EXCLUSIVE Beloved sitcom star looks unrecognizable while going makeup free on rare outing... can you guess who?

Daily Mail​

3 days ago

A notable sitcom star was briefly spotted on a rare outing in Los Angeles over the past weekend.
The actress began her successful career in entertainment industry in the late 60s after moving to New York City to pursue her passion.
The star has worked alongside a number of celebrities such as Reese Witherspoon, Brendan Fraser, Sandra Oh, Jim Carrey, Michael Douglas and Nicole Kidman.
She is familiar not just on the television screen, but has also taken on a multitude of roles in films.
The Emmy winner has also been in a romantic relationship with a fellow Hollywood A-lister for a decade.
Can you guess who it is?
It's Holland Taylor, 82, who's known for portraying Evelyn Harper in the sitcom Two And A Half Men.
The star was seen going makeup free while stepping out for a bit of fresh air in sunny LA over the past weekend on Saturday.
She opted for a pair of black sweatpants as well as a gray sweatshirt with black stripes on the front.
Taylor completed the outfit by draping a light gray cardigan over her shoulders and slipped into a pair of tan-colored slippers.
Holland was born in January 1943 in Philadelphia and later majored in Theatre at Bennington College - which she graduated from in 1964.
She then moved to NYC to pursue her passion for acting - and thus began her decades-long career on the stage.
The star appeared in both Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, such as The Cocktail Hour and Breakfast With Les And Bess.
In 1969, she took on a role in the television film J.T. and played Trish Wanamaker in the daytime soap opera Love Is A Many Splendored Thing in 1971.
She then moved to NYC to pursue her passion for acting - and thus began her decades-long career on the stage
Throughout the 70s, Holland appeared in other shows including Beacon Hill and the mystery soap opera The Edge Of Night.
In the early 1980s, Taylor took on a role in the sitcom called Bosom Buddies - which also starred Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari.
In the same decade, the star also played minor guest roles in other shows such as The Love Boat and All My Children.
In 1984, she portrayed Gloria in the movie Romancing The Stone with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
From 1992-1993, Taylor also starred in 20 episodes of The Powers That Be and played Dean Susan McMann in Saved By The Bell: The College Years.
She had the chance to also collaborate with Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix and Matt Dillon in To Die For (1995).
Holland joined Brendan Fraser and Leslie Mann in the comedic film George Of The Jungle in 1997, and the following year appeared with Jim Carrey in The Truman Show.
The early 2000s also kept Taylor busy - and she played Professor Stromwell in Legally Blonde (2001), which was a box office success and additionally starred Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair and Jennifer Coolidge.
Beginning in 2003, she took on the role of Evelyn Harper in the long-running sitcom Two And A Half Men.
The series aired on CBS for 12 seasons, and also starred Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones.
She garnered four Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance in the show.
Taylor had previously won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for the show The Practice in 1999.
In 2020, she played Ellen Kincaid in the miniseries Hollywood - which also earned her another Emmy nomination.
The next year, Holland joined Sandra Oh in The Chair, which was canceled after one season.
Taylor reunited with Reese Witherspoon in the critically-acclaimed Apple TV+ series The Morning Show, which also stars Jennifer Aniston.
Earlier this year, she also starred in the comedy Fantasy Life which premiered at the 2025 SXSW Festival in March.
She has also been cast in the upcoming series Brothers - which is set to additionally star Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson and Natalie Martinez.
When it came to the start of her career, she previously told the Huffington Post: 'I hustled when I was very young because I did not go to Yale or Juilliard, so I had no society when I came to New York.
'I knew no one. I just came blind and I had no idea what to do or how to make my way. And I was lucky. I had small roles in a number of off-Broadway shows and a number of Broadway shows.'
She further refle4cted, 'I worked fairly steadily, but it is true that I've gotten some really fantastic roles later in my career...'
Since 2015, Taylor has been in a relationship with actress Sarah Paulson, who is known for her roles in shows such as American Horror Story.
Despite being together for a decade, the pair confirmed that they still do not live together - which Paulson clarified last year during an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
'I have to clarify this. We don't live together meaning we don't own a home together, but we're together more often than we are not. So, we live together, but we don't live together.'
Holland also joined in on the conversation to add, 'In one home or the other, back and forth. A lot of variety.'
Sarah continued, 'I think they thought they meant like we saw each other like once a month or something, it's not like that.'
And last year while talking to Andy Cohen for his SiriusXM podcast, Taylor opened up about whether both she and Paulson have plans for marriage in the future.
'I don't think so. We've never... no. We've never talked about it with any interest. It doesn't seem to mean to us what it means to a lot of people.'
In regards to their over 30-year age gap, the actress added, 'I mean, we have a big generational difference between us, which worries me for her sake. But, you know... what can I do?'