Swoosie Kurtz
Swoosie Kurtz (born September 6, 1944) is an American actress. She began her career in theater during the 1970s and shortly thereafter began a career in television, garnering ten nominations and winning one Emmy Award. Her most famous television project was her role on the 1990s NBC drama Sisters. She has also appeared somewhat sporadically in films from the late 1970s up until today, including prominent roles in such films as Dangerous Liaisons, Citizen Ruth, and Liar Liar among others. Throughout her career she has remained active in theater, earning five Tony Award nominations and winning two over the last three decades.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 9.861 |
Birthday | 1944-09-06 |
Place of Birth | Omaha, Nebraska, USA |
Also Known As | Свузи Кёрц, |
1988
Dangerous Liaisons
7.2/1157
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for...
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Dangerous Liaisons
1997
Liar Liar
6.7/5642
Fletcher Reed, a fast-talking, habitual liar, divorced father, is an incredibly successful lawyer who has built his career by lying. He is used to giv...
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Liar Liar
1999
Cruel Intentions
6.802/3262
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. I...
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Cruel Intentions
2001
Get Over It
5.6/284
When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the h...
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Get Over It
2002
The Rules of Attraction
6.14/544
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a...
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The Rules of Attraction
1994
Reality Bites
6.563/728
A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As...
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Reality Bites
1993
And the Band Played On
6.455/99
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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And the Band Played On
1990
A Shock to the System
6.4/119
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife w...
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A Shock to the System
1984
Against All Odds
5.7/211
She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love he...
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Against All Odds
1982
The World According to Garp
6.7/346
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns...
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The World According to Garp
2003
Duplex
6.1/1672
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
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Duplex
1983
A Caribbean Mystery
5.824/17
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort...
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A Caribbean Mystery
1976
Ah, Wilderness!
0/0
On the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and poeti...
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Ah, Wilderness!
1986
True Stories
6.7/123
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent...
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True Stories
2001
Bubble Boy
5.738/568
Jimmy is a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom... who pines for the sweet ca...
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Bubble Boy
2008
Living Proof
6.9/16
Dr Dennis Slamon, an American oncologist, discovers a treatment that could possibly cure breast cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. He tries to...
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Living Proof
2009
An Englishman in New York
6.4/39
Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there un...
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An Englishman in New York
2007
Superman: Doomsday
6.7/611
When LexCorp accidentally unleashes a murderous creature, Superman meets his greatest challenge as a champion. Based on the "The Death of Superman" st...
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Superman: Doomsday
1996
Citizen Ruth
6.6/130
"Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is...
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Citizen Ruth
1986
Wildcats
6.25/188
Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant...
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Wildcats
1985
Guilty Conscience
6/16
Amid acrimonious divorce proceedings, Louise (Blythe Danner) unwittingly puts her life in danger when she contests the prenuptial agreement she signed...
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Guilty Conscience
1999
The White River Kid
5/22
Two con men are traveling through the American South when they are held hostage by a serial killer who is running from the authorities.
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The White River Kid
1993
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
6.5/20
A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the cheerleading squad.
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The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
2000
Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes
3.8/3
Insurance agent Hutch Rimes spends a lot of time at the Sleep Easy Hotel, taking long lurid lunch breaks with a string of sexy secretaries who he hire...
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Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes
1990
The Image
4.2/5
When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.
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The Image
1998
Outside Ozona
5.6/8
A widowed trucker fends off isolation in the company of a dog named Girl, two bickering sisters try to reconcile their differences and a down-and-out...
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Outside Ozona
1998
My Own Country
5/3
An East Indian physician works with AIDS patients as an epidemic of the disease hits in Tennessee.
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My Own Country
1994
One Christmas
5.077/13
Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..
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One Christmas
1978
Oliver's Story
4.8/26
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hour...
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Oliver's Story
1996
Harvey
4/3
An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall...
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Harvey
1979
Uncommon Women and Others
0/0
While at an impromptu reunion lunch, five women reminisce and relive their college days at Mount Holyoke, and weigh their goals and aspirations agains...
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Uncommon Women and Others
1997
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
5/3
A gymnast moves to a gym where the top coach in the US is and has difficulties adjusting.
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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
1995
Betrayed: A Story of Three Women
4.3/3
Joan Bixler and Amanda Nelson have known each other for several years and lead successful and seemingly functional families. However, their friendship...
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Betrayed: A Story of Three Women
1988
Vice Versa
5.791/196
A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
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Vice Versa
1994
Storybook
4.1/8
A young boy and his dog discover a magical story book and enter the enchanted Storyland, ruled by wicked Queen Evilia. They'll need a little help from...
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Storybook
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
4/2
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
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Night of 100 Stars III
1977
First Love
3.8/4
A college soccer player falls hard for a campus beauty, who is the mistress of an older married attorney.
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First Love
1990
Stanley & Iris
6.416/149
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inabili...
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Stanley & Iris
1988
Bright Lights, Big City
5.7/119
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
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Bright Lights, Big City
2005
Nadine in Dateland
5/1
Nadine (Garofalo) is a contradiction in terms; she runs a dating service despite being incredibly unlucky in love. Now, facing serious business proble...
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Nadine in Dateland
1977
Slap Shot
6.8/376
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging playe...
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Slap Shot
1985
A Time to Live
8.5/2
The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.
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A Time to Live
1988
Baja Oklahoma
7/7
Juanita Hutchins works at Texas bar, but she aspires to be a country songwriter. When she's not looking after her impulsive daughter, Candy, or vouchi...
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Baja Oklahoma
2005
Category 7: The End of the World
6.1/72
It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a super storm that threatens to rend th...
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Category 7: The End of the World
2018
Overboard
6.7/1368
A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee.
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Overboard
1996
A Promise to Carolyn
7.1/7
When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together the...
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A Promise to Carolyn
1982
Fifth of July
7/1
Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken struggl...
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Fifth of July
1979
Walking Through the Fire
2/1
A young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the situation is the fact that she is pregnant, and the tre...
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Walking Through the Fire
1992
Terror on Track 9
4/3
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
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Terror on Track 9
1980
Marriage Is Alive and Well
0/0
A talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of past clients and the hope, adversity and romance that hol...
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Marriage Is Alive and Well
1987
The House of Blue Leaves
0/0
On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, t...
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The House of Blue Leaves
2001
The Wilde Girls
3/1
A young girl hopes to follow in her famous singer mother's footsteps, but her mother fears the negative effect fame could have on her daughter's life.
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The Wilde Girls
1980
The Mating Season
0/0
They say opposites attract, but could a romance possibly develop between an attorney, successful at work but unlucky in love, and a divorced man whose...
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