Nancy Travis stars as Patty on the new NBC drama series "Grosse Pointe Garden Society."

Travis, who is well-known for her role on the longtime Tim Allen series "Last Man Standing," has an extensive TV resume that includes, most recently, "Ride" as well as "The Kominsky Method," "Mr. Mercedes," "Becker," "The Bill Engvall Show" and "Almost Perfect." She recently finished production on the upcoming Amazon Prime series "El Gato."

On the film side, Travis made her feature debut in the box office hit "Three Men and a Baby" and recently co-starred in "Ordinary Angels." Other films include "The Jane Austen Book Club," "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," "Internal Affairs," "Air America," "Three Men and a Little Lady," "So I Married an Axe Murderer," "The Vanishing," "Greedy," "Fluke," "Destiny Turns on the Radio" and "Bogus."

Travis was born in New York and grew up in both Baltimore and Boston. She returned to New York to study drama at New York University. Soon after, she joined the national touring company of Neil Simon's hit play, "Brighton Beach Memoirs." Her notable theater credits include Broadway's "I'm Not Rappaport" and Athol Fugard's "My Children, My Africa," which the author directed at the La Jolla Playhouse. Some of her regional theater credits include "Lillian" and "The Children" for Ensemble Theatre Company and "Love, Loss, and What I Wore" and "Boy Gets Girl" at the Geffen Playhouse. She is a founding member of the off-Broadway theatre company Naked Angels.

Travis resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.