Biography
Actress Tammy Blanchard turned more than a few heads by evoking the young
Judy Garland in the critically praised made-for-television drama Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001). The effort (which Blanchard graduated to after three seasons on the soap opera
Guiding Light) netted several award nominations for the rising star, and in fact won her an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. Blanchard followed it up with two very different assignments -- a turn as a young Ivy League coed-to-be in the
Tom Green-headlined frat-boy comedy
Stealing Harvard (2002), and a much more difficult evocation of a young deaf girl who nearly snares the heart of CIA agent Edward Wilson (
Matt Damon) in
Robert De Niro's Cold War epic
The Good Shepherd (2006). Also in 2006, Blanchard signed for a more conventional romantic lead opposite
Eduardo Verástegui in the drama
Bella; the actress portrays a pregnant waitress, heartbroken when she loses her job -- only to feel her hopes soar as she encounters the love of her life. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide