Biography
Blair Brown is an American stage, film and television actress. She was the leading actress in feature films such as "Altered States", "Continental Divide" and "Strapless", and she played the title character in the television comedy-drama "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd", as well as supporting characters Nina Sharp "Fringe" and Judy King "Orange Is the New Black".
Known For
Complete Filmography
My Art
2016
as Mickey
A 65-year-old single artist living in New York City has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and a loyal, aging dog named Bing. As ...
The Speed of Thought
2011
as Bridger
Joshua Lazarus (Nick Stahl) is a telepath who has been raised in a NSA foster home. Lazarus helps the government by using his abilities. He is told by...
The Buddha
2010
as Narrator
This documentary for PBS by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere, tells the story of the Buddha’s life, a journey especia...
Dark Matter
2008
as Hildy
Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a c...
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
2007
as Margaret Bayard Smith (voice)
A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America's great presidents and a borderline tyrant. The seventh preside...
Sister Aimee
2007
as Narrator (voice)
At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing larger crowds to her revivals than those of P.T. Bar...
First Born
2007
as Laura's Mother
Laura's expecting. Her husband, Steven's a loving guy but has little time for her. Her mom lives thousands of miles away. Forced to give up on her dre...
Test Tube Babies
2006
as Narrator
The world's first successful in-vitro fertilization takes place in Great Britain resulting in a live birth on July 25,1978.
Griffin & Phoenix
2006
as Eve
A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
The Sentinel
2006
as National Security Advisor
Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the P...
Dark Shadows
2005
as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
The pilot for a proposed remake of the '60s gothic soap opera. It was produced in 2004 for The WB Television Network, but was not picked up and has ne...
Manderlay
2005
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In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal...
The Massie Affair
2005
as Narrator (voice)
In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against five...
Loverboy
2005
as Jeanette Rawley
A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
Dogville Confessions
2004
as Self
A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård, B...
RFK
2004
as Narrator
David Grubin's probing and perceptive biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of Bobby Kennedy, whose early life was spent in the shadow o...
Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman
2004
as Narrator
The remarkable life of the immigrant christened "the most dangerous woman in America" is explored in this documentary focusing on noted birth-control ...
Dogville
2003
as Mrs. Henson
When beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and...
Young Dr. Freud
2002
as Narrator
This documentary retraces the life of the famous Austrian psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud, from his birth to the publication of his landmark book on dream...
Woodrow Wilson
2002
as voice
A gifted orator, Woodrow Wilson was supremely confident before crowds, yet uneasy in small groups. An intellectual with inflexible moral principles, h...
Follow the Stars Home
2001
as Hannah Parker
Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother Wrong, carrying a torch for him even after he deser...
Hamlet
2000
as Gertrude
A revised version of the Shakespeare play set in turn-of-the-20th-century America, where a prince seeks revenge against his father's killer.
In His Life: The John Lennon Story
2000
as Mimi Smith
A film about the early life of the rock musician and his burgeoning career as a member of the Beatles.
Space Cowboys
2000
as Dr. Anne Caruthers
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel...
The Astronaut's Wife
1999
as Shelly McLaren
When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beau...
Convictions
1997
as Zalinda Dorcheus
It has been nine years since Bancroft's character shot Brown's son. She goes to the prison to vent her rage at him over what he did, and discovers he'...
A Season in Purgatory
1996
as Grace Bradley
True story about a kid from rich family with political ties who covers up a suspicious death of a young woman. This comes back to haunt him later.
The Ultimate Lie
1996
as Joan 'Joanie' McGrath
A spoiled young rich girl rebels against her parents by becoming a call girl. However, one night she arrives at a hotel for a "rendezvous" with a clie...
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
1995
as Narrator
Real stories of five women of the Old West....
The Gift of Love
1994
as Helen Porter
Moment of Truth: To Walk Again
1994
as Carol Keating
A marine is paralyzed after being shot during a training exercise, leaving his parents to fight to get him proper medical care.
The Day My Parents Ran Away
1993
as Judy Miller
An irresponsible teen examines his life after his fed-up parents leave him to fend for himself.
The River Ran Red
1993
as Narrator
Blair Brown narrates this gripping account of a community's struggle to preserve its way of life. In the summer of 1892, a bitter conflict erupted at ...
Rio Shannon
1993
as Elizabeth Cleary
A widow and her family face new challenges when they relocate to a run-down guest ranch in New Mexico.
Majority Rule
1992
as Gen. Katherine Taylor
A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of p...
Passed Away
1992
as Amy Scanlan
Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of...
Those Secrets
1992
as Nellie Banesh
A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
The Good Policeman
1991
as Rebecca Karp
Isaac Seidel is a highly unconventional New York police-commissioner. He is well-abled in dealing with trouble at the headquarter, the maffia and situ...
Extreme Close-Up
1990
as Margaret Toll
Innovative drama mixing film and video, with a teenager obsessed with watching his late mother, killed in an auto accident, on tapes he recorded of th...
Strapless
1989
as Dr. Lillian Hempel
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inh...
Stealing Home
1988
as Ginny Wyatt
Billy Wyatt (Harmon), a former high school and minor-league baseball baseball player receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his form...
Hands of a Stranger
1987
as Diane Benton
A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.
Don't Touch
1985
as Joan Stewart
A teenager babysitting a young girl discovers that she is being molested by a family friend when harrowing memories of her own past molestation by her...
The Bad Seed
1985
as Christine Penmark
Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mothe...
A Flash of Green
1984
as Kat Hubble
A reporter at a local Florida newspaper is torn between his friendship with a corrupt real estate developer and his love for an activist opposing the ...
The Skin of Our Teeth
1983
as Sabina
Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play "The Skin of Our Teeth," the story of Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, their children Henry and Gladys, an...
Continental Divide
1981
as Nell Porter
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Altered States
1980
as Emily Jessup
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native America...
One Trick Pony
1980
as Marion
An aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's str...
The Child Stealer
1979
as Jan Rodman
A young mother battles to get her children back after her ex-husband kidnaps them and the law won't help her in her efforts.
And I Alone Survived
1978
as Lauren Elder
Based on a true story, this tells the story of a young woman who is the only survivor of a plane crash in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and her struggl...
The Choirboys
1977
as Kimberly Lyles
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
The Quinns
1977
as Millicent Priestley
A drama about three generations of Irish-American firefighters in the New York City Fire Department, and their careers, romances, and growing pains. T...
The 3,000 Mile Chase
1977
as Rachel Kane
Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to ...
Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
1977
as Charity
A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's ne...
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1977
as Anna Roosevelt
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
The School for Scandal
1975
as Lady Teazle
London society matron Lady Sneerwell loves to gossip and spends her free time engaged in manipulation. When she selfishly derails the romance of Charl...
The Paper Chase
1973
as Miss Farranti
A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
Dracula
1973
as Mina
This 1973 Canadian TV movie adaptation of DRACULA played on CBC's Purple Playhouse program. Norman Welsh plays the vampire count that resembles Stoke...
Brutalités amoureuses
1972
Distraught, Catherine wanders the Canadian countryside and takes refuge in an isolated villa. She talks to David, the owner, about her past: drugs, ps...