Kyra Minturn Sedgwick (born August 19, 1965) is an American actress. Sedgwick is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the TNT crime drama The Closer. Sedgwick's role in the series won her a Golden Globe Award in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010. The series will come to a close in 2011, following the completion of its seventh season.

Filmography

• 2027Family Movie — Ellen, Director, Producer
• 2026Carolina Caroline — Deborah
• Carrie — Director
• 2025Bad Shabbos — Ellen
• 2025Sweetwater — Sharon
• 2025The Ark — Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
• 2025The Best You Can — Cynthia Rand, Producer
• The Girls on the Bus — Director
• 2023Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe — Producer
• 2023Space Oddity — Director, Producer
• 2022The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special — Kyra Sedgwick (voice)
• The Summer I Turned Pretty — Julia
• Call Your Mother — Jean Raines
• 2020Endings, Beginnings — Ingrid
• 2019After Darkness — Georgina Beaty, Executive Producer
• City on a Hill — Director
• 2019Girls Weekend — Director
• In the Dark — Director
• 2019Villains — Gloria
• God Friended Me — Director
• 2018Submission — Sherrie Swenson
• 2017Story of a Girl — Producer, Director
• Ten Days in the Valley — Jane Sadler
• 2016The Edge of Seventeen — Mona Franklin
• 2015Big Sky — Dee
• 2015Cop Car — Dispatch
• Grace and Frankie — Director
• Proof — Executive Producer
• 2015Time Out of Mind — Karen / Fake Sheila
• 2014Reach Me — Colette
• 2014The Humbling — Louise Trenner
• 2014The Road Within — Dr. Mia Rose
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Madeline Wuntch, Director
• 2013Chlorine — Georgie Lent
• 2013Kill Your Darlings — Marian Carr (uncredited)
• Ray Donovan — Director
• 2012Man on a Ledge — Suzie Morales
• 2012Python Legs!
• 2012The Possession — Stephanie Brenek
• 2011Sesame Street: Wild Words and Outdoor Adventures
• Work of Art: The Next Great Artist
• 2009Gamer — Gina Parker Smith
• 2008Justice League: The New Frontier — Lois Lane (voice)
• 2007The Game Plan — Stella Peck
• American Dad! — Kyra Sedgwick (voice)
• 2005Loverboy — Emily, Producer
• The Closer — Brenda Leigh Johnson, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer
• 2004Cavedweller — Delia Byrd, Executive Producer
• 2004Something the Lord Made — Mary Blalock
• 2004The Woodsman — Vicki
• 2003Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman — Batwoman (voice)
• 2003Beauty in a Jar — Narrator
• 2003Behind the Red Door — Natalie
• Queens Supreme — Quinn Coleman
• 2003Secondhand Lions — Mae
• 2002Door to Door — Shelly Soomky Brady
• 2002Just a Kiss — Halley
• 2002Personal Velocity — Delia Shunt
• 2000Labor Pains — Sarah Raymond
• Talk to Me — Janey Munroe
• 2000What's Cooking? — Rachel Seelig
• 1999Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America — Host
• 1998Montana — Claire Kelsky, Associate Producer
• 1998Twelfth Night — Olivia
• Ally McBeal — Helena Greene
• 1997Critical Care — Felicia E. Potter
• 1996Losing Chase — Elizabeth Cole, Executive Producer
• 1996Phenomenon — Lace Pennamin
• 1995Murder in the First — Blanche
• 1995Something to Talk About — Emma Rae King
• 1995The Low Life — Bevan
• Family Pictures — Nina Eberlin
• 1993Heart and Souls — Julia
• 1992Miss Rose White — Reyzel Weiss/Rose White
• 1992Singles — Linda Powell
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• 1991Pyrates — Sam
• 1991Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules — Arlene Megeffin (segment 'Return to Kansas City')
• 1990Mr. & Mrs. Bridge — Ruth Bridge
• 1989Born on the Fourth of July — Donna
• 1988Kansas — Prostituierte Drifter
• 1988Lemon Sky — Carol
• 1987The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains — Lillian Salo
• 1986Tai-Pan — Tess Brock
• Amazing Stories — Dora Johnson
• 1985Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale — Cindy Eller
• 1985War and Love — Halina
• Miami Vice — Sarah MacPhail
• American Playhouse — Hazel Wallace, Carol
• ABC Afterschool Special — Cindy Eller
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Rose White
• Happy
• The Challenger — Executive Producer
• Zapata, Texas — Creator

Appearances as themselves (28)

• 2025SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self
• Celebrity Jeopardy! — Self - Contestant
• 2022Goodbye Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Self
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• 2020Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• Chelsea — Self
• Full Frontal with Samantha Bee — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest
• Finding Your Roots — Self
• Conan — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked — Self - Guest Judge
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Guest Judge
• The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self, Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• Live from E! — Self
• The Early Show — Self
• The View — Self, Self - Guest
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self
• The Emmy Awards — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Presenter