Biography
Lindsay Ann Crouse is an American actress. She made her Broadway debut in the 1972 revival of Much Ado About Nothing and appeared in her first film in 1976 in All the President's Men. For her role in the 1984 film Places in the Heart, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Slap Shot (1977), Between the Lines (1977), The Verdict (1982), Prefontaine (1997), and The Insider (1999). She also had a leading role in the 1987 film House of Games, wh...
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Chantilly Bridge
2023
as Rheza
Chantilly Bridge reunites a group of lifelong, steadfast friends who are still – in their later years -- chasing their dreams, fighting injustices, an...
Transgender, at War and in Love
2015
Associate Producer
A transgender airman is deployed to Afghanistan as the gender he knows himself to be. But everyday he risks being discharged because outdated U.S. pol...

West Virginia, Still Home
2013
Researcher
McDowell County, situated in the coalfields of West Virginia, has experienced a great boom-and-bust since 1950. But despite the economic decline and p...

Somewhere Slow
2013
as Katherine Franklin
When Anna Thompson gets mixed-up in a convenience store robbery, she makes a split-decision to walk out of her life and into the unknown. On her trave...

David Mamet on House of Games
2007
as Herself
A documentary filmed on location and behind the scenes during the making of David Mamet's 1987 film HOUSE OF GAMES

Mr. Brooks
2007
as Captain Lister
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.

Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues
2002
as Caroline Ingalls
Laura, her husband Almanzo and their daughter Rose leave South Dakota and head for Missouri in search of a better, more financially stable life. It's ...

Cherish
2002
as Therapist
After a martini-induced rampage, a fantasy-prone young woman is placed under house arrest.

Impostor
2001
as Chancellor
A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile ali...

Almost Salinas
2001
as Allie
Life takes a strange turn when a group of outsiders come to the small town of Cholame, the famed site of James Dean's fatal car crash. Cholame's only ...

The Warden
2001
as Maureen Redmond

The Insider
1999
as Sharon Tiller
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
1999
as Caroline Ingalls
A version of the "Little House" stories that cover some of the events that take place in the last three books of the series and the book "The First Fo...

Stranger in My House
1999
as Patti Young
A middle-aged woman takes on a young female tenant to help pay her debts, but gets a lot more than she bargains for when the girl starts to act very s...

Progeny
1998
as Dr. Susan Lamarche
An unsuspecting woman is impregnated by aliens who are experimenting on the human population.

Prefontaine
1997
as Elfriede Prefontaine
It's the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial "James Dean of Track," whose spirit captu...

If These Walls Could Talk
1996
as Frances White
A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a...

The Arrival
1996
as Ilana Green
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired....

Norma Jean & Marilyn
1996
as Natasha Lytess
This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to furthe...

The Juror
1996
as Tallow
With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verd...

The Indian in the Cupboard
1995
as Jane
A nine-year-old boy gets a plastic Indian and a cupboard for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life and be...

Bye Bye Love
1995
as Grace Damico
With varying degrees of success, recently divorced friends Dave, Vic and Donny are trying to move on with their lives. Vic feels vilified by his ex-wi...

Parallel Lives
1994
as Una Pace
A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemies catch up with each other's lives. Includes a lo...

Out of Darkness
1994
as Kim Donaldson
Diana Ross dramatizes multiple personality disorder.

Final Appeal
1993
as Dana Cartier
A lawyer must defend his sister in the court of law who's accused of murdering her seemingly perfect, but in fact very abusive husband.

The Halloween Tree
1993
as Additional Voices (voice)
Four children learn the origins of Halloween customs while trying to save the life of their friend.

Campus Culture Wars: Five Stories About Political Correctness
1993
What happens when "political correctness" comes in conflict with freedom of speech? Campus Culture Wars examines five controversial incidents at unive...

Chantilly Lace
1993
as Rheza
A group of middle-aged women get together at a secluded house to learn about themselves.

Desperate Hours
1990
as Brenda Chandler
An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.

Communion
1989
as Anne Strieber
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.

Brave Irene
1989
as Narrator
Irene summons up all her courage in the face of a fierce snowstorm when her mother falls ill and Irene must deliver a ball gown to the duchess.

Lemon Sky
1988
as Ronnie
An out of high school teen from the midwest moves to San Diego, California in the 1950s to live with his estranged father and new family. Escaping his...

House of Games
1987
as Dr. Margaret Ford
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams,...
I Want To Go Home
1985
as Louise Sanders
Brother and sister go on the run with their divorced mom, not realizing until later that their mom has kidnapped them from their dad.

Places in the Heart
1984
as Margaret Lomax
In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - ...

Iceman
1984
as Dr. Diane Brady
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befrie...

Daniel
1983
as Rochelle Isaacson
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New...

Krull
1983
as Princess Lyssa (voice) (uncredited)
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.

The Verdict
1982
as Kaitlin Costello
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a m...

Kennedy's Children
1982
as Rona
In 1974, five former activists from the 1960s meet in a bar, but do not relate. Each is lost in his or her own memories of more hopeful, revolutionary...

Summer Solstice
1981
as Maggie
An old man lives out the final years of his half-century marriage by living and remembering.

Prince of the City
1981
as Carla Ciello
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as lo...

Paul's Case
1980
as First Actress
Captures the essence of Willa Cather's haunting story of Pittsburgh circa 1900. Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escapin...

Between the Lines
1977
as Abbie
The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of...
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1977
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.

Slap Shot
1977
as Lily Braden
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging playe...

The Tenth Level
1976
as Karen
Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis...

All the President's Men
1976
as Kay Eddy
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from...
Force of Evil
N/A
as Narrator
This Emmy Award-winning documentary traces the rise of Nazism in general and the career of Adolf Eichmann in particular by documenting the small incre...