Biography
Lee Bryant (born August 31, 1945) is an American actress. She played a hysterical passenger in the 1980 film Airplane!, reprising the role in the 1982 sequel. She also appeared as Sam Waterston's wife in the 1977 conspiracy thriller Capricorn One, and as Jennifer Westfeldt's mother in the romantic comedy Friends with Kids (2011).
Known For
Complete Filmography
No Letting Go
2016
as Emily
A young teenager struggles with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.
Friends with Kids
2012
as Elaine Keller
In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a coupl...
The Good Shepherd
2006
as Mrs. John Russell, Sr.
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young ...
Holy Man
1998
as Money 'Meg'
In a world governed by commerce, Ricky and Kate, dedicated employees, find their lives forever changed when they encounter the enigmatic stranger G. A...
Alien Nation: Dark Horizon
1994
as Phyllis Bryant
Followup movie to the TV series about 250,000 aliens, or "newcomers" as they are known, who have by now settled alongside the humans in California. Mo...
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
1984
as Mrs. Epps
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works as...
Deathmask
1984
as Jane Andrews
Haunted by the drowning death of his own daughter, a police investigator embarks on an obsessive 10-year hunt for the identity of a dead boy, to the d...
Airplane II: The Sequel
1982
as Mrs. Hammen
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle...
Mysterious Two
1982
Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them.
Airplane!
1980
as Mrs. Hammen
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
Hart to Hart
1979
as Dorothy Roberts
In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. The...
Lassie: The New Beginning
1978
as Kathy
The Stratton kids, Samantha and Chip, and their grandmother, Ada, drive to visit their Uncle Stuart. Grandma collapses and dies in a strange town, lea...
Capricorn One
1977
as Sharon Willis
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing....