Constance "Connie" Ray (born 10 July 1956, Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is an American actress and playwright whose career spans from 1991 to the present. She studied dance at East Carolina University before switching to acting, earning an MFA from Ohio University in the early 1980s. She is best known for starring as Millicent Torkelson in the ABC sitcom The Torkelsons (1991–1992) and for her supporting roles in Stuart Little (1999), Thank You for Smoking (2005), About Schmidt (2002), Ice Princess (2005), and Flags of Our Fathers (2006). On television she has appeared in ER (1997), George Lopez (2002), Grey's Anatomy, The Big C, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), and Kim Possible (2019). She is also a playwright, having written the bluegrass gospel musical Smoke On The Mountain (off-Broadway, 1990) and two sequels, among the most produced musicals in the US over the last two decades. No major awards are on record.

Filmography

• 2021Worth — June Schultz
• 2020American Reject — Bonnie
• 2019Kim Possible — Nana Possible
• The Good Fight — Mrs. Honeycutt
• Search Party — Opal Ann Tupper
• Hart of Dixie — Mrs. Beaudry
• Blue Bloods — Ruth
• Justified — Mrs. Reasoner
• The Big C — Connie Schuler
• Greek — Norma
• 2007Welcome to Paradise — Patsy Nellis
• 2006Flags of Our Fathers — Mrs. Sousley
• 2006Flourish — Wendy Covner
• Twenty Good Years — Susan
• Grey's Anatomy — Karen Kepner
• 2005Ice Princess — Nikki's Mom
• My Name Is Earl — Mrs. Clevenger
• 2005Thank You for Smoking — Pearl
• 2004Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius — Clara Jones
• Entourage — Oxnard Wife
• 2003How to Deal — Marion Smith
• 2002About Schmidt — Vicki Rusk
• George Lopez — Debbie
• Less than Perfect — Nona
• Still Standing — Joy
• 2002The Time Machine — Teacher
• 2000Lost Souls — Mother
• 1999Idle Hands — Mom
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Biological Mother
• Providence — Hazel
• 1999Stuart Little — Aunt Tina
• 1998Hope Floats — Bobbi-Claire
• 1997Speed 2: Cruise Control — Fran
• Veronica's Closet — Jan Schaefer
• 1996A Very Brady Sequel — Flight Attendant
• 1996My Fellow Americans — Genny
• 1996Space Jam — Owner's Girlfriend
• The Pretender — Deputy Marilyn Miller, Deputy Miller (archive footage)
• 1995Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story — Shane
• ER — Glenda
• Touched by an Angel — Sandra Mills
• Almost Home — Millicent Torkelson
• Harry and the Hendersons — Mary Higgs
• The Torkelsons — Millicent Torkelson
• Dream On — Mandy
• Coach — Mary Luba
• Quantum Leap — Carol Pruitt
• L.A. Law — Philomena Bannister

Appearances as themselves (1)

• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self