Margo Winkler

Acting

Born August 13, 1935, Los Angeles, California, USA

Margo Winkler is an American actress, who often played minor roles as receptionists, clerks or judges. She is known for her minor roles in several of Martin Scorsese's films which her husband Irwin Winkler produced. She is best known for her roles in Goodfellas (1990) as Belle Kessler and as the receptionist in The King of Comedy (1983) whom Robert De Niro's character approaches on numerous occasions. She is also known for her role as Barbara in Life as a House (2001). She made her screen debut in 1970 in Stuart Hagmann's The Strawberry Statement. In 1999 she appeared in her son Charles Winkler's picture Rocky Marciano, and her last appearance was in 2006 in her husband Irwin Winkler's Home of the Brave as a waiting room mother.

Filmography

• 2006Home of the Brave — Waiting Room Mother
• 2005Shackles — Judge
• 2001Life as a House — Barbara
• 1999At First Sight — Nancy Bender
• 1999Rocky Marciano — Airport Clerk
• 1995Red Ribbon Blues — Helen
• 1995The Net — Mrs. Raines
• 1992Night and the City — Judge Parker
• 1991Guilty by Suspicion — Leta Rosen
• 1990GoodFellas — Belle Kessler
• 1989Music Box — Irma Kiss
• 1987You Talkin' to Me? — Receptionist
• 1985After Hours — Woman With Gun
• 1982Author! Author! — Millie
• 1982The King of Comedy — Receptionist
• 1977New York, New York — Argumentative Woman
• 1975Peeper — Woman with Luggage
• 1974Busting — Mrs. Rizzo
• 1972Up the Sandbox — Hospital Clerk
• 1971The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight — Airline Clerk
• 1970The Strawberry Statement — Woman