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Heather Deen Locklear (born September
25, 1961 in Westwood, California) is an American
actress, primarily on soap operas and television,
probably best known for her roles as William Shatner's
sexy, young partner and Richard Herd's daughter, Off.
Stacy Sheridan in the successful 1980s crime drama T.J.
Hooker, as John Forsythe's and Linda Evans's no angelic,
selfish daughter, Sammy Jo Carrington on the popular
1980s soap, Dynasty (a role she played from 1981 to
1989), as another bad girl Amanda Woodward on the
popular 1990s soap opera Melrose Place (a role she
played from 1993 until the show ended in 1999), and as
Caitlin Moore on Spin City (a role she played from 1999
until the show ended in 2002).
Personal life: Heather is the daughter of Bill
and Diane Locklear. Her father was the dean at the UCLA
School of Engineering. She is the youngest of four
children and a cousin of Donald Trump's second wife,
Marla Maples. She is of Scottish and Lumbee descent. She
dated Tom Cruise and Scott Baio. Later, Heather was
married to Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee from May 1986
to August 1993. After their divorce, she married Bon
Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora on December 17, 1994 in
Paris. On October 4, 1997 she gave birth to their
daughter, Ava Elizabeth. Locklear's representative
announced on February 2, 2006 that divorce papers had
been filed to dissolve the couple's marriage. In further
papers filed by Sambora, it has been revealed that the
couple has been separated since December 26, 2005, and
that Sambora will be seeking joint custody of Ava.
Lockear's divorce from Sambora was finalized on April
11, 2007.
Career: While attending the University of
California, Los Angeles, Heather Locklear began modeling
and working in commercials for the school store. In
1979, Locklear landed her first TV role in a TV movie
and then on an episode of CHiPs a year later. She landed
a few more bit parts in shows, including Eight Is
Enough, before Aaron Spelling cast her in the role of
Sammy Jo Dean in his new TV series Dynasty. Locklear
proved a popular addition to the cast in the show's
second season, in the fall of 1981. Spelling immediately
cast her opposite William Shatner in the cop show T.J.
Hooker. The show's 1982 premiere significantly enhanced
Locklear's Hollywood career. Throughout the 1980's, she
continued to work on these two shows, plus numerous
television specials and films.
In the 1990's (after a failed sitcom Going Places),
Locklear played perhaps her best known part, the vixen
Amanda Woodward on the series Melrose Place from 1993 to
1999. She was originally brought on as a guest star in
an attempt to boost the ratings, and her billing in the
credits reflected this. Despite eventually becoming a
regular cast member, she continued to be listed as a
"Special Guest Star" through the entire
series. Locklear also won First Americans in the Arts:
Best Actress in a TV series for her role on Melrose
Place. After her run on the show, she was immediately on
another TV sitcom, Spin City, opposite Michael J. Fox.
She was similarly brought in as a successful ratings
boost for this show.[citation needed] Locklear starred
in the airport drama LAX, which ran from 2004 to 2005.
Locklear also served for 6 years as the spokesperson for
the Health and Tennis Corporation of America.
Blonde, with perfect California girl cuteness and an
attractive air of self-possession, actress Heather
Locklear made an indelible mark on television, her
unforgettable roles in the Aaron Spelling dramas
"Dynasty" (ABC) and "Melrose Place"
(Fox) among the most notable entries in a prolific
decades-spanning career. Perky, but with an undercurrent
of peremptoriness, Locklear hit the big time soon after
she left her freshman studies at UCLA to pursue an
acting career. Before long, the neophyte had secured
guest spots on such series as "CHiPs" (NBC)
and "Eight Is Enough" (ABC) and supporting
roles in the unremarkable TV-movies "Twirl"
(NBC) and "Return of the Beverly Hillbillies"
(CBS). In late 1981, Locklear joined the cast of the
primetime soap "Dynasty", playing Sammy Jo
Dean, the seemingly innocent niece of Krystle
Carrington, in town for a brief visit. The visit turned
into eight seasons on the series, and Sammy Jo proved a
force to reckon with, allowing Locklear to treat
audiences to some of the more enjoyable scenes of
two-faced opportunism in primetime television.
While playing this deliciously deceitful manipulator on
ABC's "Dynasty", Locklear demonstrated her
adaptability and established her place as a veritable TV
fixture with a concurrent role on the network's police
drama "T.J. Hooker" (ABC 1982-1985, CBS
1985-1986). The actress co-starred alongside William
Shatner, and brought fresh-faced enthusiasm and
girl-next-door sexiness to the role of Officer Stacy
Sheridan for five seasons. These two ABC roles offered
Locklear unparalleled visibility while showcasing her
versatility, and television audiences developed a
fondness for and familiarity with the actress that would
make her continually marketable, helping to cut down on
the long-term career lulls that can follow series work.
By all accounts and appearances the archetypal nice
girl, Locklear married bad boy rocker Tommy Lee in 1985,
a move that embodied the ideals of that decade's excess
and cast just enough mystery on the actress to make her
all the more interesting and attractive to an audience.
Following the demise of "Dynasty", Locklear
found herself in the unique and not altogether pleasant
position of being a somewhat legendary veteran of
television, while still roundly considered a young ingénue.
Haunted by the specter of "Dynasty" and its
melodramatic reputation, the actress managed to land a
spate of TV-movie work, including "Rock 'n' Roll
Mom" (1988) and "Rich Men, Single Women"
(1990), as well as a starring role in the short-lived
sitcom "Going Places" (1990-1991), all on ABC.
Still, her most memorable credit from this time period
was her reprise of Sammy Jo in the long-awaited
two-parter "Dynasty: The Reunion" (1991). Work
in unremarkable TV-movies followed, before Locklear
staged a most triumphant comeback, joining the cast of
Fox's "Melrose Place" from 1993 to 1999. Her
character Amanda Woodward was slightly older and
infinitely wiser than the assembled group of
twenty-somethings populating the series, and injected
some much needed life in to the flailing program.
The tart-tongued and unstoppable Amanda
didn't shy away from destruction, and with skirts as
short as her temper, managed to seduce nearly every man
on the show, while engrossing a loyal audience.
Locklear's calculating and uncompromising antics as
Amanda jazzed up the series, while her work on the
program reestablished her reputation and energized her
career. In 1995, she starred in the ABC miniseries
"Texas Justice" and skillfully handled the
challenging role of a woman suffering with multiple
personality disorder in the following year's
"Shattered Mind" (NBC). By now she had not
only traded in her hard partying Motley Crüe drummer
husband (they divorced in 1992) for the more stable
Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi guitarist and former Cher
flame), but she had also begun to emerge in interviews
and appearances as an intelligent and genuine person
with an evolved self-mocking sense of humor.
While she was always a popular actress, public opinion
and critical acclaim had never previously reached the
heights it scaled in the late 90s, and when
"Melrose Place" bid adieu at season's end in
1999, it wasn't long before Locklear was cast in the
ensemble of the New York-set political sitcom "Spin
City" (ABC), playing Caitlin Moore, the driven
campaign manager spearheading the mayor's bid for the US
Senate. Again part of a quirky ensemble, but this time
working in comedy, the actress made the most of her
talents and quickly insinuated herself into viewers'
good graces.
While her work on television has certainly been prolific
and has adeptly embraced both the sublime and the
ridiculous, Locklear has had less luck on the big
screen, following up a brief supporting role in 1984's
"Firestarter" with a most inauspicious lead
acting debut in the sci-fi clunker "Return of the
Swamp Thing" (1989). Not surprisingly, feature
roles were few and far between for the actress following
that debacle, and her next film endeavor, the thriller
"Illusions" paired her with former
"Dynasty" co-star Emma Samms and bypassed
theaters in 1992 for direct-to-video release. The
following year she had a memorable turn with a cameo
playing herself in the comedy sequel "Wayne's World
2". A supporting role in "The First Wives
Club" (1996) ended up a silent uncredited cameo
after editing. Locklear fared slightly better with the
screen time afforded her in the adventure comedy
"Money Talks" (1997).
In 1999, Locklear joined the cast of "Spin
City", portraying Communications Director Caitlin
Moore. When Michael J. Fox retired from the sitcom,
Locklear continued her wise-cracking innuendos but
focusing them on Fox's replacement Charlie Sheen. In
2002, Locklear decided to end her run with the sitcom
that earned her two Golden Globe Nominations, Before
making her way back to the big screen, she guest starred
in three episodes of the NBC hit comedy
"Scrubs" as a gorgeous drug sales rep who
raises Dr. Cox's temperature, after which it was off to
New York where she co-starred in the feature film
dramedy "Uptown Girls" (2003), directed by
Boaz Yakin, in which she played precocious Dakota
Fanning's upwardly mobile but neglectful mother;
Locklear played the lusty casino entertainer Dusty Tails
in the live-action/animated hybrid "Looney Tunes:
Back In Action" (2003) before returning to
television on the one-hour drama "LAX" (NBC,
2004-2005) as runway chief Harley Random.
After “LAX” aired its last episode in April 2005,
Locklear was next seen in the Hilary Duff romantic
comedy vehicle, “The Perfect Man” (2005), playing
her hapless mom who moves the family to a different city
after breaking up with her latest boyfriend while on the
search for the perfect guy. Duff tries to play
matchmaker by creating an imaginary secret admirer, but
the ruse, of course, becomes increasingly difficult to
mask. The movie was rocked by a spate of bad reviews,
leaving one critic on the verge of vomiting from its
sugary sweetness. |
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