Biography
Carole "Kelly" Bishop is an American actress, who is best known for her role as matriarch Emily Gilmore on the series Gilmore Girls, and for her role as Jennifer Grey's mother in the film Dirty Dancing. She is also well remembered for her Tony-winning performance as Sheila in A Chorus Line.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Broadway’s Leading Ladies
2025
Broadway’s Leading Ladies is a celebration of the profound influence and enduring legacy women have made in theater. Will be broadcasted on PBS.
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
as Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who ...
Art of Falling in Love
2019
as Iris
A spirited artist with a mysterious bucket list gets a commission to paint a mural on a new hospital wing in a charming community. When she finds hers...
The Salzburg Story
2018
Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
as Self
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
Saint Janet
2017
as Janet
When Janet Turner comes to believe God has given her the power to heal, her two grown children wrestle with how to react.
Dangerous Liaisons
2014
as Lucille Julien
Friends with Kids
2012
as Marcy Fryman
In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a coupl...
A Novel Romance
2011
as Lily Sparks
Nate Shepherd, late 40's, and Jenny Sparks, early 30's, meet in a fancy New York eatery. Complete strangers who have had a rotten day, waiting for the...
Wonder Boys
2000
as Amanda Leer
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago....
Blue Moon
2000
as Peggy's Mother
Hoping to revitalize their marriage, an elderly couple from New York (Gazzara, Moreno) go on vacation to the Catskills.
My X-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception
1999
as Sylvia Weinstein
This brutally honest comedy depicts the Jewish-Italian wedding reception of Lisa Weinstein (Deborah Gibson), as guests can't help but notice the roman...
Cafe Society
1997
as Mrs. Jelke
New York 1952. Mickey Jelke inherits a big sum of money and spends his nights in Manhattan, painting the city red. Night after night, he can be found ...
Private Parts
1997
as Ray Stern
The life and career of shock-jock superstar Howard Stern is recounted from his humble beginnings to his view from the top. Possessing a desire to be a...
Miami Rhapsody
1995
as Zelda
Even though Gwyn Marcus is engaged to her boyfriend, Matt, she is still afraid of commitment. While she admires her parents' loving relationship, she ...
Six Degrees of Separation
1993
as Adele
The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-cl...
First Impressions
1992
as Roxanne Holden
Summer Stories: The Mall - Part 1 A girl is torn whether to meet her birth mother.
Queens Logic
1991
as Maria
When childhood friends Al, Dennis and Eliot get together for Ray's wedding, which may or may not happen, they end up on a roller-coaster ride through ...
Me and Him
1988
as Mrs. Aramis
A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane.
Dirty Dancing
1987
as Marjorie Houseman
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find hersel...
Solarbabies
1986
as Tutore Nover
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by ...
The Recovery Room
1985
as Kaye
A failed sitcom about a "Cheers"-type bar located across the street from a bustling urban hospital, which is owned by an ex-medical student, and an ex...
O'Hara's Wife
1982
as Beth Douglas
Workaholic attorney Bob O'Hara is devastated when his wife dies suddenly. However, she returns to haunt him in order to persuade him to slow down, wat...
Advice to the Lovelorn
1981
as Rita Borden
A failed pilot for a series centering on Maggie Dale, an advice columnist. This was somewhat in the tradition of shows like Fantasy Island. When she r...
An Unmarried Woman
1978
as Elaine Liebowitz
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her fo...