Wendy Makkena

Acting

Born October 4, 1958, New York City, New York, USA

Wendy Rosenberg Makkena (born October 4, 1958) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Sister Mary Robert in the film Sister Act (1992) and its sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993). Her other film credits include Air Bud (1997), State of Play (2009), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). She has appeared regularly on stage since the 1980s.

Filmography

• Best Medicine — Susan Carlisle
• Matlock — Lila
• 2024Whispers of Freedom — Karin Gueffroy
• Rabbit Hole — Debra Wyman-Massey
• 2021Spiked — Margaret
• 2019A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Dorothy Vogel
• 2019Fair Market Value — Jessica
• 2019The Tomorrow Man — Beverly St. Michaels
• The Last O.G. — Krystal
• 2018Wanderland — Sandy Tanner
• 2017The Discovery — Mom
• Bull — Sherri Gibson
• Alpha House — Molly P. Andreson
• The Mob Doctor — Daniella Devlin
• 2011The Bling Ring — Celia Fishman
• Miami Medical
• Rizzoli & Isles — IAD Det. Hitchcock
• The Deep End — Judge Joan Anderson
• 2009State of Play — Greer Thornton
• The Good Wife — Cynthia Venegas
• Chuck — National Intelligence Director
• Ghost Whisperer — Jean Godfrey
• Numb3rs — Kath Berry
• Desperate Housewives — Fran Schulman
• House — Dr. Julie Whitner
• Listen Up! — Dana Kleinman
• NCIS — Rachel Cranston
• Oliver Beene — Charlotte Beene
• Without a Trace — Jubilee
• The Job
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Doris Babinkian
• Judging Amy — Susie Nixon
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Ellen Van Kuren
• 1998Finding North — Rhonda Portelli
• 1997Air Bud — Jackie Framm
• 1997Lies He Told — Patty
• 1996Death Benefit — Wynn Burkholder
• 1996On Seventh Avenue — Nadine Jacobs
• 1995Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story — Mary Newcombe
• 1994Camp Nowhere — Celeste Dunbar
• Touched by an Angel — Robin Dunwoody #2
• A League of Their Own — Mae Mordabito
• Class of '96 — Margaret Parsons
• 1993Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit — Sister Mary Robert
• 1992Black Magic — Sally Rowe
• 1992Sister Act — Sister Mary Robert
• 1991Dead and Alive: The Race for Gus Farace — Brenda
• Law & Order — Officer Nicki Sandoval, Janet Weston
• 1988Eight Men Out — Kate Jackson
• Monsters — Maggie Price