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Bess Armstrong

Highest Rated: 81% Diamond Men (2000)

Lowest Rated: 0% Second Sight (1989)

Birthday: Dec 11, 1953

Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Fresh-faced, all-American performer with strong stage experience. Armstrong was sympathetic as the new wife whose presence disrupts the harmony of a close-knit group of friends in Alan Alda's "middle ages" comedy, "The Four Seasons" (1981). She also appeared in the hit TV miniseries "Lace" (1984) as Judy Hale, a magazine publisher and one of the three women Phoebe Cates rounds up in her quest for her mother. Armstrong's film work of the same period includes a starring role in the flat "Jaws 3-D" (1983), playing Tom Hanks' ex-girlfriend in the comedy "Nothing in Common" (1986) and Elaine in "Dream Lover" (1994).

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Highest rated movies

81% 58% Diamond Men
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76% 75% The Four Seasons
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58% 40% Nothing in Common
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57% 39% Dream Lover
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52% 64% Pecker
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13% 24% That Darn Cat
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11% 17% Jaws III
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0% 30% Second Sight
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73% Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
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18% Corporate Affairs
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 56% Love and Sunshine Margo Terry (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Diagnosis Delicious Lynn Cosworth (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Always a Bride Elaine (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Next of Kin Susan (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 18% Corporate Affairs Emily Parker (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 30% Her Best Friend's Husband Mandy Roberts (Character) - 2002
81% 58% Diamond Men Katie Harnish (Character) - 2000
52% 64% Pecker Dr. Klompus (Character) $2.3M 1998
No Score Yet 91% Forever Love Alex Brooks (Character) - 1998
13% 24% That Darn Cat Mrs. Judy Randall (Patti's Mom) (Character) $18.3M 1997
No Score Yet 44% She Cried No Denise Connell (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Forgotten Sins Roberta 'Bobbie' Bradshaw (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 36% Christmas Every Day Molly Jackson (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Perfect Daughter Jill Michaelson (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 43% Stolen Innocence Becky Sapp (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal Barbara Pope (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 54% Mixed Blessings Pilar Graham Coleman (Character) - 1995
57% 39% Dream Lover Elaine (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 50% Take Me Home Again Connie (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 52% The Skateboard Kid Maggie (Character) - 1993
0% 30% Second Sight Sister Elizabeth (Character) $5.3M 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mother, Mother Kate (Character) - 1989
58% 40% Nothing in Common Donna Mildred Martin (Character) $32.0M 1986
No Score Yet 90% Lace Judy Hale (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet The House of God Cissy Anderson (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet This Girl for Hire B.T. Brady (Character) - 1983
11% 17% Jaws III Kathryn Morgan (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 64% High Road to China Eve (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 73% Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again Mary Carew (Character) - 1982
76% 75% The Four Seasons Ginny Newley (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet 11th Victim Jill Kelso (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Walking Through the Fire Laurel Lee (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet How to Pick Up Girls! Sally Claybrook (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Getting Married Kristine Lawrence (Character) - 1978

TV

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No Score Yet 66% S.W.A.T. Mayor Barrett (Guest Star) 2018-2019
No Score Yet 76% The Arrangement Iris Holloway (Guest Star) 2018
20% No Score Yet Conviction Harper Morrison (Guest Star) 2016
88% 92% Longmire Nancy Crandall (Guest Star) 2016
82% 64% Zoo Unknown (Guest Star) 2015-2016
14% 82% Damien Mrs. Thorn (Guest Star) 2016
No Score Yet 82% Switched at Birth Professor Marillo (Guest Star) 2015
38% 87% Reckless Unknown (Guest Star) 2014
78% 60% Drop Dead Diva Rita Kaswell (Guest Star) 2014
No Score Yet 84% NCIS U.S. Sen. Denise O'Hara (Guest Star) 2014
68% 71% Rake Helen Cole (Guest Star) 2014
No Score Yet 84% House of Lies Julianne Hotschragar (Guest Star) 2014
94% 96% Mad Men Catherine Orcutt (Guest Star) 2012
No Score Yet 81% CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Unknown (Guest Star) 2012
No Score Yet 68% One Tree Hill Unknown (Guest Star) 2004 2010
No Score Yet 83% Criminal Minds Unknown (Guest Star) 2009
86% 90% Boston Legal Penelope Kimball (Guest Star) 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures Unknown (Voice) 2008
95% 95% Frasier Kelly Kirkland (Guest Star) 2000 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Good Morning, Miami Unknown (Guest Star) 2002
32% No Score Yet That Was Then Mickey Glass (Character) 2002
No Score Yet 73% The Nanny Unknown (Character) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Touched by an Angel Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
94% 91% My So-Called Life Patty Chase (Character) 1994-1995
82% 90% Tales From the Crypt Unknown (Character) 1992
33% No Score Yet Married People Elizabeth Meyers (Character) 1990-1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet All Is Forgiven Paula Russell (Character) 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lace Judy Hale (Character) 1984