Jean Smart

ActorProduction Sep 13 (age 74) Seattle, Washington, USA 1956–2025 (69 year career)

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Biography

Jean Elizabeth Smart (born September 13, 1951) is an American actress. She has received numerous accolades including five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, four Critics' Choice Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for a Tony Award and a Grammy Award. Smart first gained prominence for her leading role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women, in which she starred from 1986 to 1991. She went on to win five Primetime Emmy Awards for h…

Known For

Film

Fargo

Floyd Gerhardt

Film

The Accountant

Rita Blackburn

Film

Mare of Easttown

Helen Fahey

Film

Babylon

Elinor St. John

Film

Watchmen

Laurie Blake

Film

Life As We Know It

Helen Berenson (uncredited)

Film

A Simple Favor

Margaret McLanden

Film

Legion

Melanie Bird

Filmography

Acting (133)

Movies (73)

Janis Ian: Breaking Silence

2025

as Self

7.5

Garden State - The 20th Anniversary Concert

2025

as Self - Presenter

10.0

A Panoramic Canvas Called Babylon

as Self

Wildflower

as Peg

Babylon

as Elinor St. John

Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl

as Self

Senior Moment

as Caroline Summers

Superintelligence

as President Monahan

A Simple Favor

as Margaret McLanden

Life Itself

as Linda Dempsey

The Messenger

as The Woman

Brampton's Own

2018

as Judy

4.4

A Shoe Addict's Christmas

as Charlie

Awaken the Shadowman

as Evette

The Accountant

as Rita Blackburn

Getting Ed Laid

as The Hooker

Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls

2016

as Self

Miss Meadows

as Mother Meadows

Warren

as Claire Cavanee

When Calls the Heart

as Frances Tunnecliffe

6.6

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

as Claire

Waking

as Dr. Hinton

Hope Springs

as Eileen, Kay's Friend

6.3

William & Catherine: A Royal Romance

2012

as HRH Camilla

5.4

Life As We Know It

2010

as Helen Berenson (uncredited)

Barry Munday

as Carol Munday

Woke Up Dead

as Meryl Greene

Youth in Revolt

as Estelle Twisp

Hero Wanted

as Melanie McQueen

Lucky You

as Michelle Carson

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama

2005

as Dr. Ann Possible (voice)

I ♥ Huckabees

as Mrs. Hooten

Garden State

as Carol

Balto III: Wings of Change

2004

as Stella (voice)

6.7

A Very Married Christmas

2004

as Ellen Griffin

4.8

The Designing Women Reunion

2003

Bringing Down the House

2003

as Kate Sanderson

6.0

Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time

2003

as Dr. Ann Possible (voice)

6.7

Audrey's Rain

2003

as Audrey Walker

3.3

Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong

2003

as Agent Candice DeLong

Sweet Home Alabama

as Stella Kay Perry

The Kid

as Deirdre Lefever

Snow Day

as Laura Brandston

The Man Who Came to Dinner

as Lorraine Sheldon

Guinevere

as Deborah Sloane

Forever Fabulous

as Loreli Daly

Change of Heart

as Elaine Marshall

The Odd Couple II

as Holly

Edie & Pen

as Wendy the Waitress

5.6

Undue Influence

1996

as Dana Colby

5.5

The Brady Bunch Movie

1995

as Mrs. Dena Dittmeyer

A Stranger in Town

as Rose

The Yarn Princess

as Margaret Thomas

The Yearling

as Ory Baxter

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

as Kate

Mistress

as Patricia Riley

Just My Imagination

as Pally Thompson

Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story

1992

as Aileen Wuornos

2.2

Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage

1991

as Cathy

8.0

A Seduction in Travis County

as Karen

A Place at the Table

as Susan Singer

Project X

as Dr. Criswell

A Fight for Jenny

as Valerie Thomas

Fire with Fire

as Sister Maria

Piaf

as Marlene

Flashpoint

as Doris

Protocol

as Ella

Single Bars, Single Women

1984

as Virge

Hoodlums

as Carol

Before and After

as Woman Bather

Miss Macy

as Miss Macy

Too Good

as God

42.6 Years

Television (60)

The Studio

2025

as Jean Smart

7.7

E.B. White's Charlotte's Web

as Narrator (voice)

Hacks

as Deborah Vance

Mare of Easttown

as Helen Fahey

The Kelly Clarkson Show

as Self

Watchmen

as Laurie Blake

Mad About You

as Chelsea Stevens-Kobolakis

Dirty John

as Arlane Hart

Big Mouth

as Depression Kitty (voice)

Legion

as Melanie Bird

Legion

as Melanie Bird

Angie Tribeca

as Carnie

Bad Internet

as President Powers

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

as Self

6.2

The Late Late Show with James Corden

2015

as Self - Guest

5.2

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self

Fargo

as Floyd Gerhardt

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

as Self

Halt and Catch Fire

as LouLu Lutherford

Sirens

as Nora Farrell

Getting On

as Arlene Willy-Weller

Veep

as Imogene Walsh

Harry's Law

as Roseanna Remmick

Hawaii Five-0

as Governor Pat Jameson

7.7

Hot in Cleveland

2010

as Bess

7.3

Who Do You Think You Are?

2010

as Self

6.6

$#*! My Dad Says

2010

as Rosemary Pernworth

Samantha Who?

as Regina Newly

Psych

as Gillian Tucker

Center of the Universe

as Kate Barnett

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self

Arrested Development

as Mimi

Kim Possible

as Dr. Ann Possible (voice)

In-Laws

as Marlene Pellet

as Martha Logan

The Oblongs

as Pickles Oblong (voice)

The District

as Sherry Regan

Static Shock

as Richie's Mom (voice)

8.0

Style & Substance

1998

as Chelsea Stevens

The View

1997

as Self

4.3

Hey Arnold!

1996

as Phoebe's Mother (voice)

Undue Influence

High Society

as Ellie Walker

Scarlett

as Sally Brewton

Frasier

as Lorna Lynley

Batman: The Animated Series

1992

as Helen Ventrix (voice)

8.6

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988

as Self - Guest

5.4

Designing Women

1986

as Charlene Frazier Stillfield

6.8

Designing Women

1986

as Charlene Frazier Stillfield

Lime Street

Goodnight, Beantown

Reggie

as Joan Reynolds

Remington Steele

as Gloria Blyer

Teachers Only

as Shari Kirkland

The Facts of Life

as Ellen Slater

Alice

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

The Emmy Awards

as Self - Winner

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

Miss Meadows

2014

Co-Executive Producer

5.9

A Stranger in Town

1995

Co-Producer

6.0