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Smart starred as the character Charlene Frazier Stillfield on Designing Women from 1986 to 1991. In 2004, she was part of the short-lived sitcom Center of the Universe. Recent appearances on the big screen include Disney's The Kid, Sweet Home Alabama, Bringing Down The House, and Garden State. She also provided the voice of the alcoholic chain-smoking Pickles Oblong on The Oblongs, and guest starred on Frasier as Frasier's short-fused high school crush, Lana Gardner (for which she received two Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series").

In the early 2000's, Jean Smart played the role of Supervisor of Detectives and ex-wife to Chief Jack Mannion of the Metropolitan Police Department on The District.

In January 2006, Smart joined the cast of 24 playing the mentally-unhinged First Lady of the United States, Martha Logan, to actor Gregory Itzin's President Charles Logan. Her work was critically-praised and she received back-to-back Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama for the role in 2006 and 2007.

She's currently starring on Samantha Who? as Samantha's overbearing and hilarious mother. (wikipedia.org)