Kathleen Quinlan

Born: 1954-11-19

Kathleen Denise Quinlan Abbott (born November 19, 1954) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1977 film of the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and her Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated role in the 1995 film Apollo 13, along with many roles in other feature films, television movies and series, in a career spanning almost five decades. She made her feature film debut in Mel Stuart's One Is a Lonely Number (1972) follwed by George Lucas' American Graffiti (1973) and made her definite breakthrough in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) as Deborah Blake.


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as Marilyn Lovell
Released: 1995-06-30

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking...

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as Peters
Released: 1997-08-15

In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon...

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The Hills Have Eyes

as Ethel
Released: 2006-03-10

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a...

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American Graffiti

as Peg
Released: 1973-08-11

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies...

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El padrino: The Latin Godfather

as Judge Scorsi
Released: 2004-09-27

In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his...

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The Doors

as Patricia Kennealy
Released: 1991-03-01

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim...

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Airport '77

as Julie
Released: 1977-03-11

Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving...

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Twilight Zone: The Movie

as Helen Foley
Released: 1983-06-24

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick...

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Breakdown

as Amy Taylor
Released: 1997-05-02

When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a...

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Made of Honor

as Joan
Released: 2008-04-30

Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants...

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Prison Break: The Final Break

as Christina Rose Scofield
Released: 2009-09-10

The movie covers the events which occurred in between the downfall of The Company and the finale...

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Breach

as Bonnie Hanssen
Released: 2007-02-12

Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for...

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Lawn Dogs

as Clare Stockard
Released: 1997-11-21

In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around...

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Horns

as Lydia Perrish
Released: 2013-09-06

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns...

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Cinema Verite

as Mary Every
Released: 2011-04-23

In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal...

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My Giant

as Serena Kamin
Released: 1998-04-10

Sammy, an agitated agent lost in the forest of the modern world, happens upon a gentle giant...

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Hanky Panky

as Janet Dunn
Released: 1982-06-04

Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious...

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A Civil Action

as Anne Anderson
Released: 1998-12-25

Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is...

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Zeus & Roxanne

as Mary Beth Dunhill
Released: 1997-01-24

Mary Beth is a marine biologist that gets annoyed when a dog called Zeus stows aboard her...

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Elektra Luxx

as Rebecca Linbrook
Released: 2011-03-11

A favor for a woman from her past throws the life of a pregnant, retired porn star into chaos.

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Warning Sign

as Joanie Morse
Released: 1985-08-23

An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a...

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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

as Annie Pine
Released: 2024-06-26

Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears...

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The Devil Has a Name

as Nancy
Released: 2019-08-04

An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.

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Sunset

as Nancy Shoemaker
Released: 1988-04-29

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

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Lifeguard

as Wendy
Released: 1976-07-23

Rick is a Los Angeles County lifeguard who is in his thirties. At his 15-year high school...

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The Stairs

as Grandma Bernice
Released: 2021-02-26

In 1997, 11-year-old Jesse finds a mysterious staircase in the woods and disappears - - 20 years...

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Strays

as Lindsey Jarrett
Released: 1991-12-18

A young married couple and their daughter are terrorized by a pride of ferocious feral felines.

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The Riverman

as Sande Keppel
Released: 2004-09-06

A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining...

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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

as Deborah Blake
Released: 1977-07-14

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

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Chimera Strain

as Masterson
Released: 2018-02-24

A brilliant but disturbed scientist freezes his children alive, while he races to cure their...

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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2

as uncredited
Released: 2024-08-15

Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears...

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The River Why

as Ma
Released: 2010-04-09

A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own...

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Perfect Alibi

as Melanie Bauers
Released: 1995-09-04

Melanie is married to Keith Bauers, she has two beautiful children and she is rich. She decides...

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Perfect Romance

as Tess Kelley
Released: 2004-06-07

When Tess Kelley realizes her daughter Jenny Kelley still isn't over her divorce from musician...

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Wild Thing

as Jane
Released: 1987-04-17

A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's...

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The Promise

as Nancy McAllister / Marie Adamson
Released: 1979-03-08

A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him...

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Independence Day

as Mary Ann Taylor
Released: 1983-01-21

Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a...

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Last Light

as Kathy Rubicek
Released: 1993-08-22

Kiefer Sutherland plays Denver Bayliss, a condemned murderer who has killed three people,...

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Blackout

as Chris Graham
Released: 1985-07-28

A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial...

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Sunday Lovers

as Laurie (segment "Skippy")
Released: 1980-10-31

A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France,...

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The Battle of Shaker Heights

as Eve
Released: 2003-08-22

A quirky teen with a penchant for war reenactments, Kelly Ernswiler obsesses over military...

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Elizabeth Blue

as Carol
Released: 2017-09-22

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, is coping with ongoing episodes of...

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Lucas Tanner

as Joyce Howell
Released: 1974-05-08

A high school teacher's career is threatened because of a student's death when the rumor is...

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Blessings

as Meredith Blessing
Released: 2003-10-05

Released from jail after a term basically served instead of friends he refused to rat out,...

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After

as Nora Valentino
Released: 2014-08-08

A haunting and powerful psychological thriller. Set in icy upstate New York in the winter of...

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Trapped

as Mary Ann Marshall
Released: 1989-06-14

Kathleen Quinlan is a woman working late in her locked high-rise office building who, along with...

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Trial by Jury

as Wanda
Released: 1994-09-09

Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has...

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Clara's Heart

as Leona Hart
Released: 1988-10-07

David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter...

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Stolen Babies

as Bekka
Released: 1993-03-24

A 1940s Tennesee welfare worker learns that Georgia Tann, the charismatic head of a local...

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The Operation

as Ginnie
Released: 1990-01-21

Duplicity reigns supreme as a doctor in a messy, emotional divorce from his wife, who is also...

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Humble Pie

as Agnes Orbison
Released: 2007-01-01

At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy Orbison is a wide target. When he sets out to pursue his dream of...

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ADDicted

as Kate Dawson
Released: 2017-01-01

Classes. Football. Finals. A bad break up. An over-bearing mom. Like many college kids, what...

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An American Story

as Hope Tyler
Released: 1992-11-29

World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them...

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The Making of 'American Graffiti'

as Self
Released: 1998-09-15

Documentary that features many interviews and other footage of the cast and crew for the film...

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How Not to Propose

as Susan
Released: 2015-10-20

Travis plans the perfect romantic getaway to propose to longtime love Lena. As the carefully...

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In the Lake of the Woods

as Kathy Waylan
Released: 1996-03-05

John Waylan is a candidate for U.S. senator; near the end of the campaign he is accused of...

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Where Have All the People Gone

as Deborah Anders
Released: 1974-10-08

A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the...

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Children of the Night

as Lois Lee
Released: 1985-10-25

A sociology graduate student researches her doctoral thesis on female crime by interviewing...

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Saving My Baby

as Virginia
Released: 2019-01-04

After she's run off the road, an expectant mother barely survives a harrowing crash. When she...

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The Abduction of Saint Anne

as Anne Benedict
Released: 1975-01-21

A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous...

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Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13

as Herself
Released: 1996-07-16

The making of the motion picture "Apollo 13", as well as the story of the space mission it...

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Life's an Itch

as Audrey
Released: 2012-12-01

A married man reaches the point where he questions everything: career, creativity and even his...

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Can Ellen Be Saved?

as Melissa
Released: 1974-02-05

A young girl in search of spiritual enlightenment joins a religious cult, and becomes the focus...

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The Dead Will Tell

as Beth Hytner
Released: 2004-10-24

Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique...

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When She Says No

as Rose Michaels
Released: 1984-01-30

After divorced college professor Rose Michaels invites three of her male colleagues to her room...

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Harm's Way

as Bea
Released: 2008-03-18

Darlene and her daughter Victoria seek refuge at a remote rural safe house for abused women...

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The Missing Are Deadly

as uncredited
Released: 1975-01-08

An emotionally disturbed teenager whose father is a research scientist takes a rat from his...

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Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina

as uncredited
Released: 2003-09-12

Beginning with William Wrigley's acquisition of the Santa Catalina Island Company in 1919, the...

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Little Ladies of the Night

as Karen Brodwick
Released: 1977-01-16

The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working...

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Walking with Herb

as Sheila Amable-Amo
Released: 2021-04-30

Joe Amable-Amo is a bank executive and former amateur golfer struggling with his faith after an...

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Dreams Lost, Dreams Found

as Sarah McAllister
Released: 1987-09-13

A young American widow is mysteriously drawn to a historic castle in the Scottish Highlands and...

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The Runner Stumbles

as Sister Rita
Released: 1979-11-16

Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this...

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The Dissection of Thanksgiving

as Carol
Released: 2008-10-01

Buffalo, NY. The day before Thanksgiving. Cliff and Carol Morgan take their three grown children...

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The Last Winter

as Joyce
Released: 1984-01-01

Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom...

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The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

as Edith Evans
Released: 1975-04-12

The son of a small-town doctor returns to his hometown after being kicked out of Yale, and...

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The Man Outside

as Grace Freemont
Released: 1987-12-11

A lawyer, running away from his past, becomes a recluse in the Alabama woods and becomes the...

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Barbara Tallman
First aired: 2000-10-06

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the...

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House

as Arlene McNeil
First aired: 2004-11-16

Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of...

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How to Get Away with Murder

as Britt
First aired: 2014-09-25

A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their...

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The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Ann Foley
First aired: 1985-09-29

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to...

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The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Karen Wilson
First aired: 1985-09-29

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to...

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Ironside

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-03-28

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...

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Prison Break

as Christina Rose Scofield
First aired: 2005-08-29

Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his...

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Mayans M.C.

as Mrs. Buksar
First aired: 2018-09-04

Set in the aftermath of Jax Teller’s death, Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes is fresh out of prison and a...

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Police Woman

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-09-13

Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los...

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Emergency!

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-01-22

The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and...

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Marvel's Runaways

as Susan Ellerh
First aired: 2017-11-21

Every teenager thinks their parents are evil. What if you found out they actually were? Six...

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Diagnosis: Murder

as Dr. Kate Delieb
First aired: 1993-10-29

Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

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Glee

as Dr. Shane
First aired: 2009-05-19

In this musical comedy, optimistic high school teacher Will Schuester tries to refuel his own...

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The Waltons

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-14

The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World...

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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Switch

as Robin Morgan
First aired: 1975-09-09

Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert...

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Kojak

as Janet Conforti
First aired: 1973-10-24

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New...

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Stargate Universe

as Senator Michaels
First aired: 2009-10-02

The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Family Law

as Lynn Holt
First aired: 1999-09-20

Family attorney and mom Lynn Holt has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm...

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Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

as Nanaline Duke
First aired: 1999-02-21

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke is a four-part miniseries that was first broadcast on...

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Blue

as Jessica
First aired: 2012-06-11

Blue is a mother with a secret life. She'll do anything to keep it from her son. But her past...

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Joe Forrester

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-09-09

Joe Forrester is an American Crime/Drama TV series, starring Lloyd Bridges.

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