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Martha Plimpton

Television Actress / Film Actress / Stage Actress / Model (person) | * 11/16/1970 (53) | New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
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Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American actress, activist, and former model. Her feature-film debut was in Rollover (1981); she subsequently rose to prominence in the Richard Donner film The Goonies (1985). She has also appeared in The Mosquito Coast (1986), Shy People (1987), Running on Empty (1988), Parenthood (1989), Samantha (1992), Small Town Murder Songs (2011), Frozen II (2019), and Mass (2021). She is recognized on Broadway for her roles in The Coast of Utopia (2006–2007), Shinin... ()
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Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American singer, stage and screen actress, best known for playing the lead role of Virginia Chance on the television sitcom "Raising Hope", and for guest starring as Patti Nyholm in the CBS legal drama "The Good Wife".

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

Known for these Movies & Shows

Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determinat ...

The Mosquito Coast

PG

1986 | 3.2/5 | 1h 59min
Adventure, Drama
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A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run of ...

The Goonies

PG

1985 | 3.8/5 | 1h 54min
Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
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During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dream ...

Beautiful Girls

R

1996 | 3.3/5 | 1h 52min
Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
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The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign ...

Running on Empty

PG-13

1988 | 3.8/5 | 1h 56min
Drama, Crime, Romance / Love
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Awards & Nominations for Martha Plimpton

Primetime Emmy Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series 2x Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
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Movies with Martha Plimpton as Actress(47)

as Gail2021 Mass
as Amy2020 Pitch Black Panacea
as Yelena (voice)2019 Frozen II
as Louise2018 Honey Bee
as Ruth2017 Hello Again
as Sarah2011 Company
as Sam2010 Small Town Murder Songs
as Helen Craig2010 Remember Me
as Gwen2008 Marvelous
as Celia / Lobbyist Singer / Lizzie Borden (voice)2007 Dante's Inferno
as Miss Crumbles (voice)2004 Hair High
as herself2002 Searching for Debra Winger
as Rebecca2001 The Sleepy Time Gal
as Monica1999 200 Cigarettes
as Tina1998 Pecker
as Mary Jane Preston1998 The Defenders: Choice of Evils
as MJ Preston1998 The Defenders: Taking the First
as Karen Swan1998 Music from Another Room
as herself1998 Independent's Day
as herself1997 Who Is Henry Jaglom?
as Ann1997 Colin Fitz
as Ainsley DuPree1997 Eye of God
as M.J. Preston1997 The Defenders: Payback
as Stevie1996 I Shot Andy Warhol
as Laurie Campbell1996 I'm Not Rappaport
as Jan1996 Beautiful Girls
as Chloe Garfield1995 Last Summer in the Hamptons
as Jane Grant1994 Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
as Earlene Pomerleau1994 The Beans of Egypt, Maine
as herself1994 My Life's in Turnaround
as Laurie1993 Daybreak
as Alison (The Liberty Maid)1993 Josh and S.A.M.
as Ann1993 Chantilly Lace
as Samantha1992 Samantha
as Sofie1992 Inside Monkey Zetterland
as Helene1991 A Woman at War
as Kelly King1990 Stanley & Iris
as Julie Buckman-Lampkin Higgins1989 Parenthood
as Claudia Jacoby1989 Silence Like Glass
as Bryant1988 Stars & Bars
as Laura1988 Another Woman
as Lorna Phillips1988 Running on Empty
as Grace1987 Shy People
as Emily Spellgood1986 The Mosquito Coast
as Stephanie "Stef" Steinbrenner1985 The Goonies
as Jonesy1984 The River Rat
as Fewster's Older Daughter1981 Rollover

TV Shows/Series with Martha Plimpton as Actress(29)

2024 The Regime
as Mint Ma Lord2023 A Town Called Malice
as Barb2022 Sprung
as Intake Officer K. Faraday2022 The Man Who Fell to Earth
as Megan2021 Genera+ion
as herself2020 Reunited Apart
as Clara2019 Flack
as Shelley2017 The Guest Book
as Shirley2017 Brockmire
as Eileen O'Neal2016 The Real O'Neals
as Olivia (voice)2015 Minecraft: Story Mode
as Cheryl Sussman2015 Younger
as Dr. Sharon Fulton2013 The Blacklist
as Virginia Chance2010 Raising Hope
2010 How to Make It in America
as Patti Nyholm2009 The Good Wife
as Sheriff Ann Mathis2008 Fringe
as Mr. Big2005 Surface
as Pam Michaelson2005 Grey's Anatomy
as Rosemary Widdick2005 Medium
as herself2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2003 Karen Sisco
as Louise O'Connor2002 Hack
as Jo Gage2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Claire Rinato1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Stephanie (voice)1999 Family Guy
as Venus1996 7th Heaven
as Meg Corwin1994 ER
as Jessie Blake1982 Family Ties

Movies with Martha Plimpton as Crew(2)

Crew/Thanks2013 Sparrows Dance
Production/Co-Producer2004 Hair High

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Full Name: Martha Plimpton
Born: Monday, 11/16 1970 (November) in New York City, New York (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 53 years + 161 days)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Educated at: Professional Children's School
Siblings: Sorel Carradine
Stepparent: Hayley DuMond
Other names for Martha Plimpton (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Martha Campbell Plimpton"
"Martha Carradine"
"Martha Campbell Carradine"
Martha Plimpton frequently works together with these people:
Rachael MacFarlane (63x, Actress)
Kevin Michael Richardson (52x, Actor)
John Viener (38x, Actor)
Ralph Garman (32x, Actor)
Alec Sulkin (31x, Actor)
Phil LaMarr (30x, Actor)
Alexandra Breckenridge (29x, Actress)
Steve Callaghan (29x, Actor)
Danny Smith (29x, Actor)
Mae Whitman (23x, Actress)
Gary Cole (23x, Actor)
Henry Jaglom (6x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:103883, Added: 06/23/2018, Last updated: 04/17/2024