Kathleen York

Kathleen Bird York is an actress screenwriter and Oscarnominated songwriterrecording artist She is most known for her work recurring as Andrea Wyatt in NBCs The West Wing the Dominick Dunne miniseries A Season in Purgatory and received critical acclaim for her starring role as Naomi Judd in the NBC miniseries Naomi Wynonna Love Can Build a Bridge Her film credits include Nightcrawler Crash Cries of Silence The Big Day I Love You to Death Flashback and Cold Feet Series regular roles include In the Dark Vengeance Unlimited Aarons Way and The Client List and recurring roles in How to Get Away with Murder Jane the Virgin Outcast Murder One The OC and Desperate Housewives Guest star appearances include True Blood Curb Your Enthusiasm All Rise Longmire House and Revenge She uses the name Bird York for her recorded music She achieved global recognition with her song In the Deep cowritten with Michael Becker which appears on her album Wicked Little High and was written for the 2004 film Crash In the Deep was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song with York performing the song live at the 78th Academy Awards in 2006 Her selftitled debut record was released in February 1999 Her EP Have No Fear was released on December 19 2008 Other music credits include the main theme song in Sony Pictures Seven Pounds the televised concert Where Music Meets Film along with Joss Stone Lindsay Buckingham and Babyface as well as featured song placements in House 2010 season of American Idol NipTuck CSI NY In Justice Jake 20 and Everwood She was the featured musical artist for the 2001 season of the CBS TV series Family Law writing and producing songs for numerous episodes As a screenwriter she has developed television projects for Sony Warner Brothers Fox Television Studios and Fox Broadcasting Network and is an alumnus of The Showrunners Training Program From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia