Swoosie Kurtz

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Swoosie Kurtz: Biography

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Birth Place: Omaha, NE
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 09/06/1944, Virgo
Profession: Actor

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Episode Recap: "Pigeon" | Pushing Daisies | 10/25/2007
Another Wednesday, another delightful episode.Poor Ned. It looks like he’s gone through most of his life being lonely. After he discovered his "gift," he kind of lost touch with people. Sensing something is amiss with Ned, Digby sets off to find him, but he somehow knows he and Ned aren’t allowed to touch. The only reason I’m willing to go along with this little leap in logic is because this show is a fantasy. Well, that’s not the only reason. I don’t really have a problem with Digby being an extremely smart doggie who is able to infer "the rules" of Ned’s gift, but I did think we’d get a little more on how Digby’s managed to stay so youthful all these years. I know quite a few of you had questions about that as well.OK, that’s my only quibble. Ned, Chuck and Emerson go to investigate a plane crash after Emerson smells some money in the suspicious circumstances. In the apartment, Chuck and Ned have a near-miss touching incident that... read more
Daisies Growing On Me Even More! | Roush Dispatch | 10/11/2007
Nearly five months passed between the time I got my first look at the miraculous Pushing Daisies pilot and the second episode. It was worth the wait. I am officially in love.Flashback (I wish I could count back the days, hours, minutes and seconds as precisely as Jim Dale does in his spot-on narration): It’s the week before the network upfronts in May, and I’m in Los Angeles working on the TV Guide Network’s America’s Next Producer show when a studio exec not even associated with Pushing Daisies leaks me a copy of the pilot, which I’d heard was good but had no idea was THIS good. From the moment I saw it, I was enchanted and could only hope that fellow critics and viewers with open minds and open hearts would share my enthusiasm. I was also so satisfied by what I’d seen that I couldn’t help wondering if they’d be able to pull it off on a weekly basis.Flash to the second week of October, and in brilliant high definition, I watch the second... read more
Episode Recap: "Pie Lette" | Pushing Daisies | 10/4/2007
I’m thoroughly charmed by this show. I was a little afraid all the great things I’ve been hearing would lead to disappointment, but I must admit I loved the episode.The rules:• Ned’s first touch to something dead brings life, the second brings death forever.• If the person he brings back stays alive for more than one minute, someone else in close proximity will die.Ever since Ned (Lee Pace) was able to bring his trusty golden retriever Digby back from the dead, he has known he has the gift of reanimation. He was 9 when he found out. Unfortunately he didn’t realize his gift came with a price until he revived his mother only to watch his next-door neighbor and best friend Charlotte, aka Chuck (Anna Friel), Charles’ father die as a result. Soon after, Ned is shipped off to boarding school, and Chuck goes to live with her aunts, also known as the Darling Mermaid Darlings because of their synchronized-swimming careers. But before they are parted, they... read more
A Push for Pushing Daisies | Roush Dispatch | 7/26/2007
Could the third time be the charm? Being an eternal optimist when it comes to TV shows I love, I certainly hope so. For the third season in a row, the show I’ve picked as my favorite pilot of the fall season is on ABC, and once again, after two consecutive seasons of my pick failing to make the grade, this show’s projected success is far from a slam dunk. But let me tell you why I believe, despite all logical skepticism to the contrary, that the dazzling “forensic fairy tale” called Pushing Daisies has a shot at making it.First, here’s why my earlier picks didn’t pan out. For one thing, both shows — Invasion in 2005, The Nine in 2006 — had the mixed fortune of being scheduled directly after Lost. (As we’ve learned, the Lost viewing experience is so intense and its fan base so obsessed that it’s pure folly to put any show, especially a demanding one, after Lost.) Both shows were also exceedingly dark in tone, whereas Pushing... read more
Ask Matt | 6/11/2007
I'm a 30-year-old woman who is beyond delighted to see representations of real women on TV this season. It's nice to loo read more

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Pushing Daisies, Ellen Greene, Swoosie Kurtz courtesy Ron Tom/ABC

Pushing Daisies, Jayma Mays, Kristin Chenoweth, Swoosie Kurtz, Ellen Greene, Dash Mihok courtesy Craig Sjodin/ABC

Pushing Daisies, Swoosie Kurtz courtesy Justin Stephens/ABC

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Swoosie Kurtz: TV Listings

Swoosie Kurtz: Credits

Title	Year	Type
Pushing Daisies (Actor - Lily)	2007	TV Show Series
Category 7: The End of the World (Actor - Penny Hall)	2005	TV Show Series
Nadine in Date Land (Actor - Mrs. M)	2005	TV Show Series
Duplex (Actor - Jean)	2003	Movie
The Rules Of Attraction (Actor - Mrs. Jared)	2002	Movie