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Louise Lasser

Highest Rated: 88% Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)

Lowest Rated: 0% Gold Diggers (2003)

Birthday: Apr 11, 1939

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

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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Highest rated movies

88% 69% Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)
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86% 67% Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You Watchlist
85% 89% Happiness
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83% 74% Bananas
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78% 93% Requiem for a Dream Watchlist
73% 57% Blood Rage
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67% 50% Sudden Manhattan
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60% 58% Frankenhooker
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60% 57% Mystery Men Watchlist
57% 47% Crimewave
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Filmography

Movies

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86% 67% Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You Self $70.1K 2016
0% 21% Gold Diggers Doris Mundt (Character) $403.2K 2003
No Score Yet 32% 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% 93% Requiem for a Dream Ada (Character) $3.6M 2000
47% 75% Fast Food, Fast Women Emily (Character) $193.5K 2000
60% 57% Mystery Men Violet, The Blue Raja's Mom (Character) $29.8M 1999
85% 89% Happiness Mona Jordan (Character) $3.0M 1998
67% 50% Sudden Manhattan Dominga (Character) $2.7K 1996
No Score Yet 50% Layin' Low Mrs. Muckler (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 56% Modern Love Greg's Mom (Character) $37.7K 1990
60% 58% Frankenhooker Jeffrey's Mother (Character) - 1990
43% 88% Sing Rosie (Character) $2.1M 1989
19% 47% Rude Awakening Ronnie Summers (Character) $2.4M 1989
73% 57% Blood Rage Maddy (Character) - 1987
22% 34% Surrender Joyce (Character) $5.4M 1987
No Score Yet 35% Nightmare at Shadow Woods Maddy (Character) - 1987
57% 47% Crimewave Helene Trend (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet For Ladies Only Beth Doyle (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet 50% In God We Trust Mary (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Just Me and You Jane Alofsin (Character) - 1978
57% 56% 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% 69% Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) Gina (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 33% Such Good Friends Marcy Berns (Character) - 1971
83% 74% Bananas Nancy (Character) - 1971

TV

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89% 76% 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 71% 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