Nancy Lenehan

Actor Apr 26 (age 72) Long Island, New York, USA 1976–2025 (49 year career)

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nancy Lenehan (born April 26, 1953 in Long Island, New York) is an American actress who has appeared in film and television since the 1980s. Her most recent starring role was on the short-lived sitcom Worst Week. She also co-starred as Sandy Kelly, the matriarch in the sitcom Married to the Kellys. She also had a recurring role on My Name Is Earl as Earl and Randy's mother, Kay Hickey. She has appeared in featured, recurring and guest roles in many televis…

Known For

Film

Catch Me If You Can

Carol Strong

Film

Adaptation.

Kaufman’s Mother

Film

Pleasantville

Marge Jenkins

Film

Sex Tape

Linda

Film

The Great Outdoors

Waitress

Film

A Better Life

Mrs. Donnely

Film

The Limey

Lady on Plane

Film

Beauty Shop

Mrs. Struggs

Filmography

Acting (121)

Movies (36)

Night Swim

as Kay

Self Reliance

as Laurie

That's Amor

as Lainie

Sex Tape

as Linda

A Better Life

as Mrs. Donnely

The Selling

as Mom / Mrs. Scarry

Beauty Shop

as Mrs. Struggs

Eddie's Million Dollar Cook Off

2003

as Mrs. Hadley (uncredited)

Catch Me If You Can

as Carol Strong

Adaptation.

as Kaufman’s Mother

Full Frontal

as Woman on Plane

Door to Door

as Charlotte

Human Nature

as Puff's Mother

The Limey

as Lady on Plane

Pleasantville

as Marge Jenkins

The Cherokee Kid

as Sister Faith

Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight

1994

as Radio Show Hostess

Out on a Limb

as Miss Clayton

Runaway Father

as Blanche

To the Moon, Alice

as Mother

The Dreamer of Oz

1990

as Harriet Baum Neal

7.3

Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon

as Mrs. Harris

Jake's Journey

as Mother

The Great Outdoors

as Waitress

She's Having a Baby

as Cynthia

Like Father Like Son

as Waitress in Desert Diner

Student Exchange

as Mrs. Barton

Assassin

as Grace Decker

Popples

as Mom

Stoogemania

1985

as Connie Smoynek

2.2

Annie Oakley

1985

as Lyda

Beauty and the Beast

1984

as Georgette

6.4

Emergency Room

1983

as Young Woman

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

1981

as Guard

5.4

Smokey and the Bandit II

as Ramona

When She Was Bad...

as Bonnie

Television (85)

The Paper

as Ann Putnam

Extended Family

as Rose

A League of Their Own

as Vivienne

American Auto

as Winnie

The Boys

as Barbara

All Rise

as Camille Park

Bless This Mess

as Deb

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

as Senator Jennings

Forever

as Heather Jacoby

Champions

as Maureen

Man with a Plan

as Alice

People of Earth

as Margaret Flood

Superstore

as Judy

black-ish

as Barbara Piermont

Veep

as Nancy Ryan

Episodes

as Sex Therapist

How to Be a Gentleman

as Diane

Outsourced

as Todd's Mom

The Middle

as Penny

Accidentally on Purpose

Worst Week

as Angela Clayton

The New Adventures of Old Christine

2006

as Kit

7.1

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

2006

7.4

How I Met Your Mother

as Cheryl Whittaker

My Name Is Earl

as Kay Hickey

Close to Home

as Patty - Ab's Mom

Jack & Bobby

Nip/Tuck

as Sue Alderman

Joan of Arcadia

as Erica Marx

Married to the Kellys

2003

as Sandy Kelly

9.0

What I Like About You

as Linda

The Bernie Mac Show

as Sister Lane

Men, Women & Dogs

as Jan

Malcolm in the Middle

as Christie

Gilmore Girls

as LaDawn

Titus

as Faye

Judging Amy

as Mrs. Hoeller

Providence

as Jane

That '70s Show

as Nina's Mom

Two Guys and a Girl

as Dr. Peel

Felicity

as Faye Rotundi

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

as Pat

The Practice

as Nurse MacKenzie

Just Shoot Me!

as Bunny

Ally McBeal

as Principal Deborah Harkness

Dharma & Greg

as Karen Love

Working

as Meredith Hirsh

George & Leo

The Tony Danza Show

as Mrs. Erlich

3rd Rock from the Sun

1996

as Mrs. St. Clair

7.5

Everybody Loves Raymond

as Pamela

Townies

The Faculty

as Daisy Skelnick

Caroline in the City

as Plum

as Edie Harvell

Ellen

as Margaret

The Nanny

as Russian Woman

Boy Meets World

as Susan Kalliback

Grace Under Fire

as Audrey Sheffield

Bakersfield P.D.

as Amy Baker

Dudley

as Nancy

Mad About You

as Dr. Wallach

Great Scott!

as Beverly Melrod

Step by Step

as Mrs. Tubman

Sisters

Seinfeld

as Volunteer

Quantum Leap

as Colleen McBain

Murphy Brown

as Sydney

Dear John

as Mrs. Williams

CBS Summer Playhouse

as Vivian

Beverly Hills Buntz

as Mrs. Fairchild

Beauty and the Beast

ALF

as Laverne Litwak

Heart of the City

as Linda Kilmer

The Golden Girls

as Nun

Tall Tales & Legends

as Lyda

Night Court

as Ms. Abrams

as Science Frontiers Scientist

Family Ties

as Roberta

Fame

Newhart

Faerie Tale Theatre

as Georgette

Hill Street Blues

The Facts of Life

Alice