Jeannie Berlin

Jeannie Berlin

Born: November 1, 1949
in Los Angeles, California, USA
Jeannie Berlin (born Jeannie Brette May; November 1, 1949) is an American actress and screenwriter.

She is best known for her role in the 1972 film The Heartbreak Kid, directed by her mother Elaine May, for which she received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. She later played the leading role in Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975), and in 2000s returned to screen appearing in films such as Margaret (2011), Inherent Vice (2014) and Cafe Society (2016), as well as the miniseries The Night Of (2016).

Movies for Jeannie Berlin...

The Bride!
Title: The Bride!
Released: October 3, 2025
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, Frankenstein’s monster travels to Chicago to seek the aid of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention of the police and a wild and radical social movement.
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You Hurt My Feelings
Title: You Hurt My Feelings
Character: Georgia
Released: May 26, 2023
Type: Movie
A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.
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The Fabelmans
Title: The Fabelmans
Character: Hadassah Fabelman
Released: November 11, 2022
Type: Movie
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
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Faraway Eyes
Title: Faraway Eyes
Character: Goldie (Mom)
Released: March 7, 2020
Type: Movie
Michael, a struggling actor, dies right after a bad breakup. He finds himself awakening in a very bright room with a very strange lady and learns that he is in singles Purgatory, where he must find his soul mate in order to cross over to the other side. With limited time to find true love among other recently deceased single New Yorkers, Michael must navigate the new customs of a ghostly dating life... as if dating in life wasn't hard enough already.
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Title: Hunters
Character: Ruth Heidelbaum
Released: February 20, 2020
Type: TV
A diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in 1977 New York City discover that hundreds of high ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The eclectic team of Hunters set out on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans.
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Title: Succession
Character: Cyd Peach
Released: June 3, 2018
Type: TV
Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
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Title: The Night Of
Character: Helen Weiss
Released: July 10, 2016
Type: TV
After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
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Café Society
Title: Café Society
Character: Rose Dorfman
Released: May 11, 2016
Type: Movie
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
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Inherent Vice
Title: Inherent Vice
Character: Aunt Reet
Released: December 12, 2014
Type: Movie
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
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Vijay and I
Title: Vijay and I
Character: Mrs. Korokowski
Released: August 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Wilhelm Wilder (Will) is a talented actor stuck on a New York City children's TV show where he portrays Bad Luck Bunny, a hapless green rabbit. Feeling a failure, he bears his fate with touching self-irony, but grows sulky and petulant when he thinks that his wife, daughter and all his friends have forgotten his 40th birthday. In the confusion following a road accident, all the world believes he is dead. Instead of rectifying the situation, he decides to fulfill a fantasy and attend his own funeral. Here he will learn what everyone really thinks of him. With the aid of his best friend Rad, an Indian restaurant-owner, Will becomes Vijay Singh, a handsome and gentlemanly Sikh, complete with turban and beard. Will confronts a unique problem: everyone likes Vijay, and most of all, he likes Vijay, more than he ever liked himself. (Sam Garbarski)
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Margaret
Title: Margaret
Character: Emily Smith
Released: September 30, 2011
Type: Movie
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.
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Title: Miss Match
Released: September 26, 2003
Type: TV
Miss Match is a 2003 American television series created by Jeff Rake and Darren Star and produced by Twentieth Century Fox, Darren Star Productions and Imagine Entertainment. It aired in the U.S. on NBC, Australia on Network Seven, Arena and FOX8, and in the UK on Living, Channel 4 and is currently on E4. The series filmed at least 18 episodes but only 8 aired in the US. The entire series aired in both the UK & Canada. Starring Alicia Silverstone and Ryan O'Neal, the show garnered poor ratings, which could have been due to its inability to compete in the Friday 8pm ET timeslot. It was based on the real-life story of Samantha Daniels.
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In the Spirit
Title: In the Spirit
Character: Crystal
Released: April 6, 1990
Type: Movie
After her husband loses his job, Marianne moves from Beverly Hills to a nightmare New York City. She hires ditzy psychic Reva to redecorate her apartment, and they end up being pursued by a crazed killer.
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Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
Title: Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
Character: Sheila Levine
Released: December 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Sheila Levine – an innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual – arrives in New York City to take an apartment with a partygoing roommate. There, she experiences love and heartache in equal measure.
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Why?
Title: Why?
Character: The Junkie
Released: May 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A group therapy session takes place involving a drummer from a suddenly defunct jazz band, an athlete and a pregnant junkie.
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The Heartbreak Kid
Title: The Heartbreak Kid
Character: Lila Kolodny
Released: December 17, 1972
Type: Movie
Three days into his Miami honeymoon with needy and unsophisticated Lila, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms his fear that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly instead.
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Why
Title: Why
Character: The Junkie
Released: November 23, 1972
Type: Movie
Italian drama
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Bone
Title: Bone
Character: The Girl
Released: July 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared.
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Portnoy's Complaint
Title: Portnoy's Complaint
Character: Bubbles Girardi
Released: June 19, 1972
Type: Movie
During a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering him. His complaints include his childhood and his family with an emphasis on his mother, his sexual fantasies and the problems that he has with women, and his obsessive feelings about his Judaism.
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Two on a Bench
Title: Two on a Bench
Character: Harriet
Released: November 2, 1971
Type: Movie
An outgoing young girl and a square stockbroker meet on a park bench in Boston and are mistaken for international spies and chased by both sides.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Janie Brandt
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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The Baby Maker
Title: The Baby Maker
Character: Charlotte
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to have children. She accepts but finds that knowing the parents, and developing a relationship with them for the entire pregnancy complicates the simple arrangement.
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The Strawberry Statement
Title: The Strawberry Statement
Character: Girl with Clipboard
Released: August 28, 1970
Type: Movie
A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.
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Move
Title: Move
Released: July 31, 1970
Type: Movie
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Title: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Character: Girl in Orphanage (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.
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Getting Straight
Title: Getting Straight
Character: Judy Kramer
Released: May 13, 1970
Type: Movie
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry's girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them. As Harry gets closer to finishing his degree, he finds his iconoclastic attitude increasingly aligned with the students rather than the faculty.
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In Name Only
Title: In Name Only
Character: Heather
Released: November 25, 1969
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, an unwed couple who run a wedding planning business discover, to their horror, that the Justice of the Peace who had officiated their first three weddings was only an actor. Hilarity ensues as they set about trying to get these marrieds married...again.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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I'll Be Right There
Title: I'll Be Right There
Character: Grace
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Wanda, a single mother with a pregnant daughter, a wayward son, a mother who believes is dying. Barely having time for herself and living to take care of her family but everyone around her doesn't seem to accept it, why isn't that enough?