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What are Jean Smart’s most famous TV roles?

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Jean Smart’s most famous TV roles are the caustic, aging stand-up comic Deborah Vance in Hacks and the sweet, naive office manager and Southern belle Charlene Frazier-Stillfield in Designing Women. Between 2021 and 2026 Smart won five Emmy Awards for her lead role in Hacks, making her the first woman to win for each season of a show’s run. She also won two Emmys for her guest role as the former high-school crush of snobbish psychiatrist Frasier Crane in Frasier, in which she appeared in 2000 and 2001. Her other TV credits include 24, Fargo, Samantha Who?, and Mare of Easttown.