Martha Plimpton

Martha Plimpton

1970-11-16 New York City, New York, USA 54 Credits

Biography

Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American singer, stage and screen actress, best known for playing the lead role of Virginia Chance on the television sitcom "Raising Hope", and for guest starring as Patti Nyholm in the CBS legal drama "The Good Wife".

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Sovereign

Sovereign

2025

as Lesley Ann

Acting

Struggling single father Jerry indoctrinates his son Joe into the sovereign citizen movement, teaching him that laws are mere illusions and freedom is...

Sardinia

Sardinia

2024

as Judith

7.7
Acting

A serious man tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society.

Mass

Mass

2021

as Gail

7.4
Acting

Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.

Pitch Black Panacea

Pitch Black Panacea

2020

as Amy (voice)

6.4
Acting

Amy and Carl both have lazy eyes. Amy’s left and Carl’s right. They are strangers, volunteers for an unusual, life-altering treatment in which they wi...

Frozen II

Frozen II

2019

as Yelena (voice)

7.2
Acting

Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and Olaf head far into the forest to learn the truth about an ancient mystery of their kingdom.

Honey Bee

Honey Bee

2018

as Louise

6.0
Acting

Follows the journey of Natalie "Honey Bee" Sorensen, an underage truck stop prostitute trapped in a human trafficking ring until she is transplanted i...

Hello Again

Hello Again

2017

as Ruth

5.9
Acting

Ten lost souls slip in and out of one another's arms in a daisy-chained musical exploration of love's bittersweet embrace. A film adaptation of Michae...

Sparrows Dance

Sparrows Dance

2013

Thanks

6.3

A young woman, struggling with agoraphobia, hasn't left her New York apartment or seen anyone in over a year. However, when her toilet overflows, she ...

Company

Company

2011

as Sarah

6.9
Acting

Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his s...

Adventures in Plymptoons!

2011

as Herself

2.0
Acting

A documentary film about Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton. This is a portrait piece that includes interviews with family, friends, colleagues, c...

Small Town Murder Songs

Small Town Murder Songs

2010

as Sam

5.4
Acting

A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local...

Remember Me

Remember Me

2010

as Alyssa Craig's Mom (uncredited)

7.1
Acting

Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally ...

Marvelous

Marvelous

2008

as Gwen

Acting

After her husband leaves her, Gwen goes to live with her sister Queenie. She discovers that she has suddenly acquired a special gift that enables her ...

Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno

2007

as Celia / Lobbyist Singer / Lizzie Borden (voice)

6.2
Acting

A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and t...

Hair High

Hair High

2004

as Miss Crumbles (voice)

6.4
Acting

Bill Plympton's gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly wrong. Two murdered teens return from the grave, then go to th...

Hair High

Hair High

2004

Associate Producer

6.4
Producing

Bill Plympton's gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly wrong. Two murdered teens return from the grave, then go to th...

Searching for Debra Winger

Searching for Debra Winger

2002

as Self

6.3
Acting

Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

The Sleepy Time Gal

The Sleepy Time Gal

2001

as Rebecca

4.8
Acting

A young woman learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job and goes on a journey to find her birth mother.

200 Cigarettes

200 Cigarettes

1999

as Monica

5.8
Acting

In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years ...

The Defenders: Taking the First

The Defenders: Taking the First

1998

as MJ Preston

4.7
Acting

A racist provokes four teens into beating a Latino youth to death after one of his fiery speeches on a college campus. The Prestons are first called u...

Pecker

Pecker

1998

as Tina

6.1
Acting

A Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turning into a nationwide sensation, with a fateful ch...

Music from Another Room

Music from Another Room

1998

as Karen Swan

5.8
Acting

Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl h...

The Defenders: Choice of Evils

The Defenders: Choice of Evils

1998

as Mary Jane Preston

3.4
Acting

The Defenders are a crack team of lawyers dedicated to one principle - the accused is innocent untill proven guilty. This time, they defend a man wron...

Independent's Day

Independent's Day

1998

as Self

5.0
Acting

Filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival discuss what it is like to be an independent filmmaker, and what Sundance has done for them.

Eye of God

Eye of God

1997

as Ainsley DuPree

5.8
Acting

A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the loca...

The Defenders: Payback

1997

as M.J. Preston

2.7
Acting

Television movie remake of the 1960s courtroom drama series, "The Defenders." After the death of his eldest son and his partner in the law firm of Pre...

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

1997

as Self

6.6
Acting

Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "wor...

Colin Fitz

Colin Fitz

1997

as Ann

5.0
Acting

Two security guards, Paul and Grady, are hired to guard the grave of dead rock legend, Colin Fitz. Through the course of one bizarre night, these two ...

I'm Not Rappaport

I'm Not Rappaport

1996

as Laurie Campbell

5.6
Acting

Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still ...

I Shot Andy Warhol

I Shot Andy Warhol

1996

as Stevie

6.2
Acting

Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a f...

Beautiful Girls

Beautiful Girls

1996

as Jan

6.7
Acting

During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connec...

Last Summer in the Hamptons

Last Summer in the Hamptons

1995

as Chloe Garfield

5.5
Acting

Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Be...

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

1994

as Earlene Pomerleau

5.0
Acting

The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlen...

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

1994

as Jane Grant

5.8
Acting

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted w...

My Life's in Turnaround

My Life's in Turnaround

1994

as Herself

4.7
Acting

Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar; neither has a clue how to make a movie. Things l...

Josh and S.A.M.

Josh and S.A.M.

1993

as Alison (The Liberty Maid)

4.7
Acting

Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in ...

The Perfect Woman

1993

Acting

The camera focuses up close on a series of unnamed women as they talk to their men. In every case, even though we don't hear what the men are saying, ...

Chantilly Lace

Chantilly Lace

1993

as Ann

10.0
Acting

A group of middle-aged women get together at a secluded house to learn about themselves.

Daybreak

Daybreak

1993

as Laurie

5.1
Acting

When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no ...

Samantha

Samantha

1992

as Samantha

4.0
Acting

A young woman sets out to find her birth parents when she finds out that she is adopted.

Inside Monkey Zetterland

Inside Monkey Zetterland

1992

as Sofie

3.2
Acting

An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.

A Blink of Paradise

1992

as Mother

Acting

"A Blink of Paradise" is a twelve minute investigation into the event that caused one woman's first memory. Obsessed by past images of herself as a ba...

A Woman at War

A Woman at War

1991

as Helene Moszkiewiez

4.0
Acting

Helene Moskiewicz, a young Jewish woman living in pre-World War II Belgium, is forced to suffer through German occupation by watching her parents arre...

Stanley & Iris

Stanley & Iris

1990

as Kelly King

6.5
Acting

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...

Parenthood

Parenthood

1989

as Julie Buckman-Lampkin Higgins

6.7
Acting

The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, ...

Silence Like Glass

Silence Like Glass

1989

as Claudia Jacoby

6.6
Acting

True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.

Another Woman

Another Woman

1988

as Laura

6.8
Acting

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acousti...

Running on Empty

Running on Empty

1988

as Lorna Phillips

7.5
Acting

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effo...

Stars & Bars

Stars & Bars

1988

as Bryant

4.4
Acting

A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.

Shy People

Shy People

1987

as Grace

6.5
Acting

A Cosmo Magazine journalist and her daughter leave New York City to visit their distant relatives deep in the bayous of Louisiana.

The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast

1986

as Emily Spellgood

6.4
Acting

Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to B...

The Goonies

The Goonies

1985

as Stef

7.5
Acting

Young teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure in hopes of saving their homes from demolition.

The River Rat

The River Rat

1984

as Jonsy

6.2
Acting

On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent father. But the reunion is tainted with the whereabou...

Rollover

Rollover

1981

as Fewster's Older Daughter

5.1
Acting

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.