Holland Taylor
Age: N/A | From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Holland Virginia Taylor , ホランド・テイラー
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 36
TV Involvements: 13
Most Famous Work
Biography
Holland Virginia Taylor (born January 14, 1943) is an American actress. She won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on ABC's The Practice (1998–2003). For her portrayal of Evelyn Harper on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men (2003–15), she received a total of four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Taylor's other notable television credits include starring roles on the sitcoms Bosom Buddies (1980–82), The Powers That Be (1992–93) and The Naked Truth (1995–98). She also appeared as Jill Ollinger on the soap opera All My Children (1981–83), as Peggy Peabody on The L Word (2004–08), and as Ida Silver on Mr. Mercedes (2017–19). In 2020, she received critical praise and her eighth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for portraying Ellen Kincaid in the Netflix miniseries Hollywood. Taylor's feature film credits include Romancing the Stone (1984) and its sequel (1985), Alice (1990), To Die For (1995), One Fine Day (1996), George of the Jungle (1997), The Truman Show (1998), Happy Accidents (2000), Keeping the Faith (2000), Legally Blonde (2001), The Wedding Date (2005), Baby Mama (2008), Gloria Bell (2018), Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), and The Stand In (2020). Taylor wrote and starred in the one-woman play, Ann, based on the life and work of Ann Richards. For this, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Holland Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Diagnosis: Murder
(1993) Agent Gretchen McCord
ER
(1994) Phyllis Farr
The Practice
(1997) Judge Roberta Kittleson
The Morning Show
(2019) Cybil Richards
Murder, She Wrote
(1984) Winifred Thayer
The L Word
(2004) Peggy Peabody
Mr. Mercedes
(2017) Ida Silver
Kojak
(1973) ElizabethActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Francine | |
| 2021 | Self | |
| Joan Hambling | ||
| Goldie (voice) | ||
| 2020 | Barbara Cox | |
| The Great Leader | ||
| Ellen Kincaid | ||
| Stormy | ||
| 2019 | Faye (uncredited) | |
| Cybil Richards | ||
| Hillary Bell | ||
| 2018 | Ann Richards | |
| 2017 | Jeannie Mercer | |
| Ida Silver | ||
| 2016 | Truman's Moher | |
| Voice Actor (voice) | ||
| 2015 | Self | |
| 2014 | Self | |
| 2011 | Principal Garfield (voice) | |
| 2010 | Ruth | |
| 2008 | Rose | |
| 2007 | Prudence (voice) | |
| 2005 | Mrs. Dawson (voice) | |
| Bunny | ||
| 2004 | Mrs. Petrie | |
| Peggy Peabody | ||
| 2003 | Evelyn Harper | |
| Grandmother | ||
| Self | ||
| 2002 | Mrs. Cornwall (voice) | |
| Grandmother | ||
| Peggy Davenport | ||
| Dr. Hollander | ||
| Madeline Collins | ||
| Prudence (voice) | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2001 | Nancy Reagan | |
| Professor Stromwell | ||
| Mistress of Ceremonies | ||
| Marge Crowley (segment "Room Service") | ||
| 2000 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Evelyn McGinnis | ||
| Bonnie Rose | ||
| Katherine Horner | ||
| Emma | ||
| Therapist | ||
| 1999 | N/A | |
| Muriel | ||
| 1998 | Celia (uncredited) | |
| Queen Myrrha (voice) | ||
| Piper Castleton | ||
| Angela Montclair / Alanis Montclair | ||
| Alanis Montclair | ||
| 1997 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Beatrice Stanhope | ||
| Self | ||
| Judge Roberta Kittleson | ||
| Emma Jeffreys | ||
| Crystal Ball | ||
| 1996 | Rita | |
| 1995 | Davis Mora Axelrod | |
| Mrs. Rubens | ||
| Mona Rowland-Downey | ||
| Carol Stone | ||
| Camilla Dane | ||
| Janice | ||
| Dr. Joyce Lindley | ||
| Aunt Flo | ||
| 1994 | Phyllis Farr | |
| Maggie Sand | ||
| Wallace Everett | ||
| Florence Newsom | ||
| Mary Shelton | ||
| 1993 | Agent Gretchen McCord | |
| N/A | ||
| Dean Susan McMann | ||
| Lois Baxter | ||
| Captain Rubio | ||
| 1992 | Margaret Powers | |
| 1991 | Dr. Greenway | |
| 1990 | Helen | |
| N/A | ||
| Dolly | ||
| 1988 | Sarah Briggs | |
| 1987 | Ernestine King | |
| N/A | ||
| Fran Grogan | ||
| Fran Grogan | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1985 | Paula Gordon | |
| Mrs. Fanshaw | ||
| Gloria | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1984 | Winifred Thayer | |
| Gloria | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1982 | Dottie Birmingham | |
| Frances Shand Kydd | ||
| 1981 | Felicia Martin | |
| 1980 | Ruth Dunbar | |
| Claudia van Doren (uncredited) | ||
| 1979 | Beverly Trencher | |
| Beverly Trencher | ||
| 1977 | N/A | |
| 1976 | TV Interviewer | |
| 1975 | N/A | |
| 1973 | Elizabeth | |
| 1972 | Felicia Martin | |
| 1971 | Ernestine King | |
| 1969 | Mrs. Arnold | |
| 1956 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
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| 2018 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Crew
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