Biography
Patti Ann LuPone (born April 21, 1949) is an American actress and singer, who is best known for her work in stage musicals. She has won two Grammy Awards, two Tony Awards, and two Olivier Awards. She is also a 2006 American Theater Hall of Fame inductee. On television, LuPone played Lady Bird Johnson in the 1987 TV movie, LBJ: The Early Years, starred in the drama series Life Goes On (1989–1993) and received Emmy Award nominations for the TV movie The Song Spinner (1995) and her guest role in t...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Agatha All Along
2024
as Self - Lilia Calderu
Join Kathryn Hahn, Aubrey Plaza, Joe Locke, and more as they invite viewers behind-the-scenes of Agatha All Along.

Finally Home: Making Beau is Afraid
2023
as Self
A documentary about the making of Ari Aster's Kafkaesque epic Beau is Afraid.

Beau Is Afraid
2023
as Mona Wassermann
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odys...

Patti LuPone: Songs From a Hat
2023
Does anyone still wear a hat? Yes: three-time Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone. And her hat is filled with songs, both new and old. See Patti up close a...

The School for Good and Evil
2022
as Mrs. Deauville
Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle betwee...

Keeping Company with Sondheim
2022
as Self / Joanne
Filmed over two years, this new documentary takes an exclusive inside look at Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott’s creative process of bringing a ...

Cameron Mackintosh - The First 50 Years
2021
as Self
Archival footage provides a glimpse into the life of Cameron Mackintosh; the storied producer famous for Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Cats an...

Show of Titles
2021
as "Anything Goes" Performer
An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best.

Patti LuPone: Live From the West Side
2020
as Herself
This concert features two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone. Streamed live from New York’s Shubert Virtual Studios at New World Stages, the show fea...

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
as Fluor
An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.

Pose-a-Thon for Pride
2020
Bringing together the voices of "Pose" for stories, songs, and support of LGBTQ education, social change for sexual and gender minority people of colo...

Last Christmas
2019
as Joyce
Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a depa...

On Broadway
2019
as Self (archive footage)
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inc...

Steven Universe: The Movie
2019
as Yellow Diamond (voice)
Two years after bringing peace to the galaxy, Steven Universe sees his past come back to haunt him in the form of a deranged Gem who wants to destroy ...

Cliffs of Freedom
2019
as Yia-Yia
The timeless story of an ill-fated romance between a young Greek village girl and a conflicted Turkish officer during the dawn of the Greek War for In...

Steven Universe: Heart of the Crystal Gems
2018
as Yellow Diamond
Reeling from new information about Steven’s mom, Rose Quartz, the Crystal Gems feel like they’re falling apart! Ruby and Sapphire are at odds for the ...

Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
as Self
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.

The Comedian
2016
as Florence Berkowitz
An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know...

War Paint
2016
as Helena Rubinstein
War Paint is a musical with music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie, and a book by Doug Wright. It is based both on Lindy Woodhead's 2004 book...

Dinner with Family with Brett Gelman and Brett Gelman's Family
2015
as Patti LuPone
Brett Gelman throws his parents a dinner and show for their 40th anniversary.

Parker
2013
as Ascension
A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely all...

Union Square
2011
as Lucia
Jenny has rejected her tumultuous family and cut off communication, seeking a more ordered life far from her roots in the Bronx. And she's almost read...

Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011
A series of 40 art films created by artist David Michalek featuring performances of theater artists and actors of all genres and nationalities both we...

Company
2011
as Joanne
Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his s...

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
2010
as Self
Join us for a rousing celebration of the life and works of one of Broadway's greatest legends — the one and only Stephen Sondheim. For the master com...

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
2010
as Lucía
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is a musical with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Jeffrey Lane. Based on the Pedro Almodóvar ...
The Miraculous Year
2010
as Veronica
A chronicle of a New York family as seen through the eyes of a charming yet self-destructive Broadway composer.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
2007
as Leocadia Begbick
- Recorded live at Los Angeles Opera, 1 & 4 March 2007. Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is "in" and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown ri...

Audra McDonald and Friends: Build a Bridge
2006
Audra McDonald, already renowned for her virtuosity in classical and Broadway song, brings her talents to new genres by interpreting works of pop and ...

Passion
2005
as Fosca
Passion is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The story was adapted from Ettore Scola's film Passione d'A...

Candide
2005
as The Old Lady
Candide falls in love with the beautiful but materialistic Cunegonde. Her barron father doesn't approve of the affair so Candide wanders, meeting all ...

Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
as Reno Sweeney (segment "Anything Goes")
The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on ope...

Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003
as Eva Perón (segment "Evita")
The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy Parks, wer...

City by the Sea
2002
as Maggie
Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but ...

The Making of Sweeney Todd at the San Francisco Symphony
2002
as Self

Monday Night Mayhem
2002
as Emmy Cosell
The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a ma...

Heist
2001
as Betty Croft
Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera tape. His fence, Bergman, reneges on the money he...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
2001
as Nellie Lovett
In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justic...

The Victim
2001
as Sandy
She's the bar floozy, he's the stranger. She tries to pick him up but for some reason, he's not game.

Cold Blooded
2000
as Van Klerk
A serial murderer of teenage girls is loose, and working the case are a possibly corrupt detective Lou Miles a probably corrupt chief inspector Brodsk...

State and Main
2000
as Sherry Bailey
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.

Just Looking
1999
as Sylvia Levine Polinsky
It's 1955. Lenny is a 14-year old boy who is totally fascinated by sex. He is too scared to "do it," so he dedicates his summer to seeing two other pe...

Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
1999
as Miss C. Canzinarra
The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.

Summer of Sam
1999
as Helen
During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.

The 24 Hour Woman
1999
as Joan Marshall
Grace tries to be the perfect mother and TV producer but finds trouble in juggling both.
An Evening with Patti LuPone
1997
as Herself
Taped in January 1997 at the McCallum Theatre in the Palm Desert Resort hotel in Palm Springs, CA., includes sensational renditions of "Don't Cry for ...

Her Last Chance
1996
as Joanna Saxen
Drug adict teen gets out of rehab only to be accused of her boyfriend's death.

The Song Spinner
1995
as Zantalalia
In an isolated, snow-covered country known as the Water Land, the town of Shandrilan remains the quietest place in the world because its "Hush Law" pr...

Family Prayers
1993
as Aunt Nan
This coming of age story set in the 1960s takes a look at the effects of a couple's break-up on a sensitive, thirteen year old Jewish boy in the 1960s...

Sunset Boulevard: Live at the Sydmonton Festival
1992
as Norma Desmond
This Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is an adaptation of the classic 1950 film noir. It follows the tragic story of Norma Desmond, a faded Hollywood star ...

The Water Engine
1992
as Rita Lang
In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously ...

Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1992
as Self
This program features the music of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim in a 1992 performance at Carnegie Hall. An American Musical Theatre writer for o...

Driving Miss Daisy
1989
as Florine Werthan
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew ...

LBJ: The Early Years
1987
as Claudia Alta 'Lady Bird' Taylor Johnson
LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the life of former President of the United St...

Wise Guys
1986
as Wanda Valentini
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to A...

The Cradle Will Rock
1985
as Moll / Mr. Mister’s Daughter
A filmed version of the 1985 revival of the Marc Blitzstein musical. This revival was filmed at the Old Vic, with former members of The Acting Company...

Witness
1985
as Elaine
While protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their communi...

Love Cycle: A Soap Operetta
1984
as Rachel Burston
A ghost appears from a laundromat dryer seeking vengeance against her husband for leaving her for another woman.

Fighting Back
1982
as Lisa D'Angelo
An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.

1941
1979
as Lydia Hedberg
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

The Time of Your Life
1976
as Kitty Duval
William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the cha...