Kimberly Shaw, that's Dr. Kimberly Shaw to you, buster - proves conclusively that the Other Woman is not always merely a passing fancy. Appearing late in the first season of Melrose Place as the extracurricular love interest of Michael Mancini, this intense couple was soon infusing Wilshire Memorial Hospital's medical environment with nearly lethal levels of sexual heat. Not even death-or some reasonable facsimile thereof-could keep Kimberly away. Even after her famous near-death experience, Kim returned to kill Michael, then stuck around to love him.
Why Kimberly is my favorite character of all time:
I can't imagine Melrose Place without Dr. Kimberly Shaw. She has always been and will always be my favorite character of all time on TV, and Marcia Cross is my favorite actress. She just has a way of capturing my full interest, my full attention, and my full heart, all in one scene, unlike anyone else. She was the greatest and in my opinion she is better than Amanda, much better. I don't care if people say that Locklear saved the show, I believe that it was Marcia Cross who really stirred things up! I mean with her involvement with Michael and breaking him up with Jane. Her apparent death, and her frightening return on the beach as Michael and Sydney went at it! Then pulling her wig off! AAAAAAHhhhhhhhhhh!!! Then the BIG ONE!!! The BIG BANG!!! She blew up the complex after being tomented by HENRY! And her multiple personalitites era, with Rita, the biker chick, and Betsy, the tupperware queen! Even when she started taking a turn for the worse with her tumour, she was still more interesting than any of the other characters. With her untimely, drawn out death, and even after, as an angel in heaven, she still managed to keep me glued to my tv set and my monday nights!!! *sniff*, *sniff* I want her back, Kimberrrrrrrrrlyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!
Kimberly Shaw (1992-1997):
Kimberly Shaw was first seen in Wilshire Memorial Hospital in the eleventh
episode entitled "A Promise Broken." Later that season she returned to the
halls on Wilshire Memorial. She was the love interest of the married
Michael Mancini, whom she had met at Wilshire Memorial Hospital. The
relationship flourished and went to hell on the way, taking others with it.
Early next season, their relationship gained intense heat. Such intense
heat that Michael and Kimberly got engaged just before Kimberly was
supposedly killed by Michael's drunken driving. Not to worry, Dr. Shaw
returned to the halls of Wilshire Memorial bearing only a huge scar and
loss of hair. She began scheming against Michael and his new wife who blackmailed him into marrying her, Sydney. Not to worry, Kimberly took
care of that pesky Sydney, and once again got Michael all for herself. But
that wasn't enough, she wanted him to pay for what he had done to her, so
she disquised herself as Jane Mancini (Michael's ex-wife), stole Jane's Volkwagen and ran him over. No success there,
Michael lived. First Jane was blamed for the whole fiasco, and then
Sydney. Sydney denied the whole thing and the authority didn't believe
her. She was taken to a mental institution where she spent two episodes.
Michael lost his memory, but then gained it back remembering that the woman
driving the Volkswagen was Kimberly. He moved back in with Sydney, and
started having an affair with Amanda while, Amanda was in cancer therapy.
She tried killing them both in the hot-tub by throwing in a electric lamp,
but it was only a threat, that scared them to hell. Then one day at the
beach house Kimberly was so devastated that Michael stopped loving her, she
drugged herself in an attempt to commit suicide. Michael came by, saw her
dead body laying there and just stood there. Sydney came by found the note
that Kimberly wrote to Michael about her suicide and that she can't live
without him, and hid it for herself for future reference. Kimberly and Sydney joined forces and set up Michael, so that the police would think that Michael switched the contents of the medicine containers. Michael in turn went to prison, but not for long. Kimberly's anger grew and in the season finale of the third season she kidnapped Sydney and blew up Melrose Place. As the building exploded, Kimberly was thrown into the pool. She had been saved by Dr. Peter Burns, who would later become her love interest. Now Kimberly was in mental therapy trying to get rid of the demon that started the whole thing, HENRY. She soon, became well and then developed multiple personalities. She came to Peter for help and told him that the only way for her to get better is for Michael to leave town for a while. Betsy took over Kimberly and she tricked Peter into taking her to a mental hospital, while she stuck him with a needle, and took him into the Willowbridge Institute where she had been filling in as Head Doctor!! There she almost lobotomized him but Michael and Amanda interrupted her plan. She trapped Michael and Amanda in the boiler room. Michael sweet talked Betsy out of Shaw, Peter and Amanda escaped while Kimberly fought the guard to protect Michael, but she and the guard took a fall off the boiler room. Meanwhile, Peter was wanted for Alicia's death. Kimberly had dinner with Peter while Alicia was murdered. Kimberly was his alibi but after the fall she couldn't remember a thing. Then at the final second at the trial she remembered and Peter was let off. Kimberly became Michael's and Peter's secretary before demanding a divorse from Michael and quitting her job. She developed a brain tumor, hired Megan, a prostitute to excite Michael sexually. Then she got better tried getting Megan out of the picture. Megan, being fed up having to share Michael with Kimberly, tried running her over. She couldn't do it. Kimberly then tried to get Megan arrested for prostitution, and she succseded. Megan was thrown out of her rented house and into Michael beach house. They got married. Kimberly and Megan became good friends right before Kimberly died in the driveway of the beach house.
Marcia's Biography:
Born in Marlboro, Mass., Marcia Cross attended Juilliard in New York City.
Her television credits include starring roles on the daytime soap operas
'The Edge of Night" and " One Life to Live" and in the television movie
"Storm and Sorrow." She also has appeared on "It's Garry Shandling's Show''
as Garry's girlfriend and on "Cheers" as Rebecca Howe's (Kirstie Alley)
sister. She starred in the television movie "All She Ever Wanted," and she also has appeared in the feature film "Bad Influence" and two independent films titled "Female Perversions" and "Ripple." Her extensive theater credits include "Twelfth Night" at the Hartford Stage, "Emerald City" and "The Merchant of Venice" at the Folger Theater, "My Daddy's Serious American Gift" at the Tiffany Theater in L.A. and "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and 'Twelfth Night" at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego.
Marcia's Other Roles:
1) "M.A.N.T.I.S." (TV, 1994) as "Carla."
2) "Herman's Head" as "Princess Gillian."
3) "Cheers" as "Susan Howe" (1989) — WATCH!
4) "Storm and Sorrow" (TV, 1990).
5) "George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation" (Mini-series, 1986) as "Anne Bingham."
6) "The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James" (TV, 1986).
7) "Brass" (TV, 1985) as "Victoria Willis."
8) "One Life to Live" 1968-? — VIEW Image1, Image2.
9) "The Edge of Night" (1956-1984)
10) "Quantum Leap" (1990) in "Good Night Sweet Prince"
11) "Seinfeld" (1998) as "Dr. Sarah Sideritis" — LISTEN & VIEW IMAGES
12) "Target Earth" (TV, 1998). — WATCH!
13) "Always Say Goodbye" (TV).
14) "Female Perversions" (1997). — VIEW Image1.
15) "Mother's Day", (TV, 1996).
16) "Touched By An Angel", (TV, 1999) as "Lauren Bradley" - WATCH!
17) "The Outer Limits", (TV, 1999) as "Catherine" - WATCH!
18) "Murder, She Wrote", (TV, 1992) as "Marci Bowman" - WATCH!
19) "Profiler", (TV, 2000) as "Pamela" with Jamie Luner! WATCH!
20) "Boy Meets World", (TV, 1999) as "Rhiannon." WATCH!
21) "Spin City", (TV, 2000) as "Joan Calvin" with Heather Locklear! WATCH!
21) "Ally McBeal", (TV, 2000) as "Mira Robbins" with Courtney Thorne-Smith! WATCH!
