Wendie Malick
Award Winning Actor
Wendie Malick
Award Winning Actor
Biography
Wendie Malick has graced our screens with an illustrious film and television career for decades. She received 4 Cable Ace awards for her role in HBO’s groundbreaking comedy, “Dream On,” and garnered a Golden Globe and 2 Emmy Nominations for her iconic role, Nina Van Horn, in “Just Shoot Me!” Malick also starred in “Hot In Cleveland,” where she and her cast mates earned a People’s Choice Award, and a SAG nomination for Best Ensemble. Other series included “Frasier,” “Big Day,” “Good Company,” and “Rush Hour,” as well as recurring roles on “The Ranch,” “American Housewife,” “This Is Us,” “Pitch,” “Darrow and Darrow,” and “NYPD Blue.”
Malick is currently recurring on “Physical,” “Young Sheldon,” and opposite Harrison Ford on the new Apple TV+ series, “Shrinking," and also appeared in the last season of “Dear White People.” She’s made guest appearances on “Billions,” “Mom,” “Seinfeld,” “Grace and Frankie,” “CSI,” “LA Law,” “The X Files,” and many more. Animated television credits include “Jimmy Neutron,” “SpongeBob Squarepants,” “Bojack Horseman” (Annie nomination), “Rugrats,” and the Peabody award winning show, “The Owl House.”
Big screen credits include: “Endings, Beginnings,” “Adventureland,” “Fifty-Nothing,” “Jerome,” “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” “Waiting,” “Racing Stripes,” “The American President,” “Trojan Wars,” “Raising Genius,” “Mr. Mikes Mondo Video,” “A Little Sex,” “The Goods,” “Bugsy,” “The Emperor's New Groove,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks: the Squeakquel,” “The Surrogate,” “Mack and Rita,” “About Fate,” “The Re-Education of Molly Singer,” “7000 Miles” and “Mother of All Shows.”
On stage, Malick’s work included BURLEIGH GRIMES, NORTH SHORE FISH (Off-Broadway), BIG NIGHT (Kirk Douglas Theater),THE ENGAGEMENT PARTY and THE UNDERPANTS (Geffen), DON’T BLAME ME, I VOTED FOR HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS (Wooly Mammoth), SANTALAND DIARIES (Coast Playhouse), LOVE LETTERS (Laguna Playhouse), THE GUYS (Studio Arena), BLITHE SPIRIT and WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF THUNDER (Williamstown), and CLOSURE (New Jersey Rep).
Malick is on the Board of the Environmental Media Association, and the Advisory Board of Return To Freedom, a wild horse sanctuary and advocacy group. Through their charitable gift fund, “A Drop in the Bucket”, she and her husband, Richard Erickson, support a medical center in Congo. They live on a ranch in the Santa Monica mountains, with 2 dogs, 3 horses, and a miniature donkey.