Biography
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 a...
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Complete Filmography

Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
2025
as Self
In 1965, Janis Ian, a 14-year-old singer-songwriter from New Jersey, wrote “Society’s Child” about an interracial relationship. Recorded and released ...

Somewhere in Queens
2023
as Angela Russo
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...

Barbecue
2020
as Lillie Anne
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...

Toy Story 4
2019
as Andy's Mom (voice)
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 ...

Lady Bird
2017
as Marion McPherson
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...

Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
as Self
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.

Long Day's Journey Into Night
2014
as Mary Tyrone
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...

Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
2011
as Self
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...

Toy Story 3
2010
as Andy's Mom (voice)
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...

Stop-Loss
2008
as Mrs. Colson
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...

The Pixar Story
2007
as Mrs. Davis (voice) (archive footage)
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...

Georgia Rule
2007
as Paula Richards
Rebellious, uncontrollable teenager, Rachel is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her estranged grandmother, Georgia. Her...

Meet the Robinsons
2007
as Lucille Krunklehorn (voice)
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...

Beer League
2006
as Artie's Mom
An unemployed slacker inspires his softball teammates to improve their game to avoid getting kicked out of the local league.

Steel City
2006
as Marianne Karn
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...

Fun with Dick and Jane
2005
as Phyllis
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...

Treasure Planet
2002
as Sarah (voice)
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 ...

Toy Story 2
1999
as Andy's Mom (voice)
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, ...

Runaway Bride
1999
as Betty Trout
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...

Balloon Farm
1999
as Casey Johnson
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...

Chicago Cab
1998
as Female Ad Exec
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...

Bulworth
1998
as Mimi
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecti...

The Long Island Incident
1998
as Carolyn McCarthy
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...

Always Outnumbered
1998
as Halley Grimes
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...

Scream 2
1997
as Debbie Salt
Two years after the first series of murders, as Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string ...

U Turn
1997
as Bus Station Clerk
When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. Cau...

The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
1996
as Self
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 ...

Dear God
1996
as Rebecca Frazen
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...

Toy Story
1995
as Mrs. Davis (voice)
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...

Leaving Las Vegas
1995
as Landlady
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There,...
The Secret Life of Houses
1994
as Ann
A nine-year-old girl with a mother in the hospital decides to live alone and fend for herself.

Blink
1993
as Candice
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...

A Dangerous Woman
1993
as Anita
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...

Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
1993
as Emma
Theatrical packaging of three comic shorts: Dean Parisot & Steven Wright's comedy "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings" (1988), Michael Moore's docume...

Mistress
1992
as Rachel Landisman
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...

JFK
1991
as Susie Cox
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
Tom Arnold: The Naked Truth
1991
as Self
Tom sets out to solve world problems, with help from Frank Zappa, Martin Mull, and wife Roseanne.

Pacific Heights
1990
as Stephanie MacDonald
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.

Internal Affairs
1990
as Amy Wallace
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...

Uncle Buck
1989
as Marcie Dahlgren-Frost
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewhe...

Miles from Home
1988
as Exotic Dancer
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...

The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
1988
as Emma
Dennis Jennings is an introverted daydreamer, sleepwalking through life. He is a professional waiter and has an equally-dull girlfriend, Emma. In an a...

Stars & Bars
1988
as Melissa
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.

Candy Mountain
1988
as Alice
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker

Making Mr. Right
1987
as Sandy
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...

The Execution of Raymond Graham
1985
as Carol Graham
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...

Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
as Leslie Glass
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken ...

The Visitor
1982
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...

A Wedding
1978
as Maid (uncredited)
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as...
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
N/A
as Mary
June 1961, NYC: legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his musical voice and created the perfect trio, including bass player Scott LaFaro, said t...