Biography
Margo Martindale (born July 18, 1951) is an American film, stage, and television actress. In 2011, she won an Emmy Award for her role as Mags Bennett on Justified. She has played supporting roles in several films, including The Hours, Million Dollar Baby as Hilary Swank's character's mother, The Firm, Lorenzo's Oil, Marvin's Room, The Savages, and Paris, je t'aime. She was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in 2004. Margo Martindale was born July 18, 1951, in Jacksonville...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Cocaine Bear
2023
as Ranger Liz
Inspired by a true story, an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a ...
Family Squares
2022
as Diane
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 ...
Uncle Frank
2020
as Mammaw
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's fu...
Lazy Susan
2020
as Mary
Susan has always been the self-centered oddball in her family who lazily skated through life with their begrudging support until one day she wakes up ...
The Kitchen
2019
as Helen O'Carroll
The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take ...
Blow the Man Down
2019
as Enid Nora Devlin
While grieving for the loss of their mother, the Connolly sisters suddenly find they have a crime to cover up, leading them deep into the underbelly o...
Instant Family
2018
as Sandy Wagner
When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they ...
Downsizing
2017
as Woman on Shuttle
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and affo...
Cars 3
2017
as Louise Nash (voice)
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in th...
Wilson
2017
as Alta
Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past.
Table 19
2017
as Freda Eckberg
Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway...
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
2016
as Mrs. Brinson (voice)
Dash and his best friend Assaf are preparing for another year at Tides High School muckraking on behalf of their widely-distributed but little-read sc...
The Hollars
2016
as Sally Hollar
Aspiring New York City artist John Hollar returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery. Joined by his girlfriend, e...
Mother's Day
2016
as Flo
Sandy is a stressed-out, single mom who learns that her ex-husband is marrying a younger woman. Her friend Jesse's parents don't know that she has a f...
The Boss
2016
as Sister Aluminata
A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart...
Sophie and the Rising Sun
2016
as Anne Morrison
In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their lo...
Heaven Is for Real
2014
as Nancy Rawling
The true story of the 4-year old son of a small-town pastor who, during emergency surgery, slips from consciousness and enters heaven. When he awakes,...
Bluebird
2014
as Crystal
On a freezing January evening, school bus driver Lesley completes her route, but her final inspection abruptly ends when a bluebird comes into view. W...
Showing Up
2014
as Self
An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths, Zoe ...
August: Osage County
2013
as Mattie Fae Aiken
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to ...
Beautiful Creatures
2013
as Delphine Duchannes
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she m...
Scalene
2011
as Janice Trimble
A perceptual thriller told from three points-of-view revolving around the rape of a female college student by a mentally handicapped man and his mothe...
Win Win
2011
as Eleanor
When down-on-his-luck part-time high school wrestling coach Mike agrees to become legal guardian to an elderly man, his ward's troubled grandson turns...
Main Street
2010
as Myrtle Parker
From the once thriving tobacco warehouses, to the current run-down and closed shops of Five Points, a diverse group of residents and their respective ...
Secretariat
2010
as Miss Ham
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. ...
Forged
2010
as Dianne
Released from prison after serving a sentence for murdering his wife, Chuco returns to Scranton, Penn., where he meets his son, who naturally wants re...
La Soga
2009
A cop works against his country's corrupt government in order to find justice on a case.
Orphan
2009
as Dr. Browning
After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.
Hannah Montana: The Movie
2009
as Ruby
When Miley Stewart (aka pop-star Hannah Montana) gets too caught up in the superstar celebrity lifestyle, her dad decides it's time for a total change...
Management
2009
as Trish
A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.
The Winning Season
2009
as Donna
A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run his local high school's girls basketball team
Stop-Loss
2008
as Senator's Secretary (voice)
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return t...
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
as Ma Cox
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addict...
The Savages
2007
as Roz
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Superheroes
2007
as Ben's Mother
Compelling drama about the relationship between two Americans: a wounded Iraqi War veteran who struggles to live with his psychological scars, and a y...
Feast of Love
2007
as Mrs. Maggarolian
A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, myst...
Rails & Ties
2007
as Judy Neasy
A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
2007
as Macy
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hosta...
Rocket Science
2007
as Coach Lumbly
Hal is a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work...
Mo
2007
as Pam
Every kid wants to be cool and fit in - life's a blast even when you're different. When Mo's reflection is revealed, he sees a body that doesn't quite...
Wedding Daze
2006
as Betsy
After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously pro...
Paris Je T'aime
2006
as Carol (14ème arrondissement)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...
Out There
2006
as Jen
Champions is a comedy about three dysfunctional young men that take a trip to the country. Seeking to instill some harmony into their lives, leave to...
14e Arrondissement
2006
as Carol
“14e Arrondissement” is the last of the eighteen short films by well-known filmmakers that make up the anthology film Paris Je’ Taime. Richard Brody i...
Silver Bells
2005
as Mrs. Quinn
Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sel...
Million Dollar Baby
2004
as Earline Fitzgerald
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggi...
Plainsong
2004
as Mrs. Beckman
Tom Guthrie, a high school history teacher, is faced with raising two young sons after his wife leaves him. Maggie Jones, a fellow teacher, tries to p...
Iron Jawed Angels
2004
as Harriot Blatch
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
The Best Thief in the World
2004
as Miss Mason
Izzy, the youngest son of a troubled New York family, takes a shine to breaking into people's apartments as a way to get attention.
The Human Stain
2003
as Psychologist
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about ...
An Unexpected Love
2003
as Maggie
An unhappily married housewife and mother of two children seperates from her husband and gets a new job where she develops a mutual attraction to her ...
It's All About Love
2003
as Betsy
The story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous i...
The Hours
2002
as Mrs. Latch
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings a...
The Laramie Project
2002
as Trish Steger
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage versio...
What Girls Learn
2001
as Lainey
Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
A Girl Thing
2001
as May
A Girl Thing is a mini-series that revolves around a New York city street, a coffee house and a shrinks office. Dr. Beth Noonan is the therapist to on...
Proof of Life
2000
as Ivy
When American engineer Peter Bowman is kidnapped while working in South America, his wife Alice enlists special agent Terry Thorne to help free him. H...
28 Days
2000
as Betty
After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. Sh...
Ride with the Devil
1999
as Wilma Brown
Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us...
Earthly Possessions
1999
as Libby
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...
In Dreams
1999
as Nurse Floyd
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
Practical Magic
1998
as Linda Bennett
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, d...
Twilight
1998
as Gloria Lamar
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
Critical Care
1997
as Constance 'Connie' Potter
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their com...
Eye of God
1997
as Dorothy
A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the loca...
...First Do No Harm
1997
as Marjean
When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under c...
Ghosts of Mississippi
1996
as Clara Mayfield
A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights...
Marvin's Room
1996
as Charlotte Samit
A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
Dead Man Walking
1995
as Sister Colleen
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
Sabrina
1995
as Nurse
Sabrina Fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the Long Island estate of the wealthy Larrabee family enchanted with their sparkling world of pr...
Nobody's Fool
1994
as Birdy
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wif...
The Firm
1993
as Nina Huff
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't re...
Lorenzo's Oil
1992
as Wendy Gimble
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...
Emma and Elvis
1992
as Jenny
Alice and Eddie, two misfit political activists challenge the problems of their time.
Golden Years
1991
as Thelma
When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor, no one could have expected the terrifying results. Exposure to mysterious...
The Rocketeer
1991
as Millie
A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost...
Days of Thunder
1990
as Donna
Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hots...
The Child Saver
1988
as Alma
Andrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime.
The Twits
N/A
as (voice)
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world who also happen to own and operate the most disgusting, most dangerous, mos...