Biography
Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; January 22, 1932 – October 14, 2023) was an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), and received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. She was also known for her performances as Kirsten Arnesen in the original TV production of Days of Wine and Roses, and as Cather...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
2023
as Self - Co-Star (voice) (archive footage)
This timely exploration of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity examines the life of legendary actor Rock Hudson, from his public "ladies' man" persona to hi...
Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur
2022
as Herself
A legend of the Hollywood Golden Age, Gregory Peck (1916-2003) had an exemplary career, working under some of the greatest directors: Alfred Hitchcock...
White Boy Rick
2018
as Grandma Verna Wershe
The story of Richard Wershe Jr., a teenager who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s, and was ultimately arrested for drug t...
Snapshots
2018
as Rose
Rose spends her days fishing near the beautiful lake house she’s called home for 50 years. She’s not getting any younger and her daughter Patti worrie...
Bad Blood... the Hunger
2012
as Milly Lathrop
Several college students embark on a summer of sun and fun, but find that their adventure turns eerily macabre when dark and ancient forces propel the...
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom
2012
as Self
Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean. A sex symbol, a matinee idol, a powerful and magnetic actor, Tony Curtis was the ori...
Another Harvest Moon
2010
as June
Another Harvest Moon is a tender drama about four elderly Americans coping with life in a nursing home. FRANK, ELLA, ALICE and JUNE gather each mornin...
Hesher
2010
as Madeleine Forney
A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even m...
Saving Grace B. Jones
2009
as Marta Shrank
In a 1950s-era Missouri town the life of a couple is thrown into chaos when the husband's sister is released from the local asylum and comes to live w...
Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
2007
A select group of key creative forces involved in the making of Twin Peaks reveals their take on the fascinating creation and journey of the wildly po...
Hounddog
2007
as Grammie
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
The Dead Girl
2006
as Arden's Mother
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
Eulogy
2004
as Charlotte Collins
A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets a...
The Hustler: The Inside Story
2002
as Self (archive footage)
A brief overview of The Hustler's making and the players involved.
Postcards From The Cast
2001
as Self
"Postcards From The Cast" is a featurette originally released in the 2001 DVD release, Twin Peaks: The First Season. It was later re-released in the B...
The Last Brickmaker in America
2001
as Ruth Anne
A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-yea...
Acting 'Carrie'
2001
as Self
In this documentary, director Brian De Palma and the stars from his film "Carrie" (such as Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, Piper Laurie, William Katt, Nancy...
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001
as Self
Documentary that explores Argento's film career.
Midwives
2001
as Cheryl Visco
It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of ...
Possessed
2000
as Aunt Hanna
An 11 year old boy starts throwing temper tantrums, vomiting on and attacking people, and swearing uncontrollably. Furniture begins to move on its ow...
The Mao Game
1999
Growing up neurotic in a Hollywood family
Inherit the Wind
1999
as Sarah Brady
Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
The Rage: Carrie 2
1999
as Margaret White (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Following the suicide of her only friend, outcast teen Rachel Lang's life begins a downward spiral that will not only affect her but take everyone aro...
Palmer's Pick-Up
1999
as Evangelist
Two dimwit owners of a struggling hauling company are approached about hauling a huge, mysterious box across country at the end of the century. The ca...
The Faculty
1998
as Mrs. Karen Olson
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make the chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicio...
St. Patrick's Day
1998
as Mary Pat
It's your traditional Irish holiday - cousins are having sex, couples are getting divorced, John Michael has brought his boyfriend and Millicent might...
A Christmas Memory
1997
as Jennie
A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a speci...
Alone
1997
as Lillie Dawson
John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, a...
Intensity
1997
as Miriam Braynard
Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in ...
The Grass Harp
1996
as Dolly Talbo
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in ...
In the Blink of an Eye
1996
as Kay Trafero (uncredited)
Hamel portrays director Dickoff who suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in prison for quite some time in connection with a murder...
The Road to Galveston
1996
as Wanda Kirkman
Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind w...
The Crossing Guard
1995
as Helen Booth
Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death.
Fighting for My Daughter
1995
as Judge Edna Burton
Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a dangerous prostitution ring.
Shadows of Desire
1994
as Ellis Snow
A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother.
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
as Georgia
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet ...
Sad Inheritance
1993
as Margaret Kinsey
After filling her life with addictions, Christina (Susan Dey) is left with a dead-end job, a deadbeat boyfriend and a bad rapport with her mother (Pip...
Trauma
1993
as Adriana Petrescu
A young Romanian woman and a recovering drug addict launch an unlikely investigation after her parents are murdered by a vicious serial killer known a...
Rich in Love
1992
as Vera Delmage
Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him unexpectedly. With Helen gone, Warren's kindheart...
Storyville
1992
as Constance Fowler
While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.
Other People's Money
1991
as Bea Sullivan
When a corporate raider threatens a hostile takeover of a 'mom and pop' company, the patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's attractiv...
Rising Son
1990
as Martha Robinson
Gus Robinson loves three things: his job, family, and country; but suddenly he's losing all three. When his factory shuts down, Gus faces unemployment...
Twin Peaks
1989
as Catherine Martell
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the...
Dream a Little Dream
1989
as Gena Ettinger
Bobby Kellar has a crush on Lainie Diamond, girlfriend of school jerk Joel. Coleman is working on an experiment which will help him move into a place ...
Mother, Mother
1989
as Martha Cousins
A Blue Ribbon winner at the American Film Festival, this hard-hitting, dramatic production is about the relationship between a young man with AIDS and...
Go Toward the Light
1988
as Margo
A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS.
Tiger Warsaw
1988
as Frances Warsaw
Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forg...
Appointment with Death
1988
as Emily Boynton
Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed ...
Distortions
1987
as Margot Caldwell
A man goes to speak with a gigolo and is promptly beaten for his trouble. Soon afterward, his wife is told that he burned to death in a car wreck and ...
Promise
1986
as Annie Gilbert
Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother DJ, who is schi...
Children of a Lesser God
1986
as Mrs. Norman
Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the school...
Toughlove
1985
as Darlene Marsh
The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for a...
Love, Mary
1985
as Christine Groda
A teen, who is always in trouble in school and has been sent to reform school, turns her life around when a counselor discovers she is dyslexic.
Return to Oz
1985
as Aunt Em
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and...
Mae West
1982
as Matilda West
Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.
The Bunker
1981
as Magda Goebbels
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle f...
Macbeth
1981
as Lady Macbeth
An adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Skag
1980
as Jo Skagska
Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life...
Tim
1979
as Mary Horton
Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she...
Rainbow
1978
as Ethel Gumm
The early life and struggles of Judy Garland (portrayed by Andrea McArdle), and of the film star's trials as a youngster in dealing with the movie stu...
The Boss' Son
1978
as Elaine
Bobby Rose has just returned home after graduating business school. He agrees to start working for his father, a successful carpet manufacturer. Bobby...
In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan
1977
as Julie Quinlan
Based on a true case, this tells the story of two parents in New Jersey whose daughter has lapsed into a coma from which doctors say she will never re...
Ruby
1977
as Ruby
Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend.
Carrie
1976
as Margaret White
Withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When strange occurrenc...
The Hustler
1961
as Sarah Packard
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary...
Winterset
1959
as Miriamne
Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of t...
Days of Wine and Roses
1958
as Kirsten Arnesen Clay
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Until They Sail
1957
as Delia Leslie Friskett
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
Kelly and Me
1957
as Mina Van Runkle
Failing vaudeville performer, Len, is taken under the wing of the German Shepherd wonder dog, Kelly, and a new act is born. Len hopes all his dreams a...
The Ninth Day
1957
After World War III a small group of people live in the desert. A young man tries to run away, hoping to find other communities of survivors, but is t...
Allen in Movieland
1955
as Self
TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story."
Ain't Misbehavin'
1955
as Sarah Hatfield
Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.
Smoke Signal
1955
as Laura Evans
Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Hallid...
Dawn at Socorro
1954
as Rannah Hayes
Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En rout...
Johnny Dark
1954
as Liz Fielding
A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George Sherman's 1954 film stars Tony Curtis, Piper Laur...
Dangerous Mission
1954
as Louise Graham
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
The Golden Blade
1953
as Khairuzan
Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Tho...
The Mississippi Gambler
1953
as Angelique Dureau
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamb...
The World's Most Beautiful Girls
1953
as Self
When 78 beauties are assembled from the far corners of the globe in order to select the most beautiful girl in the world, the results are bound to be ...
Son of Ali Baba
1952
as Kiki / Princess Azura
In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl w...
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
1952
as Millicent Blaisdell
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.
No Room for the Groom
1952
as Lee Kingshead
A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night arise from illness, her manipulative mother, and a h...
The Prince Who Was a Thief
1951
as Tina
An Arabian prince, kidnapped at birth and raised as a thief, plots to regain his throne from his evil uncle in this colorful costume adventure.
Francis Goes to the Races
1951
as Frances Travers
In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter get a job working on a horse-breeder's ranch. They ...
The Milkman
1950
as Chris Abbott
A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
Louisa
1950
as Cathy Norton
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically invol...