Calista Kay Flockhart ( born November 11, 1964 ) is an American actress who is primarily recognized for her work in television.

Though this venue usually is reserved for juniors and seniors, Harold Scott insisted that Flockhart perform there in his production of William Inge's Picnic.

Flockhart has announced that she is guest starring in Dexter in the seventh season opening episode.

As of 2008, Flockhart is the national spokesperson for Peace Over Violence.

Ford is the husband of actress Calista Flockhart.

He is best known for sharing the winning works Jaguar D-type with Mike Hawthorn in the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans ; a success he repeated with Ron Flockhart in the ex-works Ecurie Ecosse car in 1957.

Flockhart has been in a relationship with actor Harrison Ford since their meeting at the Golden Globe Awards on January 20, 2002.

The blockbuster soap opera also stars familiar actresses, Calista Flockhart and Rachel Griffiths, in the roles of Nora's adult daughters, Kitty and Sarah, respectively ; Welsh actor Matthew Rhys played Nora's son Kevin and Dave Annable her youngest son, Justin.

Acting clients include Emmy Award winners Ellen DeGeneres, Edie Falco, Marg Helgenberger, Alfre Woodard, and Alan Alda, and television's most recognizable talent, including Jon Hamm, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tony Shalhoub, Calista Flockhart, Kevin Dillon, Dule Hill, Lauren Graham, Jeff Garlin, Ian Somerhalder, Eric Mabius, Jada Pinkett Smith, Paul Wesley, Taye Diggs, and the four of the adult leads of the ABC hit series, Modern Family-Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ed O ' Neill, Eric Stonestreet and one of the child actor leads Ariel Winter.

Flockhart with Harrison Ford at the Deauville American Film Festival in 2009

2010: Harrison Ford wears Wrangler jeans at his wedding to Calista Flockhart in June 2010.

Flockhart and Ford are raising a son, Liam, whom Flockhart adopted as an infant on January 11, 2001.

Flockhart was born in Freeport, Illinois, the daughter of Kay, a teacher of English, and Ronald Flockhart, an executive for Kraft Foods.

Because her father's job required the family to move often, Flockhart and her brother grew up in several places including Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Norwich, New York.

Flockhart attended Shawnee High School in Medford Township, New Jersey.

Following her graduation in 1983, Flockhart attended the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

In her sophomore year at Rutgers, Flockhart met aspiring actress Jane Krakowski, the best friend of her roommate.

People began recognizing Flockhart's acting ability when William Esper ( Mason Gross ' theatre director and Flockhart's acting teacher ) made an exception to policy by allowing Flockhart to perform on the main stage.

Flockhart graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theatre in 1988, as one of only a few students who successfully completed the course.

Flockhart moved to New York City in 1989 and began seeking auditions, living with three other women in a two-bedroom apartment and working as a waitress and aerobics instructor.

In spring 1989, Flockhart made her first television appearance in a minor role in an episode of Guiding Light as a babysitter.

Two years later, Flockhart appeared in the television movie Darrow.

Flockhart debuted on Broadway in 1994, as Laura in The Glass Menagerie.

Actress Julie Harris felt Flockhart should be hired without further auditions, claiming that she seemed ideal for the part.

Flockhart received a Clarence Derwent Award for her performance.

In 1995, Flockhart became acquainted with actors such as Dianne Wiest and Faye Dunaway when she appeared in the movie Drunks.

Later that year, Flockhart starred in Jane Doe as a drug addict.

In 1996, Flockhart appeared as the daughter of Dianne Wiest and Gene Hackman's characters in The Birdcage.

In 1997 Flockhart was requested to audition for the starring role in David E. Kelley's Fox television series, Ally McBeal.

Kelley, having heard of Flockhart, wanted her to audition for the contract part.

Though Flockhart at first hesitated due to the necessary commitment to the show in a negotiable contract, she was swayed by the script and traveled to Los Angeles to audition for the part, which she won.

Flockhart also appeared on the June 29, 1998, cover of Time magazine, placed as the newest iteration in the evolution of feminism, relating to the ongoing debate about the role depicted by her character.

His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

`` As my wife puts it '', he said, again with a twinkle in his eyes, `` all you know is your music.

`` Both children are musical and my wife is a music lover of unfailing instinct and judgement ''.

The supreme object of their lives is now fulfilled, says the wife, her husband has achieved immortality.

He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

As they stood at the first-class rail, waving down to his wife and Casanova below, Lewis said, `` Earl, there is Gracie's future husband ''.

He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

The Peace Corps should not pay the expenses of a wife or family, unless the wife is also accepted for full-time Peace Corps work on the same project.

As in choosing a wife, it is only sensible to consider also how appealing a pool is likely to be in bad weather as well as in good.

Unless you want to make your wife a pool widow and to spend a great many of your leisure hours nursing your pool's pristine purity, its care and feeding -- from pH content to filtering and vacuuming -- is best left to a weekly or bi-monthly professional service.

Of course, if your pool is close to the house, your wife can always add it to her housekeeping chores ( you hope ).

A verse familiar to all grammarians is the quatrain: `` I saw a man once beat his wife When on a drunken spree.

and frightening, as when a wife tells the police that it is funny, but her husband hasn't been home for two days and nights ''.

Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.

) Amateur linguists note here that Pursewarden, in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, stammered when he spoke of his wife, which is hardly surprising in view of their disastrous relationship.

One thing should be clear to both husband and wife -- neither pain nor profuse bleeding has to occur when the hymen is ruptured during the first sex act.

This is a very common experience and should in no way discourage or dishearten either husband or wife.