Laurie Metcalf
Laura Elizabeth Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an American actress and comedian. Often described as a character actor, she is known for her complex and versatile roles across the stage and screen. She has received various accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades, including two Tony Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.
Metcalf began her career with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and frequently works in Chicago theatre. She made her Broadway debut in the 1985 play My Thing of Love. She went on to receive six Tony Award nominations, winning Best Actress in a Play in 2017 for her performance in A Doll's House, Part 2 and Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 2018 revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women. Her other Tony-nominated roles were for November (2008), The Other Place (2010), Misery (2016), and Hillary and Clinton (2019).
She gained national attention for her performance as Jackie Harris on the sitcom Roseanne (1988–1997, 2018) and its spinoff The Conners (2018–present), for which she won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also won a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest role in Hacks (2022), and her other Emmy-nominated roles include 3rd Rock from the Sun (1999), Monk (2006), Desperate Housewives (2007), The Big Bang Theory (2016), Getting On (2013–2015), and Horace and Pete (2016). She also appeared on The Norm Show (1999–2001), Frasier, and The Dropout (2022).
In film, Metcalf is best known for her performance as Marion McPherson in Greta Gerwig's comedy-drama film Lady Bird (2017). She was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a BAFTA Award. From 1995, she has voiced Mrs. Davis, the mother of Andy, in the Toy Story franchise, and voiced Sarah Hawkins in the Disney animated Treasure Planet (2002). Other notable film credits include Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Uncle Buck (1989), JFK (1991), Dear God (1996), Georgia Rule (2007) and Scream 2 (1997).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 17.314 |
Birthday | 1955-06-16 |
Place of Birth | Carbondale, Illinois, USA |
Also Known As | Laura Elizabeth Metcalf, Laura Metcalf , 劳丽·梅特卡夫, Lauren Elizabeth Metcalf, |
1991
JFK
7.602/2025
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
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JFK
1995
Toy Story
7.972/17982
Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's he...
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Toy Story
1999
Toy Story 2
7.596/13514
Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen,...
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Toy Story 2
2007
Meet the Robinsons
6.907/2756
Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when h...
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Meet the Robinsons
1997
U Turn
6.642/706
When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in...
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U Turn
2010
Toy Story 3
7.798/14343
Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally le...
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Toy Story 3
1989
Uncle Buck
6.8/1133
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewhe...
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Uncle Buck
1990
Pacific Heights
6.214/351
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
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Pacific Heights
1997
Scream 2
6.493/4004
Away at college, Sidney Prescott thought she'd finally put the shocking murders that shattered her life behind her... until a copycat killer begins ac...
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Scream 2
1990
Internal Affairs
6.276/372
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the a...
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Internal Affairs
1985
Desperately Seeking Susan
6.054/414
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals...
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Desperately Seeking Susan
1998
Bulworth
6.322/239
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecti...
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Bulworth
1998
Always Outnumbered
6.429/21
An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighb...
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Always Outnumbered
2007
Georgia Rule
6/415
Rebellious, uncontrollable teenager, Rachel is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her estranged grandmother, Georgia. Her...
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Georgia Rule
1996
Dear God
5.5/59
A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter offi...
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Dear God
1988
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
6.4/13
Dennis Jennings is an introverted daydreamer, sleepwalking through life. He is a professional waiter and has an equally-dull girlfriend, Emma. In an a...
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The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
1992
Mistress
5.444/36
A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems t...
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Mistress
1993
A Dangerous Woman
5.3/28
Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a qual...
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A Dangerous Woman
1985
The Execution of Raymond Graham
6.6/8
A young man, convicted of the murder of a clerk, who has been on death row for five years and now awaits his execution while his family desperately se...
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The Execution of Raymond Graham
1988
Stars & Bars
4.447/19
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
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Stars & Bars
1998
Chicago Cab
5.3/14
A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad parts of the city and emotionally connects to many of...
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Chicago Cab
1999
Runaway Bride
6.099/1920
Having already left three grooms at the altar, Maggie Carpenter is branded "the runaway bride" by jaded New York journalist Ike Graham. But, after his...
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Runaway Bride
1995
Leaving Las Vegas
7.265/1381
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There,...
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Leaving Las Vegas
1998
The Long Island Incident
6/1
On December 7, 1993, a gunman opened fire in a crowded commuter train on Long Island. This fact-based story focuses on the events that swell around Ca...
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The Long Island Incident
2008
Stop-Loss
6.1/242
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return t...
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Stop-Loss
2002
Treasure Planet
7.5/4039
When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him...
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Treasure Planet
2017
Lady Bird
7.265/8252
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her up...
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Lady Bird
1996
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
7.9/15
The documentary short of Toy Story of why and how the feature length blockbuster sleeper movie became a success and helps to boost Pixar's popularity...
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The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
1988
Candy Mountain
5.778/9
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
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Candy Mountain
1987
Making Mr. Right
5/36
When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developing very re...
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Making Mr. Right
2016
Starring Austin Pendleton
6.7/3
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
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Starring Austin Pendleton
1999
Balloon Farm
5.8/15
As soon as Harvey S. Potter descends upon a drought-stricken farmland, he begins to grow a mysterious but beautiful crop of balloons. Mystified by the...
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Balloon Farm
2006
Steel City
6.2/10
After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county...
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Steel City
2019
Toy Story 4
7.5/9535
Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when...
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Toy Story 4
2005
Fun with Dick and Jane
6.203/2340
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they...
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Fun with Dick and Jane
2006
Beer League
5.2/61
An unemployed slacker inspires his softball teammates to improve their game to avoid getting kicked out of the local league.
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Beer League
2014
Long Day's Journey Into Night
0/0
Long Day's Journey into Night focuses on one day in the life of the Tyrone family. Youngest son Edmund is ill, and the family are worried about mother...
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
2020
Barbecue
0/0
The O’Mallerys have gathered in their local park to share some barbecue and rousing straight talk while they await their youngest sister’s arrival. Wh...
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Barbecue
2023
Somewhere in Queens
6.26/48
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high s...
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Somewhere in Queens
1988
Miles from Home
5.4/38
Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosi...
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Miles from Home
2011
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
7.7/19
A year in the making, Still Screaming is the definitive documentary on the making of the iconic Scream movies. Dive into the fascinating success story...
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Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
2007
The Pixar Story
7.5/221
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of it...
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The Pixar Story
1993
Blink
6.174/172
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having pro...
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Blink
1982
The Visitor
0/0
ased on Tolstoy's classic story, "Where Love Is," The Visitor is the story of a cobbler named Martin and his struggle with personal tragedy. Feeling a...
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The Visitor
1993
Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
4/2
Theatrical packaging of three comic shorts: Dean Parisot & Steven Wright's comedy "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings" (1988), Michael Moore's docume...
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Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
1991
Tom Arnold: The Naked Truth
4.5/2
Tom sets out to solve world problems, with help from Frank Zappa, Martin Mull, and wife Roseanne.
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Tom Arnold: The Naked Truth
1994
The Secret Life of Houses
0/0
A nine-year-old girl with a mother in the hospital decides to live alone and fend for herself.
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