Shae D'lyn

{{short description|American actress (born 1963)}}

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{{Use American English|date=November 2021}}

{{BLP sources|date=April 2018}}

Shae D'lyn (born Shae D'lyn Sherertz; November 24, 1970, Abilene, Texas){{cite news|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/82/Shae-D-Lyn.html|title=Shae D'Lyn Biography|work=Film Reference|accessdate=April 7, 2018}} is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as series regular Jane Deaux/Cavanaugh on the sitcom Dharma & Greg, as Cousin Vicki in the feature film Vegas Vacation, and a recurring role as Carolyn Rothstein on Boardwalk Empire.{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/shae-dlyn/credits/3030594207/|title=Shae D'Lyn| website=TVGuide.com|publisher=TV Guide|access-date=16 June 2021}}

Life and career

After graduating with honors from the University of Virginia, D'Lyn worked as an investment analyst for Morrow & Co. on Wall Street. After a year in New York, she moved to Boston as vice president of real estate investment banking for Boston Capital Partners where she syndicated low-income housing to investors seeking tax credits. Bored with financial services, she applied for, and was accepted to acting school.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

Upon graduation, D'lyn immediately made appearances on television and in film. Her first appearance was in a 1993 episode of Quantum Leap, soon followed by the 1993 TNT television film of Arthur Miller's The American Clock. Her television work, aside from Dharma & Greg (1997–2001), included guest-starring appearances in Ellen, Law & Order and the role of Carolyn Rothstein on Boardwalk Empire in 2014. She starred in the off-Broadway premiere of Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll.{{cite web|url=http://www.curtainup.com/tigertail.html|title=Tiger Tail|author=Lipfert, David|website=CurtainUp|date=July 18, 1999|access-date=17 June 2021}}

D'lyn directs theater, film, and television productions, and has founded a production company based in Los Angeles and Puerto Rico and an artists' cooperative in Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, and Toronto with over 400 members. D'lyn produced and directed two documentary shorts released in 2006, of which Morir Para Ser Libre was featured at that year's Boston Latino Film Festival.{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/channels/shotinthedark|title=SHOT IN THE DARK FILMS|first=Created|last=by|publisher=}}

As of 2009, D'lyn had created the HearME project, which put interconnected music studios in orphanages worldwide; as of 2022 the website for HearME no longer exists.{{cite web |url=http://hearmehub.org |title=HearME – Children Empowered Through Creation and Technology Bringing Harmony to Our World |website=hearmehub.com |access-date=2009-01-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714170149/http://www.hearmehub.org/ |archive-date=2018-07-14}}

Selected filmography

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Film

! Role

1993

|The American Clock

|Young Doris

1994

|Hits!

|Doozie

rowspan=2|1997

|Convict 762

|Sheridan

Vegas Vacation

|Cousin Vicki

2006

|Happily N'Ever After

|Additional Voices

2011

|The Motel Life

|Claire

2012

|The Pretty One

|May

2016

|Café Society

|Carlotta

2018

|Can You Ever Forgive Me?

|Nell

Television Roles

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! TV Series

! Role

! Notes

rowspan=2|1993

|Quantum Leap

|Lady Alexandra Corrington

|Guest star, episode "Blood Moon"

Ghost Mom

|Jean

|TV movie

1994

|Law & Order

|Dory

|Guest Starred 1 episode

rowspan=2|1995

|Awake to Danger

|Lorette McAdams

|TV movie

Secrets

|Edwina Phelan

|TV movie

1996

|Ellen

|Debbie Johnson

|Guest Starred 1 episode

1997

|Dharma & Greg

|Jane Cavanaugh

|Main Character: 92 episodes

2001

|That '70s Show

|Rudolph

|Guest Starred 1 episode

2008

|Speedie Date

|Lisa

|

2013

|Alpha House

|April Mandela

|Guest star Season 1, episode 11

2014

|Boardwalk Empire

|Carolyn Rothstein

|Guest star Season 5, episode 503, 505

2017

|Orange Is the New Black

|Tattoo Artist

|Guest star Season 5, episode 12

References

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