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Kyra Sedgwick

Kyra Sedgwick

Kyra Minturn Sedgwick (born August 19, 1965) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the TNT crime drama The Closer.

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Kyra Sedgwick on Madoff: 'We Lost Hard-Earned Money'

Kyra Sedgwick and her actor-husband, Kevin Bacon , managed to stay out of the gossip pages until they were among the many victims of the massive Ponzi scheme run by financier Bernard Madoff.

"I think the interesting thing about it was that I always thought, `We're so boring. We should be in the tabloids more. C'mon honey, let's have a scandal,"' the 43-year-old actress said."Well, it wasn't the truth that we were destroyed," Sedgwick said in a recent conference call from New York. "And I think when you say 'no comment,' that's, of course, where they're going to go, because it's fun and it grabs headlines and people will be more interested.""It's been really unpleasant and makes you feel really vulnerable. But the fact of the matter is that we did not lose everything," she said. "We lost hard-earned money that we worked very hard for that was what we thought in a safe place. It's painful but a lot of people lost a lot more. And we have a lot of things to be grateful for in our life, and ...

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