Piper Laurie
Highest Rated: 94% The Hustler (1961)
Lowest Rated: 9% Dream a Little Dream (1989)
Birthday: Jan 22, 1932
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA
One of the most celebrated and formidable actresses of the last half-century, Piper Laurie was an Emmy winner and Oscar nominee who gave full-blooded performances as flawed, often ferocious women in "The Hustler" (1961), "Carrie" (1976) and "The Bunker" (NBC, 1981). A contract with Universal in 1950 forced her to play ingénue roles, but she balked at the typecasting and headed to New York to learn her craft; upon her return, she netted an Oscar nomination as Paul Newman's bitter lover in "The Hustler." Over the course of an on-again, off-again career, she garnered a reputation as an uncompromising performer willing to tackle unglamorous roles, like her religious fanatic in "Carrie," or eccentric ones, like the vengeful Catherine Martell in David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" (ABC, 1990-91). Nominated numerous times for both Oscars and Emmys, Laurie continued to impress and amaze audiences into her seventh decade with performances in "Hounddog" (2007) and "Hesher" (2010), which served as potent reminders of her legacy as one of Hollywood's most accomplished and unique talents.
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Piper Laurie
Filmography
Movies
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57% |
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White Boy Rick | Grandma Verna Wershe (Character) | $24.0M | 2018 |
75% |
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Snapshots | Rose Muller (Character) | - | 2018 |
55% |
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Hesher | Madeleine Forney (Character) | $382.9K | 2010 |
14% |
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Saving Grace B. Jones | Marta (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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Another Harvest Moon | June (Character) | - | 2009 |
15% |
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Hounddog | Granny (Character) | $128.1K | 2007 |
76% |
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The Dead Girl | Arden's mother (Character) | $17.3K | 2006 |
35% |
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Eulogy | Grandma Collins (Character) | $70.5K | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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The Last Brickmaker in America | Ruth Anne (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Midwives | Cheryl Visco (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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Possessed | Aunt Hanna (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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Palmer's Pick-Up: An American Roadshow Odyssey | Evangelist (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Inherit the Wind | Sarah Brady (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mao Game | Ida Highland (Character) | - | 1999 |
58% |
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The Faculty | Mrs. Karen Olson (Character) | $40.1M | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Alone | Lillie Dawson (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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A Christmas Memory | Jennie (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | St. Patrick's Day | MaryPat Donnelly-McDonough (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the Blink of an Eye | Kay Trafero (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Road to Galveston | Wanda Kirkman (Character) | - | 1996 |
50% |
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The Grass Harp | Dolly Talbo (Character) | $511.6K | 1995 |
76% |
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The Crossing Guard | Helen Booth (Character) | $771.7K | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Fighting for My Daughter | Judge Edna Burton (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Shadows of Desire | Ellis Snow (Character) | - | 1994 |
50% |
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Trauma | Adriana Petrescu (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lies and Lullabies | Margaret Kinsey (Character) | - | 1993 |
59% |
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Wrestling Ernest Hemingway | Georgia (Character) | $62.6K | 1993 |
67% |
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Storyville | Constance Fowler (Character) | $352.5K | 1992 |
69% |
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Rich in Love | Vera Delmage (Character) | $2.0M | 1992 |
31% |
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Other People's Money | Bea Sullivan (Character) | $24.2M | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Rising Son | Martha Robinson (Character) | - | 1990 |
9% |
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Dream a Little Dream | Gena Ettinger (Character) | $5.0M | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mother, Mother | Martha (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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Tiger Warsaw | Frances Warsaw (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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Appointment With Death | Emily Boynton (Character) | $603.6K | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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Go Toward the Light | Margo (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Distortions | Margot Caldwell (Character) | - | 1987 |
81% |
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Children of a Lesser God | Mrs. Norman (Character) | $26.8M | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
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Promise | Annie Gilbert (Character) | - | 1986 |
58% |
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Return to Oz | Aunt Em (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love, Mary | Christine Groda (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Toughlove | Darlene Marsh (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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Mae West | Matilda West (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet |
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The Bunker | Magda Goebbels (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Skag | Jo Skagska (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Tim | Mary Horton (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rainbow | Ethel Gumm (Character) | - | 1978 |
57% |
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Ruby | Ruby Claire (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan | Julie Quinlan (Character) | - | 1977 |
93% |
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Carrie | Margaret White (Character) | - | 1976 |
94% |
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The Hustler | Sarah Packard (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Days of Wine and Roses | Kirsten Arnesen Clay (Character) | - | 1958 |
67% |
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Until They Sail | Delia Leslie Friskett (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kelly and Me | Mina Van Runkel (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ain't Misbehavin' | Sarah Bernhardt Hatfield (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Smoke Signal | Laura Evans (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Dawn at Socorro | Rannah Hayes (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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Dangerous Mission | Louise Graham (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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Johnny Dark | Liz Fielding (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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The Golden Blade | Khairuzan (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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The Mississippi Gambler | Angelique "Leia" Dureau (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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Son of Ali Baba |
Princess Azura of Fez/ |
- | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Room for the Groom | Lee Kingshead (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal? | Millicent Blaisdell (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Francis Goes to the Races | Frances Travers (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Milkman | Chris Abbott (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Prince Who Was a Thief | Tina (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Louisa | Cathy Norton (Character) | - | 1950 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 71% | MacGyver | Edith (Guest Star) | 2018 |
94% | 83% | Twin Peaks: The Return | Catherine Martell (archive footage) (Guest Star) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
78% | 83% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Dorothy Rudd (Guest Star) | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 88% | Will & Grace | Sharon (Guest Star) | 2000 |
95% | 94% | Frasier |
Mrs. Mulhern (Guest Voice), Marianne (Guest Star) |
1994 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brother's Keeper | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dean Koontz's Intensity | Unknown (Character) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Diagnosis Murder | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Sarah Ross (Guest Star) | 1995-1996 |
78% | 92% | Twin Peaks | Mr. Tojamura (Character) | 1990-1991 |
No Score Yet | 86% | Beauty and the Beast | Mrs. Davis (Guest Star) | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Peggy Shannon (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | St. Elsewhere | Fran Singleton (Guest Star) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thorn Birds | Anne Mueller (Character) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Kathleen Dooley (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1961 |