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Nora Dunn

Highest Rated: 100% Passion Fish (1992)

Lowest Rated: 10% What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)

Birthday: Apr 29, 1952

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

This pretty, sharp-featured actress made a niche for herself playing funny, smart-mouthed character roles on TV and the big screen. A Chicago native, Dunn studied to be an artist before moving to California. By 1981, she was working as a stand-up comic. Dunn joined her hometown's Roxy cabaret in 1983 and moved East when she was cast in "Saturday Night Live" (NBC) in 1985. Her five year stint on the venerable sketch comedy show was relatively uneventful with her only memorable characters being obtuse talk show host Pat Stevens and one-half of the Vegas-style Sweeney Sisters act. In 1990, Dunn left the show shortly after boycotting an episode hosted by controversial comic Andrew Dice Clay.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 82% Passion Fish
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94% 77% Three Kings
Watchlist 90% 77% Together Together Watchlist 86% 50% The Hater Watchlist
85% 62% Miami Blues
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83% 67% Working Girl
Watchlist 76% 68% Bulworth Watchlist
73% 75% Runaway Jury
Watchlist 68% 73% Pineapple Express Watchlist
65% 73% Die Mommie Die!
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Nora Dunn Nora Dunn Bones, Nora Dunn (L), Emily Deschanel (R), 'The Dude in the Dam', Season 9, Ep. #8, 11/11/2013, ©FOX Bones, Loren Lester (L), Nora Dunn (C), Emily Deschanel (R), 'The Dude in the Dam', Season 9, Ep. #8, 11/11/2013, ©FOX Mulaney, John Mulaney (L), Nora Dunn (R), 'In the Name of the Mother, and the Son and the Holy Andre', Season 1, Ep. #5, 11/09/2014, ©FOX MIAMI BLUES, Fred Ward, Nora Dunn, 1990. ©Orion Pictures BRUCE ALMIGHTY, Nora Dunn, Jim Carrey, 2003, (c) Universal Psych, James Roday (L), Nora Dunn (C), Dulé Hill (R), 'In Plain Fright', Season 5, Ep. #11, 11/17/2010, ©USA New Girl, Max Greenfield (L), Nora Dunn (R), 'The Right Thing', Season 4, Ep. #19, 03/31/2015, ©FOX New Girl, Nora Dunn, 'The Right Thing', Season 4, Ep. #19, 03/31/2015, ©FOX View more photos

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The Hater 86% 50% 2021 Genie Actor Together Together 90% 77% 2021 Adele Actor The Lost Husband 57% 61% 2020 Jean Actor Boy Genius 2019 Selma Ally Actor Canal Street 92% 2018 Marge Sudermill Actor The Oath 63% 40% 2018 Eleanor Actor A Light Beneath Their Feet 66% 2015 Dr. Krolly Actor Entourage 33% 57% 2015 Dr. Deanne Emily Marcus Actor The Guilt Trip 36% 39% 2012 Amy Actor 3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom 45% 41% 2012 Karen Actor LOL 14% 50% 2012 Emily's Mother Actor My Suicide 57% 81% 2009 Gretchen Williams Actor It's Complicated 58% 60% 2009 Sally Actor The Answer Man 32% 42% 2009 Terry Fraser Actor Pineapple Express 68% 73% 2008 Shannon Actor Certifiably Jonathan 25% 49% 2007 Herself/Medium Actor Southland Tales 41% 41% 2006 Cyndi Pinziki Actor The Darwin Awards 25% 45% 2006 Mrs. Pearlman Actor National Lampoon's Pucked 30% 2006 Leona Actor The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio 59% 74% 2005 Girl Group Member Actor The Civilization of Maxwell Bright 69% 2005 Actor Love for Rent 77% 2005 Helen Bauman Actor See Arnold Run 25% 2005 Arianna Huffington Actor Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution 2005 Gloria Allred Actor November 32% 41% 2004 Dr. Fayn Actor
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