Joanie Zeck: Who Is Dennis Franz Wife?

Dennis Franz Schlachta, also known as Dennis Franz, is a retired American actor best known for his role as NYPD Detective Andy Sipowicz in the ABC television series NYPD Blue (1993–2005).

For this role, he won a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Primetime Emmy Awards. Dennis Franz Schlachta was born on October 28, 1944. On the comparable NBC series Hill Street Blues (1983, 1985–1987) and its brief sequel Beverly Hills Buntz, he likewise played two separate characters (1987–1988).

Franz started acting at Chicago’s Organic Theater Company, where he was initially typecast as a police officer. He appeared in episodes of The A-Team, Hill Street Blues, and Beverly Hills Buntz as a guest star. Additionally, he collaborated with filmmakers Brian De Palma and Robert Altman, and his depiction of Andy Sipowicz on NYPD Blue earned him four Emmy Awards. He had an appearance in the Disney animated series Mighty Ducks in 1996.

Franz appeared as “Homer Badman” in an episode of The Simpsons, won $250,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and appeared in Nextel commercials in the early 2000s.

Joanie Zeck: Who Is Dennis Franz Wife?

Franz and Joanie Zeck met in 1982 and got married in 1995. His two stepdaughters from Zeck’s first marriage are raised by him. Much isn’t known about her besides being the supportive wife of Franz.

Franz took a break from acting after the series 2005 finale in order to concentrate on his personal life. He has stated to the New York Post that, given the appropriate situation, he would be interested in making a comeback in acting.

He spends the summers with his wife at their lake house in northern Idaho. In 2012, he discussed veterans’ post-war trauma and wartime experiences during a Memorial Day concert. (He addressed the audience in the first person, although it wasn’t his narrative.).

At the 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards, he and his former NYPD Blue co-star Jimmy Smits made an unexpected appearance to present Game of Thrones with the Outstanding Drama Series trophy.