Elizabeth Marvel (born November 27, 1969) is an American actress. Her most prominent roles include Det. Nancy Parras on The District, Solicitor General Heather Dunbar on House of Cards, and President Elizabeth Keane on Homeland. Film roles include Burn After Reading; Synecdoche, New York; True Grit; Lincoln; and The Meyerowitz Stories.

Filmography

• 2026Disclosure Day — Sister Maura
• 2026Run Amok — Nancy
• 2026The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd
• 2025G20 — Treasury Secretary Joanna Worth
• Presumed Innocent — Lorraine Horgan
• Love & Death — Jackie Ponder
• Mrs. Davis — Celeste Abbott
• 2023The Color Purple — Miss Millie
• The Dropout — Noel Holmes
• 2021All the Little Things We Kill — Deb Anderson
• 2021Being Dead — Celice Adkins
• 2021With/In Volume 2 — (segment "In the Air"), Director, Screenplay
• Helstrom — Victoria Helstrom
• 2020News of the World — Mrs. Gannett
• 2020Swallow — Katherine Conrad
• 2019Dark Waters — Dr. Karen Frank (voice)
• 2019Native Son — Mrs. Dalton
• Unbelievable — Judith
• Manifest — The Major
• 2018The Land of Steady Habits — Sophie
• 2017Easy Living — Abby
• 2017Gifted — Gloria Davis
• 2017The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) — Jean Meyerowitz
• 2016The Congressman — Rae Blanchard
• 2016The Phenom — June Epland
• 2015Aloha — Launch Announcer
• 2015Consumed — Connie Conway
• 2014A Most Violent Year — Mrs. Rose
• Fargo — Constance Heck
• House of Cards — Heather Dunbar
• King & Maxwell — Kelly Nelson
• Elementary — Cassandra Walker
• 2012Hyde Park on Hudson — Missy
• 2012Lincoln — Mrs. Jolly
• 2012The Bourne Legacy — Dr. Connie Dowd
• The Newsroom — Sharon
• Homeland — Elizabeth Keane
• Person of Interest — Alicia Corwin
• 2011Somewhere Tonight — Martha
• 2010Goldstar, Ohio — Edie Deyarmin
• 2010Holy Rollers — Elka Gold
• Past Life — Lynn Sampels
• 2010The Other Woman — Pia
• 2010True Grit — 40-Year-Old Mattie
• 2009A Dog Year — Margo
• Nurse Jackie — Ginny Flynn
• The Good Wife — Lauren Chatham
• White Collar — Dr. Mara Summers
• 2008Burn After Reading — Sandy Pfarrer
• 2008Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women — Louisa May Alcott
• 2008Pretty Bird — Tonya Honeycutt
• 2008Synecdoche, New York — Warehouse Realtor
• 2008The Guitar — Ma Wilder
• 30 Rock — Emily
• Kidnapped
• 2005The Dying Gaul — Kelli
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Sylvia Moon, Jenny Hendry
• The District — Nancy Parras
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Rita Calhoun, Dr. Frantz
• A Will of their Own — Diana
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Amy Marshall
• Law & Order — Ms. Grubman, Rita Calhoun
• Devoted — Kay

Appearances as themselves (1)

• The $100,000 Pyramid — Self