Donna Hodges
NANCY TRAVIS
A brilliant lawyer, Donna is Hodges’ ex-wife and the mother of his daughter, Allie.
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Premiering in 2018 on Netflix, Nancy Travis stars opposite Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin in the new Chuck Lorre comedy series, The Kominsky Method, as “Lisa,” a fifty-something recent divorcee who joins an acting class taught by famed acting coach, “Sandy Kominsky” (Douglas), and not only discovers her hidden talent, but starts a connection that takes them both by surprise.
Returning to television this Fall on its new network home, FOX, Travis also stars opposite Tim Allen in the hit comedy, Last Man Standing, as Allen’s wife, Vanessa, who puts up with her opinionated, curmudgeon of a husband and their three opinionated girls.
Travis recently starred in the independent film, Bernard & Huey, opposite Jim Rash and David Koechner, written by Jules Feiffer, and directed by Dan Mirvish. Other recent films include The Submarine Kid, opposite Finn Wittrock, Emilie de Ravin, and Jack Coleman; and Married Young starring Gary Cole, Lucas Neff, David Fynn, and Vanessa Lengies.
Travis was born in New York and grew up in both Baltimore and Boston. She returned to New York to study drama at New York University. Soon after, she joined the national touring company of Neil Simon's hit play, Brighton Beach Memoirs. Her additional theatre credits include Broadway's, I'm Not Rappaport and Athol Fugard's, My Children, My Africa, which the author directed at the La Jolla Playhouse. She is a founding member of the off-Broadway theatre company, Naked Angels.
Travis starred on TBS’ hit comedy The Bill Engvall Show for three seasons and in Hallmark Channel’s television movie, Safe Harbor, along with Lifetime’s original television movie, Pregnancy Pact.
Travis made her feature film debut in the blockbuster comedy Three Men and A Baby. Her additional film credits include The Jane Austin Book Club, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Internal Affairs, Air America, Three Men and a Little Lady, So I Married an Axe Murderer, The Vanishing Greedy, Fluke, and Destiny Turns on the Radio and Bogie. On the small screen, she starred in Becker with Ted Danson and Almost Perfect for CBS, and in the television movies My Last Love and Fallen Angels.
Travis resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.