# Tracy Middendorf

Tracy Lynn Middendorf is an American television, movie, and stage actress. Middendorf's most notable roles were in the horror film Wes Craven's New Nightmare, the MTV series Scream, and the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. She also appeared in the Broadway production of Ah, Wilderness!. She has won two Ovation Awards, one Drama-Logue Award, and one Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her stage work, and also received an American Movie Award in 2015.

## Biography
### Acting career

Middendorf was born in Miami Beach, Florida. She attended the Conservatory of Theatrical Arts at SUNY Purchase before breaking into television as Carrie Brady on the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives in 1992. The following year, she made her feature-film debut in Wes Craven's New Nightmare, wherein she played the supporting role of Julie.
During the 1990s, Middendorf built her career as a supporting actress in several television movies and episodes of series, including Beverly Hills, 90210 (the recurring role of Laura Kingman during the show's fourth season), Murder, She Wrote, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The X-Files, Angel, Ally McBeal, Chicago Hope, and Millennium. She also starred in the television movie Dying to Belong, and had a small part in For Love of the Game. In March 1995, she resumed her stage career in Los Angeles playing Nicole Warren Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night directed by Simon Levy at the Fountain Theatre. The same year she played Jill in Pilgrims by Stephen Metcalfe at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. The following year, she got an Ovation Awards nomination for her performance in Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending. In 1998, she briefly relocated to the East Coast to star in two different plays: Ah, Wilderness! at the Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater (that marked her Broadway debut) and the Big Knife in Massachusetts. She returned to the Los Angeles stage with Tennessee Williams's Summer and Smoke, winning the Ovation Award for the best leading female performance.
During the 2000s, Middendorf had guest-starring stints in Six Feet Under, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Cold Case, among other shows, and had recurring roles in 24, The Division, Alias, and Lost.
On the big screen, she had parts in Mission: Impossible III, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, El Cortez, and Just Add Water. In 2002, she won another Ovation Award for her performance in Stephen Sachs' After the Fall, which ran for 7 sold-out months at the Fountain Theatre. For that production, she also won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award.
In 2010, Middendorf was cast as Babette in Boardwalk Empire, first appearing in the series pilot and featured in other eight episodes through the first and the second seasons. After starring in Reaching for the Moon, she won a recurring role in the action-drama hit show The Last Ship as Darien Chandler.
Middendorf continued her stage work, including the title role in Miss Julie, a Yale Repertory Theatre production of Battle of Black and Dogs, a Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Old Times, and debuted as a director in Louise Rozett's Break during the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2011.
In April 2015, she won an American Movie Award as Best Actress for her performance in Snowflake, a critically acclaimed short film she filmed in New York City opposite Ele Keats After starring in the Beth Henley's play Abundance at the Actors Company Theatre in New York City, Middendorf joined the cast of the MTV series Scream as Maggie Duval.

### Personal life

Middendorf is married to writer Franz Wisner (Honeymoon with My Brother), and they have two sons. She has a son from a previous relationship with actor Cameron Dye.

### Philanthropy

In 2012, Middendorf created Shutter To Think, a project designed to use photography as a way to support programs for girls around the world. Through the sale of personal photographs taken by well-known actors, writers, directors, and musicians, Shutter to Think is able to help fund programs with globally recognized organizations that are focused on providing opportunities to girls. Contributors include Steve Buscemi, Meryl Streep, and Nicholas D. Kristof, among others.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1994 | Wes Craven's New Nightmare | Julie | Premiered at the Toronto Film Festival |
| 1995 | Milestone | Sarah | Short Film |
| 1999 | For Love of the Game | Blonde Player's Wife | |
| 2004 | The Assassination of Richard Nixon | Businesswoman | Premiered at the Cannes Film Festival |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | Ashley | |
| 2006 | El Cortez | Theda | |
| 2008 | Just Add Water | Nora | |
| 2010 | Boy Wonder | Mary Donovan | |
| 2013 | Reaching for the Moon | Mary | Premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival |
| 2014 | Snowflake | Aurore | Short Film Best Actress Award - American Movie Awards |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1992 | One Stormy Night | Caroline Anna 'Carrie' Brady | TV movie |
| 1992 | Days of Our Lives | Caroline Anna 'Carrie' Brady | Series Regular |
| 1993–1994 | Beverly Hills, 90210 | Laura Kingman | 6 episodes |
| 1995 | Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning | Dorothy | TV movie |
| 1995 | McKenna | Skates | Episode: "Racing in the Streets" |
| 1995 | The Client | Denise | Episode: "Happily Ever After" |
| 1996 | Murder, She Wrote | Erin Garman | Episode: "The Dark Side of the Door" |
| 1996 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Tora Ziyal | Episode: "For the Cause" |
| 1997 | Dying to Belong | Kim Lessing | TV movie |
| 1997 | Touched by an Angel | Amethyst | Episode: "Last Call" |
| 1997 | Perversions of Science | Cheerleader | Episode: "Panic" |
| 1997 | The Practice | Jennifer Cole | Episode: "Betrayal" |
| 1998 | L.A. Doctors | Alice Springs | Episode: "Under the Radar" |
| 1999 | Chicago Hope | Jesse Porter | Episode: "Teacher's Pet" |
| 1999 | Millennium | Cass Doyle | Episode: "Darwin's Eye" |
| 1999 | Angel | Tina | Episode: "City of" |
| 1999 | Ally McBeal | Risa Helms | Episode: "Car Wash" and "Heat Wave" |
| 2000 | The Practice | Jennifer Cole | Episode: "Officers of the Court" |
| 2000 | The X-Files | Gracie O'Connor | Episode: "Signs and Wonders" |
| 2001 | Family Law | Amanda Grant | Episode: "Americans" |
| 2001 | Gideon's Crossing | Becky Lasker | Episode: "The Way" |
| 2001 | Six Feet Under | Adele Swanson | Episode: "The Will" |
| 2002 | The Practice | Jennifer Cole | Episode: "The Return of Joey Heric" |
| 2002 | The Time Tunnel | Sheila Phillips | TV movie |
| 2002 | JAG | Mariel Reese | Episode: "Code of Conduct" |
| 2002 | Any Day Now | Tanya Meyer | Episode: "Call Him Macaroni" |
| 2002 | Night Visions | Lucinda | Episode: "Harmony" |
| 2002 | The Division | Kimberly | Episodes: "Before the Deluge" and "Sweet Sorrow" |
| 2002 | 24 | Carla Matheson | 4 episodes |
| 2003 | Alias | Elsa Caplan | Episodes: "A Free Agent" and "Endgame" |
| 2003 | The Guardian | Laura Donnellon | Episode: "Hazel Park" |
| 2003 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Bridget Willis | Episode: "Lucky Strike" |
| 2004 | Cold Case | Rebecca Morgan / Linda Frandsen | Episode: "Maternal Instincts" |
| 2004 | Medical Investigation | Anne Harring | Episode: "Escape" |
| 2004 | The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story | Amber Frey | TV movie |
| 2005 | House | Sarah Reilich | Episode: "Cursed" |
| 2006 | Without a Trace | Audrey West | Episode: "The Thing with Feathers" |
| 2007 | Shark | Wendy Phillips | Episode: "Wayne's World 2: Revenge of the Shark" |
| 2007 | Lost | Bonnie | Episodes: "Greatest Hits", "Through the Looking Glass" Part I and "Through the Looking Glass" Part II |
| 2007 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Sarah Flint | Episode: "Snitch" |
| 2009 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Belinda Mayfield | Episode: "Working Stiffs" |
| 2009 | Bones | Gaynor Rabin | Episode: "The Tough Man in the Tender Chicken" |
| 2010 | The Mentalist | Jane Doe | Episode: "Aingavite Baa" |
| 2010–2012 | Boardwalk Empire | Babette | Recurring role, 9 episodes |
| 2011 | Criminal Minds | Lyla Bradstone | Episode: "Proof" |
| 2014 | The Last Ship | Darien Chandler | Recurring role |
| 2015–2016 | Scream | Margaret "Maggie" Duval | Series Regular, 24 episodes Favorite Ensemble Nomination - TV Guide Awards |
| 2017 | Bloodline | Sally's mom | Episode: "Part 30" |
| 2018 | Gone | Helen Ross | Episodes: "Demons", "Rise" |

### Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Venue/Director | Notes |
| 1995 | Tender is the Night | Nicole Warren Diver | The Fountain Theatre / Simon Levy | |
| 1995 | Reckless | | | |
| 1995 | Getting Out | | | |
| 1995 | Pilgrims | Jill O'Brien | Old Globe Theatre, San Diego / Stephen Metcalfe | |
| 1996 | Orpheus Descending | Carol Cutrere | The Fountain Theatre / Simon Levy | Ovation Awards Nomination - Best Featured Actress in a Play |
| 1997 | Mobile Hymn | Park Ranger | Santa Monica Playhouse / Robert Litz | Drama-Logue Award Winner - Best Ensemble |
| 1998 | Ah, Wilderness! | Muriel McComber | Lincoln Center / Daniel Sullivan | Broadway Debut |
| 1998 | The Big Knife! | Dixie Evans | Williamstown Theatre Festival / Joanne Woodward | |
| 1999 | Summer and Smoke | Miss Alma | The Fountain Theatre / Simon Levy | Ovation Award Winner - Best Actress in a Leading Role |
| 2002 | After the Fall | Maggie | The Fountain Theatre / Stephen Sachs | Ovation Award Winner - Best Actress in a Leading Role LADCC Award Winner - Best Actress in a Leading Role |
| 2007 | Miss Julie | Miss Julie | The Fountain Theatre / Stephen Sachs | |
| 2008 | The Pavilion | Kari | Westport Country Playhouse / Chad Rabinovitz | |
| 2010 | Battle of Black and Dogs | Léone | Yale Repertory Theatre, New York City / Robert Woodruff | |
| 2011 | Old Times | Kate | Lansburgh Theatre, Washington D.C. / Michael Kahn | |
| 2011 | Break | | New York International Fringe Festival / Tracy Middendorf | Directorial debut |
| 2015 | Abundance | Bess johnson | The Actors Company Theatre, New York City / Jenn Thompson | |
| 2018 | Danny and the Deep Blue Sea | | Mastrogeorge Theatre, Austin, Texas / Tracy Middendorf | Only Director |