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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Hill
2023
as Gram
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
2022
as Ellie Foster
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
2021
as Aunt Helen
Violet realizes that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.

Sordid Lives
2020
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
2019
as Martha
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
2018
as Ellie Cassadine
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
2018
as Annabelle
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
2017
as Joy
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
2017
as Latrelle Williamson
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
2016
as Melanie
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
2013
as Mother
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
2005
as Hawkins
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
2003
as Alice
Filled with both laughter and tears, Manhood is a fascinating exploration of the interpersonal relationships that can define - or destroy - a family. ...

Sordid Lives
2000
as Latrelle Williamson
"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
2000
as Flo Owens
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
2000
as Rose
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
1999
as Carol
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
1999
as Brenda
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
1999
as Lydia
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
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
1998
as Iris Sayer
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
1997
as Dorothy Hajdys
A Mother is devastated when her sailor son is murdered by two of his crewmates in a homophobic attack.

Shadow of a Doubt
1996
as Robin Harwell
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
1996
as Dr. Diane Weston
A professor's casual fling with her graduate student turns deadly when he insists on a more permanent arrangement.

A Season in Purgatory
1996
as Valerie Sabbath
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
1996
as Eunice Logan
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
1995
as Jill Coit
A young man begins to suspect that his mother may have murdered his father.

Speechless
1994
as Annette
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
1994
as Gwen Warwick
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
1993
as Polly Chalmers
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
1992
as Dr. Elizabeth Morgan
Based on the custody case involving Elizabeth Morgan and the subsequent Elizabeth Morgan Act.

Switched at Birth
1991
as Regina Twigg
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
1990
as Barbara Sabich
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
1990
as Holly McClane
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
1990
as Hannah McGrath
Taut thriller about a photographer who races the clock to clear a man about to be executed.

Fat Man and Little Boy
1989
as Kitty Oppenheimer
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
1988
as Pam Marshetta
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
1988
as Holly Gennaro McClane
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
1987
as Alice Kildee
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
1987
as Liddy Travis
A terminally ill woman seeks assistance in taking her life when her husband refuses.

The Boy Who Could Fly
1986
as Charlene
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
1986
as Carole Deford
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
1986
as Ruth Squires
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
1986
as Grace
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
1985
as Janet Weston
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
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
1983
as Shirley Muldowney
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
1982
as Marcia Miller
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
1980
as Aleta
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
1980
as Mandy Burke
A group of tourists on a "once-in-a-lifetime" European vacation try to rekindle their romances with themselves.

Walking Through the Fire
1979
as Dr. Rand
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
1978
as Joan Saltzman
A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.

The Big Fix
1978
as Suzanne
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!
1974
as Laura Taylor
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
1973
as Janet Thatcher
A confused teenager discovers a stack of tapes recorded years earlier by her dying mother.

Between Friends
1973
as Ellie
An ex-con, his daughter and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in Northern Ontario.

A Time For Love
1973
as Kitty
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
1972
as Jenna Hampshire
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
1972
as Rosalie
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
1972
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
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
1970
as Susan Henderson
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?
1969
as Ruby Bates
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
1969
as Annie Burke
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.

Then Came Bronson
1969
as Temple Brooks
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
1958
as Clara
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
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
The danger of date rape is illustrated. Starring Chad Lowe, Dana Barron, Lori Loughlin, James Marshall and Bonnie Bedelia.