Before she took over TV screens as legendary comic Deborah Vance in Hacks, Jean Smart was already in the midst of an extraordinary career resurgence. Hacks, which premiered in 2021, introduced a new ...

Jean Smart has been a small-screen fixture since the early ’80s, but it wasn’t until a 2000 guest role on “Frasier” that Smart took home an Emmy. She’s been nominated seven times since (and turned two ...

Jean Smart has won her 4th Emmy for her role of Deborah Vance in Hacks, and her 7th Emmy overall. As her name was announced on the Emmy Awards stage Sunday night, Smart put her face in her hands. When ...

Emmy-winning actress Jean Smart discusses her role on the hit show 'Hacks,' and her Broadway show 'Call Me Izzy'.Aug. 8, 2025 ...

Emmy-Award winning actress Jean Smart is starring in the one-woman show Call Me Izzy at Manhattan’s Studio 54 this summer. Written by Jamie Wax, Call Me Izzy premiered on June 12 and follows the ...

Six years before Jean Smart was on Hacks as Deborah Vance, she was playing a gangster in a lauded crime series with a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. Hacks is one of the best HBO original TV shows of recent ...

Jean Smart slowly took the stage to accept her seventh Emmy after 14 nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on the HBO Max hit Hacks. While making her way to the ...

Smart’s considerable stage presence isn’t enough to salvage this production. Photo: Marc J. Franklin However, there is, it must be noted, enough of an outline here to make Izzy worthy of a rewrite.

In her acceptance speech, Smart thanked the cast, crew and her family, and urged: “Everybody, let’s be good to each other” Jean Smart had multiple joyous occasions to celebrate this past weekend. On ...

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Jean Smart is taking a break from her one-woman Broadway show, "Call Me Izzy," after sustaining a knee injury. The Broadway production shared an update about the "Hacks" star on Instagram on July 8.