Marcia Cross

Marcia Cross: Biography in Details

Who is Marcia Cross?

Marcia Cross is an award-winning American actress best known as perfectionist Bree Van de Kamp on the hit series Desperate Housewives.

She is also mostly known as Dr. Kimberly Shaw on the Fox Primetime soap opera ‘Melrose Place.

Marcia Cross: early life, childhood, and education

Born as Marcia Anne Cross in Marlborough, Massachusetts to parents, Janet and Mark Cross. Her mother Janet used to work as a teacher and her father Mark Cross as a personnel manager.

She is one of the three daughters who is of English and Irish descent. Cross graduated from Marlborough High School in 1980 and has received a half-scholarship to Juilliard, from where she graduated in 1984 with B.F.An in acting.

Cross got her master’s degree in psychology from the Antioch University of Los Angeles in 2003.  She was raised Catholic.

Since childhood, she always wanted to become an actress so she set out to have a career in acting and graduate from Julliard School in New York.

Is Marcia Cross active on social media?

She is active on social media platforms.

She has over 26.9k followers on Instagram. Her Twitter followers number 284k. She has more than 257.8k followers on Facebook.

Marcia Cross: career, salary, and net worth

Marcia Cross is active in the acting industry since 1984 and is still currently involved with it. In 1984, she debuted from a television career playing a recurring role as Liz Correll on the soap opera ‘The Edge of Night’.

Then she moved to Los Angeles to work on a television movie ‘The Last Day of Frank and Jesse James’ co-starring Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson.

From onwards, she appeared on numerous shows portraying her skillful acting in various roles.

Cross’s career took on a successful height when she bagged the role of perfectionist Bree Van de Kamp on the hit series Desperate Housewives.

She was nominated for numerous awards for her role in Desperate Housewives including Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards,s, and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.

She has received a Satellite Award for her performance in the second season of the show. Although her salary has not been disclosed, her net worth is said to be $30 million as of 2023.

She is currently found to be engaged in ABC’s thriller series ‘Quantico’ playing a recurring role of Senator Claire Haas, a Democratic vice presidential nominee.

Marcia Cross: rumors, and controversy

Marcia Cross was once in a controversy when someone claiming to work at the ABC television network posted that Cross would come out gay in the upcoming issue of the Advocate and within a week rumor spread like a wildfire.

She has not been embroiled in any major rumor in her personal or professional life.

What are the body stats of Marcia Cross?

She has an hourglass body with a height of 5 feet 10 inches. Her weight is 60 kg.

Her figure stats are 37-25-38 inches. She has red-colored hair and her eyes are blue.

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References: (Biography.com)

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