Lydia Cornell has been Invited to contribute her writings to The International Museum of Peace, which houses letters from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mother Teresa, Maya Angelou & Sir Edmund Hillary.
ABOUT LYDIA CORNELL
"AFI Best Actress nominee and People's Choice Award winner Lydia Cornell, currently starring in the new Kelsey Grammer-Bill Zucker Comedy Hour (2010), is an international celebrity, award-winning actress, writer, comedienne, and talk-radio host best known for her role as "Sara Rush” - Ted Knight's dazzlingly beautiful yet stereotypically dumb blonde daughter on ABC's hit series, Too Close for Comfort — and for her headline-making feud with Ann Coulter.
Known for her knife-sharp humor on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, in her headline-making feud with Ann Coulter, in her standup comedy concerts, on her morning-drive radio show and award-winning blog articles Cornell has been called: “A fresh voice; one of the most original voices in America today.”
Lydia starred in over 250 TV shows & films including Full House, Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, A-Team, Hunter, Hardball, Hotel (2), Love Boat (6), Fantasy Island, T.J. Hooker and the pilot of the cult series Quantum Leap with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. She signed hundreds of autographs at their convention earlier this year in Los Angeles. She co-starred with three Oscar winners James Earl Jones, Jose Ferrer and Lila Kedrova in The Red Tide, shot in the Greek Isles.
• Lydia was recently seen in HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, currently in the new Kelsey Grammer-Bill Zucker 2010 Comedy Hour
• Lydia costars with Robert Downey, Jr, Jon Bon Jovi, and Sara Silverman in Dean Grakal’s upcoming Sundance release Me, Miami and Nancy;
• Lydia costars in the critically-acclaimed feature Damage Done.
• Lydia is in talks with Dancing with the Stars
• Cornell has a new comic memoir coming out in 2011.
• Lydia Cornell's blog - a triple Koufax nominee for best writing, recipient of the Thinking Blogger Award and winner of the Freedom Award and three World Report Awards, is “a consistently thought-provoking firecracker of pointed socio-political commentary and observant, caustic wit.” (Yahoo News; Shotgun Reviews.)
Stars in her original three-woman show: Pain is Inevitable, Sex Optional.
• Political Voices of Women Best Writing Awards ~ World Report Award, Thinking Blogger Award; Weblog Award and Double Koufax Nominee.
• Standup Comedy ~ Improv, Laugh Factory, Las Vegas at the Riviera, Sahara; opening for Paul Rodriguez at Pechanga 1500 seat theater
• Radio Show Co-Host www.BashamandCornell.com KLAV 1250 AM morning drive Las Vegas' New Entertainment talk show
• Teen Mentor - Mentors teens; Hosts “The Answer Room” for troubled youth. Volunteers with sons for Red Cross, Imagine L.A., homeless children, and houses a domestic abuse survivor.
• Raising a special-needs child with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
• Host of Oxygen Network documentary “Safe Passage” on battered women.
• Too Close for Comfort has been in worldwide syndication for over 25 years and recently began airing again on WGN and in top markets nationwide.
• John Conley, a disabled Marine combat vet, sent her his Purple Heart for her courage in standing up to Ann Coulter's 'extermination speak' in her article “Death is Sexier than Sex.”
• Received the USO Distinguished Service Award for her Beirut war zone trip.
• Google Hot Trends: What is Popular/What is Hot: Lydia Cornell in Google's top 100 trends for October, November 2008. And most read articles. Cornell has written over 250 spiritual-political articles on government, politics, the election, sex and religion.
• Most read stories of 2005.
• Breaking Yahoo! News: Too Close for Comfort actress Lydia Cornell interviews world leaders, presidential candidates and Pulitzer Prizewinners for new radio show http://www.lydiacornell.com/yahoocached.pdf
• In January 2009, Lydia Cornell was profiled in 2009 on TMZ. “In the '80s, Lydia Cornell became famous as Ted Knight's blonde daughter on the TV series Too Close for Comfort. Guess what she looks like now? “Fergie from Black Eyed Peas…”
• Interviewed Elizabeth and John Edwards during his affair with Rielle Hunter
• Founder of the upcoming Comedy Dance Film Festival, which she will cohost with Saturday Night Live alum Jon Lovitz, for a network, at his Comedy Club in Universal City Walk in 2011.
• Has been invited to contribute her writings to The International Museum of Peace, which houses letters from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mother Teresa, Maya Angelou & Sir Edmund Hillary
