Veronica Cartwright
Veronica Cartwright (born April 20, 1949) is a British-born American actress. She is known for appearing in science fiction and horror films, and has earned numerous accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Her younger sister is actress Angela Cartwright.
As a child actress, Cartwright appeared in supporting roles in The Children's Hour and The Birds, the latter of which was her first commercial success. She made her transition into mainstream, mature roles with 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The following year, she played Lambert in the science-fiction horror film Alien, which earned her recognition and a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. She additionally appeared in the films The Right Stuff and The Witches of Eastwick which earned her praise, and in the 1990s, received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, one of which was for her role on ER and two of which were for her role in The X-Files.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 10.993 |
Birthday | 1949-04-20 |
Place of Birth | Bristol, England, UK |
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1963
The Birds
7.5/3925
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
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1986
Flight of the Navigator
6.943/809
12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to hav...
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Flight of the Navigator
1995
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
5.426/353
Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns...
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Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
1961
The Children's Hour
7.688/333
A private school for young girls is scandalized when one spiteful student accuses the two young women who run the school of being in a relationship.
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The Children's Hour
2007
The Invasion
6/1453
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running r...
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The Invasion
2010
Neowolf
2.7/10
When an aspiring rock musician Tony returns to his college town to make up with his estranged girlfriend Rosemary, he finds his life taking an unexpec...
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Neowolf
2004
Kinsey
6.6/445
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endea...
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Kinsey
1989
Valentino Returns
0.8/2
On a Saturday night, in a small 1950s Californian town, a young man, whose parents are an inch from a divorce, takes his brand new pink Cadillac for a...
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Valentino Returns
1987
The Witches of Eastwick
6.5/1335
Three single women in a picturesque Rhode Island village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their...
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The Witches of Eastwick
1978
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
7.203/1036
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers...
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1975
Inserts
6.1/39
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to m...
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1997
Quicksilver Highway
5/56
Aaron Quicksilver is a mysterious storyteller whose listeners invariably end up as the subjects of his gruesome, grisly tales. He tells a new bride st...
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Quicksilver Highway
1983
The Right Stuff
7.444/833
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history b...
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The Right Stuff
2009
Call of the Wild
6.3/40
Self-centered and status-conscious, ten year old Ryann Hale journeys to Montana to visit her down-to-earth grandpa, Bill Hale. Ryann bonds with a wolf...
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Call of the Wild
1986
Wisdom
5.814/43
Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American...
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Wisdom
1983
Nightmares
5.637/79
A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problem...
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Nightmares
2005
Barry Dingle
2.5/2
A conniving mother tries desperately to marry off her son Barry to a senator's daughter.
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Barry Dingle
1999
A Slipping Down Life
4.1/16
A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
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A Slipping Down Life
2003
The Beast Within: Making Alien
8.2/20
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's hunting them on...
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The Beast Within: Making Alien
2017
Mommy I Didn't Do It
5.8/24
After finishing law school, Ellen Plainview is looking forward to spending some much needed time with her seventeen-year-old daughter, Julie. But when...
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Mommy I Didn't Do It
2011
InSight
4.8/25
While tending to a stabbing victim, Kaitlyn is electrocuted and awakens to find that she is experiencing the memories of the now-deceased woman.
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InSight
2011
The Yellow Wallpaper
4.5/4
The Yellow Wallpaper (Motion Picture) is an "Origins Myth"... rather than a direct adaptation of the famous Charlotte Perkins Gilman story. Drawing fr...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
1996
The Lottery
5.4/5
Returning to his small hometown of Icara, Maine, a man discovers its horrible secret -- a bizarre, clandestine ritual that led to his mother's early d...
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The Lottery
2000
All About 'The Birds'
7.1/11
A wonderfully informative 80-minute documentary combining current interviews with archival materials and scenes from the film. Hitchcock's daughter Pa...
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All About 'The Birds'
1989
Desperate for Love
5.429/7
The story of murder among a trio of teenagers after a boy breaks up with a girl and she runs into the arms of his vulnerable best friend.
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Desperate for Love
2009
The Face Is Familiar
0/0
Get to know some of Hollywood's most talented character actors, who have supported leading roles in films for decades. Some have even gone on to beco...
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The Face Is Familiar
2001
Alien Evolution
5.8/22
Mark Kermode brings a tribute to the successful Alien series, featuring interviews with the cast members and directors, including Sigourney Weaver and...
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Alien Evolution
1976
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
5.2/8
Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Be...
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Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1994
Dead Air
5.2/4
A distraught disc jockey seeks out a mystery caller who may be the killer of his girlfriend.
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Dead Air
1997
Sparkler
2.5/2
Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel...
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Sparkler
1994
On Hope
0/0
On Hope is a 1994 short film directed by JoBeth Williams, with Annette O'Toole, Mercedes Ruehl, Ray Baker, and Veronica Cartwright. The film was nomin...
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On Hope
1995
My Brother's Keeper
1/1
A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.
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My Brother's Keeper
1978
Goin' South
5.772/134
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War...
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Goin' South
1964
One Man's Way
4/2
Reverend Norman Vincent Peale fights to bring his message to the nation.
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One Man's Way
2004
Straight Jacket
5.7/15
In 1950's Hollywood, movie star Guy Stone must marry a studio secretary in order to conceal his homosexuality. Sally has no idea her marriage is a sha...
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Straight Jacket
2014
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
5.8/429
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
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The Town that Dreaded Sundown
1985
My Man Adam
6.5/4
A young man meets the girl of his dreams, whereupon he finds himself involved in a murder mystery.
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My Man Adam
2016
The Dark Below
4.6/16
The Dark Below is an experimental thriller set on Michigan's Great Lakes.
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The Dark Below
1991
Dead in the Water
4.7/6
Charlie Deegan has almost everything he has ever wanted. He has an important law practice, a beautiful secretary as his lover, and the chance to be ap...
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Dead in the Water
1992
Man Trouble
4.9/56
A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients.
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Man Trouble
1994
Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance
3.6/14
A mysterious mirror is found hidden in a church orphanage, yet few realize its legacy of evil. When an innocent teen discovers that she is being stalk...
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Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance
2001
Inside The Osmonds
8/1
The story of the personal lives and professional careers of the show-business family The Osmonds, and how the stresses and strains of their careers an...
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Inside The Osmonds
2013
Montana Amazon
6.8/15
The Dunderheads are an eccentric Montana family who've been in the mountains for far too long. Now one step ahead of the law, matriarch Grandma Ira fl...
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Montana Amazon
2013
The Odd Way Home
6.5/6
Two strangers, each living at the edges of society, are fatefully united for a harrowing and inspirational journey through the enchanting vistas of Ne...
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The Odd Way Home
2019
The Field
5.2/9
A long-empty farmstead holds secret worlds, accidentally unlocked by an amateur photographer and his wife.
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The Field
1986
Intimate Encounters
3.5/2
It started as fantasy...and ended as intimate encounters.
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Intimate Encounters
2013
Non-Stop
5.8/31
Mysterious emotional thriller about a woman who, after being left at the altar, has a brief liaison with a handsome stranger on a plane which ultimate...
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Non-Stop
2001
Scary Movie 2
5.8/4480
While the original parodied slasher flicks like Scream, Keenen Ivory Wayans's sequel to Scary Movie takes comedic aim at haunted house movies. A group...
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Scary Movie 2
1978
The Kid from Not-So-Big
0/0
A young girl is left to run her grandfather's frontier newspaper. She finds out about a group of conmen and a devious swindle and tries to expose the...
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The Kid from Not-So-Big
2017
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
0/0
Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.
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Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
1990
Hitler's Daughter
5.7/3
Hitler's Daughter wants to occupy the White House. She might just do it, unless the ineffectual Nazi hunters and their latest recruit can figure out w...
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Hitler's Daughter
1982
Prime Suspect
6.6/4
A respectable businessman becomes the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of several young girls. He is hounded by the media and disowned by his...
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Prime Suspect
1990
False Identity
5/4
When Rachel, a radio personality, discovers a Purple Heart at a garage sale she decides to find out its history. She finds that the medal belonged to...
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False Identity
1958
In Love and War
5.5/2
Three Marines take shore leave in San Francisco during World War II. Frankie O'Neill visits his lower-class dysfunctional family; Nico Kantaylis visit...
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In Love and War
1994
Speed
7.136/5945
Jack Traven, an LAPD cop on SWAT detail, and veteran SWAT officer Harry Temple thwart an extortionist-bomber's scheme for a $3 million ransom. As they...
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Speed
1997
Money Talks
6/366
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
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Money Talks
1999
Trash
4.8/4
Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In a spiraling tale of hatred, love and loyalty, two...
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Trash
2001
In the Bedroom
6.922/335
Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his...
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In the Bedroom
2003
Just Married
5.8/1310
Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney fall in love and plan to get married, despite opposition from Sarah's uptight, rich family. When they do get married, an...
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Just Married
2004
Twisted
5.55/500
Recently promoted and transferred to the homicide division, Inspector Jessica Shepard feels pressure to prove herself -- and what better way than by s...
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Twisted
1998
The Rat Pack
5.8/37
After a brief flash-forward to Frank Sinatra as an old man, saying "I miss my guys," the movie's main narrative begins during high points in the solo...
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The Rat Pack
1999
The Last Man on Planet Earth
3.8/10
During a war with Afghanistan, a weapon called the "Y-bomb" was used, which resulted in the deaths of 97% of the world's men. Feeling that they were b...
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The Last Man on Planet Earth
2019
Memory: The Origins of Alien
6.181/80
The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the...
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Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019
Limbo
5.5/37
A murderer finds himself on trial in Hell, caught between a bitter prosecutor and an inexperienced defence attorney. The trial spins out of control wh...
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Limbo
1994
A Son's Promise
6.6/8
An iron-willed Georgia boy accepts the burden of a man on his young shoulders. Fifteen-year-old Terry O'Kelly is fatherless and his remaining parent,...
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A Son's Promise
2020
Breaking Fast
6.894/33
Mo, a practicing Muslim living in West Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who surprises Mo by off...
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Breaking Fast
2020
Life After The Navigator
8.286/7
A feature that not only celebrates the 1986 classic "Flight of the Navigator", but also looks at the life of its child star, Joey Cramer, and his roll...
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Life After The Navigator
2005
The Perfect Scary Movie
7.5/2
A documentary looking at the various conventions and scare techniques of the horror genre.
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The Perfect Scary Movie
2007
Mommy's House
5.7/3
When Richard and Carl's car breaks down in the mountains, they find themselves stranded at the opulent mansion of "Mommy", who is convinced that Richa...
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Mommy's House
1984
Terror in the Aisles
6.1/38
A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.
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Terror in the Aisles
1992
Lincoln and the War Within
0/0
First few weeks of Lincoln's presidency where crucial for the direction the country would take. He had to bridge the gap between the victorious North...
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Lincoln and the War Within
1993
Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
0/1
Relationship problems between a father and son are intensified by Hurricane Andrew.
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Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
1981
Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
5.8/2
The first of three private-eye movies created by Robert Blake about rugged Joe Dancer as the forerunner to a prospective but unrealized series after t...
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Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
The Ruse
0/0
An in-home caregiver fears for her life after being assigned to a mysterious elderly patient in a remote seaside home.
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The Ruse
2001
Critic's Choice
0/0
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Critic's Choice
1993
It's Nothing Personal
0/0
An embittered ex-cop, on a quest for justice, teams up with a hard-boiled bounty hunter to go after the suspected killer of her brother in a robbery.
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It's Nothing Personal
1963
Spencer's Mountain
6.7/37
Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy drinking with his buddies or railing against the t...
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Spencer's Mountain
The Vicar's Wife
0/0
In a small parish village in England, a handsome yet socially challenged Anglican Vicar starts getting hit on by a young woman who believes he's the l...
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The Vicar's Wife
1979
Alien
8.154/14047
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew...
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