Jill Eikenberry

Jill Eikenberry

Born: January 21, 1947
in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Jill Susan Eikenberry is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role as lawyer Ann Kelsey on the NBC drama L.A. Law, for which she is a five-time Emmy Award and four-time Golden Globe Award nominee, winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series in 1989. Wikipedia

Movies for Jill Eikenberry...

Chantilly Bridge
Title: Chantilly Bridge
Character: Val
Released: March 24, 2023
Type: Movie
Chantilly Bridge reunites a group of lifelong, steadfast friends who are still – in their later years -- chasing their dreams, fighting injustices, and sticking up for their convictions. The women lay bare their lives and deal with important issues that impact all women with humor, humility, humanity, and love. No topic escapes the razor-like wit and insight of these women: equality, sex, menopause, mortality, feminism, parenthood, careers, love, and even “me-too” moments.
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Elly And Henry
Title: Elly And Henry
Character: Female Narrator
Released: September 14, 2017
Type: Movie
This is the story of Elly and Henry - a portrait of a pioneering inventor and the woman who made everything possible throughout their 66 years together.
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Keep in Touch
Title: Keep in Touch
Character: Barbara
Released: April 16, 2015
Type: Movie
After a major crisis, a man attempts to track down his long-lost first love, only to discover that she was killed in a car accident many years prior. His online search leads him to her younger sister, an aspiring musician who bears a striking resemblance to the girl he used to love. Quickly becoming obsessed, he arranges a not-so-chance meeting and a relationship blossoms between the two before he has a chance to disclose his true identity.
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Young Adult
Title: Young Adult
Character: Hedda Gary
Released: November 11, 2011
Type: Movie
A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
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Something Borrowed
Title: Something Borrowed
Character: Bridget Thaler
Released: May 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Though Rachel is a successful attorney and a loyal, generous friend, she is still single. After one drink too many at her 30th-birthday celebration, Rachel unexpectedly falls into bed with her longtime crush, Dex -- who happens to be engaged to her best friend, Darcy. Ramifications of the liaison threaten to destroy the women's lifelong friendship, while Ethan, Rachel's confidant, harbors a potentially explosive secret of his own.
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Title: Body of Proof
Character: Lillian Parkson
Released: March 29, 2011
Type: TV
Dr. Megan Hunt was in a class of her own, a brilliant neurosurgeon at the top of her game. But her world is turned upside down when a devastating car accident puts an end to her time in the operating room. Megan resumes her career as a medical examiner, determined to solve the puzzle of who or what killed the victims.
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Everything Is Terrible! The Movie
Title: Everything Is Terrible! The Movie
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 20, 2009
Type: Movie
The fine folks at EIT have spent years digging thought thrift establishments, video caverns, and haunted houses throughtout the country in order to create the most mind-melting VHS mash-up imaginable. Literally thousands of hours of video gold have been chopped up into millions of pieces and gluded back together into an ever-multiplying bizarre path to allegorical self-enlightenment and surreal resurrection. Obviously!
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Suburban Girl
Title: Suburban Girl
Character: Marlene Eisenberg
Released: April 27, 2007
Type: Movie
Publishing assistant Brett Eisenberg wants to be a big-time editor. However, she lacks self-confidence, a problem that isn't helped by her new, overbearing boss. Brett soon enters into a relationship with Archie, an older man who has plenty of his own issues, including alcoholism, diabetes and a difficult relationship with his daughter. Intent on helping Archie get past his problems, she turns to her dying father for advice.
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Title: Numb3rs
Released: January 23, 2005
Type: TV
Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.
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Manna from Heaven
Title: Manna from Heaven
Character: Dottie
Released: September 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in Buffalo, NY is mysteriously showered with 20 dollar bills. Theresa, a young girl who everyone thinks is a saint, doesn't have much trouble convincing her loose-knit "family" that the money is a gift from Heaven. Years later, Theresa, who has become a nun, has an epiphany that it is time to pay the money back, so she calls the eccentric group together to repay the "loan." The problem is, nobody wants to give back the money, nobody has the money, they don't know to whom it belongs, and most of them can't stand each other. Along the way, the characters learn about family, romance, reconciliation and redemption, and by working together they begin to realize their full potential.
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L.A. Law: The Movie
Title: L.A. Law: The Movie
Character: Ann Kelsey
Released: May 12, 2002
Type: Movie
Reunion movie from the popular TV series reunites most of the original cast from the Los Angeles law firm of McKenzie-Brackman. In the eight years since the series ended, the founding senior partner, Leland McKenzie, has retired and left Douglas Brackman, Jr. as the senior managing partner. New employees to the firm are Brackman's over-achieving son Jason, who's at odds with his father, and ambitious and conniving associate Chloe Carpenter at odds with others. Former partner Michael Kuzak, now a successful restaurant owner, is called out of retirement to help stop the impeding execution of a former client on death row and the opposing counsel is Kuzak's old flame Grace Van Owen.
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NBC 75th Anniversary Special
Title: NBC 75th Anniversary Special
Character: Self
Released: May 5, 2002
Type: Movie
A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.
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Roughing It
Title: Roughing It
Character: Livy Clemens
Released: March 16, 2002
Type: Movie
A teenaged Mark Twain travels to the American West during the "Gold Rush" days in search of fortune and his destiny.
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Title: Strong Medicine
Released: July 23, 2000
Type: TV
The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.
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Title: Judging Amy
Character: Sheila Townsend
Released: September 19, 1999
Type: TV
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. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
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Title: Batman Beyond
Character: Carter's Mom (voice)
Released: January 10, 1999
Type: TV
As new villains overrun Gotham City of the future, the aging Bruce Wayne hangs up the cape of the once invincible Batman. But when troubled teenager Terry McGinnis stumbles upon the Dark Knight's secret, a new alliance is forged. And a triumphant new Batman is born.
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Gone in a Heartbeat
Title: Gone in a Heartbeat
Character: Jan Hale
Released: December 3, 1996
Type: Movie
When teenage students kidnap Jan Hale they do not mean her any real harm - they just want enough ransom money from her husband Mark to afford a life of luxury. However, when they leave Jan handcuffed to the steering wheel of their car in the freezing cold, they are not aware that she suffers from a potentially fatal heart condition. Mark is racing against time as he and the police play a game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers, aware that he may never see his wife alive again.
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Title: E! True Hollywood Story
Released: August 21, 1996
Type: TV
E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known public figures. Among the topics covered on the program include salacious re-tellings of Hollywood secrets, show-biz scandals, celebrity murders and mysteries, porn-star biographies, and "where-are-they-now?" investigations of former child stars. It frequently features in-depth interviews, actual courtroom footage, and dramatic reenactments. When aired on the E! network, episodes will be updated to reflect the current life or status of the subject.
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My Very Best Friend
Title: My Very Best Friend
Character: Barbara
Released: March 26, 1996
Type: Movie
Dana Griffin is what some call a gold digger and has a habit of getting what she wants anyway possible. She is to wed wealthy Ted but her deceit is exposed. To build her life back she targets her friend Barbara and begins to take over her life.
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Dare to Love
Title: Dare to Love
Character: Alicia Wells
Released: December 17, 1995
Type: Movie
A mentally fragile woman is pushed over the edge by the death of her brother, to whom she was inordinately close.
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The Other Woman
Title: The Other Woman
Character: Tessa
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: Movie
After the divorce from Michael, Tessa raises her daughters Kate and Lara alone. None of them can stand Michael's new young wife Carolyn, a model. But when Tessa learns that she's suffering from cancer and soon will die, she tries to get her kids to accept Carolyn as new mother. She takes them on a trip across the country to her father Jacob's ranch in Wyoming. During this trip, Tessa tries to teach Carolyn about the responsibilities involved in raising kids.
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Rugged Gold
Title: Rugged Gold
Released: December 10, 1994
Type: Movie
A woman struggles to survive in the Alaskan frontier after separating from her family because of an earthquake.
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Without Consent
Title: Without Consent
Character: Michelle Mills
Released: October 16, 1994
Type: Movie
After being sent to an abusive psychiatric facility by her well-meaning parents, a rebellious teenager must fight for her release.
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On Hope
Title: On Hope
Released: October 2, 1994
Type: Movie
On Hope is a 1994 short film directed by JoBeth Williams, with Annette O'Toole, Mercedes Ruehl, Ray Baker, and Veronica Cartwright. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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Parallel Lives
Title: Parallel Lives
Character: Lula Sparks
Released: August 4, 1994
Type: Movie
A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemies catch up with each other's lives. Includes a long list of stars.
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Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
Title: Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
Character: Jessica Stern
Released: October 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Tracey Ullman and her wacky cast of characters take a bite out of the Big Apple.
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Chantilly Lace
Title: Chantilly Lace
Character: Val
Released: July 18, 1993
Type: Movie
A group of middle-aged women get together at a secluded house to learn about themselves.
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A Town Torn Apart
Title: A Town Torn Apart
Character: Ellen Kreiger
Released: November 30, 1992
Type: Movie
An unconventional New England principal tries some radical new techniques to reform the high school he is hired at, and ends up the object of great controversy. A true story.
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Living a Lie
Title: Living a Lie
Character: Joanne
Released: September 16, 1991
Type: Movie
Way out west, it's a moral dilemma for Jill Eikenberry. Her character, manicurist Joanne Johnson, is the kind of woman who stands by her man. She and her husband, Matt (Coyote), have held their marriage and family together, even though times on their small Southwestern ranch have been tough. One night, Matt and a couple of his buddies get drunk in a local saloon before heading home. They're also stewing in anti-Hispanic racial resentment. Matt is having a hard time making a living and has just had to sell off the last chunk of his inherited ranch property to a family named Martinez. The tragic result of their mean-spirited horseplay is a small Mexican church. burned to the ground, two young people critically injured and three men tangled up in fear, loathing, and lies. Joanne senses the awful truth way ahead of her spiteful, narrow-minded pals down at the local beauty parlor, and she sets out to do the right thing.
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Title: An Inconvenient Woman
Character: Pauline Mendelson
Released: May 12, 1991
Type: TV
A rich man's mistress gets in the middle of a high-society murder in Beverly Hills.
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Runaway Heart
Title: Runaway Heart
Character: Bunny
Released: October 27, 1990
Type: Movie
One of life's losers (Michael Tucker) kidnaps a suburban housewife (Jill Eikenberry) while on the run from hoodlums.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Irene Matson
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Cast the First Stone
Title: Cast the First Stone
Character: Diane Martin
Released: November 13, 1989
Type: Movie
After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at the school where she teaches who condemn her "loose morals" and ostracize her. Based on a true story.
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My Boyfriend's Back
Title: My Boyfriend's Back
Character: Debbie McGuire
Released: September 24, 1989
Type: Movie
A female singing group from the '60s reunites for a TV special.
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Mickey's 60th Birthday
Title: Mickey's 60th Birthday
Character: Mia Loud
Released: November 13, 1988
Type: Movie
This film combines live action/original animation and library animation. Mickey steals a magic hat from a Sorcerer and is put under a spell by the angry magi so that no one will recognize him until he finds his own magic within. While Mickey is on his quest, network news teams around the country desperately try to find the famous, beloved mouse who has mysteriously disappeared. On his quest, Mickey goes into the "Cheers" bar, meets up with the characters from "Family Ties", and winds up on Disneyland's Main Street the night before his Birthday celebration is to take place. It is there that he finds he has all the magic inside him that he will ever need. The spell is broken and the Birthday bash commences as the whole World celebrates the beloved Mickey Mouse.
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A Stoning in Fulham County
Title: A Stoning in Fulham County
Character: Susan
Released: October 24, 1988
Type: Movie
Religious beliefs clash with the law when an Amish infant is killed in a rural community.
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A Family Again
Title: A Family Again
Character: Clare Foster
Released: October 15, 1988
Type: Movie
An "ABC Family Theater" presentation about a family that is overwhelmed by the death of their eldest daughter, including a younger daughter that struggles to keep the family together, and parents who have yet to come to grips with the death.
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Your Alcohol I.Q.
Title: Your Alcohol I.Q.
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Just how much do you know about alcohol consumption? Take this video quiz to find out!
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Family Sins
Title: Family Sins
Character: Kate Williams
Released: October 25, 1987
Type: Movie
Gordon has a loving wife and two sons, Bryan and Keith, but he favors his spoiled younger son Keith over Bryan, who is defiant and not good at sports. As Gordon begins to yell and hit Bryan, Bryan's behavior slips towards the psychotic side and he takes it out on beings who can't defend themselves until he goes way too far one day during a summer camping trip.
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Assault and Matrimony
Title: Assault and Matrimony
Character: Sylvia
Released: September 27, 1987
Type: Movie
Silvia and Edgar have been married for a long time, but can't stand each other now. But a divorce would mean having to sell their dream house, which both of them want to keep. Instead they both secretly decide the answer is to kill the other.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Ann Kelsey
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It 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, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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L.A. Law: Pilot
Title: L.A. Law: Pilot
Character: Ann Kelsey
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: Movie
Pilot episode for the TV series introduces the lawyers and employees of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, a Los Angeles law firm, in dealing with their courtroom cases and personal matters out of the courthouse. While the entire office deals with the unexpected death of one of the founding senior partners, Norman Chaney, junior partner Michael Kuzak reluctantly takes on the defense of a wealthy and spoiled young man, accused with two friends, of raping a woman dying from leukemia. While intern Abby Perkins deals with her abusive alcoholic husband, divorce lawyer Arnie Becker takes advantage of his latest client caught up in her divorce. Public defender Victor Sifuentes is also offered to join the firm, while the ruthless managing partner, Douglas Brackman, deals with a surprising revelation from his new secretary.
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The Manhattan Project
Title: The Manhattan Project
Character: Elizabeth Stephens
Released: June 13, 1986
Type: Movie
Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.
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Title: Kane & Abel
Character: Susan Lester
Released: November 17, 1985
Type: TV
Kane & Abel is a television miniseries, based on the novel of the same name written by Jeffrey Archer, that aired on CBS in 1985. It stars Peter Strauss as Rosnovski and Sam Neill as Kane.
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Sessions
Title: Sessions
Character: Maggie
Released: September 26, 1983
Type: Movie
High-priced call girl Lee Churchill, is examining her life via therapy "sessions". Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and "straight" man with whom she falls in love.
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Arthur
Title: Arthur
Character: Susan Johnson
Released: July 17, 1981
Type: Movie
Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.
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Title: Nurse
Released: April 2, 1981
Type: TV
Nurse is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from April 2, 1981 to May 1982. Series star Michael Learned won an Emmy in 1982 for her role on the show.
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Title: Hill Street Blues
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: TV
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Hide in Plain Sight
Title: Hide in Plain Sight
Character: Alisa Hacklin
Released: March 21, 1980
Type: Movie
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.
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Swan Song
Title: Swan Song
Character: Anna
Released: February 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Sun Valley provides the backdrop to this story of a downhill ski racer who seeks to make a comeback after being branded a loser and the ski bunny who helps him regain his self-respect.
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Orphan Train
Title: Orphan Train
Character: Emma Symms
Released: December 22, 1979
Type: Movie
A dedicated social worker organizes a train trip for a group of slum orphans in 1894, taking them from New York City to the Midwest in search of new families and new lives.
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Rich Kids
Title: Rich Kids
Character: Juilliard Student
Released: August 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
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Uncommon Women and Others
Title: Uncommon Women and Others
Character: Kate Quin
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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Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
Title: Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
Character: Mary
Released: June 15, 1979
Type: Movie
Before the adventures that made them legends, they were charming mastermind Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, and crack-shot outlaw Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, soon to be known as The Sundance Kid. This is the 'prequel' of how they met, their first clumsy robberies, the heroic dangers that abound them together, the secret that nearly tore them apart, and the impossible train heist that made them notorious for life. Saddle up and ride with the showdowns, shootouts, bad guys and good times in the days before the fame when fun was the name of the game.
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An Unmarried Woman
Title: An Unmarried Woman
Character: Claire
Released: May 24, 1978
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
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Rush It
Title: Rush It
Character: Merrill
Released: March 28, 1978
Type: Movie
A female bicycle messenger is looking for love in New York City and becomes involved with two very different men.
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A Night Full of Rain
Title: A Night Full of Rain
Released: January 17, 1978
Type: Movie
Lizzy, a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo. Then finds she can't live with him or without him.
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Between the Lines
Title: Between the Lines
Character: Lynn
Released: April 27, 1977
Type: Movie
The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the '70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant.
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The Deadliest Season
Title: The Deadliest Season
Character: Carole Eskanazi
Released: March 15, 1977
Type: Movie
Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice. During one particularly violent game a player on an opposing team dies, and the authorities charge Miller with manslaughter.
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They've Killed President Lincoln!
Title: They've Killed President Lincoln!
Character: Anne Surratt
Released: February 12, 1971
Type: Movie
The events surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, dramatized using simulated documentary footage.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Kate Quin
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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Evening News
Title: Evening News
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The bond between three sisters gets tested while spending an evening with their grandmother who battles with Alzheimer's disease