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Marsha Mason
Highest Rated: 80% The Goodbye Girl (1977)
Lowest Rated: 11% Drop Dead Fred (1991)
Birthday: Apr 3, 1942
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Brunette leading lady Marsha Mason made her Broadway debut in "Cactus Flower" (1965) and soon after landed in her first feature film, the low-budget actioner "Hot Rod Hullabaloo" (1966). For the next several years, she appeared in stage productions on and off Broadway as well as played a recurring role on the daytime drama "Love of Life" (CBS). The early 1970s found her at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre, where she acted in such classics as "The Merchant of Venice," "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "A Doll's House" (all 1972) before coming into her own as a film actress in 1973. That watershed year saw her first as one of George Segal's girlfriends in "Blume in Love" and then opposite James Caan as a hooker with an illegitimate black son in the earthy but touching "Cinderella Liberty," for which she earned her first Best Actress Oscar nomination. She also returned to Broadway that year in Neil Simon's "The Good Doctor." Although the show was not successful, Mason won the playwright's heart and they married.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Across Grace Alley | Grandma (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 84% | The Long Shot | Mary Lou O'Brian (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | Bereft | Helen (Character) | - | 2004 |
| 64% | 70% | Bride & Prejudice | Mrs. Catherine Darcy (Character) | $6.6M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Dead Aviators | Lydia (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 60% | 54% | 2 Days in the Valley | Audrey Hopper (Character) | $11.1M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Broken Trust | Ruth (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 30% | 47% | Nick of Time | Gov. Eleanor Grant (Character) | $7.8M | 1995 |
| 22% | 33% | I Love Trouble | Senator Gayle Robbins (Character) | $30.8M | 1994 |
| 11% | 77% | Drop Dead Fred | Polly (Character) | $13.9M | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Image | Jean Cromwell (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 29% | 76% | Stella | Janice Morrison (Character) | $20.1M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Trapped in Silence | Jennifer Hubbell (Character) | - | 1986 |
| 68% | 74% | Heartbreak Ridge | Aggie (Character) | $41.0M | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Surviving | Lois (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 71% | 67% | Max Dugan Returns | Nora McPhee (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal | Lois Gibbs (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 63% | 74% | Only When I Laugh | Georgia (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Promises in the Dark | Dr. Alexandra Kendall (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 50% | 35% | Chapter Two | Jennie MacLaine (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Is Everybody Happy but Me? | Unknown (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 53% | 57% | The Cheap Detective | Georgia Merkle (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 57% | 43% | Audrey Rose | Janice Templeton (Character) | - | 1977 |
| 80% | 85% | The Goodbye Girl | Paula McFadden (Character) | - | 1977 |
| 70% | 53% | Blume in Love | Arlene (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 56% | 62% | Cinderella Liberty | Maggie Paul (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hot Rod Hullabaloo | Unknown (Character) | - | 1966 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90% | 87% | Grace and Frankie | Arlene (Guest Star) | 2016-2018 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | The Middle | Pat Spence (Guest Star) | 2010-2013 2015-2017 |
| No Score Yet | 79% | Madam Secretary | Dr. Kinsey Sherman (Guest Star) | 2015-2016 |
| 93% | 90% | The Good Wife | Judge Louisa Page (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Army Wives | Charlotte Meade (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 19% | No Score Yet | Lipstick Jungle | Lorraine Lipman (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 85% | No Score Yet | Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King | Unknown (Character) | 2006 |
| 79% | No Score Yet | The Education of Max Bickford | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| 95% | 94% | Frasier | Sherry Dempsey (Guest Star) | 1997-1998 |
| 50% | No Score Yet | Sibs | Nora Ruscio (Character) | 1991-1992 |
| 89% | 92% | Seinfeld | Jennie MacLaine (Guest Voice) | 1992 |