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Deborah Rush

Highest Rated: 93% Women Who Kill (2016)

Lowest Rated: 14% Reckless (1995)

Birthday: Apr 10, 1954

Birthplace: Chatham, New Jersey, USA

A veteran stage actress, Deborah Rush has also worked extensively in film and television. During the early 1980s, she appeared in minor roles in Woody Allen's fantasy comedies "Zelig" and "The Purple Rose of Cairo," and had a supporting part in Nora Ephron's mobster comedy "My Blue Heaven." Fans of TV comedies will likely recognize Rush as Sara Blank, the bitter stepmother of Amy Sedaris' lead character in the oddball series "Strangers with Candy." Rush reprised the role for the show's 2005 movie, and was subsequently featured in another dark comedy, "The Good Girl." In 2010, she joined the cast of the sitcom "Big Lake," but the series was quickly cancelled.

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Highest rated movies

93% 51% Women Who Kill Watchlist
93% 88% The Purple Rose of Cairo
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91% 82% Half Nelson
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82% 59% The Good Girl
Watchlist 77% 70% Julie & Julia Watchlist
74% 52% In & Out
Watchlist 71% 59% My Blue Heaven Watchlist 69% 41% Ava's Possessions Watchlist
64% 54% Parents
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53% 63% American Wedding
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Deborah Rush

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Filmography

Movies

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No Score Yet 9% Accommodations Victoria Maason (Character) - 2018
93% 51% Women Who Kill Grace (Character) - 2016
69% 41% Ava's Possessions Joanna (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rhymes With Banana Jane (Character) - 2012
42% 24% The Box Clymene Steward (Character) $15.0M 2009
77% 70% Julie & Julia Avis De Voto (Character) $94.1M 2009
91% 82% Half Nelson Jo (Character) $2.7M 2006
52% 55% Strangers With Candy Sara Blank (Character) $2.1M 2005
53% 63% American Wedding Mary (Character) $104.4M 2003
82% 59% The Good Girl Gwen Jackson (Character) $14.0M 2002
No Score Yet 58% Earthly Possessions Heidi Anderson (Character) - 1999
29% 48% Three to Tango Lenore (Character) $10.5M 1999
74% 52% In & Out Ava Blazer (Character) $63.9M 1997
14% 50% Reckless Trish (Character) $103.4K 1995
71% 59% My Blue Heaven Linda (Character) $22.8M 1990
35% 28% Family Business Michele Dempsey (Character) $11.1M 1989
64% 54% Parents Mrs. Zellner (Character) $464.2K 1989
52% 69% Big Business Binky Shelton (Character) $39.6M 1988
93% 88% The Purple Rose of Cairo Rita (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 30% A Night in Heaven Patsy (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 56% Honky Tonk Freeway Sister Mary Magdalene (Character) - 1981

TV

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91% 79% The Blacklist Stella Bisset (Guest Star) 2019
90% 82% Orange Is the New Black Unknown (Guest Star) 2013-2015
89% 75% Girls Thomas-John's Mother (Guest Star) 2013
93% 90% The Good Wife Judge Sally Rigby (Guest Star) 2012
45% No Score Yet Madigan Men Unknown (Guest Star) 2000
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 1997
68% No Score Yet Spin City Unknown (Guest Star) 1996-1997
25% No Score Yet The Client Unknown (Guest Star) 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet North and South Isabel Hazard (Guest Star) 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Spenser: For Hire Unknown (Character) 1985