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".
Known For
Complete Filmography

Sovereign
2025
as Lesley Ann
Struggling single father Jerry indoctrinates his son Joe into the sovereign citizen movement, teaching him that laws are mere illusions and freedom is...

Sardinia
2024
as Judith
A serious man tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society.

Mass
2021
as Gail
Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.

Pitch Black Panacea
2020
as Amy (voice)
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
2019
as Yelena (voice)
Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and Olaf head far into the forest to learn the truth about an ancient mystery of their kingdom.

Honey Bee
2018
as Louise
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
2017
as Ruth
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
2013
Thanks
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
2011
as Sarah
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 Self
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
2010
as Sam
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
2010
as Alyssa Craig's Mom (uncredited)
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
2008
as Gwen
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
2007
as Celia / Lobbyist Singer / Lizzie Borden (voice)
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
2004
as Miss Crumbles (voice)
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
2004
Associate Producer
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
2002
as Self
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

The Sleepy Time Gal
2001
as Rebecca
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
1999
as Monica
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
1998
as MJ Preston
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
1998
as Tina
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
1998
as Karen Swan
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
1998
as Mary Jane Preston
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
1998
as Self
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
1997
as Ainsley DuPree
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
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?
1997
as Self
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
1997
as Ann
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
1996
as Laurie Campbell
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
1996
as Stevie
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
1996
as Jan
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
1995
as Chloe Garfield
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
1994
as Earlene Pomerleau
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
1994
as Jane Grant
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
1994
as Herself
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.
1993
as Alison (The Liberty Maid)
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
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
1993
as Ann
A group of middle-aged women get together at a secluded house to learn about themselves.

Daybreak
1993
as Laurie
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
1992
as Samantha
A young woman sets out to find her birth parents when she finds out that she is adopted.

Inside Monkey Zetterland
1992
as Sofie
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
"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
1991
as Helene Moszkiewiez
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
1990
as Kelly King
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
1989
as Julie Buckman-Lampkin Higgins
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
1989
as Claudia Jacoby
True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.

Another Woman
1988
as Laura
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
1988
as Lorna Phillips
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
1988
as Bryant
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.

Shy People
1987
as Grace
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
1986
as Emily Spellgood
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
1985
as Stef
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
1984
as Jonsy
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
1981
as Fewster's Older Daughter
An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.