Alison La Placa
With comic timing and pliability most actors crave, brunette Alison LaPlaca seemingly bounced from sitcom to sitcom for more than a decade. While not all the series in which she appeared were successful, she was adored by the critics and audiences. LaPlaca's first TV work came soon after she moved to Hollywood, with a bit in the TV-movie "Listen to Your Heart" (CBS, 1983) followed by the role of assistant to "Suzanne Pleshette is Maggie Briggs" (CBS, 1984), a quick flop. In 1986, LaPlaca was cast as the astringent hyper-yuppie, Linda Phillips in the Fox sitcom "Duet." When the show was canceled, the network resurrected some of the characters in "Open House," with LaPlaca's real estate-selling Linda the first one cast. Yet, the show flopped again, and in 1991, LaPlaca found herself in "Stat," an ABC sitcom set at a trauma center. A year later, she was cast as Tom Arnold's assistant on the short-lived ABC sitcom "The Jackie Thomas Show." When Arnold tried a second sitcom, "Tom" (CBS, 1993), he brought along LaPlaca to play his wife, but that also failed. LaPlaca seemed to have found a secure job, as Catherine Merrick, nurse, neighbor, and on-again, off-again love interest to John Larroquette in "The John Larroquette Show" (NBC, 1994-96), but she left the series after only two seasons.
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Alison La Placa
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the Nick of Time | Susan Rosewell (Character) | - | 1991 |
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Madhouse | Claudia (Character) | $20.3M | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder: By Reason of Insanity | Janet Landry (Character) | - | 1985 |
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Voyage of the Rock Aliens | Diane (Character) | - | 1984 |
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Listen to Your Heart | Lynn (Character) | - | 1983 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 83% | Mom | Louanne (Guest Star) | 2014 |
67% | 64% | Up All Night | Gail Reinhold (Guest Star) | 2012 |
21% | No Score Yet | Man Up! | Carroll (Guest Star) | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 75% | 'Til Death | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 75% | Without a Trace | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 86% | Lie to Me | Diane Ktretschmer (Guest Star) | 2009 |
86% | 90% | Boston Legal | Andrea Michele (Guest Star) | 2008 |
84% | 72% | Grey's Anatomy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2007 |
68% | 71% | The O.C. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2007 |
72% | 89% | Desperate Housewives | Rita Patterson (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Female Lawyer (Guest Star) | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 90% | Malcolm in the Middle | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
78% | 93% | Friends | Joanna (Guest Star) | 1997 |
67% | No Score Yet | Temporarily Yours | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The John Larroquette Show | Catherine Merrick (Character) | 1995-1996 |
43% | No Score Yet | Tom | Dorothy Graham (Character) | 1994 |
78% | No Score Yet | The Jackie Thomas Show | Laura Miller (Character) | 1992-1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Open House | Linda Phillips (Character) | 1989-1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Duet | Linda Phillips (Character) | 1987-1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fame | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
87% | 95% | Cheers | Paula Nelson (Guest Star) | 1985 |