After a bizarre few years hiding from a stalker, going through a divorce, raising children and going underground to write, I finally came out of hiding this year.
I'm looking for a new packaging agent and manager for several properties I'm producing. Have 5 shows, 3 scripts and 5 books in the thriller, comedy and feminist genres.
Cornell has been invited to contribute her writings to The International Museum of Peace, which houses letters from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mother Teresa, Maya Angelou & Sir Edmund Hillary.
- With 20-34 million viewers Tuesday nights on ABC primetime, AFI Best Actress nominee and People's Choice Award winner Lydia Cornell grew up in America’s living rooms as the star of ABC's hit series Too Close For Comfort opposite TV legend Ted Knight’s (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Caddyshack) virginal daughter Sara Rush
- Currently
in talks with Dancing with the Stars, her show
is back on TV daily in 84 million homes on Tribune Broadcasting’s
new comedy channel Antenna TV, on WGN and
in top markets nationwide.
- Starred in HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David;
Kelsey Grammer Comedy Hour; Host of Variety’s Power of Comedy with Russell Brand, Helen Mirren,
Aziz Ansari, Dylan McDermott and Sarah Silverman. In July 2014, starred on
stage at the Whitefire Theatre in Hollywood Shorts with Hallmark
Channel’s Mark Steines.
- Cornell’s
fan base exploded last fall when she shot onto Google’s Top Trends[1]
and Yahoo! Finance News’ Most Viewed
News Stories[2] right behind William Buffet. Yahoo! Finance News: Lydia Cornell interviews World
Leaders, Pulitzer Prize Winners, White House and Presidential Candidates
for new morning drive AM radio show
- Lydia is known for her voice; has her own national
radio show with MTV stars, Hell’s Kitchen chefs and CLNS Sports network
which was nominated for a 2013 Stitcher Award. She starred in Hagar the
Horrible and booked dozens of commercials before Abrams Rubaloff
disbanded. She stopped to raise children, write and produce.
- Lydia
currently co-stars with Robert Downey, Jr., Steven Tyler, Jon Bon Jovi and
Gary Oldman in “Me, Miami and Nancy” new indie winner of Park City Film
Festival, and in acclaimed director Jordan Alan’s Cats Dancing on Jupiter
with The Mentalist’s Amanda
Rhigetti
- Cornell
is now a mother, teen mentor, women and children’s advocate, talk show
host, author, award-winning writer, blogger.She recently spoke at Texas
A&M on overcoming domestic violence and did a documentary for Safe
Passage, a battered women’s shelter.
- Buzz:
In talks with Dancing With the Stars and is producing a top-secret show
for a network.
- She received
the USO Distinguished Service Award for Beirut war zone trip.
- Too Close for
Comfort has been in worldwide syndication for 25 years.
Buzz
- Venus
Conspiracy – written and directed by
Lydia Cornell, costarring Deborah Van Valkenburgh, who played her sister
on Too Close for Comfort
- Pain is Inevitable, Sex Optional – on stage in her original three-woman show
- Political
Voices of Women Best Writing Awards ~ World Report Award, Thinking Blogger
Award; Weblog Award and Double Koufax Nominee.
- Standup: Improv, Laugh Factory, Las
Vegas at the Riviera, Sahara; opening for Paul Rodriguez at Pechanga 1500
seat theater
- Cornell
has written over 350 articles on politics, women’s issues, pop culture,
spirituality, religion, sex, divorce. Has written an international thriller on the
Trotsky assassination
- Known for her knife-sharp humor on
HBO, in standup comedy concerts, and on morning-drive radio, Cornell has
been called: “A fresh voice; one of
the most original voices in America today.”
- Credits:
Guest starred in Quantum Leap, Full House A-Team, Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard, Full House, Quantum Leap;
Hunter; Simon & Simon; Love Boat (5) Fantasy Island; Hotel (2);
Hardball; The Red Tide with
Oscar winners James Earl Jones and Jose Ferrer and Lila Kedrova.
- Teen
Mentor - Mentors teens; Hosts “The
Answer Room” for troubled youth. Volunteers with sons for Red Cross,
Imagine L.A., homeless children, and houses a domestic abuse survivor.
- Raised
sons, including a special-needs child with Osteogenesis Imperfecta
(brittle bone disease)
- Public
speaker on Domestic Violence; hosting Oxygen Network Safe Passage documentary on battered women.
- TMZ: Lydia Cornell was the first
celebrity profiled this year on TMZ. “In the '80s, Lydia Cornell became famous as Ted Knight's blonde
daughter on the TV series Too Close for Comfort. Guess what she looks like
now? “Fergie from Black Eyed
Peas!”
- Had a hilarious feud with Ann
Coulter; Interviewed Elizabeth and John Edwards.
- Lydia
interviewed Pulitzer Prize Winners, White House advisers,
presidential candidates, Senators, Congressmen and women,
and bestselling authors for her award-winning radio show
- Founder of
Comedy Dance Film Festival
co-sponsored by Saturday Night Live
alum Jon Lovitz, in conjunction with CityWalk Universal in 2011 (*TBA)
- Lydia Cornell's blog - a triple
Koufax nominee for best writing, recipient of the Thinking Blogger Award and winner of the Freedom Award and three World
Report Awards, is “a
consistently thought-provoking firecracker of pointed socio-political
commentary and observant, caustic wit.” (Yahoo News; Shotgun Reviews.)
"Lydia
Cornell is an award-winning actress, writer, comedienne, and talk-radio host
best known for her role as "Sara Rush” - Ted Knight's dazzlingly beautiful
yet stereotypically dumb blonde daughter on ABC's '80s hit sitcom, “Too Close
for Comfort.” Lydia starred in over 250 TV shows & films including Curb Your Enthusiasm, Full
House, Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, A-Team, Hunter, Hardball, Hotel
(2), Love Boat (6), Fantasy Island, T.J. Hooker and the pilot of the cult
series Quantum Leap with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. She signed hundreds
of autographs at their convention earlier this year in Los Angeles. She
co-starred with three Oscar winners James Earl Jones, Jose Ferrer and Lila
Kedrova in The Red Tide, shot in the Greek Isles.
[1] Google Hot Trends: Google Hot Trends: What is popular/what is hot Lydia
Cornell in Google’s top 100 trends when a cover story on
Cornell coincided with the news that her show was coming back on the air. Cornell
wrote over 175 spiritual-political articles on government, politics, Obama, the
election, sex and religion.
[2] Breaking
Yahoo! News: Too Close for Comfort actress Lydia Cornell interviews
world leaders, presidential candidates and Pulitzer Prizewinners for new radio
show.
