RECENT CREDITS
Gigantic (FILM)  Apr. 3, 2009
The Unborn (FILM)  Jan. 9, 2009
Tell Me You Love Me (TV)  Nov. 11, 2007
Feast of Love (FILM)  Sep. 28, 2007
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HIGHLIGHTS
Experienced success early in her acting career, garnering Tony and Drama Desk awards in 1969 for her portrayal of Eleanor Bachman in The Great White Hope.
Reprised the role for the 1970 movie and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
Was chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1993 to 1997.
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All Credits

Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)
Role
Category

The Unborn  2009 -Sofi Kozma
Actor
Film


Feast of Love  2007 -Esther
Actor
Film


Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus  2006 -Gertrde Nemerov
Actor
Film


The Ring  2002 -Dr. Grasnik
Actor
Film


Sunshine State  2002 -Delia Temple
Actor
Film


The Cider House Rules  1999 -Nurse Edna
Actor
Film


Glory  1989 -Mrs. Shaw
Actor
Film


Square Dance  1987 -Juanelle
Producer, Executive Producer, Actor
Film


Sweet Country  1987 -Anna Willing
Actor
Film


A Circle of Children  
Actor
TV


A Question of Love  
Actor
TV


Death Be Not Proud  
Actor
TV


Eleanor and Franklin   -Eleanor Roosevelt
Actor
TV


Law & Order   -Regina Mulroney
Actor
TV
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit   -Regina Mulroney
Actor
TV
Expand


Malice in Wonderland  
Actor
TV


New Year  
Actor
TV


Open Admissions  
Actor
TV


Playing for Time   -Alma Rose
Actor
TV


Tell Me You Love Me  2007 -Dr. May Foster
Actor
TV
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Gigantic  2009
Actor
Film


Prendimi L'Anima  2002 -Emma Jung
Actor
Film


The Star Maker  1996 -Princess
Actor
Film


Building Bombs  1989 -Narrator
Voice
Film


Testament  1983 -Carol Wetherly
Actor
Film


Kramer vs. Kramer  1979 -Margaret Phelps
Actor
Film


All the President's Men  1976 -Bookkeeper
Actor
Film


The New Centurions  1972 -Dorothy Fehler
Actor
Film


The Great White Hope  1970 -Eleanor
Actor
Film


The Powder and the Glory   -Narrator
Voice
Film


Warm Springs   -Sara Roosevelt
Actor
Film


Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol   -Anne Palmer
Actor
Film


When She Says No   -Nora Strangis
Actor
Film


Love and War  
Actor
Film


Malice in Wonderland   -Hedda Hopper
Actor
Film


Miracle on 34th Street   -Karen Walker
Actor
Film


Moonchild  
Costume Designer
Film


Night Crossing   -Doris Strelzyk
Actor
Film


Open Admissions   -Ginny Carlsen
Actor
Film


Playing for Time   -Alma Rose
Actor
Film


The Betsy   -Alicia Hardeman
Actor
Film


Shoulder to Shoulder  
Actor
Film


Stay the Night   -Blanche
Actor
Film


Blood and Orchids   -Doris Ashley
Actor
Film


Brubaker   -Lillian
Actor
Film


In Love and War   -Sybil Stockdale
Actor
Film


In the Custody of Strangers   -Sandy Caldwell
Actor
Film


Jenifer  
Actor
Film


Calamity Jane   -Calamity Jane
Producer, Actor
Film


Carry Me Home   -Mrs. Gortimer
Actor
Film


City Heat   -Addy
Actor
Film


Daughter of the Streets   -Peggy Ryan
Actor
Film


Death Be Not Proud   -Frances Gunther
Actor
Film


Eleanor and Franklin: The Early Years   -Eleanor Roosevelt (age 1860)
Actor
Film


Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years   -Eleanor Roosevelt
Actor
Film


A Circle of Children  
Actor
Film


A Friendship in Vienna   -Anna Dournenvald
Actor
Film


A Gunfight   -Nora Tenneray
Actor
Film


A Question of Love  
Actor
Film




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Highlights

Experienced success early in her acting career, garnering Tony and Drama Desk awards in 1969 for her portrayal of Eleanor Bachman in The Great White Hope.
Reprised the role for the 1970 movie and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
Was chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1993 to 1997.
Wrote Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics, about her fight with the Newt Gingrich-led Republican Congress, which tried and failed to shut down the National Endowment


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