{{short description|American actress and entrepreneur|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox person | name = Jacqueline Buckingham | image = | image_size = 200px | caption = | birth_name = Jacqueline Elaine Buckingham | birth_date = <!-- Valid citation required for date of birth for BLP. (WP:BLPPRIVACY) --> | birth_place = | other_names = | education = Emory University<br>University of Toronto (B.A.) | occupation = Actress, entrepreneur | children = 2 | website = {{URL|msbuckingham.com}} | years_active = 1995–present | spouse = Maxwell L. Anderson (married 1995-2013, 2013-2016) }}
'''Jacqueline Buckingham''' (born '''Jacqueline Elaine Buckingham''') is an American actress and entrepreneur. She is best known for her supporting roles in ''Half-Baked'', ''Intimate affairs'', and ''A Touch of Fate'', and her lead role in the movie ''Sleepless Nights''.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} In addition to her acting career, she has worked in art consulting and founded initiatives related to women's health and advocacy. A society fixture in New York, she has also lived in Houston, Atlanta, Toronto, and Indianapolis.
==Early life== Jacqueline Elaine Buckingham is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John Eric Bodin.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jacqueline Buckingham-Bodin Weds Maxwell Lincoln Anderson |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-houston-chronicle-jacqueline-bucking/181261857/ |access-date=September 18, 2025 |work=The Houston Chronicle |date=July 16, 1995 |page=159|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref> She was raised in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Kingwood High School in 1993<ref name="jbaasc">{{cite news |title=Jacqueline Buckingham Anderson / Actress, Style Consultant |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-houston-chronicle-jacqueline-bucking/181261758/ |access-date=September 17, 2025 |work=The Houston Chronicle |date=January 5, 2012 |page=99|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref> and was crowned Miss Houston Teen USA in 1992.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baystarproductionsinc.com/houston/teen/teenthennow.html |title=Miss Houston Pageant - Bay Star Productions, Inc |publisher=Bay Star Productions, Inc. |date= |accessdate=2012-04-12 |archive-date=2012-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306103825/http://www.baystarproductionsinc.com/houston/teen/teenthennow.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> She attended Emory University.<ref name="jbaasc" />
==Career== Buckingham began her career working at Sotheby’s in New York and Toronto and at the Chassie Post Gallery in Atlanta before transitioning into acting. Buckingham began her acting career at the Equity Showcase Theatre in Toronto. Since then, she has had numerous roles in films, such as ''Half-Baked'', ''The Gypsy Years'', and ''*Corpus Callosum''. She played the supporting role of "Linda" in the Alan Rudolph film ''Intimate affairs'', starring Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld; and she was "Betsy Kline" in the movie ''A Touch of Fate'', starring Teri Hatcher.
Buckingham appeared as a special guest star, "Sherry," in the NBC's ''Ed (a hit TV series)'' and, in the role of "Marie," on the CBS series ''Hack (American TV series)''. She also made regular, but uncredited, appearances carrying in the mailbag on the ''Late Show with David Letterman''. In ''As the World Turns'' on CBS, she played "Glenda Corcoran" and, in the "Ill-Conceived" episode of ''Law & Order'' on NBC, she guest-starred in the lead role of "Helene Zachary."{{Citation needed |date=January 2021}}
Buckingham hosted a documentary for OLN (now "Bravo") and played the role of Tiffany in ''Jesus, Mary and Joey'' with Olympia Dukakis and Jennifer Esposito, and appeared opposite Minnie Driver in ''Portrait'', a short feature that aired on amazon.com.
In Los Angeles in 2004, Buckingham founded Design & Style Consulting LLC, a business focused on the art and fashion needs of various corporate and individual clients.
After relocating with her family to Indianapolis, Indiana, she created photosforhealth.com,<ref>[http://photosforhealth.com photosforhealth.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403202548/http://www.photosforhealth.com/ |date=2012-04-03 }}.</ref> a company that puts photographs on hospital walls.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.healthcaredesignmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=9B6FFC446FF7486981EA3C0C3CCE4943&nm=Articles&type=Publishing&mod=Publications::Article&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=7EEB0D07203C430187BF3A8D3D8D40AA |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126094804/http://www.healthcaredesignmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=9B6FFC446FF7486981EA3C0C3CCE4943&nm=Articles&type=Publishing&mod=Publications::Article&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=7EEB0D07203C430187BF3A8D3D8D40AA |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-26 |title=Creating an art community |publisher=Healthcaredesignmagazine.com |date=2009-04-01 |accessdate=2012-04-12 }}</ref> Her efforts initially provoked some controversy, as some members of the local art community claimed she was displacing the work of professional artists.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indy.com/posts/clarian-initiative-stirs-debate-in-local-art-community |title=Post: Clarian initiative stirs debate in local art community | Indianapolis, Indiana |publisher=Indy.com |date=2008-03-11 |access-date=2012-06-13}}</ref>
In 2008, she launched ''Style Meets Life'', a column and website assisting women with choices regarding personal presentation and fashion.<ref>[http://www.indianapoliswoman.com/archive.asp?r=\2009\feb\departments\auto\auto.txt] {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
She has also served as director of the Wellness Institute at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas.<ref>{{cite web |title=Crow Collection of Asian Art Launches New Wellness Institute |url=https://www.dallasartsdistrict.org/news/crow-collection-of-asian-art-new-wellness-institute/ |website=Dallas Arts District |date=January 14, 2015 }}</ref>
In 2018, Buckingham created ''The Box'', a series of short films that she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in.
== Entrepreneurship and advocacy == Buckingham has founded several initiatives related to women's health and advocacy, including HPH Global Inc. and the Women's Intimate and Sexual Health (W.I.S.H.) Foundation.
She also founded ''Huge Pussy'', a product line associated with women's advocacy initiatives, which has supported organizations including Planned Parenthood, The Pink Fund, and NARAL.
In 2023, she launched the podcast ''Cliterology'' (later renamed ''MENO''), focused on women's health topics.
She is the founder of MENO, a platform focused on menopause and women's health education.
==Personal life== In 1995, Buckingham married museum director Maxwell L. Anderson. They were briefly divorced in 2013 before announcing their re-marriage three months later.<ref name="FiveSurprising">{{cite news |last1=Boucher |first1=Brian |title=Five Surprising Things About Maxwell Anderson |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/five-things-about-maxwell-anderson-336189 |access-date=22 August 2022 |work=Artnet News |date=29 September 2015}}</ref> They are now no longer married. She and Anderson have two children, Chase and Devon. As the first lady of several art museums, she made a name for herself in the New York Society circuit, culminating in 2003 in a two-page profile in ''W''.<ref name="dallasnews1">{{cite web|title=Dear Dallas art scene: Meet the new DMA director's wife|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/style/people/20120328-well-hello-mrs.-anderson.ece|publisher=Dallas News|accessdate=26 May 2012|author=Christopher Wynn|date=28 March 2012}}</ref> A year after the attack on the World Trade Center, her fashion sense was cited in the pages of ''The New York Times'' as embodying glamour's return.<ref>{{cite news|title=In New York, Champagne Days Are Here Again|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/style/in-new-york-champagne-days-are-here-again.html?scp=10&sq=%22Jacqueline%20Anderson%22&st=cse|work=The New York Times|accessdate=26 May 2012|author=RUTH LA FERLA|date=October 27, 2002}}</ref>
The ''New York Times'' subsequently reported about her to illustrate the challenges of recruiting spouses as part of professional recruitment for museum jobs.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Significant Other|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/fashion/28wives.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all|work=The New York Times|accessdate=26 May 2012|author=LESLIE KAUFMAN|date=September 26, 2008}}</ref> While living in Indiana, she undertook an expensive interior redesign of the {{convert|13000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} official residence of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.<ref name="dallasnews1"/>
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