Tess Harper
Encyclopedia
Tess Harper is an American
actress.
. Her parents' names are Ed and Rosemary Washam. She grew up around lots of quilts and quilt makers. On her own time, she liked to sit on the porch-swing and read. She graduated from high school in 1968.
when she attended a casting call for a minor female role in the film Tender Mercies
. Director
Bruce Beresford
was impressed with Harper and cast her instead in the lead female role of Rosa Lee, the young widow and mother who marries country singer
Mac Sledge. Beresford said the previous actress who auditioned for the role brought to it a sophistication and worldliness inappropriate for the part, whereas Harper brought a kind of rural quality without coming across as simple or foolish. Beresford said of Harper, "She walked into the room and even before she spoke, I thought, 'That's the girl to play the lead.'"
Tender Mercies was Harper's feature film debut. Harper said she was so excited about the role that she literally bit her script just to make sure it was real, and was so nervous that during her first take she feared the filmmakers would "come to their senses and say, 'We're sorry, we made a terrible mistake.'" Actor Robert Duvall
, who played the lead role of Mac Sledge, did his best to help Harper in her first film role. During one scene in which Mac Sledge and Rosa Lee were fighting, Duvall yelled at a make-up artist in front of Harper specifically to make her angry for the scene; Duvall apologized to the make-up artist after the scene was shot. After filming, Duvall said Harper did a very good job, and he felt her rural past in Arkansas helped her in the part. She earned a Golden Globe Award
nomination for the role. Duvall won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.
Harper appeared in the TV mini-series Chiefs (1983) and Celebrity (1984), as well as many television movie
s including Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
(1983) and Reckless Disregard (1985). In 1983, she appeared in the full-length feature Silkwood
.
In 1986, Harper was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
for her work as Chick Boyle in Crimes of the Heart
. She would later play parts in such films as Ishtar
(1987), Far North (1988), The Man in the Moon
(1991), The Jackal (1997) and Loggerheads
(2005). She also took part in Michael Jackson's
Black Or White (1991) musical minifilm.
Harper had a regular role in a CBS
television series
, Christy
, from 1994-95. Her roles have frequently been that of a Southern lady, although she had worked to lose her Arkansas
accent. She also had a recurring role on another CBS
television series
, Early Edition
, from 1996-2000. She portrayed the mother of lead character Gary Hobsen. Harper shared a Screen Actors Guild Award
(in the Best Ensemble Cast category) with her fellow cast members in the Oscar-winning film No Country for Old Men
, in which she played the wife of Tommy Lee Jones
.
She had the recurring role of Mrs. Pinkman in Vince Gilligan's
Breaking Bad
series on AMC, appearing in the first three seasons.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actress.
Early life
Born Tessie Jean Washam on August 15, 1950 in Mammoth Spring, ArkansasMammoth Spring, Arkansas
Mammoth Spring is a city in Fulton County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 977 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Mammoth Spring is located at ....
. Her parents' names are Ed and Rosemary Washam. She grew up around lots of quilts and quilt makers. On her own time, she liked to sit on the porch-swing and read. She graduated from high school in 1968.
Career
Tess Harper began acting in theater production and appearances in theme parks, dinner theatres and children's theatre. She was performing theater in TexasTexas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
when she attended a casting call for a minor female role in the film Tender Mercies
Tender Mercies
Tender Mercies is a 1983 American drama film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay by Horton Foote focuses on Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country music singer who seeks to turn his life around through his relationship with a young widow and her son in rural Texas...
. Director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 40-year career.-Early life:...
was impressed with Harper and cast her instead in the lead female role of Rosa Lee, the young widow and mother who marries country singer
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
Mac Sledge. Beresford said the previous actress who auditioned for the role brought to it a sophistication and worldliness inappropriate for the part, whereas Harper brought a kind of rural quality without coming across as simple or foolish. Beresford said of Harper, "She walked into the room and even before she spoke, I thought, 'That's the girl to play the lead.'"
Tender Mercies was Harper's feature film debut. Harper said she was so excited about the role that she literally bit her script just to make sure it was real, and was so nervous that during her first take she feared the filmmakers would "come to their senses and say, 'We're sorry, we made a terrible mistake.'" Actor Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall
Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career....
, who played the lead role of Mac Sledge, did his best to help Harper in her first film role. During one scene in which Mac Sledge and Rosa Lee were fighting, Duvall yelled at a make-up artist in front of Harper specifically to make her angry for the scene; Duvall apologized to the make-up artist after the scene was shot. After filming, Duvall said Harper did a very good job, and he felt her rural past in Arkansas helped her in the part. She earned a Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...
nomination for the role. Duvall won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.
Harper appeared in the TV mini-series Chiefs (1983) and Celebrity (1984), as well as many television movie
Television movie
A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...
s including Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land is a 1983 television movie starring Lee Majors and Hal Linden...
(1983) and Reckless Disregard (1985). In 1983, she appeared in the full-length feature Silkwood
Silkwood
Silkwood is a 1983 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was inspired by the true-life story of Karen Silkwood, who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she...
.
In 1986, Harper was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
for her work as Chick Boyle in Crimes of the Heart
Crimes of the Heart (film)
Crimes of the Heart is a 1986 American black comedy film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay by Beth Henley is adapted from her Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.-Plot:...
. She would later play parts in such films as Ishtar
Ishtar (film)
Ishtar is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Elaine May and starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman as "Rogers and Clarke" – a duo of incredibly untalented lounge singers who travel to Morocco looking for work, and stumble into a four-party Cold War standoff.It also starred Isabelle Adjani...
(1987), Far North (1988), The Man in the Moon
The Man in the Moon
The Man in the Moon is a 1991 American drama film, directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Sam Waterston, Reese Witherspoon and Jason London...
(1991), The Jackal (1997) and Loggerheads
Loggerheads (film)
Loggerheads is an independent film written and directed by Tim Kirkman, produced by Gill Holland and released in the United States by Strand Releasing in October 2005. After its debut at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize, Loggerheads screened at...
(2005). She also took part in Michael Jackson's
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
Black Or White (1991) musical minifilm.
Harper had a regular role in a CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
television series
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
, Christy
Christy (TV series)
Christy is an American drama series which aired on CBS from April 1994 to August 1995, for twenty episodes.Christy was based on the novel Christy by Catherine Marshall, the widow of Senate chaplain Peter Marshall...
, from 1994-95. Her roles have frequently been that of a Southern lady, although she had worked to lose her Arkansas
Arkansas
Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...
accent. She also had a recurring role on another CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
television series
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
, Early Edition
Early Edition
Early Edition is an American television series that aired on CBS from September 28, 1996 to May 27, 2000. Set in the city of Chicago, Illinois, it follows the adventures of a man who mysteriously receives each Chicago Sun-Times newspaper the day before it is actually published, and who uses this...
, from 1996-2000. She portrayed the mother of lead character Gary Hobsen. Harper shared a Screen Actors Guild Award
Screen Actors Guild Awards
A Screen Actors Guild Award is an accolade given by the Screen Actors Guild to recognize outstanding performances by its members. The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called "The Actor"...
(in the Best Ensemble Cast category) with her fellow cast members in the Oscar-winning film No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men (film)
No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American crime thriller directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin. The film was adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name...
, in which she played the wife of Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive....
.
She had the recurring role of Mrs. Pinkman in Vince Gilligan's
Vince Gilligan
Vince Gilligan is an American writer, director and producer. He is the creator of the highly acclaimed television series Breaking Bad. Gilligan has also worked on the hit series The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen. He is a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University...
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White , a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series...
series on AMC, appearing in the first three seasons.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Kentucky Woman | Lorna Whateley | TV movie |
| 1983 | Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land is a 1983 television movie starring Lee Majors and Hal Linden... |
Janet Briggs | TV movie |
| 1983 | Tender Mercies Tender Mercies Tender Mercies is a 1983 American drama film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay by Horton Foote focuses on Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country music singer who seeks to turn his life around through his relationship with a young widow and her son in rural Texas... |
Rosa Lee | |
| 1983 | Chiefs Chiefs (TV miniseries) Chiefs is a miniseries based upon the novel of the same name by Stuart Woods. It was broadcast on CBS over three nights in November 1983. It was directed by Jerry London, and stars Charlton Heston, Keith Carradine, Stephen Collins, Danny Glover, Wayne Rogers and Billy Dee Williams... |
Carrie Lee | TV mini-series |
| 1983 | Amityville 3-D Amityville 3-D Amityville 3-D is a 1983 horror film and the third installment in the The Amityville Horror series. It was one of a spate of 3-D films released in the early 80s. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and the script was written by David Ambrose... |
Nancy Baxter | |
| 1983 | Silkwood Silkwood Silkwood is a 1983 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was inspired by the true-life story of Karen Silkwood, who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she... |
Linda Dawson | |
| 1984 | Celebrity | Susan French | TV mini-series |
| 1984 | Flashpoint Flashpoint (film) Flashpoint is a film starring Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams. Rip Torn, Jean Smart, Kurtwood Smith, and Tess Harper also co-star. The movie was directed by William Tannen and based on a novel by George La Fountaine... |
Ellen | |
| 1985 | Reckless Disregard | Meredith Craig | TV movie |
| 1985 | George Burns Comedy Week George Burns Comedy Week George Burns Comedy Week was a comedy anthology television series broadcast in the United States by CBS as part of its 1985 fall lineup.As he was age 89 when the show premiered, George Burns was billed as the oldest person ever to "star" in a television series... |
Episode: "The Smiths" | |
| 1985 | Promises to Keep | Gwen Palmer | TV movie |
| 1986 | Sarah | Episode: "Quarantine Quarantine (The Twilight Zone) "Quarantine" is the second segment of the seventeenth episode from the first season of the television series The Twilight Zone.-Synopsis:... " |
|
| 1986 | Crimes of the Heart Crimes of the Heart (film) Crimes of the Heart is a 1986 American black comedy film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay by Beth Henley is adapted from her Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.-Plot:... |
Chick Boyle | |
| 1987 | Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network, with 264 episodes transmitted. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series,... |
Irene Rutledge | Episode: "Simon Says, Color Me Dead" |
| 1987 | L.A. Law L.A. Law L.A. Law is a US television legal drama that ran on NBC from September 15, 1986 to May 19, 1994. L.A. Law reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights,... |
Patricia Pittman | Episode: "Sparky Brackman R.I.P. ????-1987" |
| 1987 | Daddy Daddy (1989 film) Daddy was 1989, debut film of actress Pooja Bhatt, made under the direction of Mahesh Bhatt. The films boasts spectacular performances by its lead actors, Anupam Kher and Manohar Singh-Synopsis:... |
Ann Burnette | TV movie |
| 1987 | Ishtar Ishtar (film) Ishtar is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Elaine May and starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman as "Rogers and Clarke" – a duo of incredibly untalented lounge singers who travel to Morocco looking for work, and stumble into a four-party Cold War standoff.It also starred Isabelle Adjani... |
Willa | |
| 1988 | Little Girl Lost | Clara Brady | TV movie |
| 1988 | Far North | Rita | |
| 1988 | Criminal Law Criminal Law (film) Criminal Law is a film directed by Martin Campbell, released in 1989.-Plot:Attorney Ben Chase successfully defends Martin Thiel, a wealthy young playboy, getting him acquitted of a series of brutal murders — only to find out later that Thiel is indeed a serial killer... |
Det. Stillwell | |
| 1989 | Unconquered | Mrs. Mary Flowers | TV movie |
| 1989 | Her Alibi | Sally Blackwood | |
| 1989 | Incident at Dark River | Betty McFall | TV movie |
| 1990 | Thirtysomething | Deborah | Episode: "Post-Op" |
| 1990 | Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? | Sara Lee | |
| 1991 | Pretty Hattie's Baby | ||
| 1991 | My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys | Cheryl | |
| 1991 | Abigail Trant | ||
| 1991 | Black or White | Mother | Video short |
| 1992 | In the Line of Duty: Siege at Marion | Vickie Singer | TV movie |
| 1992 | Martha Harnish | ||
| 1992 | My New Gun | Kimmy Hayes | |
| 1992 | Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story | Verna Heath | TV movie |
| 1993 | Dede | Episode: "After the Crash" | |
| 1994–1995 | Christy Christy (TV series) Christy is an American drama series which aired on CBS from April 1994 to August 1995, for twenty episodes.Christy was based on the novel Christy by Catherine Marshall, the widow of Senate chaplain Peter Marshall... |
Fairlight Spencer | 19 episodes |
| 1995 | Death in Small Doses | Asst. D.A. Jerri Sims | TV movie |
| 1996 | Julia Archer | TV movie | |
| 1996 | Linda Grant | TV movie | |
| 1996 | Dirty Laundry | Beth Greene | |
| 1997 | Tina DeCapprio | TV movie | |
| 1997 | Grace Under Fire | Joan | Episode: "Matthew's Old Lady" |
| 1997 | Joanna Chandler | TV movie | |
| 1997 | Gun Gun (TV series) "Gun" was a television anthology series that lasted six episodes in 1997. Each episode involved the same semi-automatic handgun as an important part of the plot. The characters each episode were completely different and appeared unrelated to those who appeared in other episodes... |
Virginia | Episode: "Ricochet" |
| 1997 | Walker, Texas Ranger Walker, Texas Ranger Walker, Texas Ranger is an American television action crime drama series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis, and starring Chuck Norris as a member of the Texas Ranger Division. The show aired on CBS in the spring of 1993, with the first season consisting of three pilot episodes. Eight full... |
Katie Malloy | Episode: "Sons of Thunder" |
| 1997 | The First Lady | ||
| 1997 | Cracker: Mind Over Murder | Lea Ann Garner | Episode: "An American Dream" |
| 1998–2000 | Early Edition Early Edition Early Edition is an American television series that aired on CBS from September 28, 1996 to May 27, 2000. Set in the city of Chicago, Illinois, it follows the adventures of a man who mysteriously receives each Chicago Sun-Times newspaper the day before it is actually published, and who uses this... |
Lois Hobson | 7 episodes |
| 2000 | Morning Morning The word morning originally referred to the sunrise. Morning precedes midday, afternoon, and night in the sequence of a day.Morning is the part of the day usually reckoned from dawn to noon... |
Margaret | |
| 2000 | Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder and its sequel, Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, are television films which were presented in two parts, the first in 2000, and the second in 2002, which presented episodes from the later books in the... |
Narrator / Older Laura Ingalls Wilder | TV movie |
| 2000 | Dr. Amanda Giles | ||
| 2000 | Touched by an Angel Touched by an Angel Touched by an Angel is an American drama series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994 and ran for 211 episodes and nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series stars Roma Downey, as an angel named Monica, and Della... |
Betsy Baxter | Episode: "The Empty Chair" |
| 2001 | Rebecca Hodge | ||
| 2001 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer... |
Julia Barrett | Episode: "Bully for You" |
| 2002 | Beyond the Prairie 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder and its sequel, Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, are television films which were presented in two parts, the first in 2000, and the second in 2002, which presented episodes from the later books in the... |
Older Laura Ingalls Wilder (voice) | TV movie |
| 2002 | No Prom for Cindy | Cindy's Mom | Short film |
| 2003 | Polly Danko | Episode: "Oh Mother, Who Art Thou?" | |
| 2003 | Studio City | Linda Little | Short film |
| 2004 | One Tree Hill One Tree Hill (TV series) One Tree Hill is an American television drama created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23, 2003, on The WB Television Network. After its third season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW Television Network, and, since September 27, 2006, the network has been the official broadcaster... |
May Scott | Episode: "Crash Course in Polite Conversations" |
| 2004 | Lonely Place | Short film | |
| 2004 | Jack & Bobby Jack & Bobby Jack & Bobby is an American television series that aired on The WB network. It featured two brothers, one of whom would become President of the United States, serving from 2041 to 2049... |
Karen Carmichael | Episode: "Pilot" Episode: "An Innocent Man" |
| 2004 | Angel in the Family | Mrs. Nelly Tomkins | TV movie |
| 2005 | Loggerheads Loggerheads (film) Loggerheads is an independent film written and directed by Tim Kirkman, produced by Gill Holland and released in the United States by Strand Releasing in October 2005. After its debut at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize, Loggerheads screened at... |
Elizabeth Austin | |
| 2005 | Judging Amy Judging Amy Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly... |
Barbara Nissman | Episode: "Sorry I Missed You" |
| 2006 | Karla Karla (film) Karla is a 2006 American drama and thriller film. The film is based on the true story of two of Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.-Synopsis:... |
Molly Czehowicz | |
| 2006 | Jam | Ruby | |
| 2006 | Jesus, Mary and Joey | Liz O'Callahan | |
| 2006 | Broken Bridges Broken Bridges Broken Bridges is a 2006 film starring Toby Keith, Lindsey Haun, Burt Reynolds and Kelly Preston. The film, a music-drama, is centred on a fading country singer's return to his hometown near a military base in Kentucky where several young men who were killed in a training exercise on the base were... |
Dixie Rose Delton | |
| 2006 | Broken Broken (2007 film) Broken is a 2007 film by director Alan White, starring Heather Graham and Jeremy Sisto. The film had a poor run in theatres and was released to DVD less than two months after its theatrical release.-Plot:... |
Clare | |
| 2007 | Judy's Got a Gun | Susan Lemen | TV movie |
| 2007 | Without a Trace Without a Trace Without a Trace is an American television drama which originally ran on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009. The series was set in New York City and concerned a fictitious FBI Missing Persons Unit.-Premise:... |
Mrs. Spade | Episode: "At Rest Without a Trace (season 5) The fifth season of Without a Trace premiered September 24, 2006 on CBS and ended on May 10, 2007. There are 24 episodes in this season. This seasons includes the 100th episode. For the U.S... " |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men No Country for Old Men (film) No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American crime thriller directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin. The film was adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name... |
Loretta Bell | |
| 2007 | Kiss the Bride Kiss the Bride (2008 film) Kiss the Bride is a romantic comedy, directed by C. Jay Cox, which had a limited release in April 2008. It stars Tori Spelling, Philipp Karner and James O'Shea... |
Barbara | |
| 2007 | Saving Sarah Cain Saving Sarah Cain Saving Sarah Cain is a 2007 film based on Beverly Lewis' 2000 novel The Redemption of Sarah Cain. The film premiered August 19, 2007 on Lifetime Television. The film is distributed by Believe Pictures and stars Lisa Pepper, Elliott Gould, Tess Harper, Soren Fulton, Danielle Chuchran, Abigail Mason,... |
Miriam Esh | |
| 2007 | Brothers & Sisters | Beth Ridge | Episode: "History Repeating" |
| 2008 | Ghost Whisperer Ghost Whisperer Ghost Whisperer is an American television supernatural drama, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005 to May 21, 2010.The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon , who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts... |
Ellen Wilkins | Episode: "Stranglehold Stranglehold (Ghost Whisperer) "Stranglehold", is the episode before the last of Ghost Whisperer, season three. It originally aired on May 9, 2008 on CBS in United States. All main cast appears.-Summary:... " |
| 2008 | Breaking Bad Breaking Bad Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White , a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series... |
Mrs. Pinkman | Episode: "Cancer Man" |
| 2009 | Breaking Bad Breaking Bad Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White , a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series... |
Mrs. Pinkman | Episode: "Grilled" Episode: "Down" |
| 2009 | Fatal Secrets | Naomi | |
| 2009 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced... |
Mrs. Hallander | Episode: "Stranger" |
| 2009 | Cold Case | Sharon Lertola | Episode: "November 22" |
| 2009 | Crash Crash (2008 TV series) Crash is an American television drama series set in Los Angeles, California. It is the first original series produced by the Starz network. The network ordered a 13 episode season which premiered on October 17, 2008. The series is based on the 2004 film of the same name. It was developed for... |
Wendy Olinville | 10 episodes |
| 2010 | Buried Buried (film) Buried is a 2010 Spanish thriller film directed by Rodrigo Cortés. It stars Ryan Reynolds, and was written by Chris Sparling.The film revolves around Iraq-based American truck driver Paul Conroy , who, after being attacked, finds himself buried alive in a wooden coffin, with only a lighter, flask,... |
Maryanne (voice) | |
| 2010 | Grey's Anatomy Grey's Anatomy Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in... |
Mrs. Nelson | Episode: "Perfect Little Accident" |
| 2010 | In Plain Sight In Plain Sight In Plain Sight is an American dramatic television series on USA Network. The series revolves around Mary Shannon , a Deputy United States Marshal attached to the Albuquerque, New Mexico office of the Federal Witness Security Program , more commonly known as the Federal Witness Protection Program... |
A.U.S.A. Rolly | Episode: "Coma Chameleon" |
| 2010 | Trudy Willis | Completed | |
| 2010 | Breaking Bad Breaking Bad Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White , a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series... |
Mrs. Pinkman | Episode: "Caballo Sin Nombre" |
| 2011 | Child P.O.W. | Adult Alice | in production |