Kathleen Quinlan

Kathleen Quinlan

1954-11-19 Pasadena, California, USA 82 Credits

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Kathleen Denise Quinlan Abbott (born November 19, 1954) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1977 film of the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and her Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated role in the 1995 film Apollo 13, along with many roles in other feature films, television movies and series, in a career spanning almost five decades. She made her feature film debut in Mel Stuart's One Is a Lonely Number (...

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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2

2024

7.6
Acting

Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning 15 years before, during, and followi...

Walking with Herb

Walking with Herb

2021

as Sheila Amable-Amo

6.7
Acting

Joe Amable-Amo is a bank executive and former amateur golfer struggling with his faith after an unexpected tragedy. Faced with growing doubts about hi...

The Stairs

The Stairs

2021

as Grandma Bernice

3.9
Acting

In 1997, 11-year-old Jesse finds a mysterious staircase in the woods and disappears - - 20 years later, a group of hikers sets off into the very same ...

The Devil Has a Name

The Devil Has a Name

2019

as Nancy

5.3
Acting

An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.

Saving My Baby

Saving My Baby

2019

as Virginia

7.4
Acting

After she's run off the road, an expectant mother barely survives a harrowing crash. When she awakens days later, she discovers that her baby has been...

Parallel

Parallel

2018

as Marissa

6.0
Acting

A group of friends stumble upon a mirror that serves as a portal to a "multiverse", but soon discover that importing knowledge from the other side in ...

Chimera Strain

Chimera Strain

2018

as Masterson

4.1
Acting

A brilliant but disturbed scientist freezes his children alive, while he races to cure their deadly genetic disease by decoding the DNA of the immorta...

Elizabeth Blue

Elizabeth Blue

2017

as Carol

5.0
Acting

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, is coping with ongoing episodes of schizophrenia.

ADDicted

ADDicted

2017

as Kate Dawson

6.5
Acting

Classes. Football. Finals. A bad break up. An over-bearing mom. Like many college kids, what helps Drew Dawson stay balanced is Adderall, a prescripti...

How Not to Propose

How Not to Propose

2015

as Susan

5.2
Acting

Travis plans the perfect romantic getaway to propose to longtime love Lena. As the carefully orchestrated weekend comically fails to go as planned, Tr...

After

After

2014

as Nora Valentino

4.8
Acting

A haunting and powerful psychological thriller. Set in icy upstate New York in the winter of 2002, "After" is about the Valentinos, a middle class cla...

Horns

Horns

2013

as Lydia Perrish

6.3
Acting

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

Life's an Itch

Life's an Itch

2012

as Audrey

2.0
Acting

A married man reaches the point where he questions everything: career, creativity and even his marriage. Hilarious complications and temptations arise...

Eagles in the Chicken Coop

2011

as Mary Bernstein

2.0
Acting

Two artists are forced to make a formulaic, late-night, made for TV "skin flick."

Cinema Verite

Cinema Verite

2011

as Mary Every

5.7
Acting

In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small sc...

Elektra Luxx

Elektra Luxx

2011

as Rebecca Linbrook

4.7
Acting

A favor for a woman from her past throws the life of a pregnant, retired porn star into chaos.

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

2010

as (archive footage)

6.4
Acting

The team of smart-talkin' toddlers known as Everything Is Terrible! have once again emerged from their VHS cocoons to conjure a jam on culture so cult...

The River Why

The River Why

2010

as Ma

5.3
Acting

A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own way in the fishing world and thereby find himself and...

Prison Break: The Final Break

Prison Break: The Final Break

2009

as Christina Rose Scofield

7.5
Acting

Prison Break: The Movie. Michael and Sara wed, but the happiness is short-lived when the Feds apprehend her for the murder of Michael's mother, Christ...

The Dissection of Thanksgiving

The Dissection of Thanksgiving

2008

as Carol

Acting

Buffalo, NY. The day before Thanksgiving. Cliff and Carol Morgan take their three grown children out to dinner to tell them that, after thirty years, ...

Made of Honor

Made of Honor

2008

as Joan

6.5
Acting

Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is start...

Harm's Way

Harm's Way

2008

as Bea

5.1
Acting

Darlene and her daughter Victoria seek refuge at a remote rural safe house for abused women that's run by the strict and tough, but folksy and support...

Breach

Breach

2007

as Bonnie Hanssen

6.6
Acting

Eric O'Neill, a low-level surveillance expert with the FBI, believes he is accomplishing his dream of becoming a full-fledged agent, with his unexpect...

Humble Pie

Humble Pie

2007

as Agnes Orbison

6.4
Acting

At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy Orbison is a wide target. When he sets out to pursue his dream of acting, the grocery clerk finds an assortment of people ...

The Hills Have Eyes

The Hills Have Eyes

2006

as Ethel

6.4
Acting

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the trave...

The Dead Will Tell

The Dead Will Tell

2004

as Beth Hytner

4.9
Acting

Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.

El padrino: The Latin Godfather

El padrino: The Latin Godfather

2004

as Judge Scorsi

7.0
Acting

In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns...

The Riverman

The Riverman

2004

as Sande Keppel

5.4
Acting

A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining insight into the Green River Killer who is terrorizing...

Perfect Romance

Perfect Romance

2004

as Tess Kelley

5.7
Acting

When Tess Kelley realizes her daughter Jenny Kelley still isn't over her divorce from musician Rick Meadows, the irresponsible, ever-absent father of ...

Blessings

Blessings

2003

as Meredith Blessing

6.0
Acting

Released from jail after a term basically served instead of friends he refused to rat out, Charles 'Skip' Cuddy is grateful his gentleman instinct get...

Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina

Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina

2003

6.0
Acting

Beginning with William Wrigley's acquisition of the Santa Catalina Island Company in 1919, the history of the island is explored with archival footage...

The Battle of Shaker Heights

The Battle of Shaker Heights

2003

as Eve

5.6
Acting

A quirky teen with a penchant for war reenactments, Kelly Ernswiler obsesses over military tactics with his buddy Bart. The school bully is one of Kel...

A Civil Action

A Civil Action

1998

as Anne Anderson

6.5
Acting

Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obses...

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

1998

as Self

7.8
Acting

Documentary that features many interviews and other footage of the cast and crew for the film American Graffiti (1973)

My Giant

My Giant

1998

as Serena Kamin

5.2
Acting

Sammy, an agitated agent lost in the forest of the modern world, happens upon a gentle giant with a tall talent for friendship named Max.

Lawn Dogs

Lawn Dogs

1997

as CLare

7.1
Acting

In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to climb...

Event Horizon

Event Horizon

1997

as Peters

6.6
Acting

In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its...

The Doors: The Road of Excess

1997

as Self

Acting

Interviews with friends of the late Jim Morrison and several people involved with the making of the film The Doors (1991) by Oliver Stone, delving int...

Breakdown

Breakdown

1997

as Amy Taylor

6.9
Acting

On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after their SUV breaks down. Stranded in the New Mexico de...

Zeus & Roxanne

Zeus & Roxanne

1997

as Mary Beth Dunhill

5.2
Acting

Mary Beth is a marine biologist that gets annoyed when a dog called Zeus stows aboard her research boat. Nevertheless she is intrigued when the intrus...

Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13

Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13

1996

as Self

5.8
Acting

The making of the motion picture "Apollo 13", as well as the story of the space mission it details. Featuring interviews with director Ron Howard, ast...

In the Lake of the Woods

In the Lake of the Woods

1996

as Kathy Waylan

4.8
Acting

John Waylan is a candidate for U.S. senator; near the end of the campaign he is accused of ordering and participating in a massacre in a Vietnamese vi...

Lightning

Lightning

1995

as Hooker

2.0
Acting

Against the backdrop of California’s 19th century Gold Rush, Brian Keith plays a lucky digger in a story of greed and equine smarts.

Perfect Alibi

Perfect Alibi

1995

as Melanie Bauers

3.5
Acting

Melanie is married to Keith Bauers, she has two beautiful children and she is rich. She decides to engage a girl au pair, Janine, who arrives from Fra...

Apollo 13

Apollo 13

1995

as Marilyn Lovell

7.5
Acting

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with th...

Trial by Jury

Trial by Jury

1994

as Wanda

5.4
Acting

Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.

Last Light

Last Light

1993

as Kathy Rubicek

6.0
Acting

Kiefer Sutherland plays Denver Bayliss, a condemned murderer who has killed three people, including a prison guard. He was brought into the system as ...

Stolen Babies

Stolen Babies

1993

as Bekka

4.3
Acting

A 1940s Tennesee welfare worker learns that Georgia Tann, the charismatic head of a local adoption agency, is actually running a black-market baby rin...

An American Story

An American Story

1992

as Hope Tyler

5.8
Acting

World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at ...

Strays

Strays

1991

as Lindsey Jarrett

6.7
Acting

A young married couple and their daughter are terrorized by a pride of ferocious feral felines.

The Doors

The Doors

1991

as Patricia Kennealy

7.1
Acting

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

The Operation

The Operation

1990

as Ginnie

3.0
Acting

Duplicity reigns supreme as a doctor in a messy, emotional divorce from his wife, who is also his partner in a medical clinic, is suddenly slapped wit...

Trapped

Trapped

1989

as Mary Ann Marshall

6.2
Acting

Kathleen Quinlan is a woman working late in her locked high-rise office building who, along with Bruce Abbott, struggles to elude an intruder trying t...

Clara's Heart

Clara's Heart

1988

as Leona Hart

5.5
Acting

David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's ...

Sunset

Sunset

1988

as Nancy Shoemaker

5.6
Acting

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

The Man Outside

The Man Outside

1987

as Grace Freemont

Acting

A lawyer, running away from his past, becomes a recluse in the Alabama woods and becomes the primary suspect in the abduction of a local boy.

Dreams Lost, Dreams Found

Dreams Lost, Dreams Found

1987

as Sarah McAllister

3.5
Acting

A young American widow is mysteriously drawn to a historic castle in the Scottish Highlands and finds herself at the center of a 200-year old ghost st...

Wild Thing

Wild Thing

1987

as Jane

5.6
Acting

A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of t...

Children of the Night

Children of the Night

1985

as Lois Lee

6.0
Acting

A sociology graduate student researches her doctoral thesis on female crime by interviewing street prostitutes. Shocked by her findings, she offers he...

Warning Sign

Warning Sign

1985

as Joanie Morse

6.0
Acting

An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.

Blackout

Blackout

1985

as Chris Graham

5.4
Acting

A police officer suspects that a local husband and father, who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident, i...

When She Says No

When She Says No

1984

as Rose Michaels

Acting

After divorced college professor Rose Michaels invites three of her male colleagues to her room during a teacher's convention, she later accuses them ...

The Last Winter

The Last Winter

1984

as Joyce

4.0
Acting

Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them wh...

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Twilight Zone: The Movie

1983

as Helen Foley

6.5
Acting

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 ...

Independence Day

Independence Day

1983

as Mary Ann Taylor

5.5
Acting

Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but...

Hanky Panky

Hanky Panky

1982

as Janet Dunn

5.3
Acting

Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later m...

She's in the Army Now

She's in the Army Now

1981

as Pvt. Cass Donner

4.7
Acting

Akin to Private Benjamin, this comedy deals with the tough life of female army recruits going through basic training. Through their training they come...

Sunday Lovers

Sunday Lovers

1980

as Laurie (segment "Skippy")

6.0
Acting

A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Met...

The Runner Stumbles

The Runner Stumbles

1979

as Sister Rita

6.8
Acting

Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 drama also features Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Staple...

The Promise

The Promise

1979

as Nancy McAllister / Marie Adamson

6.0
Acting

A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.

Nightmare in Blood

Nightmare in Blood

1978

5.2
Acting

Attendees at a horror-film convention in San Francisco keep disappearing. It turns out that the guest of honor is a real vampire, and his henchmen are...

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

1977

as Deborah Blake

6.0
Acting

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

Airport '77

Airport '77

1977

as Julie

5.6
Acting

Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletio...

Little Ladies of the Night

Little Ladies of the Night

1977

as Karen Brodwick

3.3
Acting

The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has te...

Lifeguard

Lifeguard

1976

as Wendy

6.2
Acting

Rick is a Los Angeles County lifeguard who is in his thirties. At his 15-year high school reunion, he sees his old girlfriend who is now a divorced mo...

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

1975

as Edith Evans

Acting

The son of a small-town doctor returns to his hometown after being kicked out of Yale, and begins a new career on the town's newspaper.

The Abduction of Saint Anne

The Abduction of Saint Anne

1975

as Anne Benedict

6.0
Acting

A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the ...

The Missing Are Deadly

The Missing Are Deadly

1975

5.0
Acting

An emotionally disturbed teenager whose father is a research scientist takes a rat from his father's laboratory that is infected with an incurable vir...

Where Have All the People Gone

Where Have All the People Gone

1974

as Deborah Anders

6.0
Acting

A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Anim...

Lucas Tanner

Lucas Tanner

1974

as Joyce Howell

Acting

A high school teacher's career is threatened because of a student's death when the rumor is spread that his negligence killed the boy. This pilot film...

Can Ellen Be Saved?

Can Ellen Be Saved?

1974

as Melissa

3.8
Acting

A young girl in search of spiritual enlightenment joins a religious cult, and becomes the focus of a struggle between her family and the group.

American Graffiti

American Graffiti

1973

as Peg

7.0
Acting

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.