Heather Locklear Biography

Birth Name : Heather Deen Locklear 

Date of Birth : 25 September 1961, Westwood, California, USA 

Height : 5' 5" (1.65 m) 

Occupation : Actress

Actress. Born September 25, 1961, in Los Angeles, California. Frequently referred to by the media as "The Queen of Mean," Locklear is popular for portraying some of the most notable television villains of the 1980s and 1990s.

Locklear was born and raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks. Her father is the director of the registrar's office at UCLA and her mother worked as an administrative assistant in the offices of the Walt Disney Company in the early 1990s.

Unforgettable for bringing sex and sass to such Aaron Spelling-helmed nighttime melodramas as "Dynasty" (ABC, 1981-89) and "Melrose Place" (Fox, 1992-99), Heather Locklear's prolific acting career adeptly embraced both the sublime and the ridiculous. While her onscreen characters were often outrageously catty über-bitches who mined our deepest, worst personality traits, off screen, the actress displayed an evolved sense of humor and ability not to take herself too seriously, making her equally attractive to both male and female fans. In fact, the classic California girl seemed the polar opposite of her Type-A characters, with her only extravagant habit seemingly having been a penchant for hard-partying rock musicians - two of whom she would go on to marry.

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" (NBC, 2001-08) as a drug sales rep who raises Dr. Cox's (John C. McGinley) temperature. In one of her more successful film roles, she co-starred in the dramedy "Uptown Girls" (2003) as precocious Dakota Fanning's upwardly mobile but neglectful mother. The following year, she returned to television as a producer and star of the one-hour airport drama "LAX" (NBC, 2004-05), but even Locklear's appeal was not enough to snag viewers and the show was cancelled after only 13 episodes. It was her first real failure as lead in television. Undeterred, she was cast in another big screen mother-daughter comedy, "The Perfect Man" (2005), as the hapless, peripatetic mom of a teen girl (Hilary Duff) who tries to play matchmaker. Not surprisingly, the film suffered at the hands of merciless critics inundated with tween stars like Duff, Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Bynes schlocky teen angst now playing out on the big screen.