Bonnie Bedelia
Bonnie Bedelia Culkin is an American actress, best known for her starring roles as Holly McClane in Die Hard and Die Hard 2, Barbara Sabich in Presumed Innocent, and Polly Chalmers in Needful Things, as well as the matriarch Camille Braverman on the drama series Parenthood. She is younger sister to actor Kit Culkin; aunt to his sons, actors Macaulay, Rory, and Kieran Culkin. Her and Kit's brother and sister, Terry and Candace, have also acted. Before becoming an actress, Bedelia studied ballet and appeared in a few productions with the New York City Ballet, including The Nutcracker. Her only dancing role onscreen was that of Clara in the Playhouse 90 television production of the George Balanchine Nutcracker (1958). From 1961 to 1967, Bedelia was a regular on the CBS soap opera Love of Life, portraying Sandy Porter. She also worked on Broadway, where she debuted supporting Patty Duke in 1962, in Isle of Children, and won a Theatre World Award for playing the lead of in My Sweet Charlie, in 1966. After beginning her career in theatre in the 1960s, Bedelia starred in the CBS daytime soap opera Love of Life and made her film debut in The Gypsy Moths. In 1969, she attracted attention as the pregnant marathon dancer in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? She starred in the comedy Lovers and Other Strangers (1970), had dramatic roles in The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie (1972) and Between Friends (1973), and appeared opposite Richard Dreyfuss in the comedy The Big Fix (1978). On television, she played the leading role in the short-lived ABC drama series, The New Land (1974). In 1984, Bedelia received critical acclaim and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her starring role in Heart Like a Wheel (1983), as drag racer Shirley Muldowney. Other well-known performances include her portrayals of Holly Gennero McClane, the wife of Bruce Willis's character John McClane in Die Hard (1988) and Die Hard 2 (1990), and of Barbara Sabich, the wife of Harrison Ford's character in Presumed Innocent (1990). She appeared in two Stephen King screen adaptations: Salem's Lot (1979) and Needful Things (1993). She was nominated for Emmy Awards for her performance in the Showtime anthology series Fallen Angels (1993) and for the leading role in the made-for-television movie Locked in Silence (1999). She played a number of leading roles in television films and miniseries, such as Switched at Birth, A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story, Her Costly Affair, and Picnic. From 2001 to 2004, Bedelia starred as Capt. Kate McCafferty in the Lifetime drama series The Division. She later guest-starred in Big Love and CSI, and starred opposite Rue McClanahan and Olivia Newton-John in the 2008 sitcom Sordid Lives: The Series. Bedelia starred in the NBC drama series Parenthood (2010-2015) as the family matriarch, Camille Braverman. In 2017, she appeared in season 2 of the TV series Designated Survivor, and in two Hallmark movies. In 2019, she guest starred on the Netflix series What/If.
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The Hill
as GramThe story of Rickey Hill, who overcomes his physical disability and repairs his relationship...
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Off-duty cop John McClane is gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when, on a snowy Christmas Eve in...
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Speechless
as AnnetteIn the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin...
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Needful Things
as Polly ChalmersA mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of...
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Gloria
as BrendaAfter serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria...
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Presumed Innocent
as Barbara SabichRusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is...
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Anywhere but Here
as CarolSingle mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions....
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Fat Man and Little Boy
as Kitty OppenheimerAssigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military...
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The Noel Diary
as Ellie FosterCleaning out his childhood home at Christmas, a novelist meets a woman searching for her birth...
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
as Ruby BatesIn the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance...
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as CharleneMilly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once...
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The Gypsy Moths
as Annie BurkeThree skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one...
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Violet
as Aunt HelenViolet realizes that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything...
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The Big Fix
as SuzannePrivate detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a...
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A Very Sordid Wedding
as Latrelle WilliamsonDel Shores' follow-up to "Sordid Lives" revisits Winters, Texas for a showdown between the...
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Lovers and Other Strangers
as Susan HendersonMike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to...
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Sand Castles
as Jenna HampshireA young man who dies in an auto accident returns from the dead to meet up with the young woman...
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Heart Like a Wheel
as Shirley MuldowneyShirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced...
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Switched at Birth
as Regina TwiggThis is the story of the two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later when one of...
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The Prince of Pennsylvania
as Pam MarshettaSet in a remote Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this off-beat comedy follows the relationship...
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Flowers for Algernon
as RoseCharlie Gordon is mentally handicapped and all he wants in life is to be a genius. When he gets...
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as HawkinsJust as sex, drugs, rock & roll, hippies, and Vietnam enter our consciousness, so it does for...
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Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story
as Jill CoitA young man begins to suspect that his mother may have murdered his father.
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Sordid Lives
as Latrelle Williamson"Sordid Lives" is about a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother....
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Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
as AletaBased on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming...
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To Live Again
as Iris SayerA loopy mother locks her teenage daughter in her room after allegedly showing signs of being...
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The Scent of Rain & Lightning
as AnnabelleWhen a young woman learns her parents' killer has been released from jail, she is forced to...
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Homecoming
as Eunice LoganWhen their mother disappears, a group of siblings are forced to fend for themselves, and make...
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Munchausen
as MotherA mother, unable to confront the heartbreak of her son leaving for college, delays his departure...
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Message to My Daughter
as Janet ThatcherA confused teenager discovers a stack of tapes recorded years earlier by her dying mother.
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A Question of Love
as Joan SaltzmanA lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.
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Manhood
as AliceA black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
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A Joyous Christmas
as JoyJust before Christmas, bestselling author Rachel Kennedy returns to her hometown to host an...
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Picnic
as Flo OwensThe son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more...
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Walking Through the Fire
as Dr. RandA young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the...
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The Stranger
as Alice KildeeBonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and...
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Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
as Hannah McGrathTaut thriller about a photographer who races the clock to clear a man about to be executed.
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Her Costly Affair
as Dr. Diane WestonA professor's casual fling with her graduate student turns deadly when he insists on a more...
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When the Time Comes
as Liddy TravisA terminally ill woman seeks assistance in taking her life when her husband refuses.
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Violets are Blue
as Ruth SquiresAfter fifteen years of traveling around the world, Gussie, a famous photographer, returns to the...
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Judicial Consent
as Gwen WarwickJudge Gwen Warwick becomes involved in the murder trial she has been assigned. Her marriage is...
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The Million Dollar Infield
as Marcia MillerFour wealthy Long Islanders play for an amateur softball team. All four men suffer from profound...
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A Season in Purgatory
as Valerie SabbathTrue story about a kid from rich family with political ties who covers up a suspicious death of...
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A Time For Love
as KittyTime for Love features two stories of love. A businessman has a life style change while a rock...
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Any Mother's Son
as Dorothy HajdysA Mother is devastated when her sailor son is murdered by two of his crewmates in a homophobic...
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Christmas on the Coast
as Ellie CassadineHard-hearted New York novelist Dru Cassadine...known for her holiday romance stories (even...
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Sordid Lives
as uncreditedAn All-Star reading of the original stage play version of Sordid Lives! A family in a small...
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Between Friends
as EllieAn ex-con, his daughter and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in...
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The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie
as RosalieA traveling salesman is lured by a precocious teenage girl to her shack in the desert for some...
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Then Came Bronson
as Temple BrooksJim Bronson is a young newspaperman who quits his job following the suicide of his best friend,...
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Death of an Angel
as GraceGrace, a priest, tracks her missing daughter to a religious community where the strange father...
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Shadow of a Doubt
as Robin HarwellCharlie Sloan is an alcoholic defence lawyer drawn back into the courtroom by Robin Harwell, a...
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A Stone in the Water
as MarthaA reclusive spinster abducts a pregnant woman to steal her baby. What she doesn't know is that a...
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In Pursuit of Treasure
as uncreditedIn Pursuit of Treasure was shot over 11 weeks in 1970 with Panavision cameras in Kanab, Utah,...
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Tourist
as Mandy BurkeA group of tourists on a "once-in-a-lifetime" European vacation try to rekindle their romances...
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A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
as Dr. Elizabeth MorganBased on the custody case involving Elizabeth Morgan and the subsequent Elizabeth Morgan Act.
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as DDA Madeline KleinA Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the...
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The Outer Limits
as Nancy McDonaldAnthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end,...
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The High Chaparral
as Tina GrangerThe High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and...
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Judd for the Defense
as uncreditedHigh-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases...
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Salem's Lot
as Susan NortonBen Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten...
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Big Love
as uncreditedThe story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his...
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Parenthood
as Camille BravermanThe trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
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Bonanza
as Alice HarperThe High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...
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Bonanza
as Laurie MansfieldThe High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...
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Life
as uncreditedComplex, offbeat Detective Charlie Crews returns to the force after serving time in prison for a...
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The Division
as Kate McCaffertyThe Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and...
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Fallen Angels
as Sally CreightonA neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and...
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Sordid Lives: The Series
as Latrelle WilliamsonSordid Lives: The Series is an American television series created, written, and directed by Del...
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WHAT / IF
as MargaretA pair of cash-strapped newlyweds accept a lucrative but morally dubious offer from a mysterious...
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Hawkins
as Edith Dayton-ThomasHawkins is a television series which aired for one season on CBS between 1973 and 1974. The...
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The Fire Next Time
as Suzanne MorganIn the near future, the unrelenting heat waves and coastal flooding brought on by the greenhouse...
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