Biography
Holland Virginia Taylor (born January 14, 1943) is an American actress. She won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on ABC's The Practice (1998–2003). For her portrayal of Evelyn Harper on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men (2003–15), she received a total of four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Taylor's other notable television credits include starring roles on the sitcoms Bosom Buddies (1980–82), The Powers...
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Complete Filmography

Motherland
2025
as Toni
In an alternate present society where the state frees parents from the burden of raising children, a rule enforcer learns a shocking truth that sparks...
Fantasy Life
2025
After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist's three granddaughters. The...

Unachievable Sound of Silence
2024
Thanks
Struggling with haunting nightmares and an unaccepting family, Daniel finds refuge in the abandoned house of his enigmatic former music teacher, only ...

The Little Pageant That Could
2024
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary that chronicles the journey of L.A.’s “Best in Drag Show” to support the Alliance for Housing and Healing. The event, which started as a...

Quiz Lady
2023
as Francine
A brilliant but tightly wound, gameshow-obsessed young woman, Anne, and her estranged, train-wreck of a sister, Jenny, must work together to help cove...

Adele One Night Only
2021
as Self
A primetime special with performances from the superstar including Adele’s first new material in six years plus her chart-topping hits. The special wi...

The Stand In
2020
as Barbara Cox
When ordered to serve a year in rehab, actress Candy hires her on-set stand-in to take her place. The unassuming woman flips the script and steals her...

Bill & Ted Face the Music
2020
as The Great Leader
Yet to fulfil their rock and roll destiny, now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns t...

To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
2020
as Stormy
Lara Jean and Peter have just taken their romance from pretend to officially real when another recipient of one of her love letters enters the picture...

Bombshell
2019
as Faye (uncredited)
Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought do...

Gloria Bell
2019
as Hillary Bell
Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clu...

Ann
2018
as Ann Richards
Ann is a no-holds-barred portrait of Ann Richards, the legendary governor of Texas. This inspiring and hilarious new play brings us face to face with ...

Ann
2018
Writer
Ann is a no-holds-barred portrait of Ann Richards, the legendary governor of Texas. This inspiring and hilarious new play brings us face to face with ...

Kepler's Dream
2016
as Violet von Stern
An 11 year old girl searches for a missing rare book from her grandmother's (Holland Taylor) library and tries to understand why her family is fractur...
Divorce: The Greatest Hits
2016
And you thought a failing marriage was tough. Divorce is just the beginning...

Electric City
2016
as Voice Actor (voice)
In a post-apocalyptic world, humanity lives in small settlements whose main activity is to produce electricity.

Twinkle Toes
2011
as Principal Garfield (voice)
She’s Grace “Twinkle Toes” Hastings, the shining star of this all-new movie! She has a big secret though... she gets terrible stage fright in front of...

The Chosen One
2010
as Ruth
Paul is an ordinary man who is at the end of his rope. He hates his job, his beautiful wife has left him, and his mother and gay, Buddhist-monk brothe...

Baby Mama
2008
as Rose
A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate...

Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
2007
as Prudence (voice)
When Lady Tremaine steals the Fairy Godmother's wand and changes history, it's up to Cinderella to restore the timeline and reclaim her prince.

The Wedding Date
2005
as Bunny
With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While...

D.E.B.S.
2004
as Ms. Petrie
The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003
as Grandmother
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the worl...

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002
as Grandmother
Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to...

Home Room
2002
as Dr. Hollander
A high school shooting has repercussions on the town and students.

Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
2002
as Prudence (voice)
As a newly crowned princess, Cinderella quickly learns that life at the Palace - and her royal responsibilities - are more challenging than she had im...
Fits and Starts
2002
A couple announce their engagement, but then find their relationship turning to sour within 24 hours.......

The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
as Nancy Reagan
The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss as Alexander Haig and Richard ...

Legally Blonde
2001
as Professor Stromwell
Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all, but, she wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading t...

Town & Country
2001
as Mistress of Ceremonies
Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps, some with his wif...

The Deadly Look of Love
2000
as Evelyn McGinnis
Janet Flanders is a small-town, unsophisticated young woman who is seduced by the fantasy of romantic love; she believes that someday her prince will ...

Keeping the Faith
2000
as Bonnie Rose
Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper W...

Mail to the Chief
2000
as Katherine Horner
A humorous and inspiring adventure about an ordinary middle school student who strikes up an online friendship with someone bearing the screen name Av...

The Spiral Staircase
2000
as Emma
During a storm, a group of people are trapped inside a mansion with a killer.

Happy Accidents
2000
as Therapist
A comedy that pays tribute to the science fiction genre -- specifically, the sub-genre of time travel. But here the alternate reality is contemporary ...

The Sex Monster
1999
as Muriel
A neurotic L.A. building contractor pushes his reluctant wife into having a threesome. Unfortunately for him, his wife gets more out of it than he doe...

The Unknown Cyclist
1998
as Celia (uncredited)
A man's dying wish is for the people in his life to participate in a 450-mile charity bicycle ride through Northern California.

Next Stop Wonderland
1998
as Piper Castleton
Dumped by her loser boyfriend, Erin's love life hits rock bottom when her overbearing mother places an embarrassing ad in the "personals" section of a...

The Truman Show
1998
as Angela Montclair / Alanis Montclair
Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, ...

The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1998
as Alanis Montclair
A promotional featurette for 1998's 'The Truman Show', 'TruTalk' is a "60 Minutes"-style mockumentary taking place inside the film's universe.

George of the Jungle
1997
as Beatrice Stanhope
Deep in the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by gorillas. George grows up to be a buff and lovable k...

Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
as Self
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "wor...

Just Write
1997
as Emma Jeffreys
A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.

Betty
1997
as Crystal Ball
The world's most famous actress freaks out on the set of her latest Christmas blockbuster and runs away to hide in the unlikely setting of Palm Spring...

One Fine Day
1996
as Rita
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one mornin...

Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995
as Davis Mora Axelrod
Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Be...

How to Make an American Quilt
1995
as Mrs. Rubens
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits ...

Steal Big Steal Little
1995
as Mona Rowland-Downey
Ruben and Robby are twin brothers, adopted by Mona, one of the wealthiest - and most eccentric - women in Santa Barbara. Ruben is devoted to Mona, but...

To Die For
1995
as Carol Stone
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she make...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
1995
as Janice
Attorney Bill McKenzie takes the case when his niece is framed for the murder of a popular and demanding sitcom star.

Awake to Danger
1995
as Dr. Joyce Lindley
Recently awakened from a coma, a traumatized adolescent girl fights to remember the circumstances surrounding her mother's brutal death. But as the de...

A Walton Wedding
1995
as Aunt Flo
In 1964, John-Boy Walton is planning his wedding to Janet Gilchrist, the editor of a New York fashion magazine and the daughter of a diplomat. The two...

The Favor
1994
as Maggie Sand
On the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend Emily to seduce an old flame Tom, so she can get all the...

The Counterfeit Contessa
1994
as Wallace Everett
Gina Nardino, a young saleswoman at the food counter of a posh department store, falls hard for a society stud, and, through a series of accidents, im...

In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
1994
as Florence Newsom
After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes.

Betrayal of Trust
1994
as Mary Shelton
A woman has been to a psychiatrist for years for drug and alcohol addiction, and whose treatment includes being injected with a drug that knocks her o...
With Hostile Intent
1993
as Lois Baxter
After police officer Miranda Berkley dumps her boyfriend, who's also her superior, she and her colleague Kathy Arnold constantly are harassed by their...

Cop & ½
1993
as Captain Rubio
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, ...

The Rape of Doctor Willis
1991
as Dr. Greenway
A drama directed by Lou Antonio.

Alice
1990
as Helen
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults h...

People Like Us
1990
as Dolly
When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to enab...

She's Having a Baby
1988
as Sarah Briggs
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their paren...

Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
1987
as Ernestine King
In the 1930's an aging film producer and his much younger wife live separate lives. Whenever a young starlet catches the husband's eye, he eventually ...

The Saint in Manhattan
1987
as Fran Grogan
Simon Templar returns to New York via Concorde and is feeling restless, until a note from an old flame surfaces. This TV movie was an unsold pilot for...

Perry Mason Returns
1985
as Paula Gordon
When his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.

Key Exchange
1985
as Mrs. Fanshaw
A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.

The Jewel of the Nile
1985
as Gloria
Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who...

Romancing the Stone
1984
as Gloria
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of...

I Was a Mail Order Bride
1982
as Dottie Birmingham
On a bet with one of his practical-joking partners, a Los Angeles lawyer responds to an ad from a pretty Chicago magazine writer offering herself as a...

The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
1982
as Frances Shand Kydd
The second Charles and Diana movie, with two virtual unknowns in the leads: Christopher Baines had acted on the British stage and on the BBC, but Cath...

My Mother Was Never a Kid
1981
as Felicia Martin
A trip to the past helps a teenager learn to appreciate her mother

Fame
1980
as Claudia van Doren (uncredited)
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

O Youth and Beauty!
1979
as Beverly Trencher
Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice home and two fine children. But Cash grows increasin...

The Sorrows of Gin
1979
as Beverly Trencher
An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year old daughter.

The Next Man
1976
as TV Interviewer
Khalil is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state as a member of OPEC. This instantly makes him a ta...

J.T.
1969
as Mrs. Arnold
J. T. Gamble, a shy, withdrawn Harlem youngster, shows compassion and responsibility when he takes on the care of an old, one-eyed, badly injured alle...