Martha Campbell 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".

Filmography

• East of Eden — Faye
• Prime Target — Jane Torres
• 2025Sovereign — Lesley Anne
• Task — Kathleen McGinty
• 2024Sardinia — Judith
• A Town Called Malice — Mint Ma Lord
• Sprung — Barb
• The Man Who Fell to Earth — Intake Officer K. Faraday
• Genera+ion — Megan
• 2021Mass — Gail
• 2020Pitch Black Panacea — Amy (voice)
• Flack — Clara
• 2019Frozen II — Yelena (voice)
• 2018Honey Bee — Louise
• Minecraft: Story Mode — Olivia (voice)
• The Shivering Truth — (voice)
• Brockmire — Shirley
• 2017Hello Again — Ruth
• The Guest Book — Shelley
• Baroness von Sketch Show — Margo
• The Real O'Neals — Eileen O'Neal
• Younger — Cheryl Sussman
• 2013Sparrows Dance — Thanks
• The Blacklist — Dr. Sharon Fulton
• 2011Company — Sarah
• How to Make It in America
• Raising Hope — Virginia Chance
• 2010Remember Me — Alyssa Craig's Mom (uncredited)
• 2010Small Town Murder Songs — Sam
• The Good Wife — Patti Nyholm
• Fringe — Sheriff Ann Mathis
• 2008Marvelous — Gwen
• 2007Dante's Inferno — Celia / Lobbyist Singer / Lizzie Borden (voice)
• Grey's Anatomy — Pam Michaelson
• Medium — Rosemary Widdick
• Surface — Mr. Big
• 2004Hair High — Miss Crumbles (voice), Associate Producer
• Karen Sisco
• Hack — Louise O'Connor
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Jo Gage
• 2001The Sleepy Time Gal — Rebecca
• 1999200 Cigarettes — Monica
• Family Guy — Stephanie (voice)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Claire Rinato
• 1998Music from Another Room — Karen Swan
• 1998Pecker — Tina
• 1998The Defenders: Choice of Evils — Mary Jane Preston
• 1998The Defenders: Taking the First — MJ Preston
• 1997Colin Fitz — Ann
• 1997Eye of God — Ainsley DuPree
• 1997The Defenders: Payback — M.J. Preston
• 7th Heaven — Venus
• 1996Beautiful Girls — Jan
• 1996I Shot Andy Warhol — Stevie
• 1996I'm Not Rappaport — Laurie Campbell
• 1995Last Summer in the Hamptons — Chloe Garfield
• ER — Meg Corwin
• 1994Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle — Jane Grant
• 1994The Beans of Egypt, Maine — Earlene Pomerleau
• 1993Chantilly Lace — Ann
• 1993Daybreak — Laurie
• 1993Josh & S.A.M. — Alison (The Liberty Maid)
• 1993The Perfect Woman
• 1992A Blink of Paradise — Mother
• 1992Inside Monkey Zetterland — Sofie
• 1992Samantha — Samantha
• 1991A Woman at War — Helene Moszkiewiez
• 1990Stanley & Iris — Kelly King
• 1989Parenthood — Julie Buckman-Lampkin Higgins
• 1989Silence Like Glass — Claudia Jacoby
• 1988Another Woman — Laura
• 1988Running on Empty — Lorna Phillips
• 1988Stars & Bars — Bryant
• 1987Shy People — Grace
• 1986The Mosquito Coast — Emily Spellgood
• 1985The Goonies — Stef
• 1984The River Rat — Jonsy
• American Playhouse — Earlene Pomerleau
• Family Ties — Jessie Blake
• 1981Rollover — Fewster's Older Daughter
• The Custom of the Country

Appearances as themselves (14)

• 2025This Ordinary Thing — Self (voice)
• Reunited Apart — Self
• To Tell the Truth — Self - Panelist
• 2011Adventures in Plymptoons! — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 2002Searching for Debra Winger — Self
• 1998Independent's Day — Self
• 1997Who Is Henry Jaglom? — Self
• 1994My Life's in Turnaround — Herself
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Performer