Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mary Kay Place (born September 23, 1947) is an American actress, singer, director and screen writer. She is best known as portraying Loretta Haggers on the television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, a role which won her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series in 1977. Place also recorded one studio album for Columbia Records in the Haggers persona, which included the Top Ten country music hit "Baby Boy." Description ab...
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Complete Filmography

My Father's Dragon
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elme...

Music
2021
as Millie
Zu, a free spirit estranged from her family, suddenly finds herself the sole guardian of her half-sister, Music, a teenager on the autism spectrum who...

The Prom
2020
as Grandma Bea
After the PTA of a conservative high school in Indiana bans same-sex couples from attending the annual prom, a gang of flamboyant Broadway stars try t...

Lip Service
2020
as Mom
A woman records erotica fantasy audiobooks from her bedroom closet while her own life is far from perfect.

Diane
2019
as Diane
Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her...

State Like Sleep
2019
as Elaine
Following the death of her husband, Katherine travels to Brussels, where a few loose ends become a whole web of secrets as she untangles her late spou...

Downsizing
2017
as Land's End Customer (voice)
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...

Youth in Oregon
2017
as Estelle Engersol
A man is tasked with driving his embittered 80-year-old father-in-law cross country to be legally euthanized in Oregon, while along the way helping hi...

The Hollars
2016
as Pam
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...

The Intern
2015
as Jules's Mom
70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he b...

The Breakup Girl
2015
as Joan Baker
Three estranged sisters deal with the death of their father.

I'll See You in My Dreams
2015
as Rona
A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense,...

Holidaze
2014
as Elaine Gerard
Melody, high powered corporate workaholic for a retail conglomerate, is happy to spend the holidays jet-setting with her girlfriends. However, she's i...

Miss Meadows
2014
as Mrs. Davenport
Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante...

Last Weekend
2014
as Jeannie
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend b...

A Country Christmas Story
2013
as Sarah
A starry-eyed young girl journeys from the mountains of Appalachia to the stage at Dollywood, where she discovers the impact of African-Americans on t...

You're in Charge
2013
as Penny Guidry
An optimistic ex-con reinvents himself as an alternative medicine doctor with hopes of impressing his family. But his plans go awry, and soon everyone...

Bad Milo!
2013
as Beatrice
A horror comedy centered on a guy who learns that his unusual stomach problems are being caused by a demon living in his intestines.

Smashed
2012
as Rochelle
Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying ...

Leonie
2010
as Albiana
In the lush tradition of the glorious films of Merchant and Ivory, comes the true life story of Leonie Gilmour (Emily Mortimer), whose life crossed co...

Shrek Forever After
2010
as Guard Witch (voice)
A bored and domesticated Shrek pacts with deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin to get back to feeling like a real ogre again, but when he's duped and sent to a ...

It's Complicated
2009
as Joanne
Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is mar...

Youth in Revolt
2009
as Mrs. Saunders
As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to...

Julie & Julia
2009
as Julie's Mom (voice)
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 ...

The Toe Tactic
2009
as Mom
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...

City of Ember
2008
as Mrs. Murdo
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is fail...

Mama's Boy
2007
as Barbara
A twenty-nine year-old slacker who lives with his mom realizes his sweet set-up is threatened when she hears wedding bells with her self-help guru bea...

Grace Is Gone
2007
as Woman at Funeral
Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip, all the while searching for the right time and plac...

War Eagle, Arkansas
2007
as Jessie, Wheel's Mother
Based on a True Story War Eagle, Arkansas is a character-driven drama about a young man’s choice of whether to leave his family and friends for a care...

Lonesome Jim
2005
as Sally
After failing to find success as a writer in New York City, Jim slinks back to his family's home in the Midwest to lick his wounds. But his visit is q...

Nine Lives
2005
as Dr. Alma Wyatt
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

Silver City
2004
as Grace Seymour
The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor o...

Nobody Knows Anything!
2004
as Ms. Mc Clintock
Sarah thinks making a movie is easy. With the guidance of her screenwriter uncle, she goes on a wild journey into the world of Hollywood where she mee...

Death and Texas
2004
as Mrs. Kim
Barefoot Bobby Briggs, the legendary running back for the Austin Steers was today sentenced to die for his role in the armed robbery/murder at a downt...

Latter Days
2004
as Sister Gladys Davis
Christian, a hunky, 20-something, West Hollywood party boy gets more than he bargains for when he tries to seduce Aaron, a sexually confused Mormon mi...

Killer Diller
2004
as Dr. Gwen Bradley
A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a group of reluctant halfway house convicts into The Kil...

Evergreen
2004
as Susan
Seduced by a boy's affluent, seemingly idyllic family, a young girl goes to extremes to gain acceptance.

The Safety of Objects
2002
as Helen Christianson
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring ...

Sweet Home Alabama
2002
as Pearl Smooter
New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—inc...

My First Mister
2001
as Patty (Nurse)
Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Alber...

Human Nature
2001
as Nathan's Mother
Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised in the wild. As Nathan trains the wild man in the ...

A Woman's a Helluva Thing
2001
as Cecilia Piloski
After the death of his estranged mother, a misogynistic womanizer returns home to find that his ex-girlfriend had been his mother's secret lesbian lov...

Nailed
2001
as Fern Romano
When a passionate but turbulent affair with an emotionally troubled girl results in pregnancy, a struggling writer and his tight-knit family are force...

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses ...

Committed
2000
as Psychiatrist
After her husband, Carl, suddenly leaves, Joline travels from New York to Texas to track him down. Although Joline tries to remain upbeat, she is disc...

Girl, Interrupted
1999
as Mrs. Gilcrest
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unk...

Being John Malkovich
1999
as Floris
One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who ...

Naturally Native
1999
as Madame Celeste
Naturally Native follows the lives, loves, pain, joy and relationships of three sisters as they attempt to start their own business. Of American India...

Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story
1999
as Jan
Fact-based story about a Bible-quoting woman who in 1990 murdered a camp counselor, whom she learned molested her 7 year old son. Seeking revenge, she...

The Big Chill: A Reunion
1999
as Self
A look back at the making of the film "The Big Chill" (1983) with cast and crew.

Point Last Seen
1998
as Coreen Davis
Fact-based story about a tracker who searches for a little girl who was lost in the desert, but suffers internally because her own children were kidna...

Pecker
1998
as Joyce
A Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turning into a nationwide sensation, with a fateful ch...

How to Make the Cruelest Month
1998
as Mary Bryant
Bright and neurotic girl Bell sets two goals for New Year - to quit smoking and to fall in love. As the first task turns out to be too difficult, she ...

The Rainmaker
1997
as Dot Black
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in...

Love in Another Town
1997
as Sam
A fortyish interior designer, dumped by her husband, moves across the country and finds love in another town in a relationship with a much younger man...

Eye of God
1997
as Claire Spencer
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...

Citizen Ruth
1996
as Gail Stoney
"Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is...

For My Daughter's Honor
1996
as Betty Ann Dustin
Fourteen-year-old high school student, Amy Dustin, becomes an object of romantic affection to the school's biology teacher and football coach, Pete Na...

Manny & Lo
1996
as Elaine
A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.

Talking With
1995
as April March (segment "Twirler")
Adapted from the group of stage monologues by the pseudononymous "Jane Martin," this is a series of characters snake handler, daughter, baton twirler,...

Teresa's Tattoo
1994
as Nora
Mathematician Teresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends, who want her to live a little, drag her out to parties. Th...

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994
as Norma Williams
A criminal gang commits a string of violent robberies and murders, culminating in the assassination of the police detective on the case, which may lea...

Telling Secrets
1993
as Shelley Jefferson Carp
Through a series of elaborate schemes, a wealthy woman arranges for the murder of her husband's mistress and then takes steps so that the crime won't ...

Just My Imagination
1992
as Shilda Hawk
A woman lives a normal, peaceful life in a small town until the day when a famous rock star who went to college with her quotes and cites her in one o...

Samantha
1992
as Marilyn
A young woman sets out to find her birth parents when she finds out that she is adopted.

Captain Ron
1992
as Katherine Harvey
When mild-mannered Martin Harvey finds out that he has inherited a vintage yacht, he decides to take his family on a Caribbean vacation to retrieve th...

Bed of Lies
1992
as Jean Daniel Murph
Dramatization of the true-life story of a woman who fights for custody of her children while awaiting trial for the murder of her husband, who happens...

Crazy From the Heart
1991
as Merrilee Playton
A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to g...

Bright Angel
1990
as Judy
In Montana, naive teenager George longs to escape from his broken home before his dysfunctional parents push him over the edge. When George meets pret...

Out on the Edge
1989
as Sondra Evetts
Danny is a troubled teen with a difficult home life. His parents' marriage has disintegrated, and his father's already found someone else he'd like to...

Portrait of a White Marriage
1988
as Joyce Harrison
Now a famous talk show host, Martin Mull takes his crew and cameras to Hawkins Falls, Ohio with the intent to give his erratic career a fresh start by...

A New Life
1988
as Donna
Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back i...
The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
1986
as Prissy Thrash
A Cambodian family is given sponsored immigration to the United States where one daughter becomes a spelling bee champion.

The History of White People in America: Volume II
1986
as Joyce Harrison
In this daring follow-up to The History of White People in America, comedian Martin Mull takes us on an in-depth look at such topics as White Religion...

Smooth Talk
1985
as Katherine Wyatt
Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered b...

Explorers
1985
as Mrs. Crandall (uncredited)
Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things...

The History of White People in America
1985
as Joyce Harrison
In this parody of documentaries, host Martin Mull discusses the contributions that white people have made to the USA, visits the Institute of White St...

For Love or Money
1984
as K.K.
A man and a woman participate in a new game show where partners have to choose between love and money.

Mom's On Strike
1984
as Ellie Skinner
An ABC (American Broadcasting Company) Afterschool Special about an overworked housewife, who, as the title suggests, goes on strike, in order to pers...

Terms of Endearment
1983
as Doris (voice)
Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each other deal with problems and find...

The Big Chill
1983
as Meg Jones
Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.

Waltz Across Texas
1982
as Kit Peabody
A wildcatter and a geologist prospect for oil and love in West Texas.

Modern Problems
1981
as Lorraine
Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fielder, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power...

Private Benjamin
1980
as Pvt. Mary Lou Glass
A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.

Act of Love
1980
as Becky Wiggins
A tragic motorcycle accident leaves one brother paralyzed while the other brother is left guilt-ridden. Seeing his brother struggle with his new life...

Starting Over
1979
as Marie
After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.

More American Graffiti
1979
as Teensa
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.

New York, New York
1977
as Bernice Bennett
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long up...

Bound for Glory
1976
as Sue Ann
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering th...