Charlotte L. Ross, born January 21, 1968[1], is an American actress. She is known for her role on NYPD Blue as Det. Connie McDowell and she guest starred as Judy Fabray on Glee between 2009 and 2012.
Personal life[]
Ross was born (and raised) in Winnetka, Illinois to Deborah Kulby and Peter Ross. She has a younger brother, George, a hedge fund-analyst. After graduating from New Trier High School, Charlotte moved to Los Angeles.[1]
She married Michael Goldman in 2003 and they divorced in 2008. Their son, Maxwell Ross Goldman, was born in March 2004.
Career[]
Ross appeared on Days of our Lives as Eve Baron Donovan from 1987 to 1991; her work on the soap opera led to two Emmy nominations. Her television credits also include The Heights, The 5 Mrs. Buchanans, Drexell's Class, Married... with Children, Pauly, Law & Order, Trinity, Beggars and Choosers, Frasier, Jake in Progress, NYPD Blue, and Glee. She also co-starred in the 2007 Lifetime Television film Montana Sky Ross co-starred in a lead role in Drive Angry, alongside Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard.
Ross was announced to have joined the cast of Arrow in August 2014 as Felicity Smoak’s mother, Donna.[2] She portrayed her in the fifth episode, the eighteenth episode[3] of Season 3 and returned in the sixth episode of Season 4[4], by September 2015 her return was extended into multiple episodes.[5]She later returned to the show in 2017 for one episode in season 6.
Filmography[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1986 | Touch and Go | Courtney's Girlfriend | |
1987 | Days of Our Lives | Eve Donovan | 1987 - 1991 |
1991 | Reasonable Doubts | Meredith Little | ("Dicky's Got the Blues") |
She Says She's Innocent | Justine Essex | TV movie | |
1992 | The Heights | Hope Linden | (12 episodes) |
Married with Children | Darlene | ("Teacher Pets") | |
Drexell's Class | Janet | ("The Resentments") | |
Empty Nest | Antoinette | ("Sayonara") | |
1994 | The 5 Mrs. Buchanans | Bree Buchanan | 1994 - 1995 (17 episodes) |
Savage Land | Mandy | ||
Love and a .45 | Mary Ann | ||
Foreign Student | Elizabeth 'Sue Ann' Baldridge | ||
Birdland | Ronnie | ("Crazy for You") | |
1995 | Murder One | Stephanie Lambert | 1995 ("Chapter Eight") 1996 ("Chapter Seventeen") |
1996 | Fall Into Darkness | Ann Price | |
A Kiss So Deadly | Amanda Blake | ||
Minor Adjustments | Amy | ("Baba-Doo-Wang") | |
ER | Angel | ("The Right Thing") | |
1997 | Pauly | Dawn Delaney | (7 episodes) |
1998 | NYPD Blue | Laurie Richardson/Det. Connie McDowell | (72 episodes) |
Trinity | Fiona McCallister | ("Pilot," "No Secrets," and In a Yellow Wood") | |
A Will of Their Own | Susan Peterson | TV mini series | |
Looking for Lola | Debbie | ||
1999 | Kidnapped in Paradise | Megan Emerson | TV movie |
2001 | Frasier | Monica | ("Sliding Frasiers") |
2006 | Jake in Progress | Annie | ("PB & J," "The Lying, the Watch, and Jake's Wardrobe" and "The Elaine-Elaine") |
2007 | Christmas in Paradise | Dana Marino | TV movie |
Live! | Jennifer | ||
Moola | Nora | ||
Montana Sky | Tess Mercy | TV movie | |
Law & Order | Judith Barlow | ("Talking Points") | |
2008 | Ring of Death | Mary Wyatt | TV movie |
2009 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Sabrina Owen | ("If I Had a Hammer") |
Glee | Judy Fabray | 2009 - 2012; ("Ballad," "Journey to Regionals," "Prom Queen" and "Goodbye") | |
2011 | Street Kings 2: Motor City | Beth Kingston | video |
Drive Angry | Candy | ||
The Umpire | Billie Satriano | short | |
2013 | Hit the Floor | Olivia Vincent | (10 episodes) |
2014 | Nashville | Ruth Bennett | ("Guilty Street") |
Arrow | Donna Smoak | Season 3, 2014 (1 episode) Season 4, 2015 (3 episodes) - 2016 (7 episodes) Season 6, 2017 (1 episode) | |
2015 | Rita Mahtoubian Is Not A Terrorist | Lana | short |
Trivia[]
- She is in Hit the Floor which also stars Glee co-star, Courtney Galiano, even though they didn't share any Glee scenes.
Social Sites[]
- Charlotte Ross on Twitter
- Charlotte Ross on Instagram
- Charlotte Ross.com
- snapchat - @CharCharRoss