Rita Wilson

Rita Wilson

1956-10-26 Los Angeles, California, USA 60 Credits

Biography

Rita Wilson (born Margarita Ibrahimoff on October 26, 1956) is an American actress, singer, and producer. Her film appearances include Volunteers (1985), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Now and Then (1995), That Thing You Do! (1996), Jingle All the Way (1996), The Story of Us (1999), Runaway Bride (1999), It's Complicated (2009), and Larry Crowne (2011), and she appeared in the television series The Good Wife and Girls. Wilson has performed on Broadway and produced several films, including My Big F...

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

2023

Producer

5.9
Producing

Following the death of their patriarch Gus, the Portokalos family travels to Greece for a family reunion, and to deliver Gus' journal to his old frien...

Asteroid City

Asteroid City

2023

as Mrs. Weatherford

6.5
Acting

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

A Man Called Otto

A Man Called Otto

2022

Producer

7.8
Producing

When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading t...

Killing Me Softly with His Songs

Killing Me Softly with His Songs

2022

as Self

5.0
Acting

A musical documentary about the life and work of composer Charles Fox, known for pop hits such as 'Killing Me Softly with His Song', 'I Got a Name', '...

Kimi

Kimi

2022

as Natalie Chowdhury

6.2
Acting

A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice,...

Love is Love is Love

Love is Love is Love

2021

as Mary Kay (segment "Late Lunch")

4.6
Acting

Three sto­ries that explore love, com­mit­ment, and loy­al­ty between cou­ples and friends. "Two for Din­ner" where a mar­ried cou­ple tem­porar­i­ly ...

Love is Love is Love

Love is Love is Love

2021

Theme Song Performance, Music Producer, Lyricist

4.6
Producing

Three sto­ries that explore love, com­mit­ment, and loy­al­ty between cou­ples and friends. "Two for Din­ner" where a mar­ried cou­ple tem­porar­i­ly ...

Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine

Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine

2020

as Self

Acting

A tribute to the life and music of John Prine featuring family and friends sharing memories and songs while raising money for several charitable organ...

Boy Genius

Boy Genius

2019

as Mary Locke

7.0
Acting

A twelve year-old child prodigy teams up with a quirky retiree to solve a crime and save his family from splitting up.

Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate

Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate

2019

as Self

5.3
Acting

Hollywood's finest pay tribute to "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" for an uncensored and unforgettable celebration at The Dolby Theater.

Gloria Bell

Gloria Bell

2019

as Vicky

6.0
Acting

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...

A Simple Wedding

A Simple Wedding

2018

as Maggie Baker

4.5
Acting

Cultures clash and families collide when an Iranian woman finds love with an eccentric bisexual artist.

A Simple Wedding

A Simple Wedding

2018

Executive Producer

4.5
Producing

Cultures clash and families collide when an Iranian woman finds love with an eccentric bisexual artist.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

2018

Executive Producer

7.1
Producing

Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each ...

Always at The Carlyle

Always at The Carlyle

2018

as Self

6.8
Acting

The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorker...

Brother Nature

Brother Nature

2016

as Cathy Turley

5.1
Acting

Roger, a straight-laced politician has big plans to propose to his dream girl at her family's lake house. But everything goes awry when he meets his p...

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

2016

as Anna

6.0
Acting

The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

2016

Producer

6.0
Producing

The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."

Everything Is Copy

Everything Is Copy

2015

as Self

7.4
Acting

A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.

Kiss Me

Kiss Me

2015

as Edith

5.6
Acting

A coming of age drama that follows two 15-year old girls, Zoe and Shelby, through the physical and emotional growing pains of their youth. As they tes...

Dawn Patrol

Dawn Patrol

2014

as Sheila

5.0
Acting

After the brutal murder of his beloved brother, a small-town surfer seeks revenge against the gang of merciless thugs he holds responsible. However, w...

The Tutor

The Tutor

2013

as Mother

Acting

James, a boy with an over-active imagination, tricks his tutor into spending their first session searching for his runaway twin brother who doesn't ac...

The Carrier

The Carrier

2012

as Helen

7.0
Acting

A grieving mother, dealing with the loss of her philandering son, discovers a secret that will profoundly influence her life, the lives around her, an...

Larry Crowne

Larry Crowne

2011

as Wilma Q. Gammelgaard

6.0
Acting

When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes p...

The Art of Getting By

The Art of Getting By

2011

as Vivian Sargent

6.6
Acting

George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally,...

It's Complicated

It's Complicated

2009

as Trisha

6.5
Acting

Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is mar...

Old Dogs

Old Dogs

2009

as Gloria Lawrence

5.5
Acting

Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge busines...

My Life in Ruins

My Life in Ruins

2009

as Elinor

6.1
Acting

A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them ...

My Life in Ruins

My Life in Ruins

2009

Executive Producer

6.1
Producing

A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them ...

Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia!

2008

as Greek Goddess (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of fin...

Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia!

2008

Executive Producer

7.0
Producing

A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of fin...

The Trap

The Trap

2007

Director

6.0
Directing

Maggie's friends have planned a surprise birthday party (despite it being a month away). During the party, Maggie realizes there's more to it then tha...

Beautiful Ohio

Beautiful Ohio

2006

as Judith Messerman

5.1
Acting

A quietly provocative coming-of-age drama about two brothers — Clive and William — growing up in the unconventional household of progressive parents i...

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

2005

as Beta Station Commander

5.8
Acting

Twelve men who belong to one of the world's most exclusive fraternities -- people who've walked on the surface of the moon -- are paid homage in this ...

The Chumscrubber

The Chumscrubber

2005

as Terri Bratley

6.5
Acting

The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his fr...

Raise Your Voice

Raise Your Voice

2004

as Francis Fletcher

6.5
Acting

A coming-of-age story centered around a small-town singer brokenhearted by the death of her brother in a car crash, who had secretly submitted her for...

Connie and Carla

Connie and Carla

2004

Executive Producer

5.8
Producing

After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers wor...

Auto Focus

Auto Focus

2002

as Anne Crane

6.4
Acting

A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona...

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

2002

Producer

6.5
Producing

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultur...

The Glass House

The Glass House

2001

as Grace Avery Baker (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Mali...

Perfume

Perfume

2001

as Roberta

4.8
Acting

A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York Ci...

The Story of Us

The Story of Us

1999

as Rachel Kogen

6.1
Acting

Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.

Runaway Bride

Runaway Bride

1999

as Ellie Graham

6.1
Acting

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...

Invisible Child

Invisible Child

1999

as Annie Beeman

6.9
Acting

A nanny is hired by a troubled mother and finds herself fighting to hold together the entire family when she realizes the woman has an imaginary daugh...

Psycho

Psycho

1998

as Caroline

5.1
Acting

A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

Jingle All the Way

Jingle All the Way

1996

as Liz Langston

6.1
Acting

Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposi...

That Thing You Do!

That Thing You Do!

1996

as Margueritte

6.9
Acting

A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.

If These Walls Could Talk

If These Walls Could Talk

1996

as Leslie

6.7
Acting

A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a...

Now and Then

Now and Then

1995

as Chrissy

6.9
Acting

Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty, four childhood girlfriends — Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta — recall t...

Mixed Nuts

Mixed Nuts

1994

as Catherine

5.4
Acting

The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.

Sleepless in Seattle

Sleepless in Seattle

1993

as Suzy

6.7
Acting

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s loneliness s...

Barbarians at the Gate

Barbarians at the Gate

1993

as Carolyne Roehm-Kravis

6.8
Acting

F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fa...

The Bonfire of the Vanities

The Bonfire of the Vanities

1990

as P.R. Woman

5.6
Acting

After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and ...

Sinners

1990

as Margaret

2.0
Acting

Love is in the air in a small Italian neighborhood of New York. But, is it safe to cheat on your wife, with your cousin, whose brother owns a shotgun ...

Volunteers

Volunteers

1985

as Beth Wexler

5.5
Acting

After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he ...

Cheech & Chong's Next Movie

Cheech & Chong's Next Movie

1980

as Hostage

6.0
Acting

Perennially stoned Cheech and Chong tear through the city of Los Angeles, causing trouble wherever they go. After Cheech loses his job, the two pot en...

Flying High

Flying High

1978

as Debbie

Acting

In this pilot film to the subsequent short-lived series, three attractive young women -- Marcy Bower, Pam Bellagio, and Lisa Benton -- succeed in qual...

The Day It Came to Earth

1977

as Debbie

2.9
Acting

A glowing meteor falls into a secluded pond into which Mafia hitmen have dumped the body of one of their victims. Students from the local college use ...

Start Without Me

N/A

as Mona

Acting

Adam, a newly sober former musician, and Marissa, a flight attendant whose marriage is in crisis, wind up on an epic Thanksgiving Day road trip, as th...

Patsy Cline: Walkin' After Midnight

Patsy Cline: Walkin' After Midnight

N/A

Acting

Country music legend Patsy Cline was a trailblazer in her genre, paving the way for artists who followed in her footsteps. This fall, Great Performanc...