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Holland Taylor
Highest Rated: 94% The Truman Show (1998)
Lowest Rated: 11% Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002)
Birthday: Jan 14, 1943
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
After an impressive start on the Broadway stage in the 1960s and 1970s, actress Holland Taylor made a mark for herself in film and on television as memorable spitfires who were often authoritative professionals possessing a brazen attitude and bawdy wit. Her big breakout came with just such a characterization on the historic TV favorite, "Bosom Buddies" (ABC, 1980-82). With her patrician air, dry quips and impeccable comic timing, Taylor brought a delightful old Hollywood sensibility to her best-known roles as a tabloid editor on "The Naked Truth" (ABC, 1995-96; NBC, 1996-98), an unpredictable judge on "The Practice" (ABC, 1997-2004), and an entertainingly awful mother in "Two and Half Men" (CBS, 2003-2015). The Emmy-winning actress only gathered more force with age, becoming a favorite choice for big and small screen projects that called for a "woman to be reckoned with."
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80% | 81% | Quiz Lady | Unknown (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 29% | 19% | The Stand In | Barbara Cox (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 82% | 65% | Bill & Ted Face the Music | The Great Leader (Character) | $3.4M | 2020 |
| 77% | 40% | To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You | Stormy (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 91% | 47% | Gloria Bell | Hillary (Character) | $5.6M | 2018 |
| 56% | 78% | Kepler's Dream | Violet von Stern (Character) | $2.8K | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Electric City | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | The Chosen One | Unknown (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Chosen One | Ruth (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | So You Want Michael Madsen? | Unknown (Character) | - | 2008 |
| 63% | 55% | Baby Mama | Rose (Character) | $60.3M | 2008 |
| 75% | 61% | Cinderella III: A Twist in Time | Prudence (Voice) | - | 2007 |
| 11% | 67% | The Wedding Date | Bunny Ellis (Character) | $31.6M | 2005 |
| 42% | 56% | D.E.B.S. | Mrs. Petrie (Character) | $96.8K | 2004 |
| 55% | 78% | Home Room | Dr. Hollander (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 45% | 25% | Spy Kids 3: Game Over | Grandma Cortez (Character) | $111.8M | 2003 |
| 75% | 39% | Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams | Grandmother (Character) | $85.6M | 2002 |
| 11% | 32% | Cinderella II: Dreams Come True | Prudence (Voice) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | Strange Frequency | Marge Crowley (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 60% | 72% | The Day Reagan Was Shot | Nancy Reagan (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 71% | 72% | Legally Blonde | Professor Stromwell (Character) | $96.5M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Deadly Look of Love | Evelyn McGinnis (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 70% | 75% | Happy Accidents | Therapist (Character) | $688.5K | 2000 |
| 69% | 59% | Keeping the Faith | Bonnie Rose (Character) | $37.0M | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | The Spiral Staircase | Emma Warren (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | My Last Love | Marnie Morton (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | Mail to the Chief | Katherine Horner (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 94% | 89% | The Truman Show | Truman's Mother (Character) | $125.6M | 1998 |
| 74% | 74% | Next Stop Wonderland | Piper Castleton (Character) | $3.4M | 1998 |
| 55% | 42% | George of the Jungle | Beatrice Stanhope (Character) | $105.3M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Betty | Crystal Ball (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 53% | 66% | One Fine Day | Rita (Character) | $46.1M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester | Janice (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Walton Wedding | Aunt Flo (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 89% | 65% | To Die For | Carol Stone (Character) | $20.5M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Awake to Danger | Dr. Joyce Lindley (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Betrayal of Trust | Mary Shelton (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 27% | 21% | The Favor | Maggie Sand (Character) | $2.6M | 1994 |
| 13% | 34% | Cop and a Half | Captain Rubio (Character) | $30.1M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | With Hostile Intent | Lois Baxter (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rape of Dr. Willis | Dr. Greenway (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 71% | 57% | Alice | Helen (Character) | $6.8M | 1990 |
| 44% | 52% | She's Having a Baby | Sarah Briggs (Character) | $14.4M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Perry Mason Returns | Paula Gordon (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 46% | 37% | The Jewel of the Nile | Gloria (Character) | $65.5M | 1985 |
| 86% | 69% | Romancing the Stone | Gloria (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Power, Passion & Murder | Ernestine King (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Was a Mail Order Bride | Dottie Birmington (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 13% | 15% | The Next Man | TV Interviewer (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | J.T. | Mrs. Arnold (Character) | - | 1969 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2021 |
| 86% | 78% | The Chair | Professor Joan Hambling (Character) | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Great Performances |
Unknown (Character), Writer |
2020 |
| 59% | 75% | Hollywood | Ellen Kincaid (Character) | 2020 |
| 91% | 75% | Mr. Mercedes | Ida Silver (Character) | 2017-2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Larry King Now | Guest | 2018 |
| 78% | 91% | Good Behavior | Alice (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 79% | Speechless | Andrea (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 75% | 89% | The Orville | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 9% | The View | Guest | 2016 |
| 65% | 66% | Two and a Half Men |
Evelyn Harper (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2003-2014 |
| No Score Yet | 91% | American Dad! | Mrs. Dawson (Guest Voice) | 2007 |
| 91% | 88% | Monk | Peggy Davenport (Guest Star) | 2005 2007 |
| 57% | 75% | The L Word | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004-2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Judge Roberta Kittleson (Guest Star) | 1998-2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baby Bob | Madeline (Character) | 2002-2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Living Edens | Narrator | 2001 |
| 36% | No Score Yet | The Fighting Fitzgeralds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lot | Unknown (Character) | 1999 2001 |
| 23% | No Score Yet | DAG | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Phyllis Farr (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| 92% | No Score Yet | Buddy Faro | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| 64% | No Score Yet | The Naked Truth | Camilla Dane (Character) | 1995-1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Veronica's Closet | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| 88% | No Score Yet | Michael Hayes | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Something So Right | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Diagnosis Murder | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994-1995 |
| 9% | 88% | Saved by the Bell: The College Years | Dean Susan McMann (Character) | 1993-1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bitter Blood | Unknown (Character) | 1994 |
| 63% | No Score Yet | The Powers That Be | Unknown (Character) | 1992-1993 |
| 0% | No Score Yet | Going Places | Dawn St. Claire (Character) | 1990-1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wiseguy |
Allison Royce / |
1990 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | Murder, She Wrote | Winifred Thayer (Guest Star) | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kate & Allie | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
| 80% | 60% | Bosom Buddies | Ruth Dunbar (Character) | 1980-1982 |