Patti LuPone
Patti Ann LuPone (born April 21, 1949) is an American actress and singer, who is best known for her work in stage musicals. She has won two Grammy Awards, two Tony Awards, and two Olivier Awards. She is also a 2006 American Theater Hall of Fame inductee. On television, LuPone played Lady Bird Johnson in the 1987 TV movie, LBJ: The Early Years, starred in the drama series Life Goes On (1989–1993) and received Emmy Award nominations for the TV movie The Song Spinner (1995) and her guest role in the sitcom Frasier (1998). In the 1990s she had a recurring role as defense attorney Ruth Miller on Law & Order. She also had recurring roles in two Ryan Murphy FX series, the thriller American Horror Story: Coven (2013–2014) and the drama Pose (2019), as well as on Murphy's Hollywood on Netflix. She guest starred in Penny Dreadful (2014–2016) before returning in a lead role. She voices the character Yellow Diamond in the animated series Steven Universe (2013–2019) and its epilogue series Steven Universe Future (2019–2020). She also appeared on The CW comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend as Rabbi Shari (2017). LuPone appeared in the Oscar-winning films Witness (1985) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989) and also was featured in State and Main (2000), Parker (2013), and The Comedian (2016). LuPone has a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and she is famous for her strong/high "Broadway" belt singing voice. In a 2008 interview, she maintained that she was "an actor who sings", and thankful she "had a voice"
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 15.156 |
| Birthday | 1949-04-21 |
| Place of Birth | Northport, Long Island, New York, USA |
| Also Known As |
1989
Driving Miss Daisy
7.242/1520
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew...
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Driving Miss Daisy
2001
Heist
6.308/524
Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera tape. His fence, Bergman, reneges on the money he...
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Heist
2000
State and Main
6.328/203
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
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State and Main
1979
1941
5.828/585
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
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1941
2004
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
8/3
The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on ope...
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Broadway's Lost Treasures II
1986
Wise Guys
5.338/102
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to A...
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Wise Guys
1985
Witness
7.098/1595
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignmen...
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Witness
2002
City by the Sea
5.7/333
Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but...
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City by the Sea
1992
The Water Engine
4.3/3
In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously...
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The Water Engine
1999
Just Looking
6.2/19
It's 1955. Lenny is a 14-year old boy who is totally fascinated by sex. He is too scared to "do it," so he dedicates his summer to seeing two other pe...
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Just Looking
2001
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
7.2/16
In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justic...
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
2011
Union Square
5/12
Jenny has rejected her tumultuous family and cut off communication, seeking a more ordered life far from her roots in the Bronx. And she's almost read...
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Union Square
2010
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
8/5
Join us for a rousing celebration of the life and works of one of Broadway's greatest legends — the one and only Stephen Sondheim. For the master com...
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Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
1982
Fighting Back
5.6/13
An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.
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Fighting Back
2011
Company
7.1/26
Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his s...
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Company
1999
The 24 Hour Woman
3/2
Grace tries to be the perfect mother and TV producer but finds trouble in juggling both.
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The 24 Hour Woman
1992
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
9/4
This program features the music of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim in a 1992 performance at Carnegie Hall. An American Musical Theatre writer for o...
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Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
2002
Monday Night Mayhem
5.3/6
The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a ma...
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Monday Night Mayhem
1976
The Time of Your Life
0/0
William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the cha...
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The Time of Your Life
2001
The Victim
0/0
She's the bar floozy, he's the stranger. She tries to pick him up but for some reason, he's not game.
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The Victim
1987
LBJ: The Early Years
7.5/4
LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the life of former President of the United St...
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LBJ: The Early Years
1999
Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
3.8/5
The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.
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Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
2013
Parker
6.038/2956
A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely all...
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Parker
1995
The Song Spinner
0/0
In an isolated, snow-covered country known as the Water Land, the town of Shandrilan remains the quietest place in the world because its "Hush Law" pr...
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The Song Spinner
2007
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
0/0
- Recorded live at Los Angeles Opera, 1 & 4 March 2007. Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is "in" and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown ri...
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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
2015
Dinner with Family with Brett Gelman and Brett Gelman's Family
6/1
Brett Gelman throws his parents a dinner and show for their 40th anniversary.
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Dinner with Family with Brett Gelman and Brett Gelman's Family
1997
An Evening with Patti LuPone
10/1
Taped in January 1997 at the McCallum Theatre in the Palm Desert Resort hotel in Palm Springs, CA., includes sensational renditions of "Don't Cry for...
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An Evening with Patti LuPone
2011
Portraits in Dramatic Time
8/1
A series of 40 art films created by artist David Michalek featuring performances of theater artists and actors of all genres and nationalities both we...
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Portraits in Dramatic Time
2005
Passion
0/0
Passion is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The story was adapted from Ettore Scola's film Passione d'A...
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Passion
1993
Family Prayers
5.7/3
This coming of age story set in the 1960s takes a look at the effects of a couple's break-up on a sensitive, thirteen year old Jewish boy in the 1960s...
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Family Prayers
2016
The Comedian
5.697/147
An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know...
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The Comedian
2005
Candide
7/5
Leonard Bernstein's brilliant comic operetta comes to dazzling new life under the guidance of director Lonny Price (A Class Act). Based on the classic...
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Candide
1999
Summer of Sam
6.476/443
During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.
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Summer of Sam
2019
Cliffs of Freedom
7.3/17
The timeless story of an ill-fated romance between a young Greek village girl and a conflicted Turkish officer during the dawn of the Greek War for In...
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Cliffs of Freedom
2003
Broadway's Lost Treasures
5.6/4
The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy Parks, wer...
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Broadway's Lost Treasures
1996
Her Last Chance
6/3
Drug adict teen gets out of rehab only to be accused of her boyfriend's death.
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Her Last Chance
2019
Steven Universe: The Movie
8.2/738
Two years after bringing peace to the galaxy, Steven Universe sees his past come back to haunt him in the form of a deranged Gem who wants to destroy...
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Steven Universe: The Movie
2019
Last Christmas
7.241/2285
Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a depa...
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Last Christmas
2006
Audra McDonald and Friends: Build a Bridge
10/1
Audra McDonald, already renowned for her virtuosity in classical and Broadway song, brings her talents to new genres by interpreting works of pop and...
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Audra McDonald and Friends: Build a Bridge
2000
Cold Blooded
4.3/3
A serial murderer of teenage girls is loose, and working the case are a possibly corrupt detective Lou Miles a probably corrupt chief inspector Brodsk...
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Cold Blooded
1984
Love Cycle: A Soap Operetta
0/0
A ghost appears from a laundromat dryer seeking vengeance against her husband for leaving her for another woman.
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Love Cycle: A Soap Operetta
2020
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
7.6/8
To celebrate the 90th birthday of Broadway songwriting great Stephen Sondheim, an A-list group of performers sing songs of inspiration from his songbo...
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Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
2020
Patti LuPone: Live From the West Side
0/0
This concert features two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone. Streamed live from New York’s Shubert Virtual Studios at New World Stages, the show fea...
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Patti LuPone: Live From the West Side
2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
10/2
An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.
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The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2023
Beau Is Afraid
6.7/902
A reserved and anxious man goes on a journey to visit his mother.
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Beau Is Afraid
2021
Cameron Mackintosh - The First 50 Years
0/0
Archival footage provides a glimpse into the life of Cameron Mackintosh; the storied producer famous for Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Cats an...
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Cameron Mackintosh - The First 50 Years
2019
On Broadway
8.7/3
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inc...
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On Broadway
2022
Keeping Company with Sondheim
9/1
Filmed over two years, this new documentary takes an exclusive inside look at Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott’s creative process of bringing a...
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Keeping Company with Sondheim
2022
The School for Good and Evil
7.1/1178
Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle betwee...
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The School for Good and Evil
2002
The Making of Sweeney Todd at the San Francisco Symphony
9/1
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The Making of Sweeney Todd at the San Francisco Symphony
2023
Patti LuPone: Songs From a Hat
0/0
Does anyone still wear a hat? Yes: three-time Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone. And her hat is filled with songs, both new and old. See Patti up close a...
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Patti LuPone: Songs From a Hat
2011
The Miraculous Year
0/0
A chronicle of a New York family as seen through the eyes of a charming yet self-destructive Broadway composer.
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The Miraculous Year
2020
Pose-a-Thon for Pride
0/0
Bringing together the voices of "Pose" for stories, songs, and support of LGBTQ education, social change for sexual and gender minority people of colo...
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Pose-a-Thon for Pride
2017
Broadway: The Next Generation
0/0
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
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Broadway: The Next Generation
2023
Finally Home: Making Beau is Afraid
10/1
A documentary about the making of Ari Aster's Kafkaesque epic Beau is Afraid.
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