Video: Award-winning actor, UNC grad Sharon Lawrence returns to Chapel Hill for new play

Posted Jan 6, 2025
Emmy-nominated actor Sharon Lawrence talks about "The Shot," a PlayMakers Repertory Company production that is running in Chapel Hill January 7-12. Lawrence graduated from Carolina in 1983. In the one-woman play, she portrays Katharine Graham, the powerful, trailblazing owner and publisher of the Washington Post. (WRAL.com)

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