Lee Garlington
Ann Leslie "Lee" Garlington (born July 20, 1953) is an American actress. She's known for her roles as Kirsten, Rose Nylund's (Betty White) daughter in the final season of The Golden Girls, Ronnie - the mistress of Joey Tribbiani's father on Friends, and a recurring role as Brenda Baxworth on Everwood. She was one of the stars of the series Lenny. She has guest starred in a number of notable television series, including The West Wing, 7th Heaven, 8 Simple Rules, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Judging Amy, Will & Grace, Matlock, L.A. Law, The Practice, Quantum Leap, Home Improvement, Boston Legal, Roseanne, Get a Life, Profiler, Medium, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Two and a Half Men, Lie to Me and among other series. She also appeared in the sequels to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Psycho II (1983) and Psycho III (1986). She starred alongside Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen in the action/thriller Cobra (1986). In Sneakers (1992), she appeared as Dr. Elena Rhyzkov, a Czechoslovakian mathematics scientist, in a scene with Robert Redford. She was originally intended to play the lead female role in Seinfeld. She was the female regular in the pilot episode, "The Seinfeld Chronicles", playing the waitress Claire at Pete's Luncheonette. When the series was picked up, however, it was decided that having the female lead be from such a different social status compared to the rest of the cast would be unworkable, so the character of Claire was dropped and replaced by Elaine Benes. In 2018, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her role as Darlene in Broken.
185 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 185
Grey's Anatomy
2005
NCIS
2003
The Mentalist
2008
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Friends
1994
The Good Doctor
2017
Desperate Housewives
2004
Two and a Half Men
2003
Seinfeld
1989
Medium
2005
Private Practice
2007
Psych
2006
The West Wing
1999
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1997
Crossing Jordan
2001
Will & Grace
1998
Cold Case
2003
Boston Legal
2004
The Practice
1997
Hill Street Blues
1981
Chicago Hope
1994
NYPD Blue
1993
Judging Amy
1999
Strong Medicine
2000
Quantum Leap
1989
Home Improvement
1991
L.A. Law
1986
Everwood
2002
Six Feet Under
2001
Wings
1990
Nip/Tuck
2003
Touched by an Angel
1994
The Golden Girls
1985
Matlock
1986
Family Ties
1982
Longmire
2012
Nash Bridges
1996
Coach
1989
Lie to Me
2009
Close to Home
2005
90210
2008
The Division
2001
Profiler
1996
Good Luck Charlie
2010
Childrens Hospital
2008
Big Love
2006
The Magicians
2015
The District
2000
7th Heaven
1996
Who's the Boss?
1984
Grounded for Life
2001
Murphy Brown
1988
Martial Law
1998
Joan of Arcadia
2003
8 Simple Rules
2002
Southland
2009
Suburgatory
2011
Saving Grace
2007
FlashForward
2009
Dead to Me
2019
Grace Under Fire
1993
P-Valley
2020
All of Us
2003
Titus
2000
Extant
2014
Sledge Hammer!
1986
Once and Again
1999
Invasion
2005
Stalker
2014
What About Brian
2006
Mistresses
2013
American Pie 2
2001
Friends with Benefits
2011
Get a Life
1990
Dark Skies
1996
The Riches
2007
Automan
1983
The Hot Chick
2002
Stingray
1985
Sneakers
1992
The Sum of All Fears
2002
Roseanne
1988
Cobra
1986
Dante's Peak
1997
Emily Owens, M.D.
2012
Hooperman
1987
Bakersfield P.D.
1993
The Little Things
2021
Big Day
2006
Snoops
1999
Townies
1996
Field of Dreams
1989
Maximum Bob
1998
Electric Bloom
2025
One Hour Photo
2002
Prayers for Bobby
2009
Some Kind of Wonderful
1987
Psycho II
1983
The Babysitter
1995
Abby
2003
Akeelah and the Bee
2006
Good & Evil
1991
Boys and Girls
2000
A Lot Like Love
2005
Three Fugitives
1989
Some Kind of Beautiful
2015
Stick It
2006
Johnson Family Vacation
2004
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
2014
The Seventh Sign
1988
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
Sister
2014
American Gun
2005
Something New
2006
My Life
1993
Psycho III
1986
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
2001
Lenny
1990
Mrs. Harris
2006
Safelight
2015
Jack the Bear
1993
Carbon Copy
1981
Lovely & Amazing
2002
Shame
1992
A Killing in a Small Town
1990
The Nutt House
1989
Driven
1998
Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories
1991
Arresting Behavior
1992
Hell Comes to Frogtown
1988
Just Add Water
2008
Mockingbird
2014
Cold Sassy Tree
1989
See Jane Run
1995
Can of Worms
1999
When No One Would Listen
1992
Do You Take This Man
2017
Christmas Harmony
2018
The Coverup
2008
The Extendables
2014
Dark Skies
1996
River of Rage: The Taking of Maggie Keene
1993
The Whereabouts of Jenny
1991
Virtual Obsession
1998
When You Remember Me
1990
Mrs. Washington Goes to Smith
2009
Married by Christmas
2016
Honor Thy Mother
1992
SEGAL
2025
Forever Lulu
2000
House by the Lake
2017
Mortuary
2005
Murder Ordained
1987
Last Flight Out
1990
Band of Robbers
2016
In the Mood
1987
Overnight Sensation
1984
Freak Talks About Sex
1999
Pulse 2: Afterlife
2008
Layover
2001
Student Exchange
1987
The Yarn Princess
1994
Do You Remember Love
1985
The Psycho Legacy
2010
Torch Song
1993
Guarding Eddy
2004
Reflections on a Crime
1994
Love Matters
1993
Dying to Love You
1993
Bar Girls
1990
Partner(s)
2005
Her Last Will
2016
Forfeit
2007
Stranger Inside
2001
Meet the Applegates
1990
Candy Coated Christmas
2021
A Buddy Story
2010
Whose Daughter is She?
1995
Kiss of a Killer
1993
The 9th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special
2022
Anthony Perkins, the Actor Behind the Door
2020
Summer of Fear
1996
The Conviction of Kitty Dodds
1993
North Blvd
2014
Oh No, Not Them
1989
