'' wrote that Ross was "noxiously nasty" in her role as Auntie in ''Side Show''. The ''Los Angeles Times'' wrote that Ross "oozes pure avarice as the stepmother, known only as 'Madame,'" in ''Cinderella.'' The ''

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'' writes that as 'Madame,' she does "the gargoyle thing very well." In theatre she has performed in

at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, the

Marquis Theatre The Marquis Theatre is a Broadway theater on the third floor of the New York Marriott Marquis hotel in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1986, it is operated by the Nederlander Organization. There are about ...

, and the St James's Theatre in musicals such as 42nd Street,

Jekyll & Hyde ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is a 1886 Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old ...

, and

Side Show In North America, a sideshow is an extra, secondary production associated with a circus, traveling carnival, carnival, fair, or other such attraction. Types There are four main types of classic sideshow attractions: *The Ten-in-One offers ...

Filmography

Theatre

Film

Television

Video games

References

External links

* * 1956 births Living people 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses American stage actresses American television actresses American video game actresses American voice actresses Actresses from New Jersey People from Ridgewood, New Jersey Vassar College alumni People from Nashville, Tennessee Actresses from New York City {{US-actor-stub