Constance Shulman
Constance Ann Shulman (born April 4, 1958) is an American actress. She is best known for voicing Patti Mayonnaise on Doug and for her recurring role as Yoga Jones in Orange Is the New Black. Shulman originated the role of Annelle in the first production of Steel Magnolias Off-Broadway.
Shulman was born in Johnson City, Tennessee, to a Jewish family. In 1980, she graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor's degree in both speech and theater. She moved to New York City to study acting at the Circle in the Square Theatre School and pursue an acting career. In 1989, she made her screen debut in the comedy film Fletch Lives, playing Cindy Mae. She later had supporting parts in the films Lost Angels, Men Don't Leave, and Fried Green Tomatoes.
On television, Shulman worked as a voice actress, playing Patti Mayonnaise on Doug from 1991 to 1999. In the early 1990s, Shulman appeared in a series of Kraft mayonnaise commercials.
She was also a regular cast member in the short-lived 1996 ABC sitcom, The Faculty, playing the best friend of Meredith Baxter's character. In the late 1990s, Shulman left the screen to raise her two children.
In 2013, Shulman was cast in a recurring role as "Yoga Jones" in the Netflix comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black. Along with the rest of the cast, she received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2015.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.381 |
Birthday | 1958-04-04 |
Place of Birth | Johnson City, Tennessee, USA |
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1989
Lost Angels
6.1/12
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2024
Darla in Space
0/0
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1999
Doug's 1st Movie
5.5/96
Doug and his pal Skeeter set's out to find the monster of Lucky Duck Lake. Though things get really out of hand when some one blurts out that the mons...
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Doug's 1st Movie
1991
He Said, She Said
5.9/121
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He Said, She Said
2022
Funny Pages
5.9/66
A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.
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Funny Pages
1990
Men Don't Leave
6.4/31
A widowed mother and her two sons move to Baltimore and struggle to adjust to urban life, encountering numerous eccentric characters along the way.
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Men Don't Leave
2022
Stomach People
0/0
When Julia returns home for her grandmother's funeral, she has a nervous breakdown and vomits up the imaginary friends that have been living inside he...
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Stomach People
1991
Fried Green Tomatoes
7.703/1344
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and...
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Fried Green Tomatoes
1999
Sweet and Lowdown
6.8/503
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
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Sweet and Lowdown
2015
Nasty Baby
5.19/50
A gay couple enlists the help of their friend Polly to create a baby. Meanwhile, they must also contend with their homophobic neighbour who becomes a...
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Nasty Baby
1990
Reversal of Fortune
6.6/302
Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
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1991
McBain
4.3/43
Santos attempts to lead a people's revolt in Colombia to overthrow the Presidente. When his revolt fails and he is killed, his sister Christina goes t...
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1989
Fletch Lives
6/290
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2021
Strawberry Mansion
6.8/53
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Strawberry Mansion
2019
Miss America
0/0
After losing everything, Candice, a grifter living on the margins of her city, decides what is hers to keep.
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2017
Sylvio
6.6/11
A small town gorilla joins a local TV program and a series of on-air mishaps threaten to shatter his identity, sending him on an adventure of self-dis...
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2023
Giving Birth to a Butterfly
4/2
After having her identity stolen, a woman, and her son's pregnant girlfriend, bond together on a surreal journey as they attempt to track down the per...
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