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Eileen Brennan

Actress / Television Actress / Film Actress / Stage Actress | * 09/03/1932 († 80, 07/28/2013) | Los Angeles, California (United States of America (USA))
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Eileen Brennan (born Verla Eileen Regina Brennen; September 3, 1932 – July 28, 2013) was an American actress. She made her film debut in the satire Divorce American Style (1967), followed by a supporting role in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971), which earned her a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She gained further critical acclaim for her role as Captain Doreen Lewis in Private Benjamin, earning an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised the role in the television adaptation, winning both a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award. Brennan starred opposite Peter Falk in two Neil Simon-penned murder mystery spoofs: Murder by Death (1976) and The Cheap Detective (1978). She also appeared in the ensemble cast of the mystery-comedy Clue... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Drama | TV Movies

Known for these Movies & Shows

Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, th ...

Clue

PG

1985 | 3.6/5 | 1h 34min
Comedy, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
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Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more p ...

Murder by Death

PG

1976 | 3.6/5 | 1h 34min
Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected. ...

Private Benjamin

R

1980 | 3.0/5 | 1h 49min
Comedy
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A brother and sister driving home through an isolated countryside from college encounter a flesh-eating creature in the midst of its ritualistic eating spree. ...

Jeepers Creepers

R

2001 | 3.2/5 | 1h 30min
Horror, Thriller
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Awards & Nominations for Eileen Brennan

Theatre World Award Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress
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Movies with Eileen Brennan as Actress(68)

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2022 Who Done It: The Clue Documentary
as Gram Malone2011 Naked Run
as Mrs. Cherkiss2006 The Amateurs
as Carol Fields2005 Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
as herself2005 The Art of 'The Sting'
as Joan Van Etten2004 The Hollow
as Minnie Hitchcock2003 Dumb Luck
as Mrs. Cresswell2002 Comic Book Villains
as The Cat Lady2001 Jeepers Creepers
as Pamela 'Mimi' Applegate1999 The Last Great Ride
as Mother Superior1997 Changing Habits
as Joe #11997 Toothless
as Mrs. Randozza1997 Boys Life 2
as Tessie1996 If These Walls Could Talk
as Sister Margaret1995 Reckless
as Principal Handel1995 Freaky Friday
as Clara1995 Trail of Tears
as Who-Villain1994 In Search of Dr. Seuss
as Barbara Mannix1994 My Name Is Kate
as Mrs. Randazzo1994 Nunzio's Second Cousin
as Sada1994 The Lies Boys Tell
as Rose (voice)1993 Recycle Rex
as Minnie1993 Precious Victims
as Vicky Martin1992 Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story
as Frieda1992 I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore
as Charlotte1991 Deadly Intentions... Again?
as herself1991 Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
as Judy1990 White Palace
as Mrs. Wilkerson1990 Stella
as Genevieve Morgan1990 Texasville
as Judith1989 It Had to Be You
as Miss Bannister1988 The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
as Stella1988 Sticky Fingers
as Maude1988 Going to the Chapel
as Hotel Desk Clerk1987 Rented Lips
as Sylvia1987 Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife
1986 The History of White People in America: Volume II
as Mrs. Piper / Widow Hubbard1986 Babes in Toyland
as Mrs. Peacock1985 Clue
as Amanda Jackson (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")1985 Answers
as Judith1985 The Fourth Wise Man
as Gail Corbin1983 The Funny Farm
as Candy's Mom1982 Pandemonium
as Millworker1982 Working
as Jessy1981 When the Circus Came to Town
as Sara Davis1981 Incident at Crestridge
as Capt. Doreen Lewis1980 Private Benjamin
as Marie1979 My Old Man
as Mary Jensen1979 When She Was Bad...
as Betty DeBoop1978 The Cheap Detective
as Penelope1978 The Great Smokey Roadblock
as Mother1978 FM
as Carol Werner1977 The Death of Richie
as Tess Skeffington1976 Murder by Death
as Elizabeth1975 At Long Last Love
as Mrs. Lindholm Sr.1975 My Father's House
as Delafield's Mistress1975 Knuckle
as Paula Hollinger1975 Hustle
as Ann Muldoon1975 The Night That Panicked America
as Baba Goya1974 Nourish the Beast
as Mrs. Walker1974 Daisy Miller
as Glenda1973 The Blue Knight
as Billie1973 The Sting
as Darlene1973 Scarecrow
as Amy1972 Playmates
as Genevieve1971 The Last Picture Show
as Eunice Tase1967 Divorce American Style
as Hallie1966 The Star Wagon

TV Shows/Series with Eileen Brennan as Actress(27)

as Marge2001 Lizzie McGuire
as Zandra1998 Will & Grace
as Mrs. Bink1996 7th Heaven
as Betty1994 ER
as Joelle1993 Walker, Texas Ranger
as Lilith DuPrave1993 Bonkers
as Inspector #101992 Mad About You
as Wanda1991 Home Improvement
1990 American Dreamer
1990 Gravedale High
1989 Tales from the Crypt
1987 thirtysomething
as Kate Halloran1985 Off the Rack
as Mrs. Annabelle Shrike1985 The Ray Bradbury Theater
as Loretta Lee1984 Murder, She Wrote
as Marian Simpson1984 Murder, She Wrote
1982 Newhart
as Doreen Lewis1981 Private Benjamin
1980 Magnum, P.I.
1979 A New Kind of Family
as Annie Gray1978 Black Beauty
1977 All That Glitters
1975 Doctors' Hospital
as Julie Loring1973 Kojak
as Angelique McCarthy1971 All in the Family
as herself1967 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as herself1962 The Merv Griffin Show

Movies with Eileen Brennan as Crew(1)

Crew/Additional Music2011 Miller's Tale

TV Shows/Series with Eileen Brennan as Crew(1)

Production/Producer1978 Taxi

Full Name: Eileen Brennan
Born: Saturday, 09/03 1932 (September) in Los Angeles, California (United States of America (USA))
Died: Sunday, 07/28 2013 (July) in Burbank (aged: 80)
Zodiac sign: Virgo (Chinese zodiac sign: Monkey)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Georgetown University
Other names for Eileen Brennan (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Verla Eileen Regina Brennen"
Eileen Brennan frequently works together with these people:
Peter Bogdanovich (13x, Actor)
Rosanna Huffman (9x, Actress)
Gregg Henry (9x, Actor)
Alan Fudge (9x, Actor)
Eugene Roche (9x, Actor)
William Lucking (9x, Actor)
Clyde Kusatsu (8x, Actor)
Martin Mull (8x, Actor)
Melanie Mayron (8x, Actress)
Stephen Macht (8x, Actor)
George DiCenzo (8x, Actor)
Allan Miller (8x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:12207, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 04/11/2024