2025
The Gettysburg Address as Elizabeth Crawford (voice)
2024
The Uninvited as Helen
2022
Mack & Rita as Betty
2021
The French Dispatch as Upshur 'Maw' Clampette
2021
Gossip Girl as Iris Lefferts (1 episode)
2021
Law & Order: Organized Crime as Doris 'Mama' Boone (3 episodes)
2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Harper Pitt
2020
Tesla as The Grande Dame
2019
On Becoming a God in Central Florida as Mimi Waldenstock (2 episodes)
2018
Impulse as Deirdre 'Dippy' Jones (1 episode)
2017
9JKL as Wrong Nana (1 episode)
2017
Lady Bird as Sister Sarah Joan
2017
Marjorie Prime as Marjorie
2016
The Comedian as Miriam
2016
The Nice Guys as Mrs. Glenn
2015
Sneaky Pete as Reverend Ethel Landry (2 episodes)
2015
Grace and Frankie as Mrs. Hanson (2 episodes)
2015
Younger as Belinda Lacroix (1 episode)
2015
Run All Night as Margaret Conlon
2013
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night as The Youngest Daughter (later)
2013
The Blacklist as Lucy Game (1 episode)
2013
Mom as Claire (1 episode)
2013
Ray Donovan as Dolores (2 episodes)
2013
The Americans as Betty Turner (1 episode)
2012
Ruth & Erica as Ruth (7 episodes)
2012
The Odd Life of Timothy Green as Aunt Mel
2010
Please Give as Mrs. Portman
2009
A Dog Year as Lois Blair
2008
True Blood as Adele Stackhouse (14 episodes)
2008
Turn the River as Abby
2006
Griffin & Phoenix as Dr. Imberman
2006
Hollywoodland as Helen Bessolo
2006
Little Fugitive as Elizabeth
2006
Little Fugitive as Social Worker
2005
Sweet Land as Inge (as an older woman)
2005
James Dean: Sense Memories as Self
2005
Grey's Anatomy as Mrs. Dickerson (1 episode)
2004
P.S. as Ellie Silverstein
2004
Desperate Housewives as Allison Scavo (2 episodes)
2004
LAX as Rose Sinclair (1 episode)
2004
Iron Jawed Angels as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
2004
The Best Thief in the World as Helen
2003
Cold Case as Fannie (1 episode)
2003
Red Betsy as Helen Rounds
2002
Minority Report as Dr. Iris Hineman [The Greenhouse]
2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Betty Bennett (1 episode)
2001
Powder Keg as Mother
2001
The Hire as Mother (1 episode)
2001
The Pledge as Helen Jackson
1999
Tumbleweeds as Ginger
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Rebecca Tolliver (1 episode)
1998
A Will of their Own as Miss Maude (2 episodes)
1998
The Eternal as Mrs. Ferriter
1997
The Practice (1 episode)
1997
Just Shoot Me! as Libby (1 episode)
1996
Larger Than Life as Luluna
1995
Dead Man Walking as Helen's Mother
1995
How to Make an American Quilt as Sophia
1995
Truman as Madge Wallace Gates
1994
Touched by an Angel as Mildred Mancini (1 episode)
1994
ER as Gracie (4 episodes)
1994
Holy Matrimony as Orna
1993
Frasier as Moira (1 episode)
1993
Falling Down as D-Fens' Mother
1993
Skylark as Lou Wheaton
1992
The Donner Party as voice
1992
Keep the Change as Lureen
1992
Hard Promises as Mrs. Bell
1991
Fried Green Tomatoes as Mama Threadgoode
1991
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd as Alice Todd
1991
Switched at Birth as Margaret
1991
The Grapes of Wrath as Ma Joad
1991
Coney Island as (voice)
1991
Good Sports (1 episode)
1990
Green Card as Brontë's Mother
1990
Law & Order as Eunice Varick (1 episode)
1988
Hello Actors Studio as Self
1988
American Experience as (voice) (2 episodes)
1988
Midnight Run as Mrs. Nelson
1987
thirtysomething (1 episode)
1987
Fatal Attraction as Martha
1985
The Execution of Raymond Graham as Mary Neal
1985
Spenser: For Hire (1 episode)
1985
The Equalizer as Dorothy Hermes (1 episode)
1985
The Equalizer as Marie Ganucci (1 episode)
1985
Twisted as Helen Giles
1984
Reckless as Mrs. Prescott
1983
Reuben, Reuben as Mare Spofford
1983
Rage of Angels as Clara (2 episodes)
1981
Four Friends as Mrs. Carnahan
1981
The House of Mirth as Bertha Dorset
1980
Resurrection as Kathy
1980
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall as Cornelia
1979
Tales of the Unexpected as Sara (1 episode)
1976
Next Stop, Greenwich Village as Anita Cunningham
1972
Up the Sandbox as Elinore
1970
Five Easy Pieces as Partita Dupea
1970
The Way We Live Now as Jane Aldridge
1970
Somerset as Zoe Cannell (283 episodes)
1970
Dragon Country as Woman (segment "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen")
1967
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night as Evelyn
1966
CBS Playhouse (1 episode)
1961
Dr. Kildare as Libby Clayton (1 episode)
1961
The Defenders as Esther Terranova (1 episode)
1960
Route 66 (2 episodes)
1960
Route 66 as Dana (1 episode)
1960
Route 66 as Lucy Brown (1 episode)
1960
The Master Builder as Hilda
1959
Startime (1 episode)
1958
Naked City as Dawn Garrison (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Nominee (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Nominee/Performer (1 episode)
1955
Matinee Theater (2 episodes)
1955
Strange Lady in Town as Spurs O'Brien
1955
East of Eden as Anne
1953
The United States Steel Hour as Jeannie (1 episode)
1953
Letter to Loretta as Jenny Musgrave (1 episode)
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents (1 episode)
1948
Studio One as Lisa Molloy (1 episode)
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show as Self - Actor - Scene from Edwin Booth (1 episode)