Anna Kathryn Holbrook[1][2] (née York; born April 18, 1957) is an American television actress, known for her role as Sharlene Frame Hudson on the NBC daytime soap opera Another World, for which she received Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1996.
[3] Holbrook's father, Don Joseph York (aged 29) was killed in South Vietnam during the Vietnamese War.
In 1988, she moved to New York City for performing on off-Broadway stage, and later was cast as Sharlene Frame Hudson on the NBC daytime soap opera, Another World a role she played until 1991 after her character was presumed dead in a boat explosion.
[2] Holbrook has appeared in numerous guest starring roles, including four different roles on Law & Order, three on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit between 1993 and 2006, Spin City, The West Wing, Bull, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Blue Bloods, Homeland (in the season eight episode "Deception Indicated"), Hunters, The Blacklist, Harlem and The Equalizer.
She appeared in the 1994 comedy film I Love Trouble and in 2007 had a recurring role as Dr. Hannah Young on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live for several episodes.