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Alison La Placa

Highest Rated: 0% Madhouse (1990)

Lowest Rated: 0% Madhouse (1990)

Birthday: Dec 16, 1959

Birthplace: New Jersey, USA

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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Highest rated movies

0% 44% Madhouse
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53% Voyage of the Rock Aliens
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity
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89% Listen to Your Heart
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In the Nick of Time
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Filmography

Movies

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No Score Yet No Score Yet In the Nick of Time Susan Rosewell (Character) - 1991
0% 44% Madhouse Claudia (Character) $20.3M 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Murder: By Reason of Insanity Janet Landry (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 53% Voyage of the Rock Aliens Diane (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet 89% 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