Biography
Ellen Foley (born 1951) is an American singer and actress who has appeared on Broadway and television, where she co-starred in the hit NBC sitcom Night Court during its second season. In music, she has released five solo albums, but she is best known for her collaborations with rock singer Meat Loaf, particularly the 14× Platinum selling 1977 album Bat Out of Hell. Foley was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of John and Virginia B. Foley. She attended Webster University. Foley gained p...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Tribe Remembers
2020
as Self
In this new program, actors Beverly D'Angelo, Don Dacus, Ellen Foley, Annie Golden, John Savage, and Dorsey Wright recall how they became involved wit...
No Pay, Nudity
2016
as Tani Marshall/Roundabout Director
Aging actor Lester Rosenthal (Gabriel Byrne), who has lost his way with his career, with his family, and with his friends (Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy...
Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell
2015
as Self - Singer, Bat Out of Hell Album
Documentary featuring an intimate profile of American rock legend Meat Loaf, spanning from his childhood of domestic violence, through a decade of rej...
Lies I Told My Little Sister
2014
as Laura Lucien
After the death of her oldest sister, a 30 year old globe-trotting nature photographer is guilted onto a family trip to Cape Cod - along with the youn...
Random Hearts
1999
as Young Woman at Fundraiser
After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possession...
Classic Albums: Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
1999
as Self - Backing Vocalist
Never one for understatement, the aptly named singer known as Meat Loaf (aka Marvin Lee Aday) teamed with operatically-minded pianist-composer Jim Ste...
Murder in Black and White
1990
as Emma
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.
Married to the Mob
1988
as Theresa
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affa...
Cocktail
1988
as Eleanor
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine ar...
Fatal Attraction
1987
as Hildy
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Love Cycle: A Soap Operetta
1984
as Laundry Doer
A ghost appears from a laundromat dryer seeking vengeance against her husband for leaving her for another woman.
The King of Comedy
1982
as Street Scum
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy...
Tootsie
1982
as Jacqui
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order to land a part in a daytime drama, ...
Hair
1979
as Black Boys
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his...