Calista Flockhart was named after great-grandmother. She was born on 11 November, 1964. Her hometown is in Freeport, Illinois. Her mother Kay, was a school teacher, and her father, Ronald, worked for Kraft Foods Inc. She attended Rutgers University in New Jersey to study acting. After College she worked in regional theatre in Cleveland, Louisville, Chicago, and Houston for $400 for eight weeks of work. Three years ago she got her first Broadway role playing Laura in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie", for which she was recognized with the Theater World and Clarence Darwent Awards. She's also played in an all-star production of Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" playing Natasha. She wasn't too fond of TV before Ally McBeal, but did take part in a 1992 episode of the HBO series _"Lifestories: Families In Crisis" (1995)_. She did take part in many movies, but among them is the remake of The Birdcage. Calista played the fiancée of Robin Williams's son. In 1997 she appeared in Telling Lies in America as the object of Brad Renfro's obsession.

Calista Flockhart has established herself in New York, Chicago, and elsewhere with an impressive stage and theater repertoire. She worked in the off-Broadway productions of "The Loop", "All for One", "Sophistry", "Wrong Turn at Lungfish", "Beside Herself" and "Bovver Boys". She also starred in non-NYC productions, such as "The Three Sisters" in Chicago, and "Our Town" and "Death Takes a Holiday" at the Williamstown Theater Festival.



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The name "Kallisto" means "most beautiful" in Greek. "Callista" (her spelling "Calista") is an Anglicization. One of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People [1998] Named after her great-grandmother 13 December 2000 - Calista collapsed on the set of her TV show, _"Ally McBeal" (1997). It was announced she suffered from dehydration and exhaustion and had nothing to with her thinness, that many have attributed to bulemia. Dated director Sam Mendes in the late spring and summer of 1999. Became engaged on Valentine's Day, 2009 to Harrison Ford. Best known for her role in "Ally McBeal" (1997) She won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Television Performer on January 9, 2000 at the 26th Annual People's Choice Awards from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California, USA. She was inducted into the South Jersey Arts and Entertainment Hall of Fame on April 27, 2006. Attended Peace Over Violence (formerly the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women) Humanitarian Awards dinner with Harrison Ford on October 28, 2006. Fiancé Harrison Ford adopted her son Liam Flockhart.