Blair Brown

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1946-04-23 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Blair Brown

Biography

Blair Brown (born April 23, 1946) is an American stage, film and television actress. For her role in Copenhagen, Brown won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She was the leading actress in feature films such as Altered States (1980), Continental Divide (1981), and Strapless (1989), and she played the title character in the television comedy-drama The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. Later supporting roles include Nina Sharp on Fringe and Judy King on Orange Is the New Black.

Acting

2003

Dogville

as Mrs. Henson

2005

Dark Shadows

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

1999

The Astronaut's Wife

as Shelly McLaren

2000

Space Cowboys

as Dr. Anne Caruthers

1980

Altered States

as Emily Jessup

1988

Stealing Home

as Ginny Wyatt

1981

Continental Divide

as Nell Porter

1980

2010

The Buddha

as Narrator

1973

The Paper Chase

as Miss Farranti

2008

Dark Matter

as Hildy

2005

Loverboy

as Jeanette Rawley

1984

A Flash of Green

as Kat Hubble

1985

The Bad Seed

as Christine Penmark

1989

Strapless

as Dr. Lillian Hempel

2000

Hamlet

as Gertrude

2007

Sister Aimee

as Narrator (voice)

2002

1994

1978

And I Alone Survived

as Lauren Elder

2006

The Sentinel

as National Security Advisor

1992

Those Secrets

as Nellie Banesh

1977

The Quinns

as Millicent Priestley

2001

Follow the Stars Home

as Hannah Parker

1979

The Child Stealer

as Jan Rodman

1977

The Choirboys

as Kimberly Lyles

1992

Passed Away

as Amy Scanlan

1993

1990

Extreme Close-Up

as Margaret Toll

2007

First Born

as Laura's Mother

1985

Don't Touch

as Joan Stewart

1993

1987

Hands of a Stranger

as Diane Benton

2004

RFK

as Narrator

2005

The Massie Affair

as Narrator (voice)

1997

Convictions

as Zalinda Dorcheus

1996

The Ultimate Lie

as Joan 'Joanie' McGrath

1973

Dracula

as Mina

2002

Young Dr. Freud

as Narrator

1992

Majority Rule

as Gen. Katherine Taylor

2016

My Art

as Mickey

1996

A Season in Purgatory

as Grace Bradley

1975

1993

Rio Shannon

as Elizabeth Cleary

2011

2007

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency

as Margaret Bayard Smith (voice)

1977

The 3,000 Mile Chase

as Rachel Kane

2006

Test Tube Babies

as Narrator

1991

The Good Policeman

as Rebecca Karp

1994

The Gift of Love

as Helen Porter

Production

2005

Manderlay

as Thanks

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