Background
Garrick was born in Los Angeles, California.
Garrick was born in Los Angeles, California.
Garrick has appeared on stage, television and in film. A graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama, she has several stage credits, including Eastern Standard, Stanley, and A Thousand Clowns. She performed on several New York-based television shows, including several stints on soap operas.
She portrayed the villainous nurse Charlotte Wheaton on Guiding Light in 1985, and on As the World Turns in 1999.
Garrick returned to the show in its final few months and was a prominent part of its final episode on January 13, 2012. Her character Allison narrated the entire episode and spoke the show"s final words, "Things are rarely what they appear."
Garrick also appeared in several episodes of the New York City-based procedural shows Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
She played DeDe Halcyon Day in the three television miniseries based on Armistead Maupin"s Tales of the City novels. Garrick was featured in the 1993 movie Sleepless in Seattle alongside Tom Hanks.