Constance Shulman

Constance Shulman

Born: April 4, 1958
in Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
Constance Ann Shulman (born April 4, 1958) is an American actress. She is best known for voicing Patti Mayonnaise on Doug and for her recurring role as Yoga Jones in Orange Is the New Black. Shulman originated the role of Annelle in the first production of Steel Magnolias Off-Broadway.

Shulman was born in Johnson City, Tennessee, to a Jewish family. In 1980, she graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor's degree in both speech and theater. She moved to New York City to study acting at the Circle in the Square Theatre School and pursue an acting career. In 1989, she made her screen debut in the comedy film Fletch Lives, playing Cindy Mae. She later had supporting parts in the films Lost Angels, Men Don't Leave, and Fried Green Tomatoes.

On television, Shulman worked as a voice actress, playing Patti Mayonnaise on Doug from 1991 to 1999. In the early 1990s, Shulman appeared in a series of Kraft mayonnaise commercials.

She was also a regular cast member in the short-lived 1996 ABC sitcom, The Faculty, playing the best friend of Meredith Baxter's character. In the late 1990s, Shulman left the screen to raise her two children.

In 2013, Shulman was cast in a recurring role as "Yoga Jones" in the Netflix comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black. Along with the rest of the cast, she received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2015.

Movies for Constance Shulman...

Title: The Curse
Character: Elizabeth
Released: November 12, 2023
Type: TV
An alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show.
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Giving Birth to a Butterfly
Title: Giving Birth to a Butterfly
Character: Monica
Released: May 1, 2023
Type: Movie
After having her identity stolen, a woman, and her son's pregnant girlfriend, bond together on a surreal journey as they attempt to track down the perpetrators.
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Darla in Space
Title: Darla in Space
Character: Leona Peterson
Released: April 23, 2023
Type: Movie
Darla owes the IRS $349,000.22. Her burgeoning business Kitty Kasket will never generate that kind of revenue in one month. Enter Mother; your typical sentient yeast mass who grants mind-blowing orgasms. Will she be willing to help?
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Stomach People
Title: Stomach People
Character: Mom
Released: November 28, 2022
Type: Movie
When Julia returns home for her grandmother's funeral, she has a nervous breakdown and vomits up the imaginary friends that have been living inside her stomach since she was seven.
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Funny Pages
Title: Funny Pages
Character: Mrs. Ochs
Released: August 26, 2022
Type: Movie
A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.
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Strawberry Mansion
Title: Strawberry Mansion
Character: Martha
Released: July 22, 2021
Type: Movie
In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote farmhouse to audit the dreams of Arabella “Bella” Isadora, an eccentric, aging artist. Entering Bella’s vast VHS archive, which contains a lifetime of dreams, Preble stumbles upon a secret that offers him a chance at love—and hope for escape.
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Miss America
Title: Miss America
Character: Candice
Released: May 11, 2019
Type: Movie
After losing everything, Candice, a grifter living on the margins of her city, decides what is hers to keep.
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Sylvio
Title: Sylvio
Character: Tina
Released: March 11, 2017
Type: Movie
A small town gorilla joins a local TV program and a series of on-air mishaps threaten to shatter his identity, sending him on an adventure of self-discovery where reality and fantasy start to blend.
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Title: Search Party
Character: Helen
Released: November 21, 2016
Type: TV
A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.
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Nasty Baby
Title: Nasty Baby
Character: Bishop's Girlfriend
Released: October 23, 2015
Type: Movie
A gay couple enlists the help of their friend Polly to create a baby. Meanwhile, they must also contend with their homophobic neighbour who becomes a big nuisance.
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Title: Broad City
Character: Oda
Released: January 22, 2014
Type: TV
Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.
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Title: Orange Is the New Black
Character: Yoga Jones
Released: July 11, 2013
Type: TV
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
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Sweet and Lowdown
Title: Sweet and Lowdown
Character: Hazel
Released: December 3, 1999
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Daycare Manager
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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Doug's 1st Movie
Title: Doug's 1st Movie
Character: Patti Mayonnaise (voice)
Released: March 26, 1999
Type: Movie
Doug and his pal Skeeter set's out to find the monster of Lucky Duck Lake. Though things get really out of hand when some one blurts out that the monster is real.
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Title: The Faculty
Character: Shelly Ray
Released: March 13, 1996
Type: TV
The Faculty is an American sitcom starring Meredith Baxter as a middle school administrator. The show aired on ABC from March 1996 to May 1996.
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Fried Green Tomatoes
Title: Fried Green Tomatoes
Character: Missy
Released: December 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.
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McBain
Title: McBain
Character: Dr. Blazier
Released: September 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Santos attempts to lead a people's revolt in Colombia to overthrow the Presidente. When his revolt fails and he is killed, his sister Christina goes to New York to find McBain, a lieutenant Santos rescued during the Vietnam War. McBain agrees to help, recruits his old war buddies, raises some cash by killing a few drug dealers, then leads an attack to topple the Colombian government.
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Title: Doug
Character: Patti Mayonnaise (voice)
Released: August 18, 1991
Type: TV
Doug Funnie experiences common predicaments while attending school in his new hometown of Bluffington, Virginia.
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He Said, She Said
Title: He Said, She Said
Character: Make-Up Girl
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: Movie
Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.
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Reversal of Fortune
Title: Reversal of Fortune
Character: Pharmacist (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1990
Type: Movie
Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
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Men Don't Leave
Title: Men Don't Leave
Character: Carly
Released: February 2, 1990
Type: Movie
After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to do but sell what material possessions she has, such as the family pick-up truck and the house, and move into an apartment in the city, namely Baltimore. Beth just wants to survive by finding a job she doesn't dislike, and keep her family together while trying to maintain her sanity and sense of self-worth
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Lost Angels
Title: Lost Angels
Character: Beautician
Released: May 5, 1989
Type: Movie
Rich L.A. party brat Tim spins into a cycle of despair after his parents divorce, and trying to fill the void with drugs and trouble only buys him a ticket to an asylum. But with the help of a psychiatrist who has taken an interest in him, will Tim try to pull himself out of the muck of teenage rebellion and ennui?
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Fletch Lives
Title: Fletch Lives
Character: Cindy Mae
Released: March 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.
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Title: The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Character: Bonnie Sayles
Released: May 21, 1987
Type: TV
Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a widely changing career, difficulties of apartment living, love life and its consequences, and more.