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Ann Dowd
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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Ann Dowd
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | No Score Yet | The Friend | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
| 22% |
|
The Exorcist: Believer | Unknown (Character) | $65.5M | 2023 |
| 35% |
|
The Independent | Patricia Turnbull (Character) | - | 2022 |
| 75% |
|
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% |
|
Mass | Linda (Character) | $145.0K | 2021 |
| 93% |
|
Cowboys | Faith (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 37% |
|
Rebecca | Mrs. Van Hopper (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 83% |
|
Speed of Life | June (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Without Grace | Unknown (Character) | - | 2018 |
| 59% |
|
Tyrel | Silvia (Character) | $18.2K | 2018 |
| 90% |
|
Hereditary | Joan (Character) | $44.1M | 2018 |
| 86% |
|
Nancy | Betty (Character) | $80.1K | 2018 |
| 88% |
|
American Animals | Betty Jean Gooch (Character) | $2.9M | 2018 |
| 52% |
|
A Kid Like Jake | Catherine (Character) | $44.8K | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hedgehog | Joan (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Great & The Small | Dupre (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 14% |
|
Collateral Beauty | Sally Price (Character) | $31.0M | 2016 |
| 82% |
|
Captain Fantastic | Abigail (Character) | $5.9M | 2016 |
| 36% |
|
Our Brand Is Crisis | Nell (Character) | $7.0M | 2015 |
| 93% |
|
Wildlike | Jeanie (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 50% |
|
Big Driver | Ramona Norvell (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 77% |
|
St. Vincent | Shirley (Character) | $44.1M | 2014 |
| 88% |
|
The Drop | Dottie (Character) | $10.7M | 2014 |
| 27% |
|
Gimme Shelter | Kathy (Character) | $1.4M | 2014 |
| 82% |
|
Side Effects | Martin's Mother (Character) | $32.2M | 2013 |
| 85% |
|
The Discoverers | Patti (Character) | $36.0K | 2012 |
| 89% |
|
Compliance | Sandra (Character) | $311.9K | 2012 |
| 64% |
|
Marley & Me | Dr. Platt (Character) | $143.2M | 2008 |
| 40% |
|
Familiar Strangers | Dottie Worthington (Character) | $30.3K | 2008 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Gardener of Eden | Ma Harris (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Goodbye Baby | Terri (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 47% |
|
The Living Wake | Librarian (Character) | $12.1K | 2007 |
| 35% |
|
The Babysitters | Tammy Lyner (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 41% |
|
Saving Shiloh | Louise (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 44% |
|
The Thing About My Folks | Linda (Character) | $814.7K | 2005 |
| 86% |
|
Garden State | Olivia (Character) | $26.8M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lucy | Dede (Character) | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Amy and Isabelle | Lenora (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Baby | Ms. Minifred (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 70% |
|
Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season | Louise Preston (Character) | $40.4K | 1999 |
| 54% |
|
Apt Pupil | Monica Bowden (Character) | $8.8M | 1998 |
| 73% |
|
Shiloh | Mrs. Preston (Character) | $1.0M | 1997 |
| 87% |
|
All Over Me | Anne (Character) | $286.0K | 1996 |
| 18% |
|
Bushwhacked | Mrs. Patterson (Character) | $6.9M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet |
|
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% | 95% | Olive Kitteridge | Bonnie (Character) | 2014 |
| 84% | 85% | Masters of Sex | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013-2014 |
| 79% | 59% | True Detective | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| 70% | 72% | Pan Am | Marjorie Lowery (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| 93% | 95% | Louie | Nun (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| 90% | 95% | 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% | 86% | 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 |