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Ann Dowd

Highest Rated: 100% The Friend (2024)

Lowest Rated: 14% Collateral Beauty (2016)

Birthday: Jan 30, 1956

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Birthplace: Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA

A prolific character actress from the mid-1980s into the 21st century, Ann Dowd worked steadily if largely anonymously in television and features like "Philadelphia" (1993), "Garden State" (2004) and "Flags of Our Fathers" (2006) before breaking out with a stellar supporting turn in the grueling indie feature "Compliance" (2012). She began her career in Chicago theater, netting several awards for her stage work before moving into television and features in 1985. Dowd worked her way up from bit roles to supporting turns, often as mothers with varying degrees of warmth, before winning critical accolades as a fast food restaurant manager who appeared to blindly acquiesce to an unseen caller's cruel demands upon her workers in "Compliance." The performance vaulted Dowd to national attention, and signaled what seemed to most as the beginning of a new phase in her career.

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Highest rated movies

100% The Friend
Watchlist
95% 91% Mass Watchlist 93% 76% Wildlike Watchlist 93% 64% Cowboys Watchlist 90% 71% Hereditary Watchlist
89% 60% Compliance
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88% 76% The Drop
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88% 82% American Animals Watchlist
87% 71% All Over Me
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86% 88% Garden State Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
100% No Score Yet The Friend Unknown (Character) - 2024
22% 58% The Exorcist: Believer Unknown (Character) $65.5M 2023
35% 68% The Independent Patricia Turnbull (Character) - 2022
75% 85% Family Squares Judith (Character) - 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes Mrs. Garrett (Character) - 2021
95% 91% Mass Linda (Character) $145.0K 2021
93% 64% Cowboys Faith (Character) - 2020
37% 38% Rebecca Mrs. Van Hopper (Character) - 2020
77% 45% Speed of Life June (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Without Grace Unknown (Character) - 2018
59% 34% Tyrel Silvia (Character) $18.2K 2018
90% 71% Hereditary Joan (Character) $44.1M 2018
86% 54% Nancy Betty (Character) $80.1K 2018
88% 82% American Animals Betty Jean Gooch (Character) $2.9M 2018
52% 46% A Kid Like Jake Catherine (Character) $44.8K 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hedgehog Joan (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet 76% The Great & The Small Dupre (Character) - 2016
14% 64% Collateral Beauty Sally Price (Character) $31.0M 2016
82% 85% Captain Fantastic Abigail (Character) $5.9M 2016
36% 34% Our Brand Is Crisis Nell (Character) $7.0M 2015
93% 76% Wildlike Jeanie (Character) - 2014
50% 31% Big Driver Ramona Norvell (Character) - 2014
77% 78% St. Vincent Shirley (Character) $44.1M 2014
88% 76% The Drop Dottie (Character) $10.7M 2014
27% 63% Gimme Shelter Kathy (Character) $1.4M 2014
82% 70% Side Effects Martin's Mother (Character) $32.2M 2013
85% 53% The Discoverers Patti (Character) $36.0K 2012
89% 60% Compliance Sandra (Character) $311.9K 2012
64% 75% Marley & Me Dr. Platt (Character) $143.2M 2008
40% 48% Familiar Strangers Dottie Worthington (Character) $30.3K 2008
No Score Yet 33% Gardener of Eden Ma Harris (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet 80% Goodbye Baby Terri (Character) - 2007
47% 71% The Living Wake Librarian (Character) $12.1K 2007
35% 30% The Babysitters Tammy Lyner (Character) - 2007
41% 72% Saving Shiloh Louise (Character) - 2006
45% 51% The Thing About My Folks Linda (Character) $814.7K 2005
86% 88% Garden State Olivia (Character) $26.8M 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lucy Dede (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet 45% Amy and Isabelle Lenora (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet 69% Baby Ms. Minifred (Character) - 2000
70% 62% Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season Louise Preston (Character) $40.4K 1999
54% 56% Apt Pupil Monica Bowden (Character) $8.8M 1998
73% 64% Shiloh Mrs. Preston (Character) $1.0M 1997
87% 71% All Over Me Anne (Character) $286.0K 1996
18% 38% Bushwhacked Mrs. Patterson (Character) $6.9M 1995
No Score Yet 36% Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long Rose Long (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Cosby Mysteries Unknown (Character) - 1994

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 90% American Dad! Deborah (Voice) 2023
83% 57% The Handmaid's Tale Aunt Lydia (Character) 2017-2019 2021-2022
No Score Yet 42% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guest 2021-2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ellen DeGeneres Show Guest 2021
100% No Score Yet Lambs of God Sister Margarita (Character) 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen Guest 2018
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2018
No Score Yet 50% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2018
78% 91% Good Behavior Agent Lashever (Guest Star) 2017
91% 90% The Leftovers Patti Levin (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star)
2014-2015 2017
89% 75% Girls Phaedra (Guest Star) 2017
94% 96% Olive Kitteridge Bonnie (Character) 2014
84% 85% Masters of Sex Unknown (Guest Star) 2013-2014
79% 58% True Detective Unknown (Guest Star) 2014
70% 72% Pan Am Marjorie Lowery (Guest Star) 2011
93% 95% Louie Nun (Guest Star) 2010
90% 96% House Mother Superior (Guest Star) 2004
No Score Yet 72% Law & Order: Criminal Intent Unknown (Guest Star) 2004
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 1994 1996 2003
78% 83% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Sally Wilkens (Guest Star) 2001 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Touched by an Angel Unknown (Guest Star) 2003
79% No Score Yet The Education of Max Bickford Unknown (Guest Star) 2001-2002
100% 96% Freaks and Geeks Cookie Kelly (Guest Star) 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Family Law Unknown (Guest Star) 2000
83% 95% NYPD Blue Ann Collins (Guest Star) 2000
74% 85% The X-Files Mrs. Reed (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Judging Amy Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Providence Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
71% No Score Yet Nothing Sacred Sister Maureen (Character) 1997-1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet North and South Maureen (Character) 1994