How much is Nancy Travis worth?
| Net Worth: | $17 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional actress |
| Date of Birth: | 21 September 1961 |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 1.62 m |
About Nancy Travis
After graduating from high school, Travis’s first employment was in a play called “It is Hard to Be a Jew,” which was performed at The American Jewish Theatre in New York City. After that, Travis was a founding member of the Off-Broadway theatrical company Naked Angels and appeared in a stage adaptation of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs. She had roles in both the Frank Pugliese play “Aven U-Boys” and “King of Connecticut,” both of which she performed in. Her first performance on Broadway was in the play “I am Not Rappaport.” She played a leading role in the play “My Children, My Africa” by Athol Fugard.
Travis was the daughter of Theresa, who worked as a social worker, and Gordon Travis, who worked as a sales executive. Travis was born in Queens. Travis spent her childhood in both Framingham, Massachusetts, and Baltimore, Maryland, respectively. She was brought up in the Catholic faith.
In 1993, Travis had a starring role in an episode of the Showtime series Fallen Angels that Tom Cruise directed. Also starring in the episode were Peter Gallagher and Isabella Rossellini. Travis starred as the main character in the sitcom Almost Perfect, which aired on CBS from 1995 until 1997. After two seasons, the show was pulled from the air. She had a starring role in the 1999 season of the short-lived television series Work with Me, which Travis also produced. After only four episodes, the show was pulled from the air because of its poor ratings.
Travis wed Robert N. Fried, the former president and CEO of Savoy Pictures and the founder and former CEO of Hallmark Movies Now, in the year 1994. Robert N. Fried was also the founder of Hallmark Movies Now (formerly known as SpiritClips and FeeIn). Benjamin E. and Jeremy are their two children, both of whom are sons. She acted alongside Benjamin in the 2007 short film Sally, which was written by her husband and directed by her husband.
In the four-hour television adaptation of Stephen King‘s novel Rose Red, which aired in 2002, Travis played the primary part of Dr. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor Travis joined the cast of the CBS sitcom Becker in the role of Chris Connor in the year 2002. She took over for Terry Farrell as the show is primary female character during the show is last two seasons after she was cast in the role. Travis made multiple appearances as Bill Engvall’s wife Susan in the television sitcom The Bill Engvall Show from 2007 to 2009.
She had a starring role in the Hallmark Channel movie Safe Harbor in 2009, which told the story of a happily married couple named Doug (Treat Williams) and Robbie Smith (Travis), who were getting ready to retire and spend their days sailing around the world on their yacht. She had starring roles in two television movies in 2010, including “The Pregnancy Pact” and “In My Shoes,” and she also appeared as a guest star in two episodes of “Desperate Housewives.” In 2011, she had recurring roles on the television shows Grey’s Anatomy and How I Met Your Mother. She also appeared in an episode of Private Practice.
In 2011, Travis was cast in the role of Tim Allen‘s on-screen counterpart in the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing. Travis was also cast in the same time in the CW medical drama series Hart of Dixie as Emmeline “Mrs. H” Hattenbarger, but she departed the program after only two episodes due to her commitments with the 20th Century Fox-produced Last Man Standing.
The television show Last Man Standing was taken off the air in 2017 after it had aired a total of 130 episodes over the course of six seasons, but it was brought back by Fox in the fall of 2018. On its first day of airing, September 28, 2018, the show received the highest ratings it had received since the second season. The television series came to a conclusion in 2021, after airing a total of 194 episodes.
In the crime drama series Mr. Mercedes, which aired from 2017 till 2018, Travis played the role of Brendan Gleeson’s ex-wife. In 2018, Travis was chosen to play the female lead role in the comedy series The Kominsky Method, which was developed by Chuck Lorre and streamed on Netflix and starred Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin. She made her comeback to the film industry in 2022, co-starring with Hilary Swank in the movie Ordinary Angels, which was directed by Jon Gunn. Her next appearance was as Isabel McMurray, the patriarch of the McMurray family, in the Hallmark Channel’s Neo-Western drama series Ride.
Summing-Up
In the ABC/Fox sitcom “Last Man Standing,” which ran from 2011 until 2021, Travis portrayed the role of Vanessa Baxter. Additionally, she co-starred with Michael Douglas in the Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method from 2018 to 2019, which ran for two seasons. Her breakout role as Sylvia Bennington in the 1987 comedy picture Three Men and a Baby is credited as being the catalyst for her career. She subsequently had a role in the film’s sequel, titled Three Men and a Little Lady (1990).
Internal Affairs (1990), Air America (1990), Passed Away (1992), Chaplin (1992), So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993), Greedy (1994), and Fluke are just some of the movies in which Travis has had starring roles. After that, in 1995, Travis became a star on the sitcom Almost Perfect, which was broadcast on CBS.
