Beth Broderick

Beth Broderick
Broderick in 2011
Born	(1959-02-24) February 24, 1959 (age 58) Falmouth, Kentucky, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1983–2014
Spouse(s)	Brian Porizek (1998–2000; divorced) Scott Paetty (2005–present)

Beth Broderick (born February 24, 1959) is an American actress notable for her portrayal of the character Zelda Spellman in the television sitcom Sabrina, the Teenage Witch from 1996 to 2003 on ABC and then the Warner Bros. network. She recently starred as the recurring character Rose Twitchell on the Stephen King and Steven Spielberg TV series Under the Dome.

Broderick was born in Falmouth, Kentucky, the daughter of Nina Lou (Bowden) and Thomas Joseph Broderick. She grew up in Huntington Beach, California. Even as a child, Beth was interested in theatre. She graduated from high school at sixteen and then from the American Academy of Arts in Pasadena, California, at the age of eighteen. Afterwards, she moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. She has two sisters and one brother.

Billed as Beth Alison Broderick and later as Norris O'Neal, she made her debut in two adult films, In Love (1983) and Bordello: House of the Rising Sun (1985). Both roles portrayed her as a lesbian and were financially unsuccessful. Again as Norris O'Neal she appeared in the mainstream comedy Sex Appeal (1986). In 1986 she had small roles in If Looks Could Kill, Student Affairs, Young Nurses in Love, and Slammer Girls, a spoof of the women in prison film genre.

Her first significant role was in Stealing Home (1988) where she played the sexy neighbor who seduces a young, innocent Jonathan Silverman. In 1990, she had a small part in The Bonfire of the Vanities. Her movie credits include Man of the Year (1995), Maternal Instincts (1996), Breast Men (1997), Psycho Beach Party (2000) and The Inner Circle (2003). She also played a small role in the movie Fools Rush In (1997), with Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek, as a business woman. In the film Timber Falls, she played a crazy religious woman, who together with her husband and brother, torture couples who break the rules of chastity while camping.