Dorothy Lyman

Acting · Directing

Born April 18, 1947, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Dorothy Lyman is an American television actress, director, and producer. She is most known for her work as Gwen Frame on Another World, on All My Children as the original Opal Sue Gardner, as Rebecca Whitmore on Generations, and on the sitcom Mama's Family as Naomi Harper.

Filmography

• Law & Order: Organized Crime — Lucia Spezzano
• 2019Back Fork — Susie
• 2018Bullitt County — The Mrs.
• FBI — Jilly Peters
• 2018The Price for Silence — Wendy Moro
• 2017Blind — Judge
• 2016Bad Hurt — Mrs. Salisbury
• Divorce — Bridget
• The Blacklist — Delaine Uhlman
• Elementary — Belinda
• Blue Bloods — Elizabeth
• 2009Split Ends — Director
• 2009The Northern Kingdom — Nan, Director
• 2006The Departed — Woman at Bar #1
• 2006World Trade Center — Allison's Mother
• Battlestar Galactica — Socrata Thrace
• CSI: Miami — Vivian Kensington
• 2001Blow — Judge (Chicago)
• Reba — Helen
• 2001Speechless... — Margaret Tanner
• Taina — Ms. Harper
• Judging Amy — Ms. Patterson
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Principal Parker
• Payne — Director
• V.I.P. — Granny Goshen
• 1997Dinner and Driving — Rita
• The Practice — Dr. Diane Starger
• Hope and Gloria — Maxine
• 1994Boys Will Be Boys — Mrs. Green
• 1994I Love Trouble — Suzie
• 1994Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story — Dorothy
• 1993Jack the Bear — Mrs. Morris
• 1993Ruby in Paradise — Mildred Chambers
• The Nanny — Maureen Wentworth, Stewardess (uncredited), Director
• 1993Young Goodman Brown — Sarah Good
• Bob — Patty Fleisher
• Sisters
• 1990Camp Cucamonga — Millie Schector
• Law & Order — Dorothy Carr
• 1988Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss — Mom
• 1988The People Across the Lake — Ruth Mortimer
• ALF — Maura Norris
• Hunter — Sgt. Carol James Meyers
• Murder, She Wrote — Norma Shey
• 1984Summer Fantasy — Dr. Nancy Brannigan
• Tales from the Darkside — Catherine
• Mama's Family — Naomi Oates Harper
• American Playhouse — Mom
• 1980Night of the Juggler — Nurse Jenny
• 1971The 300-Year Weekend — Jean
• A World Apart
• All My Children — Opal Cortlandt
• Another World
• The Edge of Night