Biography
Conchata Galen Ferrell (March 28, 1943 – October 12, 2020) was an American actress. Although she was a regular cast member of five TV sitcom series, she was best known for playing Berta the housekeeper for all twelve seasons of the sitcom Two and a Half Men. For her performance as Berta, she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (in 2005 and 2007). These came in addition to an earlier nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Deported
2020
as Betsy
Ross and Harper are a young couple living in the United States, but their short-lived romance is torn apart when Harper is deported back to her home i...

A Very Nutty Christmas
2018
as Clara
Hard-working bakery owner Kate Holiday, has more cookie orders than she has time to fill this holiday season, and when her boyfriend suddenly breaks u...

The Axe Murders of Villisca
2017
as Mrs. Flanks
Three ghost-hunting high-schoolers visit the Moore House in Villisca, Iowa—the site of one of America’s most grisly unsolved mass murders. After their...

Krampus
2015
as Aunt Dorothy
When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Little does he know, this lack o...

Wishin' and Hopin'
2014
as Sister Agrippina
Felix Funicello is a Catholic school fifth-grader in 1964, whose claim to fame is his cousin Annette Funicello, the famous Mouseketeer and teen movie ...

Yellowbird
2014
as Marjorie (voice)
Yellowbird lives in the ruins of an old house. He lacks the confidence to leave his home, no matter how much Bug, his labybird friend, tries to convin...

Frankenweenie
2012
as Bob's Mom (voice)
When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" ...

Kabluey
2007
as Kathleen
Leslie is left with few options when her husband is sent back to war in the Middle East. A modest amount of help arrives in the form of his brother, S...

Mr. Deeds
2002
as Jan
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different ki...

K-PAX
2001
as Betty McAllister
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own exp...

Stranger Inside
2001
as Mama Cass
After a stint in a juvenile detention center, Treasure is transferred to an adult prison where her mother, whom she has never met, is also imprisoned....

Amy & Isabelle
2001
as Bev
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has o...

Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
2000
as Bella
At school, Roseanne is the object of fellow student Vincent's infatuation. By night, she deals with a troubled family life: her mother, Maggie, cheats...

Erin Brockovich
2000
as Brenda
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work fo...

Modern Vampires
1998
as Wanda, Nico's Mother
A vampire hunter in southern California discovers that his son has been murdered by a gang of the undead and thus goes on a quest for revenge.

Touch
1997
as Virginia Worrel
At the discovery of his ability to work miracles, Juvenal becomes a media sensation, but now he's prone to those who want to exploit him.

My Fellow Americans
1996
as Woman Truck Driver
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the c...

Sweet Dreams
1996
as Kate Lowe
A girl awakes from a coma to find her world has collapsed around her and she remembers nothing. But as she does remember she finds out all is not how ...

Freeway
1996
as Mrs. Sheets
Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride b...
A Worn Path
1994
as Nurse
Elderly Phoenix Jackson journeys on foot through rough terrain to obtain medicine for her grandson. Based on the short story by Eudora Welty.

Samurai Cowboy
1994
as Bobbi Bob Pickette
When his best friend dies of an heart attack due to permanent stress at work, the Japanese businessman Yutaka Soto quits and fulfills himself a dream:...

Heaven & Earth
1993
as Bernice
In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters...

True Romance
1993
as Mary Louise Ravencroft
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Family Prayers
1993
as Mrs. Romeyo
This coming of age story set in the 1960s takes a look at the effects of a couple's break-up on a sensitive, thirteen year old Jewish boy in the 1960s...

Backfield in Motion
1991
as Ann Bedowski
When Nancy and her teenage son move to Deerview, the small, old-fashioned community will never be the same. Nancy soon realizes she is the only woman ...

Chains of Gold
1991
as Martha Burke
Scott Barnes is an alcoholic turned social worker hellbent on saving a young boy named Tommy from self-destructing when he finds out he has begun sell...

Deadly Intentions... Again?
1991
as Joan
A doctor was sent to prison for the attempted murder of his first wife. When he is released, he starts to plan the death of his second wife whom he ma...

Runaway Ralph
1991
as Aunt Jill
Join Ralph on a string of adventures after he runs away from home at the Mountain View Inn, and makes a new friend.

Edward Scissorhands
1990
as Helen
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

Opposites Attract
1990
as Flo
A mayoral candidate (Barbara Eden) for a California town gets romantically involved with her opponent (John Forsythe), a former cowboy star.

Hollywood Dog
1990
A cartoon dog entertainment promoter manipulates a naive newcomer to be his headline act for an upcoming show.

Your Mother Wears Combat Boots
1989
as Specialist Mononaghee
An overprotective single mother tries to stop her son joining the parachute unit by sending him to the college, fearful that he may end up his life li...

Mystic Pizza
1988
as Leona
Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.

Portrait of a White Marriage
1988
as Mrs. Sturgeon
Now a famous talk show host, Martin Mull takes his crew and cameras to Hawkins Falls, Ohio with the intent to give his erratic career a fresh start by...

For Keeps
1988
as Mrs. Bobrucz
Young high school couple Darcy Elliot and Stan Bobrucz are one year from graduation, with promising futures ahead of them. But their paths take a dras...

Eye on the Sparrow
1987
as Mary
True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.

Picnic
1986
as Helen Potts
A southern bell falls for a handsome drifter with no prospects, going against her parents' wishes to marry a rich businessman.

Where the River Runs Black
1986
as Mother Marta
An orphaned boy who was raised in the Amazon jungle is brought back to civilization by a priest who knows his father.

Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
1986
as Ida Sinclair
Outraged by the treatment of New York City’s unhoused residents, an activist brings national attention to the issue by taking their case to Congress.

North Beach and Rawhide
1985
as Doc Norman
"Boys Town" drama about a man named Rawhide MacGregor, a one-time ex-convict who runs a cattle ranch as a correctional facility for urban juvenile del...

The Three Wishes of Billy Grier
1984
as Dr. Gardner
A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.

Thumbelina
1984
as Thumbelina's Mother
Thumbelina is the answer to her mother's prayers but is all too soon stolen away by Mother Toad as a wife for her son. With the help of many different...

Emergency Room
1983
as Nurse Sylvia Kaye
An ER doctor divides her time between saving lives, playing hospital politics, and juggling a love affair with a fellow doctor.
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
1982
as Captain Burnsite
A dramatization of the life of the founder of Los Angeles's first alcoholic recovery center for women, Beatrice O'Reilly.

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980
as Helen
Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the pro...

Reunion
1980
as Toni Owens
A married man, returning to his small town for a high school reunion, finds himself torn between his long-ago high school girlfriend and her 17-year-o...

The Seduction of Miss Leona
1980
as Hazel Dawson
An unmarried, reclusive college teacher is torn between a married maintenance man who has been repairing her house and her former professor and lover.

Before and After
1979
as Marge
Patty Duke loses weight and discovers her husband has been cheating on her.

Heartland
1979
as Elinore Randall Stewart
Widowed Elinor Randall and her young daughter Jerrine arrive in a barren stretch of Wyoming in 1910 after Elinor's application for work as a housekeep...

Who'll Save Our Children?
1978
as Dodie Hart
A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable c...

A Death in Canaan
1978
as Rita Parsons
When a teenager is accused of his mother's murder, the community of Canaan rallies to his defense.

The Girl Called Hatter Fox
1977
as Nurse Rinehart
A doctor must battle against superstition and prejudice to try to save a young Indian girl, who has been sent to a state reform school as an incorrigi...

Network
1976
as Barbara Schlesinger
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during ...

Deadly Hero
1975
as Annie, the Bartender
Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tend...