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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
2023
Producer
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
2023
as Mrs. Weatherford
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
2022
Producer
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
2022
as Self
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
2022
as Natalie Chowdhury
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
2021
as Mary Kay (segment "Late Lunch")
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
2021
Theme Song Performance, Music Producer, Lyricist
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
2020
as Self
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
2019
as Mary Locke
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
2019
as Self
Hollywood's finest pay tribute to "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" for an uncensored and unforgettable celebration at The Dolby Theater.

Gloria Bell
2019
as Vicky
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
2018
as Maggie Baker
Cultures clash and families collide when an Iranian woman finds love with an eccentric bisexual artist.

A Simple Wedding
2018
Executive Producer
Cultures clash and families collide when an Iranian woman finds love with an eccentric bisexual artist.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018
Executive Producer
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
2018
as Self
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
2016
as Cathy Turley
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
2016
as Anna
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
2016
Producer
The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."

Everything Is Copy
2015
as Self
A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.

Kiss Me
2015
as Edith
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
2014
as Sheila
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
2013
as Mother
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
2012
as Helen
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
2011
as Wilma Q. Gammelgaard
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
2011
as Vivian Sargent
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
2009
as Trisha
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
2009
as Gloria Lawrence
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
2009
as Elinor
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
2009
Executive Producer
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!
2008
as Greek Goddess (uncredited)
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!
2008
Executive Producer
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
2007
Director
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
2006
as Judith Messerman
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
2005
as Beta Station Commander
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
2005
as Terri Bratley
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
2004
as Francis Fletcher
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
2004
Executive Producer
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
2002
as Anne Crane
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
2002
Producer
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
2001
as Grace Avery Baker (uncredited)
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
2001
as Roberta
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
1999
as Rachel Kogen
Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.

Runaway Bride
1999
as Ellie Graham
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
1999
as Annie Beeman
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
1998
as Caroline
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

Jingle All the Way
1996
as Liz Langston
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!
1996
as Margueritte
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
1996
as Leslie
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
1995
as Chrissy
Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty, four childhood girlfriends — Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta — recall t...

Mixed Nuts
1994
as Catherine
The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.

Sleepless in Seattle
1993
as Suzy
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
1993
as Carolyne Roehm-Kravis
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
1990
as P.R. Woman
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
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
1985
as Beth Wexler
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
1980
as Hostage
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
1978
as Debbie
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
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
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
N/A
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...