Swoosie Kurtz

Swoosie Kurtz

Born: September 6, 1944
in Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Swoosie Kurtz (born September 6, 1944) is an American actress. She began her career in theater during the 1970s and shortly thereafter began a career in television, garnering ten nominations and winning one Emmy Award. Her most famous television project was her role on the 1990s NBC drama Sisters. She has also appeared somewhat sporadically in films from the late 1970s up until today, including prominent roles in such films as Dangerous Liaisons, Citizen Ruth, and Liar Liar among others. Throughout her career she has remained active in theater, earning five Tony Award nominations and winning two over the last three decades.

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Title: Rugrats
Character: Minka / Frau Klump (voice)
Released: May 27, 2021
Type: TV
A reinvention of the beloved 90s cartoon, Rugrats follows a group of adventurous babies as they discover the big world around them. Lead by Tommy Pickles, this toddler crew explores the world from their pint-sized and wildly imaginative perspective.
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Title: Rugrats
Character: Minka (voice)
Released: May 27, 2021
Type: TV
A reinvention of the beloved 90s cartoon, Rugrats follows a group of adventurous babies as they discover the big world around them. Lead by Tommy Pickles, this toddler crew explores the world from their pint-sized and wildly imaginative perspective.
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Title: Call Me Kat
Character: Sheila
Released: January 3, 2021
Type: TV
Kat is a woman who struggles every day against society and her mother to prove that she can still live a happy and fulfilling life despite still being single at 39. Which is why she recently spent her entire savings to open a cat café in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Title: Bless the Harts
Character: Mee-Maw (voice)
Released: September 29, 2019
Type: TV
The lives of a group of Southerners who are always broke as a joke and struggling for the American dream of status and wealth. What they don’t realize is that they’re already rich — in friends, family and laughter.
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Overboard
Title: Overboard
Character: Grace
Released: April 13, 2018
Type: Movie
A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee.
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Title: The Dangerous Book for Boys
Character: Tiffany McKenna
Released: March 29, 2018
Type: TV
The story of a middle-class family coping with the sudden passing of their beloved patriarch Patrick, a whimsical inventor who touched the lives of all who knew him. Devastated, his family finds hope in a guide book he created for his sons.
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Title: Man with a Plan
Character: Beverly
Released: October 24, 2016
Type: TV
A dad finds out that parenting is harder than he thought after his wife goes back to work and he's left at home to take care of the kids.
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Title: Lethal Weapon
Character: Ruthie
Released: September 21, 2016
Type: TV
A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.
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Title: Lethal Weapon
Character: Ruthie Krumholz
Released: September 21, 2016
Type: TV
A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.
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Title: Mike & Molly
Character: Joyce Flynn
Released: September 20, 2010
Type: TV
A comedy about a working class Chicago couple who find love at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.
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Title: Hank
Released: September 30, 2009
Type: TV
Hank Pryor, a titan of industry, suddenly finds himself out of work, almost out of money and around a wife and kids for whom he's never made much time. Despite his recent setbacks, however, Hank is confident he's on the road back to the top. He knows he is destined to return to greatness. And he is—just not the greatness he imagines.
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An Englishman in New York
Title: An Englishman in New York
Character: Connie Clausen
Released: April 27, 2009
Type: Movie
Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there until his death. The film observes Crisp in both his public and private lives, from his seemingly cavalier response to the outbreak of AIDS to his tender relationship with his friend Patrick Angus and his own response to growing old.
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Living Proof
Title: Living Proof
Character: Elizabeth
Released: October 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Dr Dennis Slamon, an American oncologist, discovers a treatment that could possibly cure breast cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. He tries to look for ways to fund the medication.
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Title: The Bonnie Hunt Show
Released: September 8, 2008
Type: TV
The Bonnie Hunt Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted by Bonnie Hunt. It premiered on September 8, 2008. It is the second show featuring Bonnie Hunt to have that title. The first was a sitcom that ran for one season in 1995 and was retitled Bonnie when it returned after a mid-season hiatus. The show's second and final season premiered on September 8, 2009. It was announced on December 7, 2009 that The Bonnie Hunt Show would not return for a third season and its final episode aired on May 26, 2010 with reruns airing through September 3.
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Title: Pushing Daisies
Character: Lily Charles
Released: October 3, 2007
Type: TV
A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.
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Title: Chuck
Character: Laura Turner
Released: September 24, 2007
Type: TV
When Buy More computer geek Chuck Bartowski unwittingly downloads a database of government information and deadly fighting skills into his head, he becomes the CIA's most vital secret. This sets Chuck on a path to become a full-fledged spy.
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Superman: Doomsday
Title: Superman: Doomsday
Character: Martha Kent (voice)
Released: September 18, 2007
Type: Movie
When LexCorp accidentally unleashes a murderous creature, Superman meets his greatest challenge as a champion. Based on the "The Death of Superman" storyline that appeared in DC Comics' publications in the 1990s.
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Title: Heroes
Character: Millie Houston
Released: September 25, 2006
Type: TV
Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.
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Category 7: The End of the World
Title: Category 7: The End of the World
Character: Penny Hall
Released: November 6, 2005
Type: Movie
It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a super storm that threatens to rend the earth with an unprecedented power. Beautiful scientist Faith Clavell, storm chaser Tommy Tornado, and Judith Carr, the head of FEMA, can stop the inevitable from happening-if they have the courage to venture into the roiling blackness of the storm itself.
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Nadine in Dateland
Title: Nadine in Dateland
Character: Mrs. M
Released: June 26, 2005
Type: Movie
Nadine (Garofalo) is a contradiction in terms; she runs a dating service despite being incredibly unlucky in love. Now, facing serious business problems, she needs to find the right guy to turn her fortune around.
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Title: American Dad!
Character: Betty Smith (voice)
Released: February 6, 2005
Type: TV
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."
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Title: American Dad!
Character: Marylin Thacker (voice)
Released: February 6, 2005
Type: TV
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."
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Title: Huff
Released: November 7, 2004
Type: TV
Dr. Craig Huffstodt, a family man and a successful psychiatrist, gets a wake-up call after a tragedy occurs with one of his patients.
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Title: Desperate Housewives
Released: October 3, 2004
Type: TV
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 loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.
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Title: Lost
Character: Emily Locke
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
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Duplex
Title: Duplex
Character: Jean
Released: September 26, 2003
Type: Movie
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
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The Rules of Attraction
Title: The Rules of Attraction
Character: Mrs. Jared
Released: October 11, 2002
Type: Movie
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
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Title: Still Standing
Character: Helen Michaels
Released: September 30, 2002
Type: TV
After 18 years of marriage, high school sweethearts Bill and Judy Miller still make each other laugh and try to keep their marriage intact, even when their family pulls them in different directions. Since Bill has a far more immature approach to marriage and raising their three children than Judy does, they work at striking a balance and remembering why they love each other, quirks and all.
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Title: Street Time
Released: June 23, 2002
Type: TV
Follows a fair parole officer and his parolee who wants to go straight but his former business associates are after him.
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The Wilde Girls
Title: The Wilde Girls
Released: November 4, 2001
Type: Movie
A young girl hopes to follow in her famous singer mother's footsteps, but her mother fears the negative effect fame could have on her daughter's life.
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Bubble Boy
Title: Bubble Boy
Character: Mrs. Livingston
Released: August 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Jimmy is a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom... who pines for the sweet caresses of girl-next-door Chloe. But when Chloe decides to marry her high school boyfriend, Jimmy – bubble suit and all – treks cross-country to stop her.
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Get Over It
Title: Get Over It
Character: Beverly Landers
Released: March 8, 2001
Type: Movie
When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his best friend Felix's sister Kelly, he follows his ex into the school's spring musical. Thus ensues a love triangle loosely based upon Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", where Berke is only to find himself getting over Allison and beginning to fall for Kelly.
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Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes
Title: Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes
Character: Binny Redwine
Released: November 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Insurance agent Hutch Rimes spends a lot of time at the Sleep Easy Hotel, taking long lurid lunch breaks with a string of sexy secretaries who he hires for their "special talents". Ten years ago, one of his office honeys tried to get him to kill her abusive husband. The plan backfired when the hubby killed her by mistake, got sent up the river, and lucky Hutch made a fortune buying off a piece of his ranch. But now it's trouble time -- there's a stalker in the suburbs who wants Hutch dead. Is it the cold-blooded killer just out of jail, the jealous husband of his latest fling, or another psycho enemy he's made along the way? Steven Weber (Wings), Swoosie Kurts (Sisters) and Gail O'Grady (NYPD Blue) star in this hilariously sinister thriller that proves the worst thing in life can also be the funniest.
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Title: Love & Money
Character: Effie Conklin
Released: October 8, 1999
Type: TV
In a swanky New York City apartment tower, the earnest young handyman, who lives in the basement, loves the shy heiress who lives in the penthouse. Separating this couple, more than just 20 stories of plush co-ops, is a slew of oddball relatives and millions of dollars in social prestige.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Hilda Marsden
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Title: Harvey
Character: Veta Simmons
Released: July 18, 1999
Type: TV
Filmed in 1996 but released in 1999. An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see.
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Cruel Intentions
Title: Cruel Intentions
Character: Dr. Greenbaum
Released: March 5, 1999
Type: Movie
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession.
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The White River Kid
Title: The White River Kid
Character: Mummy Weed
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Two con men are traveling through the American South when they are held hostage by a serial killer who is running from the authorities.
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Outside Ozona
Title: Outside Ozona
Character: Rosalee
Released: December 18, 1998
Type: Movie
A widowed trucker fends off isolation in the company of a dog named Girl, two bickering sisters try to reconcile their differences and a down-and-out circus clown and his stripper girlfriend must fight the temptation of crime on the road. Their common companion is an angry disc jockey at odds with a desperate boss. All these people will find their lives intertwined by the hand of fate. And before the night gives way to day, some will breathe their last breath... Outside Ozona.
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Title: The Wild Thornberrys
Character: Michelle Naidell (voice)
Released: September 1, 1998
Type: TV
The Wild Thornberrys is an American animated television series that aired on Nickelodeon.
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My Own Country
Title: My Own Country
Character: Hope Flanders
Released: July 12, 1998
Type: Movie
An East Indian physician works with AIDS patients as an epidemic of the disease hits in Tennessee.
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Title: More Tales of the City
Character: Betty Ramsey
Released: June 7, 1998
Type: TV
Lonely inhabitants at 28 Barbary Lane search for love and identity, turning to each other in the hope of finding happiness in San Francisco.
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Liar Liar
Title: Liar Liar
Character: Dana Appleton
Released: March 21, 1997
Type: Movie
Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday he has just one wish - that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his mouth has suddenly become his biggest liability.
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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
Title: Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
Character: Allison Bryant
Released: January 18, 1997
Type: Movie
A gymnast moves to a gym where the top coach in the US is and has difficulties adjusting.
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Citizen Ruth
Title: Citizen Ruth
Character: Diane Siegler
Released: November 21, 1996
Type: Movie
"Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is a comedy about one woman caught in the ultimate tug-of-war: a clash of wild, noisy, ridiculous people that rapidly dissolves into a media circus.
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Harvey
Title: Harvey
Character: Veta Simmons
Released: October 19, 1996
Type: Movie
An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see. All's well until Elwood's social-climbing sister, Veta, and her teenage daughter, Myrtle Mae, come to live with him and fear his odd behavior will undermine their ambitions. When Elwood disrupts the ladies' first afternoon tea party by introducing wealthy Aunt Ethel Chauvenet to Harvey, Veta sees that something must be done right away. She takes compliant Elwood to the Chumley Rest Home, leaving him in the car while she tells a Dr. Sanderson all about Elwood and Harvey. Sanderson concludes that Veta is the psychotic one and has her carted off to be committed. Meanwhile Elwood is treated with respect and dignity in light of his sister's mental state. When Dr. Chumley, head of the rest home, returns and hears of the case, he draws the opposite conclusion-that Elwood in fact hallucinates.
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Title: Suddenly Susan
Character: Liz Miller Keane
Released: September 19, 1996
Type: TV
Suddenly Susan is an American television sitcom. Shields plays Susan Keane, a glamorous San Francisco magazine writer who begins to adjust to being single, and who learns to be independent-minded, after being taken care of all her life.
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Title: Party Girl
Character: Judy
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: TV
At night Mary is a party girl and by day she works at the New York Public Library with her godmother.
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A Promise to Carolyn
Title: A Promise to Carolyn
Character: Kay
Released: January 16, 1996
Type: Movie
When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Justice Kendall Woods
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Betrayed: A Story of Three Women
Title: Betrayed: A Story of Three Women
Character: Joan Bixler
Released: March 19, 1995
Type: Movie
Joan Bixler and Amanda Nelson have known each other for several years and lead successful and seemingly functional families. However, their friendship is ripped to shreds and their families shattered when the husband of one of the women has an affair with the other woman's daughter.
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Title: Hope and Gloria
Character: Swoosie Kurtz
Released: March 9, 1995
Type: TV
Hope and Gloria is an American sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Television and aired on NBC from March 9, 1995, through June 22, 1996. The show was canceled after 35 episodes. It starred Cynthia Stevenson and Jessica Lundy, respectively, as the titular characters, both working in an office environment in downtown Pittsburgh. The program also starred Alan Thicke as a local talk show host and featured Enrico Colantoni in one of his first regular roles on television. The series was broadcast in Britain on ITV during the 1996 summer holiday, going out Monday to Friday for seven weeks.
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One Christmas
Title: One Christmas
Character: Emily
Released: December 19, 1994
Type: Movie
Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..
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Title: ER
Character: Tina Marie Chambliss
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Title: The Magic School Bus
Character: (voice)
Released: September 10, 1994
Type: TV
An eccentric schoolteacher takes her class on wondrous educational field trips with the help of a magical school bus.
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Reality Bites
Title: Reality Bites
Character: Charlane McGregor
Released: February 18, 1994
Type: Movie
A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize that reality isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Storybook
Title: Storybook
Character: Queen Evilia
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A young boy and his dog discover a magical story book and enter the enchanted Storyland, ruled by wicked Queen Evilia. They'll need a little help from his literary friends to get back to the real world.
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Title: Intimate Portrait
Character: Self
Released: November 14, 1993
Type: TV
Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network focusing on different celebrities, which includes interviews with each subject. Among the people profiled were Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Carly Simon, Jackie Kennedy, Katharine Hepburn, Carol Burnett, Tanya Tucker, and Marla Maples.
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And the Band Played On
Title: And the Band Played On
Character: Mrs. Johnstone
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
Title: The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
Character: Marla Harper
Released: April 10, 1993
Type: Movie
A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the cheerleading squad.
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Terror on Track 9
Title: Terror on Track 9
Character: Marcia Hobbs
Released: September 20, 1992
Type: Movie
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
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Title: Sisters
Character: Alex Reed
Released: May 11, 1991
Type: TV
Sisters is an Emmy Award-winning television drama. It follows the lives and loves of four close, but very different, sisters of the Reed family living in Winnetka, Illinois.
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Night of 100 Stars III
Title: Night of 100 Stars III
Character: Self
Released: May 21, 1990
Type: Movie
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
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A Shock to the System
Title: A Shock to the System
Character: Leslie Marshall
Released: March 23, 1990
Type: Movie
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife with one thing to look forward to: a well-deserved promotion. But when the promotion is given to a loud-mouthed yuppie associate, Graham unleashes his rage on an overly aggressive panhandler, who he accidently kills by pushing him into the path of an oncoming subway train. He re-thinks his problems with an entirely new solution. First, he arranges an "accident" for his annoying wife. Then he creates another "mishap" for his boss. It seems like the world is once more Graham's oyster…but a missing cigarette lighter and a prying police detective may change all that.
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Stanley & Iris
Title: Stanley & Iris
Character: Sharon
Released: February 9, 1990
Type: Movie
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
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The Image
Title: The Image
Character: Joanne Winstow-Darvish
Released: January 27, 1990
Type: Movie
When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.
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Dangerous Liaisons
Title: Dangerous Liaisons
Character: Madame de Volanges
Released: December 21, 1988
Type: Movie
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
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Bright Lights, Big City
Title: Bright Lights, Big City
Character: Megan
Released: April 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
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Vice Versa
Title: Vice Versa
Character: Tina
Released: February 25, 1988
Type: Movie
A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
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Baja Oklahoma
Title: Baja Oklahoma
Character: Doris Steadman
Released: February 20, 1988
Type: Movie
Juanita Hutchins works at Texas bar, but she aspires to be a country songwriter. When she's not looking after her impulsive daughter, Candy, or vouching for her promiscuous friend, Doris Steadman, she's trying to maintain some semblance of a romantic life. As Juanita prepares to make the leap to Nashville, her former boyfriend, Slick Henderson, returns to town, further complicating her situation.
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Title: Trying Times
Character: Wanda
Released: October 18, 1987
Type: TV
This half-hour sitcom anthology series that aired on PBS from 1987 to 1989 is about people struggling with the daily routines of life.
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The House of Blue Leaves
Title: The House of Blue Leaves
Character: Bananas Shaughnessy
Released: May 25, 1987
Type: Movie
On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, thinks it's time for his life to be blessed, too. He desperately wants to escape his lower middle-class existence and become a popular singer and songwriter, but his life is complicated by an ambitious mistress, a crazy wife and a bomb-making son.
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True Stories
Title: True Stories
Character: The Lazy Woman
Released: October 10, 1986
Type: Movie
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
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Wildcats
Title: Wildcats
Character: Verna McGrath
Released: February 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
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A Time to Live
Title: A Time to Live
Character: Patricia
Released: October 27, 1985
Type: Movie
The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.
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Guilty Conscience
Title: Guilty Conscience
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Amid acrimonious divorce proceedings, Louise (Blythe Danner) unwittingly puts her life in danger when she contests the prenuptial agreement she signed before marrying attorney Arthur Jamison (Anthony Hopkins). He plans to kill her to resolve the situation. Armed with information on how her cheating husband conducts his business and personal affairs, she demands more money from him -- but will Arthur have the final word?
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Against All Odds
Title: Against All Odds
Character: Edie
Released: March 2, 1984
Type: Movie
She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives.
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A Caribbean Mystery
Title: A Caribbean Mystery
Character: Ruth Walter
Released: October 22, 1983
Type: Movie
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.
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Fifth of July
Title: Fifth of July
Character: Gwen Landis
Released: October 11, 1982
Type: Movie
Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken struggles to find meaning in his life. As he contemplates selling the farmhouse, old friends and family members descend for a vacation. Originally broadcast as part of the series "American Playhouse" (season 1, episode 9).
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The World According to Garp
Title: The World According to Garp
Character: The Hooker
Released: August 13, 1982
Type: Movie
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
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Title: Love, Sidney
Character: Laurie Morgan
Released: October 28, 1981
Type: TV
A middle-aged gay artist shares his New York apartment with a single mother and her little girl. Based on a short story written by Marilyn Cantor Baker, which was subsequently adapted into a TV movie entitled Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend. Love, Sidney was the first program on American television to feature a gay character as the central lead, although for the series, Sidney's homosexuality was almost entirely downplayed from its subtle yet unmistakable presence in the two-hour pilot.
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The Mating Season
Title: The Mating Season
Character: Roberta
Released: December 30, 1980
Type: Movie
They say opposites attract, but could a romance possibly develop between an attorney, successful at work but unlucky in love, and a divorced man whose main interest is birdwatching?
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Marriage Is Alive and Well
Title: Marriage Is Alive and Well
Character: Jane Tremont
Released: January 25, 1980
Type: Movie
A talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of past clients and the hope, adversity and romance that holy matrimony brings. Starring as the photographer, football great Joe Namath narrates the unconventional tales of three couples: Judd Hirsch and Melinda Dillon as a twosome who have married and divorced multiple times and who are on the verge of repeating their mistake; an anxious newlywed who prefers the "freedom" that living together allows; and Jack Albertson as an aging comedian who wants to marry his much younger secretary despite the disapproval of his son.
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Uncommon Women and Others
Title: Uncommon Women and Others
Character: Rita Altabel
Released: June 20, 1979
Type: Movie
While at an impromptu reunion lunch, five women reminisce and relive their college days at Mount Holyoke, and weigh their goals and aspirations against their lives.
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Walking Through the Fire
Title: Walking Through the Fire
Character: Caria
Released: May 15, 1979
Type: Movie
A young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the situation is the fact that she is pregnant, and the treatment can endanger the life of her unborn baby, as well as herself.
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Oliver's Story
Title: Oliver's Story
Character: Gwen Simpson
Released: December 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of the senior partners at the firm. Eventually, Oliver's inconsolable grief begins to alienate those around him, until he finds new love with Marcie Bonwit, the wealthy and beautiful heiress to the Bonwit Teller fortune. Despite his affection for her, Oliver finds it difficult to leave the memory of Jenny behind, which causes major problems in their relationship.
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First Love
Title: First Love
Character: Marsha
Released: August 8, 1977
Type: Movie
A college soccer player falls hard for a campus beauty, who is the mistress of an older married attorney.
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Slap Shot
Title: Slap Shot
Character: Shirley Upton
Released: February 25, 1977
Type: Movie
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
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Ah, Wilderness!
Title: Ah, Wilderness!
Character: Muriel McComber
Released: October 13, 1976
Type: Movie
On the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and poetic youth in love with a neighbor girl, Muriel. When Richard's messages of poetry to Muriel upset her prudish father, Muriel is forbidden to see him and forced to write a letter saying she wishes no more to do with him. Richard, devastated, sets out to learn the evil ways of the world and put his broken heart behind him.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Julie Di Nata
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Rita Altabel
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Muriel McComber
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Title: The Donna Reed Show
Released: September 24, 1958
Type: TV
Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.