Biography
Ann Dowd (born January 30, 1956) is an American actress. She decided to become an actress while a premed student at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She graduated in 1978 and went on to study at The Theatre School at DePaul University. In 1993 she won the Clarence Derwent Award for her performance in the play Candida. She has appeared in television shows including House, The X-Files, Third Watch and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Films Dowd has appeared in include L...
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Complete Filmography

The Friend
2025
as Marjorie
When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creati...

The Exorcist: Believer
2023
as Nurse Ann Brooks
Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memor...

The Independent
2022
as Patricia Turnball
It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its f...

Family Squares
2022
as Judith
The Worth Family has been divided for years but when the matriarch, Grandma Mabel dies suddenly, the family has to come together. The story of Family ...

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
2021
as Edna Garrett
The live special event features reenactments of episodes from “The Facts of Life” and “Diff’rent Strokes”.

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

Enemy of the People
2021
Enemy of the People centers on a small former manufacturing town that has been revitalized as a resort destination due to its natural hot springs. Whe...

Rebecca
2020
as Mrs. Van Hopper
After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.

Cowboys
2020
as Faith
Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.

Speed of Life
2020
as June
The film follows a woman who has a chance to reflect on her life when a wormhole opens upon David Bowie’s death.

Henrietta Bulkowski
2019
as Narrator
A determined young woman, crippled with a severe hunchback, will stop at nothing to fulfill her dream of seeing the world. This is the story of how sh...

Nancy
2018
as Betty
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable do...

Hereditary
2018
as Joan
Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not o...

A Kid Like Jake
2018
as Catherine
On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake...

American Animals
2018
as Betty Jean 'BJ' Gooch
Lexington, Kentucky, 2004. Four young men attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in the history of the United States.

Tyrel
2018
as Silvia
Tyler joins his friend on a trip to the Catskills for a weekend birthday party with several people he doesn’t know. As soon as they get there, it’s cl...

Hedgehog
2017
as Joan
The daughter of a late comic is forced to confront her fears of performing.

Collateral Beauty
2016
as Sally Price
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see ...

Captain Fantastic
2016
as Abigail Bertrang
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced t...

The Great & The Small
2016
as Dupre
Twenty-six year old Scott is living on the streets and trying to find his way back into society while on probation for petty crimes. He attempts to na...

Wildlike
2015
as Jeanie
Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a ...

Our Brand Is Crisis
2015
as Nell
Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.

Big Driver
2014
as Ramona
Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.

St. Vincent
2014
as Shirley
A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.

The Drop
2014
as Dottie
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where f...

The Discoverers
2014
as Patti
Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch takes his begrudging teenagers Zoe and Jack on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career...

Gimme Shelter
2013
as Kathy
After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.

Side Effects
2013
as Mrs. Taylor
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

Compliance
2012
as Sandra
On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee...

Bachelorette
2012
as Victoria Archer
Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.

Coming Up Roses
2011
as Lynne
A drama centered on a former actress who subjects her 15-year-old daughter to a series of depressed small towns, money woes, failed love affairs, and ...

The Art of Getting By
2011
as Mrs. Grimes
George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally,...

Taking Chance
2009
as Gretchen
Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.

The Informant!
2009
as Kate Medford
A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-...

The Toe Tactic
2009
as Honey Woman
Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression. After her father's death, she's cut herself off: leaving teaching - she now temps as an office ass...

Marley & Me
2008
as Dr. Platt
A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packe...

The Babysitters
2008
as Tammy Lyner
Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael, a father Shirley works f...

Familiar Strangers
2008
"Familiar Strangers" asks the question. "Is it really possible to relate to ones parents and siblings after being replaced by the family dog? . . . Pe...

Alice Upside Down
2007
as Aunt Sally
Still mourning the death of her mother a few years back, Alice McKinley finds her life seriously disrupted when her father Ben buys a store and moves ...

I Believe in America
2007
as Glenn
Three generations of one family, all involved at different levels with the Puerto Rican underground movement for independence, struggle with their nee...

The Living Wake
2007
as Librarian
A dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best an...

Gardener of Eden
2007
as Ma Harris
When a young deli-counter clerk and general slacker in New Jersey accidentally saves a young woman from a serial rapist, he becomes convinced that his...

Goodbye Baby
2007
as Terri
An ambitious young woman who can't afford to pay for college throws caution to the wind by moving to New York City and attempting to break into the to...

Flags of Our Fathers
2006
as Mrs. Strank
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the s...

The Notorious Bettie Page
2005
as Edna Page
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up ph...

The Thing About My Folks
2005
as Linda
Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try...

The Forgotten
2004
as Eileen the Accountant
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has c...

The Manchurian Candidate
2004
as Congresswoman Beckett
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow s...

Garden State
2004
as Olivia
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to...

Homework
2004
as Mother
Sara, a young ballet dancer, drifts through boredom as a constrained classical dancer until she meets Jean, a West African plumber from the opposite s...

Lucy
2003
as DeDe
MOW about the life of Lucille Ball, focusing on the loving yet tumultuous relationship with Desi Arnaz.

Baby
2000
as Ms. Minifred
A couple finds a baby on their doorstep with a note asking them to temporarily keep it. They take the baby in and care for it as if it were their own....

Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season
1999
as Louise Preston
When Shiloh's abusive previous owner, Judd Travers, tries to retake Shiloh again, Ray tries to find a way to end the rivalry and open up the hidden ki...

Apt Pupil
1998
as Monica Bowden
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles t...

All Over Me
1997
as Anne
Claude and Ellen are best friends who live in a not-so-nice area of New York. They're involved in the subculture of 90s youth, complete with drugs, li...

Shiloh
1996
as Louise Preston
An abused beagle runs away from his owner. On the road, he meets young Marty Preston and follows him home. The boy immediately forms a bond with the d...

Bushwhacked
1995
as Mrs. Patterson
A inept courier realises he has been used by criminals to deliver money. On the run from both the criminals and police, he poses as a Scout leader and...

Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
1995
as Rose Long
A Louisiana governor becomes a controversial political kingpin during the Depression.

It Could Happen to You
1994
as Carol
Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winni...

Philadelphia
1993
as Jill Beckett
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes...

Lorenzo's Oil
1992
as Pediatrician
Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the...

Green Card
1990
as Peggy
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fa...
The Undertaker's Children
N/A
as Johanna Hall
Inspired by real events, a reclusive undertaker is forced to take in the children of a deceased distant relative. When the older sister uncovers her s...