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Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn | |
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 Burstyn at the May 1, 2009 Tribeca Film Festival première of Poliwood | |
| Born | Edna Rae Gillooly (1932-12-07) December 7, 1932 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Ellen McRae |
| Education | Cass Technical High School |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1955–present |
| Spouse(s) | William Alexander (m. 1950; div. 1957) Paul Roberts (m. 1958; div. 1961) Neil Burstyn (m. 1964; div. 1972) |
| Children | 1 |
Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly; December 7, 1932) is an American actress best known for her roles in films of the 1970s, such as The Last Picture Show, The Exorcist, and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, for which she won an Academy Award.
Her career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next decade included several films and television series. Burstyn is one of the few performers to have won the Triple Crown of Acting. In 2013, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.[1] Her performance in the acclaimed 1971 ensemble drama The Last Picture Show brought her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination, after which she moved from supporting to leading film and stage roles. Burstyn received a second Academy Award nomination for her lead performance in William Friedkin's classic horror film The Exorcist (1973), and won the Academy Award for Best Actress the following year for her role as a widowed drifter in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.
In 1975, she won the Tony Award for her lead performance in the Broadway production of Same Time, Next Year, and received a Golden Globe Award and a fourth Academy Award nomination for her performance in the 1978 film version of the play. Burstyn has worked consistently in film, television, and theatre since then, receiving multiple awards and nominations along the way, including seven additional Golden Globe Award nominations, five Emmy Award nominations (two wins), and two more Academy Award nominations for her performances in the films Resurrection (1980) and Requiem for a Dream (2000).
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Early years
2.2 1970s–1980s
2.3 1990s–present
2.4 Emmy Awards and controversy
3 Other activities
4 Personal life
4.1 Marriages and children
4.2 Religion
5 Filmography
5.1 Film
5.2 Television
6 Bibliography
7 References
8 External links
Early life
Burstyn was born Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Correine Marie (née Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly.[2] She has described her ancestry as "Irish, French, Pennsylvania Dutch, a little Canadian Indian".[3][4] Burstyn has an older brother, Jack, and a younger brother, Steve.[2][5] Her parents divorced when she was young, and she and her brothers lived with their mother and stepfather.[2]
She attended Cass Technical High School, a university-preparatory school which allowed students to choose a specific field of study. Burstyn majored in fashion illustration.[6] In high school, she was a cheerleader, a member of the student council, and president of her junior class. She dropped out of high school during her senior year after failing her classes.[7][8] After dropping out of school, Burstyn got a job as a model in a Detroit department store. She later relocated to Dallas, where she continued modeling before traveling to New York City.
From 1955 to 1956, Burstyn appeared as an "away we go" dancing girl on The Jackie Gleason Show under the name Erica Dean.[9] Burstyn then decided to become an actress and chose the name "Ellen McRae" as her professional name; she later changed her surname after her 1964 marriage to Neil Burstyn.[10]
Career
Early years
Burstyn debuted on Broadway in 1957 and joined Lee Strasberg's The Actors Studio in New York City in 1967. In 1975, she won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her performance in the comedy Same Time, Next Year (a role she would reprise in the film version in 1978).
Starting in the late 1950s, and continuing throughout the 1960s, Burstyn frequently played guest roles on a number of primetime television shows, including Dr. Kildare, 77 Sunset Strip, Ben Casey, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, Wagon Train, The Big Valley, and The Virginian. During 1964-1965, she had a recurring role as Dr. Kate Bartok on the NBC daytime television soap opera The Doctors. In 1967-1968, she co-starred as Julie Parsons opposite Dale Robertson in the ABC Western The Iron Horse.[11] She was credited as Ellen McRae until 1967, when she and her then-husband Neil Nephew both changed their surname to Burstyn and she began to be credited as Ellen Burstyn.[12]
1970s–1980s
In 1971, Burstyn was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the drama film The Last Picture Show (won by her co-star Cloris Leachman). She appeared in The King of Marvin Gardens in 1972. Burstyn was nominated for Best Actress in 1973 for the horror film The Exorcist. During the filming of The Exorcist, she injured her coccyx, which led to permanent injury to her spine.[13] She had a small but important role in Harry and Tonto in 1974. Burstyn won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1975 for her performance in the drama Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, directed by Martin Scorsese. She also received Best Actress nominations in 1978 for Same Time, Next Year, in 1980 for the drama Resurrection, and for the drama Requiem for a Dream in 2000.[14] In 1975, she became a graduate of the very first group of participants in the American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women.
In 1977, she was a member of the jury at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival,[15] and in 1988, she was a member of the jury for the 38th Berlin International Film Festival.[16] Burstyn hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live, a late-night sketch comedy and variety show, in December 1980.[17]
In 1985's Twice in a Lifetime she portrayed the wife Gene Hackman’s character left when he fell in love with another woman. In 1986, Burstyn starred in her own ABC television situation comedy, The Ellen Burstyn Show costarring Megan Mullally as her daughter and Elaine Stritch as her mother; it was cancelled after one season.
1990s–present
Burstyn at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, September 2007
In 1990, Burstyn won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre.[18]
In 2000, she starred in the film adaptation of Requiem for a Dream, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award.
From 2000 to 2002, Burstyn appeared in the CBS television drama That's Life. In January 2006, she starred as an Episcopal bishop in the NBC comedy-drama series The Book of Daniel. The series, which also starred Aidan Quinn as a drug-addicted Episcopal priest married to an alcoholic wife, was met with controversy from religious and spiritual leaders due to its unconventional portrayals of religious figures.[19] Conservative groups including American Family Association and Focus on the Family urged supporters to complain to NBC affiliates that carried the show. NBC pulled the series from its line-up after four episodes, but did not publicly give a reason for doing so.[20]
In 2006, Burstyn appeared in the drama-romance film The Fountain, directed by Darren Aronofsky, with whom she worked in Requiem for a Dream. Between 2007 and 2011, she had an occasional recurring role on the HBO television drama series Big Love, playing the mother of polygamist wife Barbara Henrickson.
She provided a supporting role as the mother of two sons in the drama-romance film The Elephant King. The film originally premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, but did not open in U.S. theaters until October 2008.[21]
Burstyn starred in the Broadway production of Martin Tahse's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, based upon the novel of the same title by Allan Gurganus. The show played 19 previews and officially opened November 17, 2003. Because of unfavorable reviews, all performances after the opening night were cancelled.[22] Burstyn returned to the stage in March 2008, in the off-Broadway production of Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Little Flower of East Orange, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman in a co-production by LAByrinth Theater Company and The Public Theater.[23]
In addition to her stage work, Burstyn portrayed former First Lady Barbara Bush in director Oliver Stone's biographical film W in 2008.[24] In 2009, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of the bipolar estranged mother of Detective Elliot Stabler on NBC's police procedural Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.[25]
In 2014, Burstyn appeared in Christopher Nolan's science-fiction epic Interstellar.[26] She had played Mackenzie Foy's character's grandmother in Wish You Well the previous year, and both actresses portrayed "Murph" Cooper, albeit at radically different ages, in Interstellar.
Burstyn played Flemming, the daughter of Blake Lively's immortal character, in the film The Age of Adaline. Production started in March 2014, and the film was released in April 2015.[27]
In 2014, Burstyn announced to direct her first feature film, Bathing Flo.[28][29]
Ellen Burstyn is currently in development with Peter Livolsi's film The House of Tomorrow about her friend R. Buckminster Fuller, in which she stars and is a producer.[30]
Emmy Awards and controversy
Burstyn was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Movie, for her role as Jean Harris in the biographical television film The People vs. Jean Harris (1981), and again for another television drama film, Pack of Lies (1987), an adaptation of the 1983 play. In 2006, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for a role credited as "Former Tarnower Steady" in HBO's Mrs. Harris, another biopic about Jean Harris.[31]
Soon after the nominations were announced, an outcry ensued from the press and the public regarding the worthiness of the nomination due to her minor role in the film, consisting of 14 seconds of screen time and 38 words of dialogue. One explanation for the nomination was that people were honoring Burstyn for her nominated, but non-winning, performance in the 1981 film. A more popular accusation was that the nominating committee was either confused in its recollection, or merely "threw in" her name from sheer recognition, assuming a worthy performance without actually seeing it.[32]
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, administrator of the Primetime Emmy Awards, initially insisted that "based on the popular vote, this is a legitimate nomination". Meanwhile, HBO deflected the blame for submitting the nomination to the movie-production company. Burstyn's own reaction ranged from initial silence to comments such as, "I thought it was fabulous. My next ambition is to get nominated for seven seconds, and ultimately, I want to be nominated for a picture in which I don't even appear", and, "This doesn't have anything to do with me. I don't even want to know about this. You people work it out yourself."[33]
Ultimately, Kelly Macdonald, who starred in The Girl in the Cafe, won the award.[34]
In March 2007, the academy officially announced that eligibility for a Primetime Emmy Award in any long-form supporting-actor category required nominees to appear on-screen in at least 5% of the project.[35]
Many critics still cite this incident to criticize the Emmy Award nomination process, claiming that name recognition has played an increasingly visible role over the years.[35]
In 2013, she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Political Animals, and referenced the controversy in her acceptance speech.
Other activities
During the 1970s, Burstyn was active in the movement to free convicted boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter from jail.[36]
In 1981, Burstyn recorded "The Ballad of the Nazi Soldier's Wife" (Kurt Weill's musical setting of Bertolt Brecht's text "Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?") ('And what did the soldier's woman get?') for Ben Bagley's album Kurt Weill Revisited, Vol. 2.
Burstyn served as president of the Actors' Equity Association from 1982 to 1985.[37]
In 1997, Burstyn was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.[38] In 2000, she was named co-president of the Actors Studio, alongside Al Pacino and Harvey Keitel.[39]
She is a long-time supporter of the Democratic Party, and appears in the documentary PoliWood.
She attended several political events of the 2008 election campaign as a supporter of Barack Obama, commenting sadly at one point how civil competition between Democrats and Republicans no longer exists.
Burstyn is on the Board of Selectors of Jefferson Awards for Public Service.[40]
Personal life
Marriages and children
In 1950, she married Bill Alexander. They divorced in 1957. The following year, she married Paul Roberts, with whom she adopted a son named Jefferson in 1961. The couple divorced that same year.[41]
In 1964, she married fellow actor Neil Nephew, who later changed his name to Neil Burstyn. The union was turbulent. Neil Burstyn was schizophrenic. He would have episodes of violence, and eventually left her. He attempted to reconcile, but she rejected this, ultimately divorcing him in 1972. In her autobiography, Lessons in Becoming Myself, Burstyn revealed that he stalked her for a period of six years after their divorce, and that he eventually broke into her house and raped her. No charges were filed, as spousal rape was not yet legally a crime. He died by suicide in 1978.[42]
Religion
Burstyn was raised Catholic, but now affiliates herself with all religious faiths. Her spiritual journey began with Sufism, a mystical form of Islam. She explains: "I am a spirit opening to the truth that lives in all of these religions... I always pray to Spirit, but sometimes, it's to the Goddess. Sometimes, it's to Jesus... Sometimes, I pray to Ganesha if I need an obstacle removed. Guan Yin is one of my favorite manifestations of the divine, the embodiment of compassion... So I have Guan Yin with me all the time."[43] Burstyn has stated that in her late 30s she began to delve into the spiritual realm, coming under the tutelage of Sufi teacher Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan[citation needed]; he gave her the spiritual name Hadiya,[44] which means "she who is guided" in Arabic.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Goodbye Charlie | Franzie Salzman | Credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1964 | For Those Who Think Young | Dr. Pauline Thayer | |
| 1969 | Pit Stop (original title: The Winner) | Ellen McLeod | |
| 1970 | Alex in Wonderland | Beth Morrison | |
| 1970 | Tropic of Cancer | Mona Miller | |
| 1971 | The Last Picture Show | Lois Farrow | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture |
| 1972 | The King of Marvin Gardens | Sally | |
| 1973 | The Exorcist | Chris MacNeil | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |
| 1974 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Alice Hyatt | Academy Award for Best Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |
| 1974 | Harry and Tonto | Shirley Mallard | |
| 1977 | Providence | Sonia Langham | |
| 1978 | A Dream of Passion | Brenda | |
| 1978 | Same Time, Next Year | Doris | Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress |
| 1980 | Resurrection | Edna Mae McCauley | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress Nominated—Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress |
| 1981 | Silence of the North | Olive Frederickson | Nominated—Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress |
| 1984 | The Ambassador | Alex Hacker | |
| 1984 | Terror in the Aisles | Archival footage | |
| 1985 | Twice in a Lifetime | Kate MacKenzie | |
| 1987 | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | Mrs. Stocks (voice) | |
| 1988 | Hanna's War | Katalin | |
| 1991 | Grand Isle | Mademoiselle Reisz | |
| 1991 | Dying Young | Mrs. O'Neil | |
| 1993 | The Cemetery Club | Esther Moskowitz | |
| 1994 | When a Man Loves a Woman | Emily | |
| 1994 | The Color of Evening | Kate O'Reilly | |
| 1995 | How to Make an American Quilt | Hy Dodd | Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| 1995 | The Baby-Sitters Club | Emily Haberman | |
| 1995 | Roommates | Judith | |
| 1996 | The Spitfire Grill | Hannah Ferguson | |
| 1997 | Deceiver | Mook | |
| 1998 | Playing by Heart | Mildred | |
| 1998 | You Can Thank Me Later | Shirley Cooperberg | |
| 1999 | Walking Across Egypt | Mattie Rigsbee | |
| 2000 | Requiem for a Dream | Sara Goldfarb | Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Stockholm International Film Festival Award for Best Actress Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress (3rd place) Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress (3rd place) Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (3rd place) Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress (2nd place) Nominated—Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress |
| 2000 | The Yards | Val Handler | |
| 2001 | Dodson's Journey | Mother | |
| 2002 | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Viviane Joan "Vivi" Abbott Walker | |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Grandma Dolarhyde (voice only) | Uncredited |
| 2005 | Down in the Valley | Ma | |
| 2006 | The Fountain | Dr. Lilian Guzetti | |
| 2006 | The Wicker Man | Sister Summersisle | |
| 2006 | The Elephant King | Diana Hunt | |
| 2006 | 30 Days | Maura | |
| 2007 | The Stone Angel | Hagar Shipley | Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Nominated—Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Canadian Film |
| 2008 | Lovely, Still | Mary | |
| 2008 | W. | Barbara Bush | |
| 2009 | The Velveteen Rabbit | Swan | Voice role |
| 2009 | According to Greta | Katherine | |
| 2009 | PoliWood | Herself | Documentary |
| 2009 | The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond | Miss Adie | |
| 2010 | The Mighty Macs | Mother St. John | |
| 2010 | Main Street | Georgiana Carr | |
| 2011 | Another Happy Day | Doris | |
| 2011 | Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You | Nanette | |
| 2013 | Wish You Well | Louisa Mae Cardinal | |
| 2014 | Two Men in Town | Garnett's mother | |
| 2014 | Draft Day | Barb Weaver | |
| 2014 | Flowers in the attic | Olivia Foxworth | |
| 2014 | Interstellar | Old Murph | |
| 2014 | Petals on the Wind | Olivia Foxworth | |
| 2015 | The Age of Adaline | Flemming | |
| 2015 | Unity | Narrator | Documentary |
| 2015 | About Scout | Gram | |
| 2016 | Wiener-Dog | Nana | |
| 2016 | Custody | Beatrice Fisher | |
| 2017 | The House of Tomorrow | Josephine Prendergast | Also executive producer |
| 2017 | All I Wish | Celia Berges | |
| 2018 | Nostalgia | Helen Greer | |
| 2018 | The Tale | Nettie | |
| TBA | Lucy in the Sky | Nana Holbrook | Post-production |
| TBA | Welcome to Pine Grove! | Helen Wilson | Filming |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Kraft Television Theatre | Linda | Episode: "Trick or Treat"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1961 | Michael Shayne | Carol | Episode: "Strike Out"; credited as Ellen McRae[45] |
| 1961 | The Loretta Young Show | Ann Walters | Episode: "Woodlot"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare | Anne Garner | Episode: "Second Chance"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1961 | Surfside 6 | Wandra Drake | Episode: "Double Image"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1961, 1963 | 77 Sunset Strip | Betty Benson (1961) Sandra Keene (1963) | 2 episodes; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1961 | Cheyenne | Emmy Mae | Episode: "Day's Pay"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1961 | The Dick Powell Show | Rose Maxon | Episode: "Ricochet"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1962, 1971 | Gunsmoke | Polly Mims (1962) Amy Waters (1971) | 3 episodes; credited as Ellen McRae (1962), credited as Ellen Burstyn (1971) |
| 1962 | Ben Casey | Dr. Leslie Fraser (ep. 1) Connie (ep. 2) | 2 episodes; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1962 | Bus Stop | Phyllis Dunning | Episode: "Cry to Heaven"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1962 | Checkmate | Margo | Episode: "The Bold and the Tough"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1962 | The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis | Dr. Donna Whittaker | Episode: "A Splinter Off the Old Block"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1962 | Perry Mason | Mona Winthrope White | Episode: "The Case of the Dodging Domino"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1962 | The Real McCoys | Dorothy Carter | Episode: "The Girl Veterinarian"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1962 | I'm Dickens, He's Fenster | Joan | Episode: "Harry, the Father Image"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1963 | Laramie | Amy | Episode: "No Place to Run"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1963 | The Defenders | Hilda Wesley | Episode: "The Heathen"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1963 | Going My Way | Louise | Episode: "Hear No Evil"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1963 | Wagon Train | Margaret Whitlow | Episode: "The Jim Whitlow Story"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1963 | Vacation Playhouse | Ellen | Episode: "The Big Brain"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1964 | Suspense Theater | Barbara/Lucille | Episode: "The Deep End"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1964 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Eva Laurelton | Episode: "Runaway"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1964 | The Greatest Show on Earth | Susan Mason | Episode: "Big Man from Nairobi"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1964 | Death Valley Days | Jenny | Episode: "Hastings Cut-off"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1964–1965 | The Doctors | Dr. Kate Bartok | Multiple episodes; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1965 | For the People | Maria Haviland | Episode: "Seized, Confined and Detained"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1966 | The Time Tunnel | Dr. Eve Holland | Episode: "Crack of Doom"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1967–1968 | The Iron Horse | Julie Parsons | 9 episodes; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1967 | The Big Valley | Sister Jacob | Episode: "Days of Grace"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1968 | Insight | Janet | Episode: "All the Things I've Never Liked"; credited as Ellen McRae |
| 1969 | The Virginian | Kate Bürden | Episode: "Last Grave at Socorro Creek" |
| 1972 | The Bold Ones: The Lawyers | Rachel Lambert | Episode: "Lisa, I Hardly Knew You" |
| 1974 | Thursday's Game | Lynne Evers | Television movie |
| 1981 | The People vs. Jean Harris | Jean Harris | Television movie Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film |
| 1985 | Into Thin Air | Joan Walker | Television movie |
| 1985 | Surviving: A Family in Crisis | Tina Brogan | |
| 1986 | Act of Vengeance | Margaret Yablonski | |
| 1986 | Something in Common | Lynn Hollander | |
| 1986–1987 | The Ellen Burstyn Show | Ellen Brewer | 13 episodes |
| 1987 | Look Away | Mary Todd Lincoln | Television movie |
| 1987 | Pack of Lies | Barbara Jackson | Television movie Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie |
| 1990 | When You Remember Me | Nurse Cooder | Television movie |
| 1991 | Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love | Lillian "Lil" Lambert | |
| 1992 | Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story | Wilma | |
| 1993 | Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story | Joan Delvecchio | |
| 1994 | Trick of the Eye | Frances Griffin | |
| 1994 | Getting Gotti | Jo Giaclone | |
| 1994 | Getting Out | Arlie's Mother | |
| 1995 | Follow the River | Gretel | |
| 1995 | My Brother's Keeper | Helen | |
| 1996 | Timepiece | Maud Gannon | |
| 1996 | Our Son, the Matchmaker | Iva Mae Longwell | |
| 1997 | Flash | Laura Strong | |
| 1997 | A Deadly Vision | Yvette Watson | |
| 1998 | A Will of Their Own | Veronica Steward | Miniseries |
| 1998 | The Patron Saint of Liars | June Clatterbuck | Television movie |
| 1999 | Night Ride Home | Maggie | |
| 2000 | Mermaid | Trish Gill | Television movie Nominated—Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special |
| 2000–2002 | That's Life | Dolly DeLucca | 34 episodes |
| 2001 | Within These Walls | Joan Thomas | Television movie |
| 2003 | Brush with Fate | Rika | |
| 2004 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Ruby | |
| 2004 | The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel | Tommie | |
| 2005 | Our Fathers | Mary Ryan | |
| 2005 | Mrs. Harris | Ex-lover No. 3 (Former Tarnower "Steady") | Television movie Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie |
| 2006 | The Book of Daniel | Bishop Beatrice Congreve | 8 episodes |
| 2007 | For One More Day | Pauline Benetto | Television movie Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
| 2007–2011 | Big Love | Nancy Davis Dutton | 6 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Drama Series |
| 2008 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Bernie Stabler | Episode: "Swing" Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Drama Series Nominated—Prism Award for Performance in a Drama Episode |
| 2012 | Political Animals | Margaret Barrish | 6 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Movie/Miniseries Supporting Actress |
| 2012 | Coma | Mrs. Emerson | 2 episodes |
| 2014 | Flowers in the Attic | Olivia Foxworth | Television movie Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie Nominated—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Movie/Miniseries Supporting Actress Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
| 2014 | Petals on the Wind | Olivia Foxworth | Television movie |
| 2014 | Louie | Evanka | 5 episodes: "Elevator" Parts 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 |
| 2015 | Mom[46] | Shirley Stabler | Episode: "Terrorists and Gingerbread" Nominated—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series |
| 2016 | House of Cards[47] | Elizabeth Hale | 5 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series |
Bibliography
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