Elizabeth Marvel

ActorDirectorWriter Nov 27 (age 56) Los Angeles, California, USA 1990–2026 (36 year career)

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Biography

Elizabeth Marvel (born November 27, 1969) is an American actress. Her most prominent roles include Det. Nancy Parras on The District, Solicitor General Heather Dunbar on House of Cards, and President Elizabeth Keane on Homeland. Film roles include Burn After Reading; Synecdoche, New York; True Grit; Lincoln; and The Meyerowitz Stories.

Known For

Film

Gifted

Gloria Davis

Film

House of Cards

Heather Dunbar

Film

True Grit

40-Year-Old Mattie

Film

Homeland

Elizabeth Keane

Film

Dark Waters

Dr. Karen Frank (voice)

Film

Lincoln

Mrs. Jolly

Film

Burn After Reading

Sandy Pfarrer

Film

Synecdoche, New York

Warehouse Realtor

Filmography

Acting (65)

Movies (37)

Disclosure Day

2026 Upcoming

Jun 10

Run Amok

2026

as Nancy

G20

2025

as Treasury Secretary Joanna Worth

The Color Purple

as Miss Millie

With/In Volume 2

as (segment "In the Air")

4.0

All the Little Things We Kill

as Deb Anderson

Being Dead

as Celice Adkins

Swallow

as Katherine Conrad

News of the World

as Mrs. Gannett

Native Son

as Mrs. Dalton

Dark Waters

as Dr. Karen Frank (voice)

7.5

The Land of Steady Habits

as Sophie

Gifted

as Gloria Davis

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

as Jean Meyerowitz

Easy Living

as Abby

The Congressman

as Rae Blanchard

The Phenom

as June Epland

Aloha

as Launch Announcer

Consumed

as Connie Conway

A Most Violent Year

as Mrs. Rose

The Bourne Legacy

as Dr. Connie Dowd

Lincoln

as Mrs. Jolly

Hyde Park on Hudson

as Missy

Somewhere Tonight

as Martha

True Grit

as 40-Year-Old Mattie

The Other Woman

as Pia

Holy Rollers

as Elka Gold

Goldstar, Ohio

as Edie Deyarmin

A Dog Year

as Margo

Burn After Reading

as Sandy Pfarrer

Synecdoche, New York

as Warehouse Realtor

The Guitar

as Ma Wilder

Pretty Bird

as Tonya Honeycutt

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women

as Louisa May Alcott

The Dying Gaul

as Kelli

Devoted

as Kay

The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

Television (28)

Presumed Innocent

as Lorraine Horgan

Love & Death

as Jackie Ponder

Mrs. Davis

as Celeste Abbott

The Dropout

as Noel Holmes

Helstrom

as Victoria Helstrom

Unbelievable

as Judith

Manifest

as The Major

The $100,000 Pyramid

as Self

Fargo

as Constance Heck

House of Cards

as Heather Dunbar

House of Cards

as Heather Dunbar

King & Maxwell

as Kelly Nelson

Elementary

as Cassandra Walker

The Newsroom

as Sharon

Person of Interest

as Alicia Corwin

Homeland

as Elizabeth Keane

Past Life

as Lynn Sampels

The Good Wife

as Lauren Chatham

White Collar

as Dr. Mara Summers

Nurse Jackie

as Ginny Flynn

30 Rock

as Emily

Kidnapped

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Sylvia Moon

The District

as Nancy Parras

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Dr. Frantz

A Will of their Own

as Diana

Homicide: Life on the Street

as Amy Marshall

Law & Order

as Ms. Grubman

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

With/In Volume 2

Director

With/In Volume 2

Director

With/In Volume 2

Screenplay