Blair Brown

ActorCrew Apr 23 (age 79) Washington, District of Columbia, USA 1962–2018 (56 year career)

6.3 avg rating

Biography

Blair Brown (born April 23, 1946) is an American stage, film and television actress. For her role in Copenhagen, Brown won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She was the leading actress in feature films such as Altered States (1980), Continental Divide (1981), and Strapless (1989), and she played the title character in the television comedy-drama The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. Later supporting roles include Nina Sharp on Fringe and Judy King on Orange Is the New Black.

Known For

Film

Fringe

Nina Sharp

Film

Dogville

Mrs. Henson

Film

Limitless

Marie Finch

Film

Space Cowboys

Dr. Anne Caruthers

Film

Altered States

Emily Jessup

Film

The Sentinel

National Security Advisor

Film

Manderlay

Thanks

Film

The Astronaut's Wife

Shelly McLaren

Filmography

Acting (99)

Movies (61)

My Art

as Mickey

The Speed of Thought

as Bridger

The Buddha

as Narrator

Fringe: Access All Areas

2009

as Self

Dark Matter

as Hildy

First Born

as Laura's Mother

Sister Aimee

as Narrator (voice)

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency

2007

as Margaret Bayard Smith (voice)

Griffin & Phoenix

2006

as Eve

7.1

The Sentinel

2006

as National Security Advisor

6.1

Test Tube Babies

2006

as Narrator

Loverboy

2005

as Jeanette Rawley

4.9

Dark Shadows

2005

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

8.3

The Massie Affair

2005

as Narrator (voice)

6.0

Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman

2004

as Narrator

Dogville Confessions

as Self

RFK

as Narrator

Dogville

as Mrs. Henson

Woodrow Wilson

as Self - voice

A Little Night Music: Live from the Kennedy Center

2002

as Desiree Armfeldt

Young Dr. Freud

2002

as Narrator

4.2

Follow the Stars Home

2001

as Hannah Parker

6.2

Space Cowboys

2000

as Dr. Anne Caruthers

6.4

Hamlet

2000

as Gertrude

3.8

In His Life: The John Lennon Story

as Mimi Smith

The Astronaut's Wife

as Shelly McLaren

Convictions

as Zalinda Dorcheus

The Ultimate Lie

as Joan 'Joanie' McGrath

5.4

A Season in Purgatory

1996

as Grace Bradley

6.0

Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West

1995

as Narrator

The Gift of Love

1994

as Helen Porter

Moment of Truth: To Walk Again

1994

as Carol Keating

Rio Shannon

1993

as Elizabeth Cleary

The River Ran Red

1993

as Narrator

The Day My Parents Ran Away

as Judy Miller

Passed Away

as Amy Scanlan

Those Secrets

as Nellie Banesh

Majority Rule

as Gen. Katherine Taylor

3.0

The Good Policeman

1991

as Rebecca Karp

Extreme Close-Up

1990

as Margaret Toll

Strapless

1989

as Dr. Lillian Hempel

Stealing Home

as Ginny Wyatt

Hands of a Stranger

as Diane Benton

Don't Touch

as Joan Stewart

The Bad Seed

as Christine Penmark

A Flash of Green

as Kat Hubble

The Skin of Our Teeth

as Sabina

Continental Divide

as Nell Porter

Altered States

as Emily Jessup

One Trick Pony

as Marion

The Child Stealer

as Jan Rodman

And I Alone Survived

as Lauren Elder

The Choirboys

as Kimberly Lyles

The Quinns

as Millicent Priestley

The 3,000 Mile Chase

1977

as Rachel Kane

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

1977

as Anna Roosevelt

4.4

Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging

1977

as Charity

6.0

The School for Scandal

1975

as Lady Teazle

The Paper Chase

as Miss Farranti

Dracula

as Mina

Brutalités amoureuses

1972

1.0

Television (38)

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

2018

as Director Sue Joyce

Limitless

as Marie Finch

The Affair

as Dr. Gunderson

Forever

as Fawn Mahoney Ames

Orange Is the New Black

as Judy King

Elementary

as Kate Durning

Political Animals

as Mrs. Berg

Person of Interest

as Emma Blake

Falling Skies

Celebrity Ghost Stories

as Self

Fringe

as Nina Sharp

Fringe

as Nina Sharp

The Jewish Americans

as Voices (voice)

CSI: Miami

as Margie Winters

Benjamin Franklin

as Jane Mecom

Smallville

as Rachel Dunleavy

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

as Defense Attorney Lynne Riff

7.9

Feds

1997

A Season in Purgatory

as Grace Bradley

as Dr. Vicki Ford

Touched by an Angel

as Mayor Victoria Lewis

Frasier

as Jill (voice)

Law & Order

as Defense Attorney Virginia Masters

7.3

American Experience

1988

as Ellen Wilson (voice)

6.6

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

1987

as Molly Dodd

6.0

The Comedy Factory

1985

as Valerie Arnold

Space

1985

as Penny Hardesty Pope

6.5

Kennedy

1983

as Jacqueline Kennedy

American Playhouse

Wheels

as Barbara Lipton

Family

as Flora Jessup

Captains and the Kings

1976

as Elizabeth Healey Hennessey

8.3

The Rockford Files

1974

as Kate Flanders / Dep. DA Kate Doyle

Kojak

as Stella

Purple Playhouse

as Mina

Great Performances

1971

as Lady Taezle

5.8

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Manderlay

2005

Thanks

6.9