Wendie Malick stars as the outrageous ex-model and current Blush magazine fashion editor Nina van Horn in "Just Shoot Me." Nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 and again in 2002 for her performance in the series (as well as a 1999 Golden Globe nomination), Malick also received four CableACE Awards as Best Actress in a Comedy Series for the role of socialite Judith Tupper Stone on "Dream On."

Malick recently completed the feature "Bathroom Boy," with Stephen Root and Justin Long (NBC's "Ed"). Other films include "Manna from Heaven," "On Edge," "Cahoots," "The American President," "Trojan War," "Jerome," "Scrooged," "Funny About Love" and "Bugsy." She can also be heard in the Disney animated film "The Emperor's New Groove."

In 1999, Malick received critical acclaim for her dual roles as famous advice columnists Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers in the TV movie "Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story." Her other television series work includes starring roles in "Trauma Center" and "Good Company," recurring roles on "NYPD Blue," "Anything But Love," "Baywatch" and "Kate & Allie," and guest roles on "The X-Files," "Cybill," and NBC's "Seinfeld," "L.A. Law" and "Mad About You." She also starred in the television movies "Paper Dolls," "Dynasty: The Miniseries," "Apollo 11," "Perfect Body" and "North Shore Fish," in a role she originated on stage.

Malick's theatrical background includes "Guys and Dolls," "Mame," "Bah! Humbug," the premiere of Israel Horovitz's "North Shore Fish" and the Los Angeles productions of Oliver Hailey's "Round Trip," for which she was nominated for the Artistic Directors Award as Best Lead Actress in a Play in 1995, and "The Vagina Monologues" in 2001.

Born in Buffalo, New York, Malick began her acting career on the stage after briefly working for then-Congressman Jack Kemp in Washington, D.C., and a five-year stint as a fashion model in New York and Paris.

Malick was honored in 2001 by Women in Film as "A Woman of Vision," along with Tipper Gore and Roseanne, and in 2002, she and her husband, Richard Erickson, received the "Hope Through Empowerment" award from St. Joseph's Center in Venice, California. She is on the board of directors of the Environmental Media Association (EMA), and through their charitable gift fund "A Drop in the Bucket," support a medical center in the Congo and share an ongoing commitment to an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico.

Malick lives in the Santa Monica Mountains with her husband, two horses, three dogs and a cat. Her birthday is December 13.

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