JESSICA WALTER
as TABITHA WILSON

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Jessica Walter stars as the faded 1970s TV star Tabitha Wilson in The CW's new drama "90210."

Walter's award-winning performances highlight her already impressive resume of film and television work. Walters and the entire cast of the critically-acclaimed "Arrested Development" were nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, by the 2006 SAG Awards. Walter played Lucille, the role which earned her a 2005 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, as well as landing her atop Entertainment Weekly's 2005 "Must" list. The show received the 2005 Emmy's Outstanding Comedy Series nomination, its second after winning in 2004, as well as nominations from the Golden Globes and SAG.

Emmy Awards are nothing new to Walter, she won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actress for her work on the series "Amy Prentiss." She also earned Emmy nominations for her role on "Trapper John, M.D.," and guest star role on "The Streets of San Francisco." Walter's additional television credits include more than one hundred roles on shows such as "Mission: Impossible," "The Immortal," "All That Glitters," "Three's a Crowd," "Murder, She Wrote," "Coach," "Law & Order," "Touched By an Angel," "Just Shoot Me" and "Jack & Jill." She was the voice of the mother dinosaur on the series "Dinosaurs," and was also a regular on "The Round Table," "Oh Baby" and "Aaron's Way." She starred in the miniseries "Arthur Hailey's Wheels," as well as in several television movies, including "Women in Chains," "Home for the Holidays," "She's Dressed to Kill," "Scruples" and "Thursday's Child." She was seen recently in Lifetime's "I Do (But I Don't).

Walter's feature films include Clint Eastwood's directorial debut "Play Misty for Me," which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Her first big screen appearance was in "Lilith," opposite Warren Beatty. Additional film credits include roles in Sidney Lumet's "The Group," "Grand Prix," "Bye Bye Braverman," "Number One," "Spring Fever," "Going Ape," "The Flamingo Kid," "Tapeheads," "Ghost in the Machine," "PCU," "The Temptress," "The Slums of Beverly Hills," "Grownups" and most recently as Adrien Brody's mother in "Dummy."

A graduate of New York's High School of the Performing Arts and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Walter has extensive theater credits that include productions both on- and off-Broadway. On Broadway, she has appeared in Peter Ustinov's "Photo Finish," which earned her the Clarence Derwent Award as Most Promising Newcomer, "A Severed Head," "Advise and Consent,' "Night Life," and Neil Simon's "Rumors." Her off-Broadway credits include roles at Playwrights Horizons and in "Tartuffe" at the Los Angeles Theater Center, as well as regional theater appearances at New Haven's Longwharf Theater, Berkshire Theater Festival, and Bucks County Playhouse, among others.

Walter lives in New York with her husband, actor Ron Leibman.