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Laurie Metcalf
Born: 16th Jun 1955 Carbondale, Illinois, USA
Dept: Acting
Laura Elizabeth Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an American actress and comedian. Often described as a character actor, she is known for her complex and versatile roles across the stage and screen. She has received various accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades, including two Tony Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.
Metcalf began her career with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and frequently works in Chicago theatre. She made her Broadway debut in the 1985 play My Thing of Love. She went on to receive six Tony Award nominations, winning Best Actress in a Play in 2017 for her performance in A Doll's House, Part 2 and Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 2018 revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women. Her other Tony-nominated roles were for November (2008), The Other Place (2010), Misery (2016), and Hillary and Clinton (2019).
She gained national attention for her performance as Jackie Harris on the sitcom Roseanne (1988–1997, 2018) and its spinoff The Conners (2018–present), for which she won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also won a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest role in Hacks (2022), and her other Emmy-nominated roles include 3rd Rock from the Sun (1999), Monk (2006), Desperate Housewives (2007), The Big Bang Theory (2016), Getting On (2013–2015), and Horace and Pete (2016). She also appeared on The Norm Show (1999–2001), Frasier, and The Dropout (2022).
In film, Metcalf is best known for her performance as Marion McPherson in Greta Gerwig's comedy-drama film Lady Bird (2017). She was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a BAFTA Award. From 1995, she has voiced Mrs. Davis, the mother of Andy, in the Toy Story franchise, and voiced Sarah Hawkins in the Disney animated Treasure Planet (2002). Other notable film credits include Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Uncle Buck (1989), JFK (1991), Dear God (1996), Georgia Rule (2007) and Scream 2 (1997).
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 95
Film: 54 (57%)
Television: 41 (43%)
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Filmography
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A feature documentary on the life, career, and theatrical legacy of three-time Emmy and three-time Tony Award-winning actor Nathan Lane. The film will ... view
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Self
Apr 2026 (first aired)
Blackmailed into working for some very dangerous people, two deeply incapable siblings become the most disorganized duo in organized crime. ... view
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Linda Dardano (8 ep.)
2026
When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becom ... view
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Debbie Salt
2026
June 1961, NYC: legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his musical voice and created the perfect trio, including bass player Scott LaFaro, said t ... view
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Mary
Oct 2025 (first aired)
The shocking true-life tale of Ed Gein, the infamous murderer and grave robber who inspired many of Hollywood's most iconic on-screen killers. ... view
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Augusta Gein (8 ep.)
2025
In 1965, Janis Ian, a 14-year-old singer-songwriter from New Jersey, wrote “Society’s Child” about an interracial relationship. Recorded and rel ... view
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Self
Feb 2024 (first aired)
After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique ob ... view
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Regina Coburn (1 ep.)
Dec 2023 (first aired)
As a planetary apocalypse looms, a woman struggling to embrace end-times chaos searches for meaning in her last months on Earth. ... view
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HR Lady (voice) (3 ep.)
2023
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high s ... view
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Angela Russo
Mar 2022 (first aired)
The story of Elizabeth Holmes, the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos. Lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech ... view
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Phyllis Gardner (4 ep.)
Sep 2021 (first aired)
A gay superspy and his scrappy LGBTQ squad fight to prove themselves to the agency that underestimated them. Today, West Hollywood… tomorrow, the wo ... view
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V (voice) (10 ep.)
May 2021 (first aired)
Explore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old. ... view
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Weed (3 ep.)
2020
The O’Mallerys have gathered in their local park to share some barbecue and rousing straight talk while they await their youngest sister’s arrival ... view
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Lillie Anne
Nov 2020 (first aired)
A mysterious call from a dying stranger upends Katie Bonner's life and sends her down a dangerous rabbit hole in search of a woman named Tala. ... view
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Cast (4 ep.)
2019
Woody has always been confident about his place in the world, devoted to taking care of his kid—whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But after Bonnie crea ... view
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Andy's Mom (voice)
Oct 2018 (first aired)
This iconic family—Dan, Jackie, Darlene, Becky and D.J.—grapples with parenthood, dating, an unexpected pregnancy, financial pressures, aging and ... view
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Jackie Harris (112 ep.)
2017
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her up ... view
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Marion McPherson
2016
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton. ... view
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Self
Jan 2016 (first aired)
The owners of a dive bar in Brooklyn, Horace and Pete, along with bar regulars share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or wor ... view
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Sarah (10 ep.)
Oct 2015 (first aired)
Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her ... view
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Mary McGowan (2 ep.)
Sep 2015 (first aired)
Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an eclect ... view
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Self - Guest (1 ep.)
Dec 2014 (first aired)
PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and TV shows of the past year through candid conversations with today's hottest actors. Hoste ... view
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Self (1 ep.)
Oct 2014 (first aired)
A multi-camera comedy about a close-knit, sports-crazed Boston family whose somewhat athletically challenged son, Ronny, is chosen by his father to be ... view
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Marjorie McCarthy (15 ep.)
Sep 2014 (first aired)
Tim and Eric's dark comedy anthology series. ... view
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Gabrielle (1 ep.)
Apr 2014 (first aired)
A single-camera buddy comedy about what happens when two best friends come back together, just when they need each other most. Inspired by the ultra-c ... view
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Dr. Leslie Rollins (1 ep.)
2014
Long Day's Journey into Night focuses on one day in the life of the Tyrone family. Youngest son Edmund is ill, and the family are worried about mother ... view
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Mary Tyrone
Nov 2013 (first aired)
Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they ... view
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Jenna James (18 ep.)
2011
A year in the making, Still Screaming is the definitive documentary on the making of the iconic Scream movies. Dive into the fascinating success story ... view
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Self
2010
Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally le ... view
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Andy's Mom (voice)
Jul 2009 (first aired)
Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities. ... view
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Self - Guest (2 ep.)
Oct 2008 (first aired)
Easy Money is a comedy-drama television series that aired on The CW from October 5, 2008 to August 16, 2009. The series was created by Diane Frolov an ... view
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Unknown/various (8 ep.)
2008
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return t ... view
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Mrs. Colson
Sep 2007 (first aired)
Physicists Leonard and Sheldon find their nerd-centric social circle with pals Howard and Raj expanding when aspiring actress Penny moves in next door ... view
Character:
Mary Cooper (14 ep.)
2007
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of it ... view
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Mrs. Davis (voice) (archive footage)
2007
Rebellious, uncontrollable teenager, Rachel is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her estranged grandmother, Georgia. Her ... view
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Paula Richards
2007
Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when h ... view
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Lucille Krunklehorn (voice)
Mar 2007 (first aired)
Raines is a crime drama television series focused on Michael Raines, a 'mentally haunted' LAPD detective, who interacts with imaginary manifestations ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
2006
An unemployed slacker inspires his softball teammates to improve their game to avoid getting kicked out of the local league. ... view
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Artie's Mom
2006
After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county ... view
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Marianne Karn
2005
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they ... view
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Phyllis
Mar 2005 (first aired)
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. ... view
Character:
Beatrice Carver (1 ep.)
Feb 2005 (first aired)
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his b ... view
Character:
Elizabeth Hadley (voice) (3 ep.)
Oct 2004 (first aired)
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the lovelies ... view
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Carolyn Bigsby (4 ep.)
Jun 2003 (first aired)
Charlie Lawrence is an American sitcom that aired from June 15 until June 22, 2003. ... view
Character:
Sarah Dolecek (7 ep.)
2002
When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him ... view
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Sarah (voice)
Sep 2002 (first aired)
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City. ... view
Character:
Susan Hopkins (1 ep.)
Jul 2002 (first aired)
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most b ... view
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Cora Little (1 ep.)
Mar 2000 (first aired)
God strikes a wager with the Devil: if just one person can convince him that the world is worth saving, he'll spare humanity from destruction, if not, ... view
Character:
Donna Alman (voice) (13 ep.)
Jan 2000 (first aired)
A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family. ... view
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Susan (1 ep.)
1999
Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, ... view
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Andy's Mom (voice)
1999
Having already left three grooms at the altar, Maggie Carpenter is branded "the runaway bride" by jaded New York journalist Ike Graham. But, after his ... view
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Betty Trout
1999
As soon as Harvey S. Potter descends upon a drought-stricken farmland, he begins to grow a mysterious but beautiful crop of balloons. Mystified by the ... view
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Casey Johnson
Mar 1999 (first aired)
Norm Henderson was once a fairly well-known -- but not particularly good -- professional hockey player. Norm's penchant for gambling and not paying ta ... view
Character:
Laurie Freeman (54 ep.)
1998
A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad parts of the city and emotionally connects to many of ... view
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Female Ad Exec
1998
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecti ... view
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Mimi
1998
On December 7, 1993, a gunman opened fire in a crowded commuter train on Long Island. This fact-based story focuses on the events that swell around Ca ... view
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Carolyn McCarthy
1998
An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighb ... view
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Halley Grimes
1997
Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of k ... view
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Debbie Salt
1997
When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. C ... view
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Bus Station Clerk
Sep 1997 (first aired)
Dharma & Greg is an American television sitcom that aired from September 24, 1997, to April 30, 2002.
It stars Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as Dhar ... view
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Spyder (1 ep.)
Jan 1997 (first aired)
Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife ... view
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Cissy Cobb (voice) (1 ep.)
1996
The documentary short of Toy Story of why and how the feature length blockbuster sleeper movie became a success and helps to boost Pixar's popularity ... view
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Self
1996
A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter of ... view
Character:
Rebecca Frazen
Jan 1996 (first aired)
The high commander of an alien expedition lands on Earth -- what he considers to be the least-important planet -- in human form as Dick Solomon. Along ... view
Character:
Jennifer Ravelli (3 ep.)
1995
Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's he ... view
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Mrs. Davis (voice)
1995
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, ... view
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Landlady
Mar 1994 (first aired)
Together with Cornfed, his portly, porcine partner in crime solving, this defective detective amazingly manages to solve crimes and be a single parent ... view
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Sophie (voice) (2 ep.)
1994
A nine-year-old girl with a mother in the hospital decides to live alone and fend for herself. ... view
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Ann
1993
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having pro ... view
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Candice
Sep 1993 (first aired)
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets sho ... view
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Nanny G (1 ep.)
1993
Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a qual ... view
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Anita
1993
Theatrical packaging of three comic shorts: Dean Parisot & Steven Wright's comedy "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings" (1988), Michael Moore's docume ... view
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Emma
Dec 1992 (first aired)
The Jackie Thomas Show is an American sitcom that aired on the ABC network from December 1992 to March 1993. The series received widespread attention ... view
Character:
Jackie Harris (1 ep.)
1992
A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems t ... view
Character:
Rachel Landisman
1991
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison. ... view
Character:
Susie Cox
1991
Tom sets out to solve world problems, with help from Frank Zappa, Martin Mull, and wife Roseanne. ... view
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Self
1990
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own. ... view
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Stephanie MacDonald
1990
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the a ... view
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Amy Wallace
1989
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewhe ... view
Character:
Marcie Dahlgren-Frost
Oct 1988 (first aired)
A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois. ... view
Character:
Jackie Harris (231 ep.)
1988
Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosi ... view
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Exotic Dancer
1988
Dennis Jennings is an introverted daydreamer, sleepwalking through life. He is a professional waiter and has an equally-dull girlfriend, Emma. In an a ... view
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Emma
1988
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric. ... view
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Melissa
1988
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker. ... view
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Alice
1987
When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developing v ... view
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Sandy
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1985
A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now awaits his execution while his family desperately se ... view
Character:
Carol Graham
Sep 1985 (first aired)
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as ... view
Character:
Theresa (1 ep.)
1985
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken ... view
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Leslie Glass
1982
In this adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Where Love Is, God Is," a cobbler named Martin has a crisis of faith after experiencing a personal tragedy and is ... view
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1978
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as ... view
Character:
Maid (uncredited)
Oct 1975 (first aired)
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture a ... view
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Weekend Update Reporter (1 ep.)
Self (uncredited) (1 ep.)
Apr 1956 (first aired)
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards ... view
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Self - Nominee (1 ep.)
Mar 1953 (first aired)
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuett ... view
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Self (1 ep.)