Swoosie Kurtz

Born: 1944-09-06

Swoosie Kurtz (born September 6, 1944) is an American actress. She began her career in theater during the 1970s and shortly thereafter began a career in television, garnering ten nominations and winning one Emmy Award. Her most famous television project was her role on the 1990s NBC drama Sisters. She has also appeared somewhat sporadically in films from the late 1970s up until today, including prominent roles in such films as Dangerous Liaisons, Citizen Ruth, and Liar Liar among others. Throughout her career she has remained active in theater, earning five Tony Award nominations and winning two over the last three decades. Description above from the Wikipedia article Swoosie Kurtz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Cruel Intentions

as Dr. Greenbaum
Released: 1999-03-05

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as Dana Appleton
Released: 1997-03-21

Fletcher Reed, a fast-talking, habitual liar, divorced father, is an incredibly successful...

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Dangerous Liaisons

as Madame de Volanges
Released: 1988-12-21

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Overboard

as Grace
Released: 2018-04-13

A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his...

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Superman: Doomsday

as Martha Kent (voice)
Released: 2007-09-18

When LexCorp accidentally unleashes a murderous creature, Superman meets his greatest challenge...

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Bubble Boy

as Mrs. Livingston
Released: 2001-08-24

Jimmy is a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a...

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Reality Bites

as Charlane McGregor
Released: 1994-02-18

A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth...

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Wildcats

as Verna McGrath
Released: 1986-02-14

Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the...

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as The Hooker
Released: 1982-08-13

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his...

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Duplex

as Jean
Released: 2003-09-26

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Category 7: The End of the World

as Penny Hall
Released: 2005-11-06

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The Rules of Attraction

as Mrs. Jared
Released: 2002-10-11

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Get Over It

as Beverly Landers
Released: 2001-03-08

When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long...

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Slap Shot

as Shirley Upton
Released: 1977-02-25

To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team...

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Bright Lights, Big City

as Megan
Released: 1988-04-01

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out...

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Against All Odds

as Edie
Released: 1984-03-02

She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete...

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Citizen Ruth

as Diane Siegler
Released: 1996-11-21

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True Stories

as The Lazy Woman
Released: 1986-10-10

A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its...

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Vice Versa

as Tina
Released: 1988-02-25

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And the Band Played On

as Mrs. Johnstone
Released: 1993-09-11

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Stanley & Iris

as Sharon
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A Shock to the System

as Leslie Marshall
Released: 1990-03-23

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One Christmas

as Emily
Released: 1994-12-19

Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never...

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An Englishman in New York

as Connie Clausen
Released: 2009-02-07

Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay...

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The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom

as Marla Harper
Released: 1993-04-10

A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on...

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Night of 100 Stars III

as Self
Released: 1990-05-21

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

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The White River Kid

as Mummy Weed
Released: 1999-01-01

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Living Proof

as Elizabeth
Released: 2008-10-18

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A Caribbean Mystery

as Ruth Walter
Released: 1983-10-22

Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple...

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Oliver's Story

as Gwen Simpson
Released: 1978-12-15

Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries...

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A Promise to Carolyn

as Kay
Released: 1996-01-16

When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being...

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My Own Country

as Hope Flanders
Released: 1998-07-12

An East Indian physician works with AIDS patients as an epidemic of the disease hits in Tennessee.

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Baja Oklahoma

as Doris Steadman
Released: 1988-02-20

Juanita Hutchins works at Texas bar, but she aspires to be a country songwriter. When she's not...

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First Love

as Marsha
Released: 1977-08-08

A college soccer player falls hard for a campus beauty, who is the mistress of an older married...

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The House of Blue Leaves

as Bananas Shaughnessy
Released: 1987-05-25

On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in...

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The Mating Season

as Roberta
Released: 1980-12-30

They say opposites attract, but could a romance possibly develop between an attorney, successful...

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Terror on Track 9

as Marcia Hobbs
Released: 1992-09-20

A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central...

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Outside Ozona

as Rosalee
Released: 1998-12-18

A widowed trucker fends off isolation in the company of a dog named Girl, two bickering sisters...

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Guilty Conscience

as Jackie Willis
Released: 1985-04-02

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Storybook

as Queen Evilia
Released: 1994-01-01

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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes

as Allison Bryant
Released: 1997-01-18

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Marriage Is Alive and Well

as Jane Tremont
Released: 1980-01-25

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Walking Through the Fire

as Caria
Released: 1979-05-15

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The Image

as Joanne Winstow-Darvish
Released: 1990-01-27

When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own...

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Harvey

as Veta Simmons
Released: 1996-10-19

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Betrayed: A Story of Three Women

as Joan Bixler
Released: 1995-03-19

Joan Bixler and Amanda Nelson have known each other for several years and lead successful and...

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Fifth of July

as Gwen Landis
Released: 1982-10-11

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Ah, Wilderness!

as Muriel McComber
Released: 1976-10-13

On the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New...

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Uncommon Women and Others

as Rita Altabel
Released: 1979-06-20

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A Time to Live

as Patricia
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The Wilde Girls

as uncredited
Released: 2001-11-04

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Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes

as Binny Redwine
Released: 2000-11-05

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Hilda Marsden
First aired: 1999-09-20

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In...

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American Dad!

as Marylin Thacker (voice)
First aired: 2005-02-06

The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three...

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American Dad!

as Betty Smith (voice)
First aired: 2005-02-06

The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three...

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Lost

as Emily Locke
First aired: 2004-09-22

Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay...

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Desperate Housewives

as Jessie
First aired: 2004-10-03

Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of...

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Chuck

as Laura Turner
First aired: 2007-09-24

When Buy More computer geek Chuck Bartowski unwittingly downloads a database of government...

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Touched by an Angel

as Libby Glaser
First aired: 1994-09-21

Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who...

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Great Performances

as Muriel McComber
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 Rita Altabel
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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Lethal Weapon

as Ruthie
First aired: 2016-09-21

A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's...

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Lethal Weapon

as Ruthie Krumholz
First aired: 2016-09-21

A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's...

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Heroes

as Millie Houston
First aired: 2006-09-25

Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating...

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The Wild Thornberrys

as Michelle Naidell (voice)
First aired: 1998-09-01

Travel the world with the Thornberrys and come face-to-face with blue sheep in Nepal, emus in...

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Grace and Frankie

as Janet
First aired: 2015-05-08

Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives...

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ER

as Tina Marie Chambliss
First aired: 1994-09-19

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...

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The Donna Reed Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-24

Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a...

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Still Standing

as Helen Michaels
First aired: 2002-09-30

After 18 years of marriage, high school sweethearts Bill and Judy Miller still make each other...

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Intimate Portrait

as Self
First aired: 1993-11-14

Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network...

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Rugrats

as Minka (voice)
First aired: 2021-05-27

A reinvention of the beloved 90s cartoon, Rugrats follows a group of adventurous babies as they...

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Rugrats

as Minka / Frau Klump (voice)
First aired: 2021-05-27

A reinvention of the beloved 90s cartoon, Rugrats follows a group of adventurous babies as they...

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The Outer Limits

as Justice Kendall Woods
First aired: 1995-03-26

Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end,...

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Mike & Molly

as Joyce Flynn
First aired: 2010-09-20

A comedy about a working class Chicago couple who find love at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.

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Kojak

as Julie Di Nata
First aired: 1973-10-24

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

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Man with a Plan

as Beverly
First aired: 2016-10-24

A dad finds out that parenting is harder than he thought after his wife goes back to work and...

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Pushing Daisies

as Lily Charles
First aired: 2007-10-03

A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his...

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The Bonnie Hunt Show

as uncredited
First aired: 2008-09-08

The Bonnie Hunt Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted by Bonnie Hunt. It premiered on...

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The Magic School Bus

as (voice)
First aired: 1994-09-10

An eccentric schoolteacher takes her class on wondrous educational field trips with the help of...

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Call Me Kat

as Sheila
First aired: 2021-01-03

Kat is a woman who struggles every day against society and her mother to prove that she can...

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Suddenly Susan

as Liz Miller Keane
First aired: 1996-09-19

Suddenly Susan is an American television sitcom. Shields plays Susan Keane, a glamorous San...

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Street Time

as Victoria Van Kleek
First aired: 2002-06-23

Follows a fair parole officer and his parolee who wants to go straight but his former business...

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Hope and Gloria

as Swoosie Kurtz
First aired: 1995-03-09

Hope and Gloria is an American sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Television and aired on NBC from...

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Bless the Harts

as Mee-Maw (voice)
First aired: 2019-09-29

The lives of a group of Southerners who are always broke as a joke and struggling for the...

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Love, Sidney

as Laurie Morgan
First aired: 1981-10-28

A middle-aged gay artist shares his New York apartment with a single mother and her little girl....

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Huff

as uncredited
First aired: 2004-11-07

Dr. Craig Huffstodt, a family man and a successful psychiatrist, gets a wake-up call after a...

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The Dangerous Book for Boys

as Tiffany McKenna
First aired: 2018-03-29

The story of a middle-class family coping with the sudden passing of their beloved patriarch...

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Love & Money

as Effie Conklin
First aired: 1999-10-08

In a swanky New York City apartment tower, the earnest young handyman, who lives in the...

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More Tales of the City

as Betty Ramsey
First aired: 1998-06-07

Lonely inhabitants at 28 Barbary Lane search for love and identity, turning to each other in the...

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Category 7: The End of the World

as Penny Hall
First aired: 2005-11-06

It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global...

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Sisters

as Alex Reed
First aired: 1991-05-11

Sisters is an Emmy Award-winning television drama. It follows the lives and loves of four close,...

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