Lauren Holly

Biography: A fetching actor with a penchant for changing hair colors, Holly has only occasionally fulfilled her early promise. After a three-year stint on the soap All My Children, which netted her a Daytime Emmy nod, she became a familiar prime-time face as a sheriff's deputy on the eccentric small-town crime drama Picket Fences. During her tenure on that CBS series, Holly made a bid for the big screen, playing Bruce Lee's wife in the biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story and the object of desire opposite future husband Jim Carrey in Dumb & Dumber. But her subsequent features failed (Down Periscope, A Smile Like Yours), as did her marriage to Carrey. Although Holly continued to work steadily, she was generally relegated to supporting roles in big movies or large parts in indies. She reentered the spotlight in 2005 when she signed on to the hit crime series NCIS, playing NCIS Director Jenny Shepard for several seasons. Holly has since kept busy with other TV work, guest-starring on TNT'sA fetching actor with a penchant for changing hair colors, Holly has only occasionally fulfilled her early promise. After a three-year stint on the soap All My Children, which netted her a Daytime Emmy nod, she became a familiar prime-time face as a sheriff's deputy on the eccentric small-town crime drama Picket Fences. During her tenure on that CBS series, Holly made a bid for the big screen, playing Bruce Lee's wife in the biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story and the object of desire opposite future husband Jim Carrey in Dumb & Dumber. But her subsequent features failed (Down Periscope, A Smile Like Yours), as did her marriage to Carrey. Although Holly continued to work steadily, she was generally relegated to supporting roles in big movies or large parts in indies. She reentered the spotlight in 2005 when she signed on to the hit crime series NCIS, playing NCIS Director Jenny Shepard for several seasons. Holly has since kept busy with other TV work, guest-starring on TNT's Leverage and appearing in TV-movies like Before You Say 'I Do' and Too Late to Say Goodbye.… Expand