Barbara Garrick

Born in Los Angeles in 1965, Barbara Garrick is an American actress whose career spans stage, television, and film. She began in New York-based soap operas, playing Charlotte Wheaton on Guiding Light in 1985, and, in 1999, Rita Renfield on As the World Turns. She originated the role of Allison Perkins on One Life to Live in 1986, and returned to it many times, including for the 2013 streaming reboot. Her first film role was Helen Weaver in Eight Men Out (1988). She followed that with roles in Working Girl (1988) and Postcards from the Edge (1990), then appeared in The Firm (1993) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993). She played DeDe Halcyon Day in four Tales of the City miniseries between 1993 and 2019, and was nominated for a 2002 Gemini Award for Further Tales of the City. She also appeared in episodes of the Law & Order series.