Biography
Swoosie Kurtz (born September 6, 1944) is an American actress. She began her career in theater during the 1970s and shortly thereafter began a career in television, garnering ten nominations and winning one Emmy Award. Her most famous television project was her role on the 1990s NBC drama Sisters. She has also appeared somewhat sporadically in films from the late 1970s up until today, including prominent roles in such films as Dangerous Liaisons, Citizen Ruth, and Liar Liar among others. Through...
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Complete Filmography
Overboard
2018
as Grace
A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee.
An Englishman in New York
2009
as Connie Clausen
Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there un...
Living Proof
2008
as Elizabeth
Dr Dennis Slamon, an American oncologist, discovers a treatment that could possibly cure breast cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. He tries to ...
Superman: Doomsday
2007
as Martha Kent (voice)
When LexCorp accidentally unleashes a murderous creature, Superman meets his greatest challenge as a champion. Based on the "The Death of Superman" st...
Category 7: The End of the World
2005
as Penny Hall
It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a super storm that threatens to rend th...
Nadine in Dateland
2005
as Mrs. M
Nadine is a contradiction in terms; she runs a dating service despite being incredibly unlucky in love. Now, facing serious business problems, she nee...
Duplex
2003
as Jean
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
The Rules of Attraction
2002
as Mrs. Jared
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a...
The Wilde Girls
2001
A young girl hopes to follow in her famous singer mother's footsteps, but her mother fears the negative effect fame could have on her daughter's life.
Bubble Boy
2001
as Mrs. Livingston
Jimmy is a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom... who pines for the sweet ca...
Get Over It
2001
as Beverly Landers
When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the h...
Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes
2000
as Binny Redwine
Insurance agent Hutch Rimes spends a lot of time at the Sleep Easy Hotel, taking long lurid lunch breaks with a string of sexy secretaries who he hire...
Cruel Intentions
1999
as Dr. Greenbaum
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. I...
The White River Kid
1999
as Mummy Weed
Two con men are traveling through the American South when they are held hostage by a serial killer who is running from the authorities.
Outside Ozona
1998
as Rosalee
A widowed trucker fends off isolation in the company of a dog named Girl, two bickering sisters try to reconcile their differences and a down-and-out ...
My Own Country
1998
as Hope Flanders
An East Indian physician works with AIDS patients as an epidemic of the disease hits in Tennessee.
Liar Liar
1997
as Dana Appleton
Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
1997
as Allison Bryant
A gymnast moves to a gym where the top coach in the US is and has difficulties adjusting.
Citizen Ruth
1996
as Diane Siegler
"Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is...
Harvey
1996
as Veta Simmons
An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall ...
A Promise to Carolyn
1996
as Kay
When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together the...
Betrayed: A Story of Three Women
1995
as Joan Bixler
Joan Bixler and Amanda Nelson have known each other for several years and lead successful and seemingly functional families. However, their friendship...
One Christmas
1994
as Emily
Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..
Reality Bites
1994
as Charlane McGregor
A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As...
Storybook
1994
as Queen Evilia
A young boy and his dog discover a magical story book and enter the enchanted Storyland, ruled by wicked Queen Evilia. They'll need a little help from...
And the Band Played On
1993
as Mrs. Johnstone
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
1993
as Marla Harper
A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the cheerleading squad.
Terror on Track 9
1992
as Marcia Hobbs
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
A Shock to the System
1990
as Leslie Marshall
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife w...
Stanley & Iris
1990
as Sharon
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inabili...
The Image
1990
as Joanne Winstow-Darvish
When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
as Madame de Volanges
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for ...
Bright Lights, Big City
1988
as Megan
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
Vice Versa
1988
as Tina
A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
Baja Oklahoma
1988
as Doris Steadman
Juanita Hutchins works at Texas bar, but she aspires to be a country songwriter. When she's not looking after her impulsive daughter, Candy, or vouchi...
The House of Blue Leaves
1987
as Bananas Shaughnessy
On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, t...
True Stories
1986
as The Lazy Woman
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent ...
Wildcats
1986
as Verna McGrath
High school track coach Molly McGrath knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant,...
A Time to Live
1985
as Patricia
The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.
Guilty Conscience
1985
as Jackie Willis
Amid acrimonious divorce proceedings, Louise (Blythe Danner) unwittingly puts her life in danger when she contests the prenuptial agreement she signed...
Against All Odds
1984
as Edie
She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love he...
A Caribbean Mystery
1983
as Ruth Walter
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort...
Fifth of July
1982
as Gwen Landis
Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken struggl...
The World According to Garp
1982
as The Hooker
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns...
The Mating Season
1980
as Roberta
They say opposites attract, but could a romance possibly develop between an attorney, successful at work but unlucky in love, and a divorced man whose...
Marriage Is Alive and Well
1980
as Jane Tremont
A talented wedding photographer, at a crossroads with his own marriage, reflects on tales of past clients and the hope, adversity and romance that hol...
Uncommon Women and Others
1979
as Rita Altabel
While at an impromptu reunion lunch, five women reminisce and relive their college days at Mount Holyoke, and weigh their goals and aspirations agains...
Walking Through the Fire
1979
as Caria
A young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the situation is the fact that she is pregnant, and the tre...
Oliver's Story
1978
as Gwen Simpson
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hour...
First Love
1977
as Marsha
A college soccer player falls hard for a campus beauty, who is the mistress of an older married attorney.
Slap Shot
1977
as Shirley Upton
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging playe...
Ah, Wilderness!
1976
as Muriel McComber
On the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and poeti...