Bonnie Bedelia

Bonnie Bedelia

1948-03-25 New York City, New York, USA 68 Credits

Biography

Bonnie Bedelia (born Bonnie Bedelia Culkin; March 25, 1948) is an American actress. After beginning her career in theatre in the 1960s, Bedelia starred in the CBS daytime soap opera Love of Life and made her film debut in The Gypsy Moths. Bedelia subsequently appeared in the films They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Lovers and Other Strangers, Heart Like a Wheel, The Prince of Pennsylvania, Die Hard, Presumed Innocent, and Needful Things. For her television work, Bedelia has earned two Emmy Awards ...

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The Hill

The Hill

2023

as Gram

7.7
Acting

The story of Rickey Hill, who overcomes his physical disability and repairs his relationship with his father in a quest to become a major league baseb...

The Noel Diary

The Noel Diary

2022

as Ellie Foster

6.3
Acting

Cleaning out his childhood home at Christmas, a novelist meets a woman searching for her birth mother. Will an old diary unlock their pasts — and hear...

Violet

Violet

2021

as Aunt Helen

6.7
Acting

Violet realizes that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.

Sordid Lives

Sordid Lives

2020

Acting

An All-Star reading of the original stage play version of Sordid Lives! A family in a small Texas town is preparing for a funeral. Among the character...

A Stone in the Water

A Stone in the Water

2019

as Martha

7.0
Acting

A reclusive spinster abducts a pregnant woman to steal her baby. What she doesn't know is that a ruthless murderer is out to kill the mother-to-be. A ...

Christmas on the Coast

Christmas on the Coast

2018

as Ellie Cassadine

6.0
Acting

Hard-hearted New York novelist Dru Cassadine...known for her holiday romance stories (even though she is antilove and anti-Christmas)...is desperate t...

The Scent of Rain & Lightning

The Scent of Rain & Lightning

2018

as Annabelle

5.0
Acting

When a young woman learns her parents' killer has been released from jail, she is forced to revisit old wounds while discovering the destructive power...

A Joyous Christmas

A Joyous Christmas

2017

as Joy

5.5
Acting

Just before Christmas, bestselling author Rachel Kennedy returns to her hometown to host an event for her upcoming book. Though being home is difficul...

A Very Sordid Wedding

A Very Sordid Wedding

2017

as Latrelle Williamson

5.5
Acting

Del Shores' follow-up to "Sordid Lives" revisits Winters, Texas for a showdown between the gradually liberalizing locals and the new fundamentalist pr...

Her Secret Sessions

Her Secret Sessions

2016

as Melanie

Acting

After losing her daughter and a difficult divorce, an attractive woman finds herself exploring the world of online dating, but her adventures lead her...

Munchausen

Munchausen

2013

as Mother

6.7
Acting

A mother, unable to confront the heartbreak of her son leaving for college, delays his departure by making him sick. Unfortunately, she goes too far.

Berkeley

Berkeley

2005

as Hawkins

5.4
Acting

Just as sex, drugs, rock & roll, hippies, and Vietnam enter our consciousness, so it does for Ben Sweet, the shy, 18-year-old son of conservative busi...

Manhood

Manhood

2003

as Alice

3.6
Acting

Filled with both laughter and tears, Manhood is a fascinating exploration of the interpersonal relationships that can define - or destroy - a family. ...

Sordid Lives

Sordid Lives

2000

as Latrelle Williamson

6.5
Acting

"Sordid Lives" is about a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find h...

Picnic

Picnic

2000

as Flo Owens

3.7
Acting

The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.

Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon

2000

as Rose

5.7
Acting

Charlie Gordon is mentally handicapped and all he wants in life is to be a genius. When he gets picked for experimental surgery it looks like his drea...

Anywhere but Here

Anywhere but Here

1999

as Carol

6.0
Acting

Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high...

Gloria

Gloria

1999

as Brenda

5.7
Acting

After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a six-y...

Locked in Silence

Locked in Silence

1999

as Lydia

5.7
Acting

A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the killing by his older brother of a teenage boy. The you...

Bad Manners

1998

as Nancy Westlund

5.0
Acting

Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his current sexy girlfriend Kim. Matt is a musician an...

To Live Again

To Live Again

1998

as Iris Sayer

10.0
Acting

A loopy mother locks her teenage daughter in her room after allegedly showing signs of being crazy. Over a decade later, somebody finally investigates...

Any Mother's Son

Any Mother's Son

1997

as Dorothy Hajdys

6.2
Acting

A Mother is devastated when her sailor son is murdered by two of his crewmates in a homophobic attack.

Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt

1996

as Robin Harwell

5.0
Acting

Charlie Sloan is an alcoholic defence lawyer drawn back into the courtroom by Robin Harwell, a woman he once loved who wants him to defend her stepdau...

Her Costly Affair

Her Costly Affair

1996

as Dr. Diane Weston

3.8
Acting

A professor's casual fling with her graduate student turns deadly when he insists on a more permanent arrangement.

A Season in Purgatory

A Season in Purgatory

1996

as Valerie Sabbath

6.0
Acting

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.

Homecoming

Homecoming

1996

as Eunice Logan

7.2
Acting

When their mother disappears, a group of siblings are forced to fend for themselves, and make their way on their own. They eventually meet their grand...

Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story

Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story

1995

as Jill Coit

5.7
Acting

A young man begins to suspect that his mother may have murdered his father.

Speechless

Speechless

1994

as Annette

5.9
Acting

In the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick begin a romance, unaware they are working for cand...

Judicial Consent

Judicial Consent

1994

as Gwen Warwick

5.9
Acting

Judge Gwen Warwick becomes involved in the murder trial she has been assigned. Her marriage is on the rocks and the murder victim is an old friend, wh...

Needful Things

Needful Things

1993

as Polly Chalmers

6.2
Acting

A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.

A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story

A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story

1992

as Dr. Elizabeth Morgan

7.0
Acting

Based on the custody case involving Elizabeth Morgan and the subsequent Elizabeth Morgan Act.

Switched at Birth

Switched at Birth

1991

as Regina Twigg

6.6
Acting

This is the story of the two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later when one of the girls gets sick and tests revealed that she was not ...

Presumed Innocent

Presumed Innocent

1990

as Barbara Sabich

6.8
Acting

Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fig...

Die Hard 2

Die Hard 2

1990

as Holly McClane

7.0
Acting

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Chris...

Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture

Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture

1990

as Hannah McGrath

6.8
Acting

Taut thriller about a photographer who races the clock to clear a man about to be executed.

Fat Man and Little Boy

Fat Man and Little Boy

1989

as Kitty Oppenheimer

6.2
Acting

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan...

The Prince of Pennsylvania

The Prince of Pennsylvania

1988

as Pam Marshetta

5.6
Acting

Set in a remote Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this off-beat comedy follows the relationship between Carla, a hippie woman, and Rupert, a young punk r...

Die Hard

Die Hard

1988

as Holly Gennaro McClane

7.8
Acting

NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her offices Christmas...

The Stranger

The Stranger

1987

as Alice Kildee

6.1
Acting

Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. Sh...

When the Time Comes

When the Time Comes

1987

as Liddy Travis

Acting

A terminally ill woman seeks assistance in taking her life when her husband refuses.

The Boy Who Could Fly

The Boy Who Could Fly

1986

as Charlene

6.3
Acting

Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, ...

Alex: The Life of a Child

Alex: The Life of a Child

1986

as Carole Deford

7.1
Acting

Based on true events, 'Alex: The Life of a Child' follows former 'Sports Illustrated' writer Frank Deford and his wife Carole when their happy, all-Am...

Violets are Blue

Violets are Blue

1986

as Ruth Squires

4.9
Acting

After fifteen years of traveling around the world, Gussie, a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up. She meets ...

Death of an Angel

Death of an Angel

1986

as Grace

6.0
Acting

Grace, a priest, tracks her missing daughter to a religious community where the strange father Angel is keeping a wooden Jesus figure that sheds actua...

The Lady from Yesterday

The Lady from Yesterday

1985

as Janet Weston

7.0
Acting

A man with a wife, two daughters, and a flourishing career is visited by a woman whom he had an affair with when he was in Vietnam.

Memorial Day

1983

as Cass

5.3
Acting

An attorney finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam.The reunion stirs up painful memories and ...

Heart Like a Wheel

Heart Like a Wheel

1983

as Shirley Muldowney

5.6
Acting

Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of raci...

The Million Dollar Infield

The Million Dollar Infield

1982

as Marcia Miller

Acting

Four wealthy Long Islanders play for an amateur softball team. All four men suffer from profound personal and professional problems, thus the weekly b...

Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier

Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier

1980

as Aleta

5.0
Acting

Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then ...

Tourist

Tourist

1980

as Mandy Burke

8.0
Acting

A group of tourists on a "once-in-a-lifetime" European vacation try to rekindle their romances with themselves.

Walking Through the Fire

Walking Through the Fire

1979

as Dr. Rand

2.0
Acting

A young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the situation is the fact that she is pregnant, and the tre...

A Question of Love

A Question of Love

1978

as Joan Saltzman

5.3
Acting

A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.

The Big Fix

The Big Fix

1978

as Suzanne

5.7
Acting

Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is re...

Heatwave!

Heatwave!

1974

as Laura Taylor

5.9
Acting

A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.

Message to My Daughter

Message to My Daughter

1973

as Janet Thatcher

7.0
Acting

A confused teenager discovers a stack of tapes recorded years earlier by her dying mother.

Between Friends

Between Friends

1973

as Ellie

Acting

An ex-con, his daughter and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in Northern Ontario.

A Time For Love

A Time For Love

1973

as Kitty

Acting

Time for Love features two stories of love. A businessman has a life style change while a rock singer finds it hard to change his way of life and roma...

Sand Castles

Sand Castles

1972

as Jenna Hampshire

4.0
Acting

A young man who dies in an auto accident returns from the dead to meet up with the young woman who tried to save him.

The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie

The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie

1972

as Rosalie

5.0
Acting

A traveling salesman is lured by a precocious teenage girl to her shack in the desert for some sexual escapades. However, a scuzzy biker comes along a...

In Pursuit of Treasure

In Pursuit of Treasure

1972

Acting

In Pursuit of Treasure was shot over 11 weeks in 1970 with Panavision cameras in Kanab, Utah, with union waivers, a $220,000 budget and even logistica...

The Picture

1972

as Reva

Acting

A comedy about a young loser who desperately tries to make it with a blind date, who turns out to be pregnant. She parries his advances by playing sol...

Lovers and Other Strangers

Lovers and Other Strangers

1970

as Susan Henderson

5.1
Acting

Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy....

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

1969

as Ruby Bates

7.6
Acting

In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a...

The Gypsy Moths

The Gypsy Moths

1969

as Annie Burke

6.1
Acting

Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.

Then Came Bronson

Then Came Bronson

1969

as Temple Brooks

5.2
Acting

Jim Bronson is a young newspaperman who quits his job following the suicide of his best friend, and sets out on a cross-country trip on his motorcycle...

The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker

1958

as Clara

7.0
Acting

Christmas presentation of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90, featuring Tchaikovsky's ballet performed by the New York City Ballet, choreographed...

Maybe We Should

N/A

as Barb Warren

Acting

Determined to bring hope to their rural Pennsylvania community, a couple embark on an ambitious mission to establish a revolutionary therapy center fo...

No Means No

N/A

as Mrs. Wells

Acting

The danger of date rape is illustrated. Starring Chad Lowe, Dana Barron, Lori Loughlin, James Marshall and Bonnie Bedelia.