Heather MacRae

Heather MacRae is an American actress from a performing family, the daughter of Sheila MacRae and Gordon MacRae. She left her studies at the University of Colorado for show business. Her best known role came in the Woody Allen comedy Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (1972), and her other films include Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and Life with Mikey (1993), with a singing part in Robert Altman's A Perfect Couple (1979). On television she appeared in Starsky and Hutch, Frasier, The Sopranos and Sex and the City, playing the judge who married Miranda and Steve, and she had ongoing parts in the soap operas The Best of Everything and One Life to Live. On Broadway she appeared in Hair, A Catered Affair and Falsettos, and she has also done cabaret, among it a solo show, Songs of My Father, in Chicago in 1999.