Ally McBeal rocketed Flockhart to stardom when it first aired in 1997, and rightly so. Her Ally is nervous, hard on herself, yearning, vulnerable, a girl’s girl still secretly (and not so secretly) hoping for Mr. Right.


What a treat! David E. Kelley presents a legal series set in Boston (two of his favorite subjects) with a believable heroine reportedly loosely based on his lovely actress wife, Michelle Pfeiffer. As played by Flockhart, Ally is an intellectual, a brilliant legal mind–and one of the most neurotic young heroines ever to grace TV screens. It’s not that Ally isn’t confident–given a thorny legal issue or complex case, she’s one of the best. But Ally’s rocky love life, and vivid imaginations that materialize right in the middle of a scene, make her believable, slightly annoying, and altogether endearing.

























