Jacqueline Buckingham is an American actress and entrepreneur. She is best known for her supporting roles in '' Half-Baked'', '' Intimate affairs'', and ''A Touch of Fate'', and her lead role in the movie ''Sleepless Nights''. A society fixture in New York, she has also lived in Houston, Atlanta, Toronto, and Indianapolis.

Early life

Jacqueline Buckingham was born in suburban

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, and raised in

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. She attended

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and was crowned Miss Houston Teen USA in 1992.

Career

Buckingham began her acting career at the Equity Showcase Theatre in Toronto. Since then, she has had numerous roles in films, such as '' Half-Baked'', ''The Gypsy Years'', and '' *Corpus Callosum''. She played the supporting role of "Linda" in the Alan Rudolph film '' Intimate affairs'', starring Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld; and she was "Betsy Kline" in the movie ''A Touch of Fate'', starring Teri Hatcher. Buckingham appeared as a special guest star, "Sherry," in the NBC's '' Ed (a hit

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)'' and, in the role of "Marie," on the CBS series ''

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''. She also made regular, but uncredited, appearances carrying in the mailbag on the ''

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''. In ''

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'' on CBS, she played "Glenda Corcoran" and, in the "Ill-Conceived" episode of ''

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'' on NBC, she guest-starred in the lead role of "Helene Zachary." Buckingham hosted a documentary for

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(now "Bravo") and played the role of Tiffany in ''Jesus, Mary and Joey'' with Olympia Dukakis and Jennifer Esposito, and appeared opposite Minnie Driver in ''Portrait'', a short feature that aired on amazon.com. In Los Angeles in 2004, Buckingham founded Design & Style Consulting LLC, a business focused on the art and fashion needs of various corporate and individual clients. After relocating with her family to

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, she undertook large-scale photography installations at serial spaces belonging to Clarian Health. With some of programmable space , she created photosforhealth.com, a company that puts photographs on hospital walls. Her efforts initially provoked some controversy, as some members of the local art community claimed she was displacing the work of professional artists. She launched ''Style Meets Life'' in 2008, a column and website assisting women with choices regarding personal presentation and fashion.

Personal life

In 1995, Buckingham married museum director Maxwell L. Anderson. They were briefly divorced in 2013 before announcing their re-marriage three months later. They are now no longer married. She and Anderson have two children, Chase and Devon. As the first lady of several

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s, she made a name for herself in the

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Society circuit, culminating in 2003 in a two-page profile in '' W''. A year after the attack on the

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, her fashion sense was cited in the pages of ''

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'' as embodying glamour's return. The ''New York Times'' subsequently reported about her to illustrate the challenges of recruiting spouses as part of professional recruitment for museum jobs. While living in Indiana, she undertook an expensive interior redesign of the official residence of the

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