Barbara Garrick is an American actress. Garrick has appeared on stage, television and in film.

Life and career

Garrick was born in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama, she has several stage credits, including Eastern Standard, Stanley, and A Thousand Clowns.

She performed on several New York-based television shows, including several stints on soap operas. She portrayed the villainous nurse Charlotte Wheaton on Guiding Light in 1985, and on As the World Turns in 1999. She had several stints as cult follower Allison Perkins on One Life to Live, and first appeared as the character from 1986 to 1987, with subsequent stints from 2001 to 2003, and in 2008. Garrick returned to the show in its final few months and was a prominent part of its final episode on January 13, 2012. Her character Allison narrated the entire episode and spoke the show's final words, "Things are rarely what they appear."

Garrick played DeDe Halcyon Day in four television miniseries based on Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels: Tales of the City (1993), More Tales of the City (1998), Further Tales of the City (2001), and Tales of the City (2019). She was nominated for a Gemini Award in 1999 for Further Tales of the City. She also appeared in several episodes of the New York City-based procedural shows Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and was featured in the 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1988 Eight Men Out Helen Weaver
1988 Working Girl Phyllis Trask
1990 Days of Thunder Lauren Daland
1990 Postcards from the Edge Carol
1993 The Firm Kay Quinn
1993 Sleepless in Seattle Victoria
1995 Miami Rhapsody Terri
1996 A Couch in New York Lizbeth Honeywell
1997 The Ice Storm Weather Reporter
2000 Pollock Betty Parsons
2002 Far from Heaven Doreen
2005 Brooklyn Lobster Lynn Miller
2008 Jumper Ellen
2008 The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond Mrs. Dobyne
2013 The Devil You Know Joan Stone
2013 Blue Jasmine Hal and Jasmine's Friend
2014 That Awkward Moment Chelsea's Mother
2016 You're Killing Me Susana
2016 My Father's Prisoners Lisa Short

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1985 Guiding Light Charlotte Wheaton TV series
1985 Spenser: For Hire Cathy Lowington "Discord in a Minor"
1986 The Campbells Mrs. Sims "The Haunting"
1987 The Equalizer Deborah Whitten "Hand and Glove"
1988 Spenser: For Hire Valentine "Haunting"
1990 Kojak: It's Always Something Stacy Wainwright TV film
1991 The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd Carolyn "Here's Why You Shouldn't Talk to Strangers in the Park"
1993 Dottie Gets Spanked Lorraine Gale TV short
1993 Tales of the City DeDe Halcyon Day TV miniseries
1994 Normandy: The Great Crusade Karla King (voice) TV film
1995 Law & Order Jenny Sandig "Savages"
1996 Lifestories: Families in Crisis Zoe Rossi "Someone Had to Be Benny"
1996 The Outer Limits Dr. Ellen Kersaw "Afterlife"
1997 Ellen Foster Aunt Betsy TV film
1998 More Tales of the City DeDe Day TV miniseries
1998–1999 As the World Turns Rita Renfield TV series
2000 Mary and Rhoda Gallery Curator TV film
2000 Law & Order Mrs. Sims "Trade This"
2000 Sex and the City Celia "Attack of the Five Foot Ten Woman"
2001 Amy & Isabelle TV film
2001 Further Tales of the City DeDe Day TV miniseries
2001 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Hannah's Mother "Pixies"
2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Jennifer Barish "The Good Doctor"
2003 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Kelly Wolcott "Serendipity"
2006 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Pam Williams "Cruise to Nowhere"
2008–2012 One Life to Live Allison Perkins Recurring role
2019 Tales of the City DeDe Day Main cast
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