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Louise Lasser
A dizzy comic presence in films and television in the early 1970s, actress Louise Lasser came to fame in "Take the Money and Run" (1969) and other early films by her then-husband Woody Allen before achieving stardom as a bewildered housewife on Norman Lear's controversial "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" (syndicated, 1976-77). Lasser's distracted, slightly anesthetized persona was perfect as the frazzled Mary, but the pressures of television soon drove her to abandon the series. When she rebounded in the 1980s, an older Lasser segued into a string of neurotic matriarch roles, the best of which was as Ben Gazzara's damaged wife in Todd Solondz's "Happiness." Though she never resumed the heights of her popularity in the 1970s, Lasser remained one of Hollywood's most eclectic personas.
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Louise Lasser
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86% |
|
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You | Self | $70.1K | 2016 |
| 0% |
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Gold Diggers | Doris Mundt (Character) | $403.2K | 2003 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Wolves of Wall Street | Landlady (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Queenie in Love | Unknown (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Club Land | Frieda Barber (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 78% |
|
Requiem for a Dream | Ada (Character) | $3.6M | 2000 |
| 47% |
|
Fast Food, Fast Women | Emily (Character) | $193.5K | 2000 |
| 60% |
|
Mystery Men | Violet, The Blue Raja's Mom (Character) | $29.8M | 1999 |
| 85% |
|
Happiness | Mona Jordan (Character) | $3.0M | 1998 |
| 67% |
|
Sudden Manhattan | Dominga (Character) | $2.7K | 1996 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Layin' Low | Mrs. Muckler (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet |
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Modern Love | Greg's Mom (Character) | $37.7K | 1990 |
| 60% |
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Frankenhooker | Jeffrey's Mother (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 43% |
|
Sing | Rosie (Character) | $2.1M | 1989 |
| 19% |
|
Rude Awakening | Ronnie Summers (Character) | $2.4M | 1989 |
| 73% |
|
Blood Rage | Maddy (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 22% |
|
Surrender | Joyce (Character) | $5.4M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet |
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Nightmare at Shadow Woods | Maddy (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 57% |
|
Crimewave | Helene Trend (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | For Ladies Only | Beth Doyle (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet |
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In God We Trust | Mary (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Just Me and You | Jane Alofsin (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 57% |
|
Slither | Mary Fenaka (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Coffee, Tea or Me | Susan Edmonds (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Isn't It Shocking? | Blanche (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 88% |
|
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) | Gina (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet |
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Such Good Friends | Marcy Berns (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 83% |
|
Bananas | Nancy (Character) | - | 1971 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89% | 75% | Girls | Beadie (Guest Star) | 2014-2015 |
| 20% | No Score Yet | Reunited | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laverne & Shirley | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Taxi | Phyllis Bornstein Consuelos (Guest Star) | 1980 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | It's a Living | Maggie McBurney (Character) | 1981-1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Forever Fernwood | Mary Hartman (Character) | 1976-1977 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McCloud | Sgt. Maggie Philbin (Guest Star) | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Story | Elaine Kaplan (Character) | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Anne Adams (Guest Star) | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bob Newhart Show | Mrs. Radford (Guest Star) | 1972 |