Lee Garlington

Ann Leslie Lee Garlington born July 20 1953 is an American actress Shes known for her roles as Kirsten Rose Nylunds Betty White daughter in the final season of The Golden Girls Ronnie the mistress of Joey Tribbianis father on Friends and a recurring role as Brenda Baxworth on Everwood She was one of the stars of the series Lenny She has guest starred in a number of notable television series including The West Wing 7th Heaven 8 Simple Rules CSI Crime Scene Investigation Judging Amy Will Grace Matlock LA Law The Practice Quantum Leap Home Improvement Boston Legal Roseanne Get a Life Profiler Medium Buffy the Vampire Slayer Two and a Half Men Lie to Me and among other series She also appeared in the sequels to Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho Psycho II 1983 and Psycho III 1986 She starred alongside Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen in the actionthriller Cobra 1986 In Sneakers 1992 she appeared as Dr Elena Rhyzkov a Czechoslovakian mathematics scientist in a scene with Robert Redford She was originally intended to play the lead female role in Seinfeld She was the female regular in the pilot episode The Seinfeld Chronicles playing the waitress Claire at Petes Luncheonette When the series was picked up however it was decided that having the female lead be from such a different social status compared to the rest of the cast would be unworkable so the character of Claire was dropped and replaced by Elaine Benes In 2018 she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her role as Darlene in Broken