Lin Shaye
Acting Born 1943 Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Lin Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American actress. In a career spanning over fifty years, Shaye has appeared in more than a hundred feature films. She is regarded as a scream queen due to her roles in various horror productions, which include the films Alone in the Dark (1982), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Critters (1986) and its sequel Critters 2: The Main Course (1988), Amityville: A New Generation (1993), Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), Dead End (2003), 2001 Maniacs (2005) and its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010), Ouija (2014) and its prequel Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Tales of Halloween (2015), Abattoir (2016), The Final Wish (2018), Room for Rent (2019), The Grudge (2019), Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021), and the Insidious film series (2010–2026). Shaye is also well known for her comedic roles in numerous films by the Farrelly brothers, including Dumb and Dumber (1994), Kingpin (1996), There's Something About Mary (1998), Detroit Rock City (1999), Me, Myself & Irene (2000), Stuck on You (2003), and The Three Stooges (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lin Shaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. Read the full biography
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Insidious: Out of the Further
2026
as Elise Rainier
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Scared to Death
2026
as Max
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1000 Women in Horror
2025
as Self
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House of Abraham
2025
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Series Common Side Effects
2025
as Sonia (voice)
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The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
2024
as Ellen
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Insidious: The Red Door
2023
as Elise Rainier
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Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
as Self
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We Are Gathered Here Today
2022
as Jean Cole
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Living with Chucky
2022
as Self
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The Quarry: Movie Mode
2022
as Constance Hackett
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Frank and Penelope
2022
as Ophelia
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Insidious: Out of the Further
2026
as Elise Rainier
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Scared to Death
2026
as Max
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1000 Women in Horror
2025
as Self
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Common Side Effects
2025
as Sonia (voice)
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House of Abraham
2025
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The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
2024
as Ellen
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Insidious: The Red Door
2023
as Elise Rainier
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Frank and Penelope
2022
as Ophelia
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Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
as Self
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Living with Chucky
2022
as Self
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Pines
2022
as Julie (voice)
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The Quarry: Movie Mode
2022
as Constance Hackett
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We Are Gathered Here Today
2022
as Jean Cole
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Series Behind the Monsters
2021
as Self
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Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman
2021
as Mrs. Bundy
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Darkness Falls
2020
as Angela Anderson
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Series Dead Talk Live
2020
as Self - Guest
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Dreamkatcher
2020
as Ruth
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Max Reload and the Nether Blasters
2020
as Mrs. Wylder
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Series Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
2020
as Dottie Minter
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The Call
2020
as Edith Cranston
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The Horror Crowd
2020
as Self
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The Voices
2020
as The Vagabond
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Ambition
2019
as Lady Bum
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Get Gone
2019
as Mama
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Gothic Harvest
2019
as Griselda
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Room for Rent
2019
as Joyce
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The Final Wish
2019
as Kate Hammond
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The Grudge
2019
as Faith Matheson
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Series Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
as Self
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Herbert West: Reanimator
2018
as Meredith
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Insidious: The Last Key
2018
as Elise Rainier
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Los Angeles Overnight
2018
as Cousins
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All About the Money
2017
as Mrs. Womack
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Buster's Mal Heart
2017
as Pauline
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Grow House
2017
as Mrs. Gilliam
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Mountain Top
2017
as Muriel Miller
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The Black Room
2017
as Miss Black
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Abattoir
2016
as Allie
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Director's Cut
2016
as Captain Wheeler
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Jack Goes Home
2016
as Teresa
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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016
as Old Paulina Zander
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Texas Heart
2016
as Mrs. Smith
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The Midnight Man
2016
as Anna
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Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2015
as The Grand Lady
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Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves
2015
as Helen Keller
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Insidious: Chapter 3
2015
as Elise Rainier
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Tales of Halloween
2015
as Lynn's Mother
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Grace
2014
as Helen
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Lost Time
2014
as Mysterious Woman
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Ouija
2014
as Paulina Zander
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The Signal
2014
as Mirabelle
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All American Christmas Carol
2013
as Barbara Belnap
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Big Ass Spider!
2013
as Mrs. Jefferson
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Crazy Kind of Love
2013
as Denise Mack
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Insidious: Chapter 2
2013
as Elise Rainier
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Series Insidious: Spectral Sightings
2013
as Elise
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Noobz
2013
as Mrs. Theodore
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3 Days of Normal
2012
as May
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Series EastSiders
2012
as Diane
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FDR: American Badass!
2012
as Eleanor Roosevelt
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Jewtopia
2012
as Dr. Sutton
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Life's an Itch
2012
as Gloria
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Matchmaker Santa
2012
as Debbie
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The Three Stooges
2012
as Nurse Crotchet
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Waffle Hut
2012
as Jerrie Wolf
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A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011
as Dody
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Chillerama
2011
as Baglady / Nurse Maleva
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Insidious
2011
as Elise Rainier
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I Was a Teenage Werebear
2011
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Rosewood Lane
2011
as Mrs. Hawthorne
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Sedona
2011
as Claire
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Take Me Home
2011
as Jill
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2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams
2010
as Granny Boone
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Farewell Mr. Kringle
2010
as Zelda
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Killer by Nature
2010
as Leona
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
as Self
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Next Stop Murder
2010
as Detective Reeson
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Pickin' and Grinnin'
2010
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Small Town Saturday Night
2010
as Phyllis Ryan
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The Land of the Astronauts
2010
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The Penthouse
2010
as Frances
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VideoDome Rent-O-Rama
2010
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American Cowslip
2009
as Lou Anne
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Dark Moon Rising
2009
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My Sister's Keeper
2009
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Stuntmen
2009
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Asylum
2008
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Chronic Town
2008
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Doggie Heaven
2008
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Killer Pad
2008
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Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008
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Chasing Robert
2007
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Homo Erectus
2007
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Pledge This!
2007
as Miss Prin
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Series Private Practice
2007
as Mrs. Taylor
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Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles
2007
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Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes
2007
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The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane'
2007
as Self
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Bachelor Party Vegas
2006
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Driftwood
2006
as Nancy Forrester
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Hoboken Hollow
2006
as Mrs. Brodrick
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Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane
2006
as Self
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Snakes on a Plane
2006
as Grace
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Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
2006
as Clara
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Surf School
2006
as Larry's Mom
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Unbeatable Harold
2006
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2001 Maniacs
2005
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Born Killers
2005
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Confessions of an Action Star
2005
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Drop Dead Sexy
2005
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Hate Crime
2005
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Series Made in Hollywood
2005
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Series My Name Is Earl
2005
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A Cinderella Story
2004
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Cellular
2004
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The Almost Guys
2004
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The Hillside Strangler
2004
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Who's Your Daddy?
2004
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Barely Legal
2003
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Dead End
2003
as Laura Harrington
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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
2003
as Margie
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ManFast
2003
as Marge
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Stuck on You
2003
as Makeup Babe
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Boat Trip
2002
as Sonya the Coach
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Contagion
2002
as Laura Crowley
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Wish You Were Dead
2002
as Jinny Macintosh
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Series Crossing Jordan
2001
as Leather Lauren
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Say It Isn't So
2001
as Nurse Bautista
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Attention Shoppers
2000
as Libby
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Me, Myself & Irene
2000
as Mrs. Caleron
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Detroit Rock City
1999
as Mrs. Bruce
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Series Becker
1998
as Mrs. Cooper
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Breakfast with Einstein
1998
as Miss Desmond
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Living Out Loud
1998
as Lisa's Nurse
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There's Something About Mary
1998
as Magda
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Series Perversions of Science
1997
as Nurse
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Trading Favors
1997
as Darla
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Series Arli$$
1996
as Shurja
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Kingpin
1996
as Landlady
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Last Man Standing
1996
as The Madame
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Project: ALF
1996
as Waitress
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Nature of the Beast
1995
as Carol Powell
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Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
1995
as Bonnie
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Trial by Fire
1995
as Phyliis Cardell
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Corrina, Corrina
1994
as Repeat Nanny
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Dumb and Dumber
1994
as Mrs. Neugeboren
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Series ER
1994
as Margaret
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
as Rubber Rose Maid
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Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1994
as Inmate
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In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994
as Foreman #2
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Series My So-Called Life
1994
as Parent #2
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Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994
as Nurse with Pills
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Amityville: A New Generation
1993
as Nurse Turner
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Brain Smasher... A Love Story
1993
as Make up Artist
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Series Frasier
1993
as Anne
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National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
as Witness
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The Hidden II
1993
as Carol Miller (archive footage)
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The Temp
1993
as Rosemary
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Three of Hearts
1993
as Operator
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Roadside Prophets
1992
as Celeste
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Critters 3
1991
as Sal (archive footage)
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Book of Love
1990
as Mrs. Flynn
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Pump Up the Volume
1990
as PTA Parent #3
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Series Life Goes On
1989
as Parent #2
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Critters 2
1988
as Sal
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Lucky Stiff
1988
as Bratty Kid's Mom
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Extreme Prejudice
1987
as Employment Office Clerk
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Mistress
1987
as Woman Customer
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My Demon Lover
1987
as Anemic Counter Girl
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Slam Dance
1987
as Librarian
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Stillwatch
1987
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The Hidden
1987
as Carol Miller
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The Running Man
1987
as Propaganda Officer
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Critters
1986
as Sally
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Brewster's Millions
1985
as Journalist at Rally
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Series The Twilight Zone
1985
as Kate Simmons (segment "Chameleon")
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984
as Teacher
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Series Highway to Heaven
1984
as Lila Barnes
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Summer Fantasy
1984
as Woman on Beach
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Series Who's the Boss?
1984
as Mrs. Padnick
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Alone in the Dark
1982
as Receptionist at Haven
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Series Cagney & Lacey
1982
as Secretary
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Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
1982
as Nurse with Telegram
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Series Falcon Crest
1981
as Smoking Female Prisoner
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A Cry for Love
1980
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The Long Riders
1980
as Kate
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The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
1979
as Freida
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Goin' South
1978
as Parasol Lady
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A Secret Space
1977
as Amy
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Series Eight Is Enough
1977
as Band Member
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Sex and the Married Woman
1977
as Sandra
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Hester Street
1975
as Whore
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Dead of Nowhere 3D
as Meemaw
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Mascotland
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The Old World
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Scared to Death
2026
Executive Producer
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House of Abraham
2025
Executive Producer
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The Last Stand of Ellen Cole
2024
Executive Producer
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Dreamkatcher
2020
Executive Producer