She gained to prominence as Paige Matheson on the legendary serial series Knots Landing and was a fan favorite villain in Desperate Housewives as Eddie Britt. Few viewers are aware of her difficult romances and how this bombshell from the 1980s appears today…Nicollette Sheridan emerged on the small screen as the gorgeous, calculating, and manipulative vixen Paige Matheson on Knots Landing, a Dallas spinoff.
The show launched in 1979, but Sheridan joined Knots Landing in 1986 and remained on the serial opera for seven years. She joined the series following her role as John Cusack’s love interest in the film The Sure Thing. As Paige Matheson, she demonstrated both good and bad qualities, yet her character is still fondly remembered. “Paige is different. “She is strong, ambitious, bright, and mischievous,” Sheridan said of her portrayal.
Sheridan not only wowed the viewers, but she also won the Outstanding Lead Actress award from Soap Opera Digest in 1990. At the same time, she was named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People”. Nicollette Sheridan grew up in Hollywood with her well-known mother, actress Sally Adams, and her mother’s lover, Blofeld actor Telly Savalas. She was born in England, but moved to the United States when she was ten.
Her thick accent was retained for many years, but she can now swap whenever she wants. “All the kids used to make fun of that, and I despised it. So I tried talking with an American accent every day and pretty much nailed it,” she told the Tampa Bay Times in 1988. Actress Nicollette Sheridan, also known for her role on Dynasty, is one of several Hollywood stars who has struggled with marriage.
The 57-year-old English native first married actor Harry Hamlin, 69, in 1991. They divorced barely 11 months later, for reasons that were controversial in the press. Lisa Ramlin, Hamlin’s second wife (57), said that Sheridan had cheated on him with singer Michael Bolton. Ramlin revealed the alleged affair on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and Sheridan has categorically denied that it ever occurred.
Sheridan maintains that she and her first husband separated for completely different reasons, but this sparked a public battle on Twitter, with Hamlin defending his second wife and accusing Sheridan of lying. In any case, it is public knowledge that Sheridan and singer Michael Bolton dated on and off after her divorce in 1992. They dated for five years, split up, and then reconnected in 2005. They got engaged in 2006 but broke it off just two years later.
After breaking up with Bolton, Sheridan dated and married Aaron Phypers. The couple was married for only six months before divorcing. Phypers, like her last spouse, later married a Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star. He and Denise Richards got married in 2018. Sheridan was also having professional difficulty at the time. Her character on Desperate Housewives was unceremoniously killed off, and she claimed her dismissal was due to her charges against producer Marc Cherry.
According to many viewers, the show was never the same without Edie Britt; some even quit watching following her departure. Sheridan claimed Cherry physically abused her and later sued him for the claims after being kicked off the show. The actress also claimed Cherry was abusive and unfriendly to other performers and writers on the show, but the complaint was dismissed in 2017.
Sheridan, understandably, stepped away from the spotlight at this time in her career to focus on smaller passion projects. She appeared in multiple Hallmark Channel films including a Dynasty remake in 2017. Sheridan’s Dynasty character was killed off in 2019 as she decided to spend more time with her sick mother. “Working on the Dynasty reboot and reprising the iconic role of Alexis has been thoroughly enjoyable, but the chance to spend precious time with my terminally ill mother is more important to me right now,” she told TV Line at the time.