Biography
Talia Balsam (born March 5, 1959) is an American actress.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Omaha
2025
as Edie
After a family tragedy, siblings Ella and Charlie are unexpectedly woken up by their dad and taken on a journey across the country, experiencing a wor...

Threshold
2024
It's been thirty years since Joan (Mad Men's Talia Balsam) & Susie (Only Murders in the Building's Linda Emond) stood before their closest friends to ...

Late Bloomers
2024
as Dorothy
Louise, an aimless, 28 year-old Brooklynite, recently single, sort of a musician, depressed without admitting to it, drunkenly falls while doing somet...

Master
2022
as Diandra
At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, two black women strive to find their place. Navigating politics and ...

With/In Volume 2
2022
An anthology film that centres around relationships, love and family. A man misses his flight and instead finds love in quarantine, a lonely therapist...

The Many Saints of Newark
2021
as Mrs. Jarecki
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise ...

Worth
2021
as Dede Feinberg
Kenneth Feinberg, a powerful D.C. lawyer appointed Special Master of the 9/11 Fund, fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy, and politics associated with...

With/In Volume 1
2021
as (segment "Intersection")
Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directo...

The Climb
2020
as Suzi
Kyle and Mike are best friends who share a close bond — until Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée. A stormy but enduring relationship ensues between Kyle,...

South Mountain
2019
as Lila
When her teenagers head off to camp and her husband abruptly leaves her to begin a new family, Lila is left to her own curious and chaotic devices for...

Little Men
2016
as Audrey
Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather's funeral, and the unlik...

Don't Worry Baby
2016
as Miriam Lang
A father and son unknowingly sleep with the same woman, then four years later compete over the paternity of a child either of them could be the father...

The Girl in the Book
2015
as Mom
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

Take Care
2014
Thanks
When a car crash leaves Frannie immobilized, she is brushed off by everyone she can count on. With nowhere else to turn and desperate for help, she tu...

Return
2011
as Julie
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

No Strings Attached
2011
as Sandra Kurtzman
Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No strings attach...

Conviction
2010
as Prosecuting Attorney
When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, ...

The Wackness
2008
as Mrs. Shapiro
Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions wit...

The Cake Eaters
2007
as Violet Kaminski
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. El...

All the King's Men
2006
as Lucy Stark
The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 ...

Little Manhattan
2005
as Jackie Telesco
Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walked into his life, actually into his karate class. But befor...

Into the Fire
2005
as Dr. Linda Boyle
Into the Fire follows the story of Walter Hartwig, a lieutenant in the New York City Harbor Unit, who finally comes to terms with grief and what is re...

Valerie Flake
1999
as Greenhorn Checker Linda
A boozing, recently widowed young woman gives every one she comes into contact with a hard time. She moves back home with her in-laws, where she is pu...

Camp Stories
1997
as Mary
A man named David Katz remembers the formative summer he spent as a kid in an Orthodox Jewish summer camp.

Coldblooded
1995
as Jean Alexander
Cosmo, an affectless mob bookie who lives in the basement of a retirement home, is promoted to hitman. He learns his new trade from Steve, a seasoned ...

Shame II: The Secret
1995
as Sheila Finn
A motorcycle riding lawyer fights to save the life of a mentally retarded man on death row. His own mother is ready to let him go.

The Companion
1994
as Charlene
In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a remote mountain cabin. A friend convinces her to bring alo...

Killer Instinct
1992
as Emma
An up and coming lawyer gets turned over for a case he'd been working on for a long while. The D.A.'s niece then decides to help the young lawyer by f...

Sins of the Mother
1991
as Liz Trent
A charismatic Real Estate agent, Kevin Coe, is publicly proud of his mother, a prominent socialite, but privately he must put up with her constant bel...

Trust Me
1989
as Catherine Walker
An art dealer murders one of his artists in the hopes of increasing the market value of his work.

In the Mood
1987
as Judy Cusimano
When 15-year-old Sonny Wisecarver has an affair with his older neighbor Francine and then runs off to marry her, a stern judge has the union annulled....

The Ladies
1987
as Linda
Sentimental drama in which, following her divorce, a middle-aged woman (Patricia Elliott) moves in with her daughter (Talia Balsam). But things do not...

P.I. Private Investigations
1987
as Jenny Fox
A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.

The Kindred
1987
as Sharon Raymond
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a broth...

Crawlspace
1986
as Lori Bancroft
A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and...

The Supernaturals
1986
as Pvt. Angela Lejune
Nichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site wher...

Consenting Adult
1985
as Margie
Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and t...

Mass Appeal
1984
as Liz Dolson
A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.

Nadia
1984
as Marta Karolyi
Story about gymnast Nadia Comaneci from her childhood beginning as a gymnast and how she was discovered by Belya Karolyi. Nadia received 7 perfect 10'...

Calamity Jane
1984
as Jean Irene O'Neill
An exploration of the myths surrounding the colorful Western heroine and both the legendary Wild Bill Hickock, with whom she had an unorthodox courtsh...

Crazy Times
1981
as Eve
Follows the exploits of three teenage friends sharing the good times back at Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York during the summer of 1955.

Kent State
1981
as Sandy Scheuer
Dramatization of the four days of events leading up to the historic tragedy at Kent State University in May 1970, during the confrontation between Nat...

OHMS
1980
as Noranne Wing
A conservative, Midwestern farmer rallies his neighbors against a power company planning to erect huge towers across their land, and a political activ...

Sunnyside
1979
as Ann Rosario
Nick Martin, a young street tough, has a change of heart and attempts to stop the gang violence in his neighborhood.

The Survival of Dana
1979
as Rona Sims
High school student Dana moves to the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles after her North Dakota parents get divorced and falls in with the wrong crowd...

The Millionaire
1978
as Doreen
Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a pros...

Stickin' Together
1978
as Grace Geary
A Hawaiian beach bum finds himself surrogate uncle to five orphaned children, helping them stay together, in this pilot movie for a TV series which tu...

The Initiation of Sarah
1978
as Allison
Shy misfit Sarah Goodwin has a secret gift: the ability to control — and destroy — with her mind. When Sarah goes off to college with her more outgoin...