Nancy Travis was born in New York and grew up in both Baltimore and Boston. She returned to New York to study drama at New York University and soon after joined the national touring company of Neil Simon’s hit play Brighton Beach Memoirs.

Travis made her feature film debut in the blockbuster comedy Three Men and A Baby. Her additional film credits include Internal Affairs, Air America, Three Men and a Little Lady, So I Married an Axe Murderer, The Vanishing, Greedy, Fluke, Destiny Turns on the Radio and Bogie. She also recently appeared in the film Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Jane Austin Book Club.

On the small screen, Travis starred in Becker with Ted Danson; Almost Perfect and recently appeared in the television movie The Party Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker for which she was nominated for a PRISM Award.

Travis’ stage credits include Boy Gets Girl for director Randall Arney and the classic Three Sisters. Additional theatre credits include Herb Gardner’s I'm Not Rappaport on Broadway and Athol Fugard’s, My Children, My Africa. She is a founding member of the off-Broadway theatre company Naked Angels and resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.