Biography
Mary Stuart Masterson (born June 28, 1966) is an American film, stage and television actress and director.
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Senior
2025
as Eileen Flynt
37 years ago, Mike was kicked off his collegiate football team for an altercation. Now at 59, he still carries that burden. However, after reuniting w...

Five Nights at Freddy's
2023
as Aunt Jane
Recently fired and desperate for work, a troubled young man named Mike agrees to take a position as a night security guard at an abandoned theme resta...

Sid Is Dead
2023
as Kim Sandagger
The story of a socially invisible high school senior who, after slipping up and getting the school's biggest bully suspended, realizes he may only hav...

Isle of Hope
2022
as Victoria
A university professor tries to reconcile with her mother after the woman suffers a life-threatening stroke.

Adopting Audrey
2022
Executive Producer
An adult woman puts herself up for adoption and forms a bond with the misanthropic patriarch of her adoptive family.

Daniel Isn't Real
2019
as Claire
After witnessing traumatic violence as an 8-year-old boy, Luke creates an imaginary friend named Daniel who leads him into a world of fantasy allowing...

Skin
2019
as Agent Jackie Marks
A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life,...

As You Are
2016
as Karen
Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendshi...
The Insurgents
2007
as Director
Set in a post-9/11 America, four Americans come together to build a truck bomb and plan to detonate it on a target in the U.S. Highlighting the days l...

The Cake Eaters
2007
Director, Producer
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. El...
The Making of Some Kind of Wonderful
2006
as Self
A 2006 featurette on the film 'Some Kind of Wonderful', with interviews with the main actors and with the director.
Whiskey School
2005
as G.G.
Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too much. In the hopes of saving Leopold's life, his t...

The Sisters
2005
as Olga Prior
Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile r...

Something the Lord Made
2004
as Dr. Helen Taussig
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

West of Here
2002
as Genevieve Anderson
Finding his only escape in music, Gil Blackwell (Josh Hamilton) decides to leave his monotonous business life in Boston when his cousin dies in a car ...

Leo
2002
as Brynne
A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentenc...

Three Blind Mice
2001
as Patricia Demming
A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to ...

On the Edge
2001
Director, Writer
A compendium of three short science-fiction films, each with a decidedly feminist slant.

Black and Blue
1999
as Frances Benedetto
After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly.

The Book of Stars
1999
as Penny McGuire
An emotionally crippled woman (Mary Stuart Masterson) turns to prostitution to help care for her sister (Jena Malone), who has cystic fibrosis.

The Florentine
1999
as Vikki
A slice-of-life story unfolds inside The Florentine, a bar in a Pennsylvania steel town whose brightest days are behind it, leaving behind many of lif...
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
1998
as Self
An original documentary exploring one of America's most beloved films. Take a journey with director Jon Avnet, actresses Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, M...

The Postman
1997
as Hope (uncredited)
In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the United States. Into this ...

On the 2nd Day of Christmas
1997
as Trish
Trish and her six-year-old niece, Patsy, make their living by picking pockets. But when they try to take advantage of holiday shoppers with fat wallet...

Digging to China
1997
as Gwen Frankovitz
Precocious young Harriet and her older sister Gwen live at their mother's motel in small-town New Hampshire. Harriet dreams of a life beyond her inatt...

Dogtown
1996
as Dorothy Sternen
Philip Van Horn, who left his small town a long time ago to become a Hollywood actor and hasn't had any success at that, returns to the town for a vis...

Lily Dale
1996
as Lily Dale
In 1910, 19-year-old Horace Robedaux, still bitter toward his stepfather, goes to Houston to be reunited with his mother, Corella, and his sister, Lil...

Heaven's Prisoners
1996
as Robin Gaddis
A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash d...

Bed of Roses
1996
as Lisa Walker
The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies c...

Radioland Murders
1994
as Penny Henderson
A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.

Bad Girls
1994
as Anita Crown
Four former harlots try to leave the wild west (Colorado, to be exact) and head north to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately someone from...

The Last Party
1993
as Self
A youthful perspective on the 1992 presidential campaign with a witty, cautionary message to young Americans to start participating in democracy or ge...

Benny & Joon
1993
as Juniper 'Joon' Pearl
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

Mad at the Moon
1992
as Jenny Hill
A young woman on the frontier marries a meek farmer who has an annoying habit of going through a rather drastic change every full moon.

Fried Green Tomatoes
1991
as Idgie Threadgoode
Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two...

Married to It
1991
as Nina Bishop
While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with contrastive lifestyles and professional paths reflect...

Funny About Love
1990
as Daphne
As political cartoonist Duffy and his bride Meg fail to conceive, he and sorority girl Daphne succeed.

Immediate Family
1989
as Lucy Moore
Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecti...

Chances Are
1989
as Miranda Jeffries
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and ...

Mr. North
1988
as Elspeth Skeel
Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, quickly has rumors started about him that he has the power to heal people's ailments...

Gardens of Stone
1987
as Rachel Feld
A sergeant; stationed in Arlington, Virginia in the late 1960s; must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. ...

Some Kind of Wonderful
1987
as Watts
Keith Nelson, an artsy high school outcast, tries to land a date with popular girl Amanda Jones with some help from his tomboy best friend, Watts. How...

My Little Girl
1986
as Franny Bettinger
A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and t...

Amazing Stories
1986
as Cynthia Simpson
A feature film edited from three episodes of Amazing Stories (1985): The Mission, Mummy Daddy and Go to the Head of the Class.

At Close Range
1986
as Terry
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a ga...
Love Lives On
1985
as Susan Wallace
A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.

Heaven Help Us
1985
as Danni
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class ...

City in Fear
1980
as Abby Crawford
A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page On...

The Stepford Wives
1975
as Kim Eberhart
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all...

Amazing Stories: The Movie I
N/A
as Cynthia Simpson (archive footage)
Two tales from the TV series: One has a cartoonist gunner (Casey Siemaszko) in a doomed B-17; the other, a bad teacher (Christopher Lloyd) and black m...