Deborah Rush

Deborah Rush

1954-04-10 42 Credits

Biography

Deborah Rush (born April 10, 1954) is an American actress. She has worked in television, film and on Broadway. In 1984, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for Michael Frayn's comedy Noises Off. She also acted in Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. In 2003 she acted in the comedy film American Wedding, as Mary Flaherty, Michelle Flaherty's mom. In December 2008, she joined the cast of the Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit.

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Accommodations

Accommodations

2018

as Victoria Maason

1.0
Acting

Married with children and living in downtown Manhattan, a woman decides to quit accommodating everyone around her and goes on a creative journey to br...

Women Who Kill

Women Who Kill

2016

as Grace

5.0
Acting

Morgan and Jean work well together as true crime podcasters because they didn’t work well, at all, as a couple. However, when Morgan strikes up a new ...

Ava's Possessions

Ava's Possessions

2015

as Joanna

5.8
Acting

Ava is recovering from demonic possession. With no memory of the past month, she must attend a Spirit Possessions Anonymous support group to figure ou...

Rhymes with Banana

Rhymes with Banana

2012

as Jane

6.0
Acting

A satire about two struggling actresses who escape into a fantasy world to cope with rejection and hone their craft. Convinced their mysterious new ne...

The Box

The Box

2009

as Clymene Steward

5.6
Acting

Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A...

Julie & Julia

Julie & Julia

2009

as Avis De Voto

6.7
Acting

Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ...

Fling

Fling

2008

as Katherine

5.1
Acting

An attractive young couple's open relationship is stretched to the breaking point when each partner finds themselves falling in love with other people...

The Visitor

The Visitor

2008

as Upper Eastside Woman

7.2
Acting

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

The Good Life

The Good Life

2007

as Diane

6.5
Acting

A movie about the travails of Jason (Mark Webber), a young gas station attendant and movie projectionist living in Nebraska. His encounters with vario...

Half Nelson

Half Nelson

2006

as Jo Dunne

6.6
Acting

Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majo...

Strangers with Candy

Strangers with Candy

2006

as Sara Blank

5.6
Acting

A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her l...

American Wedding

American Wedding

2003

as Mary Flaherty

6.2
Acting

With high school a distant memory, Jim and Michelle are getting married — and in a hurry, since Jim's grandmother is sick and wants to see him walk do...

Bad Company

Bad Company

2002

as Mrs. Peterson

5.5
Acting

When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.

The Good Girl

The Good Girl

2002

as Gwen Jackson

6.2
Acting

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.

Three to Tango

Three to Tango

1999

as Lenore

5.7
Acting

Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistake...

Earthly Possessions

Earthly Possessions

1999

as Heidi Anderson

6.1
Acting

A bored homemaker planning to run away from her minister husband is taken hostage in a bank robbery. However, she sees the thrill in being involved in...

Advice From a Caterpillar

Advice From a Caterpillar

1999

as Diner Hostess

4.0
Acting

When it comes to romance, Missy's attitude has always been whatever. After all, her artistic career is flourishing, her spacious New York City loft is...

You've Got Mail

You've Got Mail

1998

as Veronica Cash

6.7
Acting

Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware...

In & Out

In & Out

1997

as Ava Blazer

6.5
Acting

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.

Reckless

Reckless

1995

as Trish

6.4
Acting

On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.

Passed Away

Passed Away

1992

as Denise Scanlan

5.1
Acting

Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of...

Unnatural Pursuits

Unnatural Pursuits

1992

as Stephanie Didcot

Acting

An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.

My Blue Heaven

My Blue Heaven

1990

as Linda

6.1
Acting

FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is s...

She-Devil

She-Devil

1989

as 'People Reporter

5.9
Acting

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.

Family Business

Family Business

1989

as Michele Dempsey

5.7
Acting

Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently...

Parents

Parents

1989

as Mrs. Gladys Zellner

5.9
Acting

Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his p...

Big Business

Big Business

1988

as Binky Shelton

6.4
Acting

In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local...

Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread

Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread

1987

as Dr. Norris

6.4
Acting

Penn Jillette and Teller are called upon to display their unique brand of humor to save civilization from strange extraterrestrial beings who have inv...

Heat

Heat

1986

as D.D.

5.8
Acting

Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1985

as Hermia

6.0
Acting

Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials begin, a pair of young lovers flee into the forest ...

Compromising Positions

Compromising Positions

1985

as Brenda Dunck

5.5
Acting

An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who ha...

The Purple Rose of Cairo

The Purple Rose of Cairo

1985

as Rita

7.4
Acting

Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. ...

A Night in Heaven

A Night in Heaven

1983

as Patsy

4.7
Acting

Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a m...

Zelig

Zelig

1983

as Lita Fox

7.4
Acting

Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act l...

Split Image

Split Image

1982

as Judith

5.9
Acting

An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's pare...

Alice at the Palace

Alice at the Palace

1982

as Alice's Mother

5.5
Acting

Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the L...

Honky Tonk Freeway

Honky Tonk Freeway

1981

as Sister Mary Magdalene

5.2
Acting

Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not ...

Kiss Me, Petruchio

Kiss Me, Petruchio

1981

as Bianca

5.5
Acting

A documentary about the 1978 stage production of The Taming of the Shrew by the New York City Shakespeare company at the Delacorte Theatre in Central ...

10

10

1979

as Dental assistant

5.7
Acting

A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.

Oliver's Story

Oliver's Story

1978

as Girl in Bar

4.8
Acting

Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hour...

Charles Ives: A Good Dissonance Like a Man

Charles Ives: A Good Dissonance Like a Man

1977

Acting

A thoroughly researched biopic of Charles Ives, America's greatest and most innovative composer (and insurance executive), who combined strikingly fut...

The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems

N/A

as Aunt Mitty

Acting

Bee Mitty, a high-ranking employee at an omnipotent techfirm, must help Ian - her depressed, activist brother - move into their Auntie's house while a...