Nancy Travis, an American stage, television and film actress, was born on September 21, 1961 in New York City. Among her first roles after graduating from high school was the play It’s Hard to be a Jew at the American Jewish Theater in New York. She also co-founded the off-Broadway acting company “Naked Angels” and appeared in a stage adaptation of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs. Nancy Travis worked on the Tony Award-winning Broadway production I’m Not Rappaport, along with other stage roles in King of Connecticut and My Children, My Africa. She had a number of supporting roles in film and television, such as in Three Men and a Baby, Internal Affairs, The Vanishing, Superman: The Animated Series, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Susan Pearson is portrayed by Nancy Travis in the upcoming sitcom The Bill Engvall Show. She’s the caring and clever wife of Will, who does her best to keep her unusual family in line.