Jayne Houdyshell

Actor Sep 25 (age 72) Topeka, Kansas, U.S. 1990–2025 (35 year career)

6.5 avg rating

Biography

Jayne Houdyshell is an American stage and screen actress.

Known For

Film

Little Women

Hannah

Film

Garden State

Mrs. Lubin

Film

Everybody's Fine

Alice

Film

Morning Glory

Stage Manager

Film

The Bounty Hunter

Landlady

Film

Maid in Manhattan

Carmen

Film

Downsizing

Paul's Mother

Film

Changing Lanes

Miss Tetley

Filmography

Acting (33)

Movies (19)

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

as Viv

Causeway

as Sharon

The Humans

as Deirdre

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

2020

as Helen

Little Women

as Hannah

The Chaperone

as Sister Delores

Downsizing

as Paul's Mother

Lucky Stiff

as Harry's Landlady

Romeo and Juliet

as Nurse

The Bounty Hunter

as Landlady

Morning Glory

as Stage Manager

Everybody's Fine

as Alice

Loving Leah

as Mrs. Finkelman

Things That Hang from Trees

as Pam Dupont

Road

as Postal clerk

Garden State

as Mrs. Lubin

King of the Corner

as Louise

Changing Lanes

as Miss Tetley

Maid in Manhattan

as Carmen

Television (14)

One Killer Question

2022

as Self

6.6

Only Murders in the Building

2021

as Bunny Folger

8.5

Evil

2019

as Judge Sara Carl Shire

The Good Fight

as Renee

The Tick

as Black Market Bob

Quantico

as The Widow

Elementary

as Carla

Blue Bloods

as Roseanne Galecki

Running Wilde

as Gertie Stellvertretter

6.2

Conviction

2006

as Roberta Palski

5.7

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001

as Ruth Pear

7.6

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Ruth Linden

Third Watch

as Jane

Law & Order

as Forewoman