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F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980)
Character: N/A
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.
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Keeping On (1983)
Character: Virginia
A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.
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Summer Switch (1984)
Character: Pegotty Horn
Father and son magically switch personalities with comical results.
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One True Thing (1998)
Character: Mrs. Best
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
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All the President's Men (1976)
Character: Bookkeeper's Sister
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
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I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
Character: 2nd Nurse
A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
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What Lies Beneath (2000)
Character: Mrs. Templeton
Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.
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Pollock (2000)
Character: Dot Miller
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
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Lean On Me (1989)
Character: Mrs. Hamilton
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks doors and demands effort and results from students, staff and parents. Autocratic to a fault, this real-life educator put it all on the line.
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Perfume (2001)
Character: Denise
A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York City.
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The Confession (1999)
Character: Mrs. Defeo
After his young son dies from the negligence at a hospital, Harry Fertig takes matters into his own hands and kills the doctor, nurse and clerk responsible. Slick lawyer Roy Bleakie, looking only to win a case and not caring of the matters involved, is asked by Fertig's boss to defend him. Shocked to hear that his client wants to plead guilty, the case causes Bleakie to question his own morals by defending an honorable man.
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Silent Madness (1984)
Character: Anne Swenson
A psychiatrist poses as an ex-sorority sister to stop a slasher freed by a computer error.
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Jacknife (1989)
Character: Shirley
A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.
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All That Jazz (1979)
Character: Mother
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985)
Character: Nurse Karris
A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife's career really takes off. The husband, unable to cope with the pressures of his failed business, his failing marriage and the adjustments necessary to live in a completely different society, begins to take out his frustrations on his wife.
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Running on Empty (1988)
Character: Mrs. Phillips
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.
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Orpheus Descending (1990)
Character: Beulah
Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
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Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978)
Character: Odd Couple Wife
A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.
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