Calista Flockhart

Graduated from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ in 1988, with a BFA in theatre

One of People Magazines 50 Most Beautiful People

Graduated Shawnee High School in Medford, NJ. While there she was a cheerleader and was active in the student council.

Calista was named after a paternal great-grandmother, Hannah Calista (Clarke) Flockhart, and a maternal great-grandmother, Mary Calista (Sproule) Honohan. Hannah and her husband, Calistas great-grandfather, John Flockhart, were both Scottish immigrants.

Calistas Mother, Kay, was a high school English Teacher. Her father, Ronald, was an executive at Kraft Foods. She has one older brother, Gary.

13 December 2000 - Calista collapsed on the set of her TV show, "Ally McBeal" . It was announced she suffered from dehydration and exhaustion and had nothing to with her thinness, that many have attributed to bulimia.

(11 January 2001) Adopted a baby boy she named Liam Flockhart.

Had a dog named Webster. He was her best friend until he died.

Became engaged on Valentines Day, 2009 to Harrison Ford.

One of the nine Rutgers alumni who were inducted into the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni on 3rd May, 2003. Calista graduated from the Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1988. Met her future "Ally McBeal" co-star, Jane Krakowski , while both were attending Mason Gross.

Best known for her role in "Ally McBeal"

She has Irish, Scottish, German, and English ancestry.

She won a Peoples Choice Award for Favorite Female Television Performer on January 9, 2000 at the 26th Annual Peoples Choice Awards from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California, USA.

Won a Q Award for Best Actress in a Quality Series for "Ally McBeal" at the Viewers for Quality Television Awards on October 3, 1998 at the Burbank Airport Hilton and Convention Center in Burbank, California, USA. Her show, "Ally McBeal" also won for Best Quality Comedy Series.

She was inducted into the South Jersey Arts and Entertainment Hall of Fame on April 27, 2006.

She is the national spokesperson for the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women and was presented with a Humanitarian Award by them on October 21, 2005.

Attended Peace Over Violence (formerly the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women) Humanitarian Awards dinner with Harrison Ford on October 28, 2006.

Attended the 18th Annual Producers Guild Awards at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, California, USA, with actor Harrison Ford on January 20, 2007.

Harrison Ford adopted her son Liam Flockhart.

Stepmother of Ben Ford.

Sister-in-law of Terence Ford.

Flockhart and Harrison Ford s Santa Fe wedding was presided over by New Mexicos governor Bill Richardson. The modest ceremony was attended by Richardson, his wife Barbara and the newlyweds adopted son Liam Flockhart.

First met her "Ally McBeal" co-star, Gil Bellows , when they were both theater actors in New York. She sat across from him at play readings.

(September 2006) She returns to television to star on the ABC family drama, "Brothers & Sisters" with Sally Field and Rachel Griffiths.

Features as the voice of some of the Androids on a 1994 Audiobook version of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K Dick, which the movie Blade Runner was adapted from, and stars her future husband Ford.

Met husband Harrison Ford at the Golden Globe Awards 2002.

So in that way, yes, but never in a negative way. I took a break to be,a full-time mom -- on taking time off after "Ally McBeal" (1997),ended.

I got a call from a girlfriend in L. A. She was also an actress, doing,what they refer to as "pilot season". She had read the script and she,called me about it, and then I called my agent and he said, "Oh, yeah,I saw that and I passed". [Beat] And I said, "Oh, well maybe we should,revisit it". So I did. I eventually flew out and screen-tested, and I,got the part -- on how she got "Ally McBeal" (1997) . .