She was the hot girl in BIG ’90s movies with Richard Gere, Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr – and there is a Blake Lively link. Who is she?
She had a thriving career in the 1980s and 1990s – and still works today.
This beauty made very successful movies, with some of her costars being the hottest men of their day.
The handsome male actors she shared the screen with include Tom Selleck, Richard Gere and Robert Downey Jr.
And this lady also costarred with pinup Michelle Pfeiffer in Married To The Mob in the 1980s.
There is also a Blake Lively connection.
On Monday she was seen at the premiere of her new movie with Hilary Swank. Who is she?
She is Nancy Travis.
This girl-next-door actress was in Three Men And A Baby in 1987 with Selleck as well as Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg, putting her on the map.
Next came 1988’s Married To The Mob with Pfeiffer.
That same year she was in the hit baseball movie Eight Men Out with John Cusack as well as I’ll be Home For Christmas with Hal Holbrook.
In the 1990s she had hit after hit.
In 1990 she starred Loose Cannons as Riva opposite Downey.
Then she had a larger role in Internal Affairs – also in 1990 – as Kathleen ‘Kathy’ Avilla opposite hunk of the era, Richard Gere.
Also in 1990 she was in Air America with Downey again as well as Mel Gibson. And she also appeared in Three Men and a Little Lady.
In 1992 she starred in Passed Away as Cassie Slocombe.
She had a meaty role as Joan Barry with Downey again in the 1992 classic film Chaplin which earned Oscar attention.
In 1993 she played Rita Baker in The Vanishing that starred Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland.
And in 1993 she was the star of So I Married an Axe Murderer with Mike Myers.
he has worked consistently since.
In 1995, Travis moved to TV with the sitcom Almost Perfect.
And then there was the Lifetime romantic drama film, My Last Love in 1999
In 2002, Travis had the leading role of psychology professor Dr. Joyce Reardon in four-hour television adaptation of Stephen King’s Rose Red.
She then went back to movies: she starred in the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants with Blake.
nd in 2007 she was seen in The Jane Austen Book Club adapted from the 2004 novel of the same name.
In 2009 she starred in the Hallmark Channel film Safe Harbor, about a happily married couple.
She then was a guest star in two episodes of Desperate Housewives.
Next came roles on Grey’s Anatomy and How I Met Your Mother.
In 2011, Travis was cast in the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing opposite Tim Allen.
Travis and Tamblyn side by side at the Pants party
Last Man Standing was canceled in 2017, after six seasons and 130 episodes, but was revived by Fox in the fall of 2018.
From 2017 to 2018, Travis played Brendan Gleeson’s ex-wife in the crime thriller series Mr. Mercedes.
In 2018, Travis starred opposite Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin in the series The Kominsky Method.
Now she is in Ordinary Angels with Swank.
In 1994, Travis married Robert N. Fried, a movie studio executive. They have two sons: Benjamin E., and Jeremy.
