Lydia Cornell

Lydia Cornell Media Enterprises
Actor, Author, Comedian, Creative Executive, Director, Host/presenter, Playwright, Producer, Screenwriter and Voice Actor

Los Angeles, California

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August 2014

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About Lydia

Lydia Cornell, a women & children's advocate whose great-great grandmother was Harriet Beecher Stowe, has been Invited to contribute her writings to the International Museum of Peace, which houses letters from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mother Teresa, Maya Angelou & Sir Edmund Hillary.

AFI Best Actress nominee at Method Fest and People's Choice Award winner, she is best known for her co-starring role in the long-running ABC series "Too Close for Comfort" as Ted Knight's (Caddyshack, Mary Tyler Moore Show) daughter 'Sara'. More recently seen on HBO's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' she has over 200 shows and films in 27 countries to her credit. She costarred opposite James Earl Jones in her first movie 'Blood Tide' filmed in Monemvasia, Greece.

With 20-34 million viewers Tuesday nights on ABC prime time, and more in worldwide syndication, her TV shows and films can be seen on HBO, ABC, NBC, CBS, the CW, Apple, Amazon, PlutoTV, Tubi. One of TV's most reluctant sex symbols, she is a mother, writer, director, standup comedienne, teen mentor and inspirational public speaker.

Awards: Best Director ~ Best Comedy Film at Paramount Studios for UIFF (United International Film Festival) and Best Director Honors at the Los Angeles Movie Awards for directing the SAG film 'It's My Decision.' She wrote and directed the acclaimed stage show "Relationshop;" and has several books and screenplays in the works. She is set to direct "The Awesome Adventures of Frankie Stargazer."

Broadway World: Cote D'Azur TV Icon Award Winner; Southern California Motion Picture Council's Golden Halo Lifetime Achievement Award, and the first Elizabeth Montgomery Humanitarian Award; the USO Distinguished Service Award. She hosted Variety's Power of Comedy, and the Kelsey Grammer Comedy Hour.

Sober since September 11, 1994, she had a "catastrophic spiritual awakening" that changed her life. An addiction and recovery expert, she sponsors and mentors young women who are suffering from addiction and depression.

With over 300,000 followers on Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and other social media, she also hosts a mental health podcast that is in the top 5 of all 'True Stories' podcasts called "True Stories of Synchronicity and Uncanny Coincidence ~ Recovery godshots®

Her Beats 'n Eats Stitcher award-winning podcast on iTunes started in 2013. Her articles have appeared in People, US, Herald de Paris; A&E Biography, Huffington Post, Editor & Publisher, Macon Daily, and Lone Star Icon.

She is the author of an upcoming novel on Stalin's plot to kill Trotsky "The Sylvia Plan" and a comedic feminist memoir titled "Hiding My Brain in My Bra." She also has a book series based on her US Trademark "Godshots® - True Stories of Sycnchronicity and Uncanny Coincidence."

In 2023, she wrote the feature script for her high-concept film idea 'Venus Conspiracy' and submitted it to Stage 32- Catalyst Studios "Empowering Women" script competition. "I've never submitted a feature script before, but after finally tackling the hardest parts, I decided to finish it and sell it." Earlier, she produced a 27-minute short film/pilot and 'proof of concept' of the same name starring Deborah Van Valkenburgh, herself, and Brenda Chiavarini directed by the brilliant Dustin Voigt.

Cornell has three feateure-film scripts in the works, and is creating a new comedy series. She is in development for a reboot of "Too Close for Comfort" after obtaining the rights along with the original producers (D.L. Taffner, LTD.) based on a pilot script written by Cornell and her partner Lawrence H. Levy, an Emmy-nominee and WGA award winner. She is also a lecturer at the LMU School of Film and Television, teaching Acting and Directing for Screenwriters. Lydia is also an inventor and has a show ready for Discovery Channel.

Fact Check: Lydia Cornell went through a frightening incident with a stalker, a convicted felon who posed as a disabled war hero and JAC-C military attorney. He sued Kelsey Grammer, falsely using Lydia Cornell's name to get publicity. Cornell never sued Kelsey, though this was falsely reported in the tabloids and various news outlets. "Kelsey and I both knew the truth all along. We ran into each other at Soho House and discussed how we had both been duped by this stalker, but the tabloids refused to correct the story."

Unique traits: comedy writer, spiritual therapy comedy, stage actor, podcast host, standup-monologist, visited Beirut war zone for the USO

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Female

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Curb Your Enthusiasm (2005 - 2015)
Television by HBO Larry David Victoria's Secret Larry David's comedy CURB on HBO
Full House (1989 - 1995)
Television by ABC Bill Foster Senorita Mosely El Problemo Grande de DJ ~ Lydia Cornell, who speaks Spanish fluently, plays DJ's Spanish teacher "Senorita Linda Mosely" and she gets caught kissing Bog Saget.
Quantum Leap Pilot "Genesis" (1989)
Sally Lydia Cornell co-starred as a pregnant Airforce pilot's wife in the TV pilot of the iconic Sci-Fi time travel series starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. "Genesis" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083661/reference/
Too Close for Comfort (1980 - 1986)
Television by DL Taffner, LTD. Sara Rush Lydia Cornell is best known for her starring role on the long-running primetime hit ABC series "Too Close for Comfort" as Emmy legend Ted Knight's (Caddyshack, The Mary Tyler Moore Show) daughter 'Sara'. The show debuted on TV's biggest night: Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Three's Company, Too Close for Comfort and Hart to Hart. A reluctant sex symbol, she won the People's Choice Award and graced the covers of countless magazine covers. Her grandmother was played by the legendary Audrey Meadows who had starred as Jackie Gleason's wife Alice in The Honeymooners.
Blood Tide
by Connaught Films/Disney Barbara Starring opposite three iconic Oscar winners James Earl Jones, Jose Ferrer and Lila Kedrova, as well as Martin Kove, Lydia's first feature film in the Greek Isles was a mythological horror film

Awards

AFI Best Actress Nominee Method Fest
People's Choice Award Winner
Southern California Motion Picture Council Golden Halo Lifetime Achievement Award
Elizabeth Montgomery Humanitarian Award (1st)
Cote D'Azur TV Icon Award Winner - Broadway World
USO Distinguished Service Award - Beirut War Zone