American actress Holland Taylor was BOTD in 1943. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a middle-class family, she studied theatre at Bennington College, before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career. After two decades as a Broadway actress, she transitioned to television in the soap operas The Edge of Night and As the World Turns. In 1980, she rose to wider attention in the sitcom Bosom Buddies, co-starring the then-unknown Tom Hanks, leading to small roles in the films Fame, Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile and Alice. After another two decades of unremarkable work, she had a career revival in her late 50s in legal drama The Practice and the sitcom The Lot, each winning her an Emmy Award, followed by a long and successful tenure on the sitcom Two and a Half Men and appearances in films including The Truman Show, Legally Blonde, Gloria Bell and Bombshell. In 2009, she wrote, produced and starred in a one-woman play about Texan politician Ann Richards, eventually performing the show on Broadway in 2013, earning her a Tony Award nomination. Her recent television work includes Ryan Murphy‘s drama series Hollywood, the Netflix campus comedy The Chair, and newsroom drama The Morning Show. In 2015, she revealed in an interview that she was in a relationship with a younger woman, later revealed to be the actress Sarah Paulson. Now a celebrity lesbian, Taylor is involved in a number of LGBTQ charities, notably Aid for AIDS. She and Paulson live together in Los Angeles.