‘Ally McBeal’ Star Calista Flockhart Returns to TV - The New York Times

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‘Ally McBeal’ Star Calista Flockhart Returns to TV

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Flockhart shot to mega-stardom in the late 1990s as the star of “Ally McBeal” about a quirky Boston lawyer with miniskirts and maxi-neuroses — a role she reprised at the Emmys in January.

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Flockhart virtually disappeared from stage and screen at the height of her stardom, riding off into the Brentwood sunset with another star, Harrison Ford. She had dropped out to focus on being a mom.

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Now, at 59, Flockhart’s back, playing a bouffanted Lee Radziwill in Ryan Murphy’s latest nest of vipers, “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” the new season of his FX anthology series. Murphy has described it as “the original ‘Real Housewives.’”

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