Dana Ivey

Born: 1941-08-12

Dana Ivey is an American actress. She is a five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, and won the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her work in both Sex and Longing and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. She originated the title role in Driving Miss Daisy and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for Best Actress in a Play. Her film appearances include The Color Purple (1985), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), The Addams Family (1991), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Addams Family Values (1993), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Rush Hour 3 (2007), and The Help (2011).


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The Addams Family

as Margaret Alford / Margaret Addams
Released: 1991-11-22

When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans...

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Addams Family Values

as Margaret Addams
Released: 1993-11-19

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby...

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

as Desk Clerk
Released: 1992-11-15

Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a...

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The Help

as Gracie Higginbotham
Released: 2011-08-09

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white...

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as Sister Agnes
Released: 2007-08-08

After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling...

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

as Mrs. Reed
Released: 1988-12-14

Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he...

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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

as Congresswoman Libby Hauser
Released: 2003-07-02

Now a rising young lawyer, Elle Woods is about to make partner at her firm, but when she finds...

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Ocean's Eight

as Diana
Released: 2018-06-07

Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of...

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as Claire
Released: 1993-06-24

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father...

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Two Weeks Notice

as Ruth Kelson
Released: 2002-12-19

Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a...

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The Color Purple

as Miss Millie
Released: 1985-12-18

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the...

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The Kid

as Dr. Alexander
Released: 2000-07-07

Powerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of...

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The Scarlet Letter

as Meredith Stonehall
Released: 1995-10-13

Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is...

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Ghost Town

as Marjorie Pickthall
Released: 2008-09-19

Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see...

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Sabrina

as Mack
Released: 1995-12-15

An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a...

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Guilty as Sin

as Judge Tompkins
Released: 1993-06-04

Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she...

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Explorers

as Mrs. Müller
Released: 1985-07-12

Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading...

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Orange County

as Vera Gantner
Released: 2002-01-11

Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become...

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Simon Birch

as Grandmother Wenteworth
Released: 1998-09-11

Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew...

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The Adventures of Huck Finn

as Widow Douglas
Released: 1993-04-02

Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in...

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The Leisure Seeker

as Lillian
Released: 2018-01-03

A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their...

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Did You Hear About the Morgans?

as Trish Pinger
Released: 2009-12-17

New Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling...

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We'll Never Have Paris

as Francoise
Released: 2014-10-01

Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life...

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Mumford

as Mrs. Crisp
Released: 1999-09-24

When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same...

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Heartburn

as Wedding Speaker
Released: 1986-07-25

Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding...

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Postcards from the Edge

as Wardrobe Mistress
Released: 1990-09-14

Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox...

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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

as Mrs. Paige
Released: 2013-10-04

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into...

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Another Woman

as Engagement Party Guest
Released: 1988-10-13

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to...

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The Impostors

as Mrs. Essendine
Released: 1998-10-02

Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find...

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The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

as Newscaster
Released: 1988-09-07

Dennis Jennings is an introverted daydreamer, sleepwalking through life. He is a professional...

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Broken English

as Elinor Gregory
Released: 2007-11-22

Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has...

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A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story

as Lois Jurgens
Released: 1992-11-16

A teenage mother is forced to give up her baby for adoption and, 19 years later, when she tries...

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A Lesson Before Dying

as Edna Guidry
Released: 1999-05-22

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store...

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Class of '61

as Mrs. Julia Peyton
Released: 1993-04-12

Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of...

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Sunday in the Park with George

as Yvonne / Naomi
Released: 1986-06-16

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat is one of the great...

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Walking Across Egypt

as Beatrice Vernon
Released: 1999-01-01

An elderly widow befriends an orphaned juvenile delinquent.

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William Shakespeare's Hamlet

as Gertrude
Released: 1990-11-02

A Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the...

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A Very Serious Person

as Betty
Released: 2006-01-01

Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill...

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Professional Cuddler

as Gloria
Released: 2017-12-12

A​ young Israeli man is about to meet his long-distance lover for the first time-- while...

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Law & Order

as Shore
First aired: 1990-09-13

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...

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Monk

as Mrs. Eels
First aired: 2002-07-12

Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using...

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Frasier

as Ms. Langer
First aired: 1993-09-16

After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a...

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Sex and the City

as Trudy Stork
First aired: 1998-06-06

Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best...

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The Practice

as uncredited
First aired: 1997-03-04

A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their...

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Boardwalk Empire

as Mrs. McGarry
First aired: 2010-09-19

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who...

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Homicide: Life on the Street

as Margie Bolander
First aired: 1993-01-31

An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore...

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Oz

as Patricia Nathan
First aired: 1997-07-12

The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum...

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Great Performances

as Lady Ariadne Utterword
First aired: 1971-01-28

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...

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Great Performances

as Gertrude
First aired: 1971-01-28

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...

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Ugly Betty

as Roberta
First aired: 2006-09-28

Betty Suarez is smart, tough and tenacious, but also sensitive and loving. She hopes these...

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Easy Street

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-09-13

Easy Street is an American sitcom that aired for 22 episodes on NBC during the 1986-87...

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The Return of Jezebel James

as uncredited
First aired: 2008-03-14

The Return of Jezebel James is an American situation comedy television series, starring Parker...

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Little Gloria... Happy at Last

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-10-24

The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn...

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