Kyra Sedgwick (born August 19, 1965) is an Emmy nominated American actress. Biography Early life Sedgwick was born in New York, New York to Henry Dwight Sedgwick V and Patricia Rosenwald.[1] She is the great-granddaughter of Endicott Peabody, the founder of the Groton School; and ... a cousin of the socialite and heiress Edie Sedgwick. Sedgwick's father was an Episcopalian and her mother was Jewish. Kyra considers herself Jewish.[2] A 1996 interview referred to her as "an all-American Jewish WASP actress".[3] Sedgwick graduated from the University of Southern