Dee Wallace (born 14 December 1948) is an American actress and comedienne. She is perhaps best known for her roles in several popular films. These include the starring role as Elliot's mother in the Steven Spielberg film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), her most widely seen role. She also played key roles in popular cult films The Hills Have Eyes (1977) and The Howling (1981) and appeared in The Stepford Wives in 1975 and 10 (1979). In total, Wallace has appeared in more than 85 films.

Filmography

• 202625 Miles to Normal — Deborah
• 2026Godmother — Mrs. Martinson
• 2026Models vs. Werewolves
• 2026Night of the Living Dead — Maggie
• 2026Southern Scares — Myra
• 2026Ted Bunny — Catherine
• The Boroughs — Grace
• 2026Water Rites — Caroline
• 2025Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch — Alice Cassidy
• 2025If It Bleeds — Kelly
• 2025Roswell Delirium — Betty
• 2025The Boy from Below — Sybil
• 2025The Lies We Bury — Lynn Wright
• 2025The Pitchfork Retreat — Helen
• 2024Last Night on Earth — Carla
• 2024Stream — Linda Spring
• 2024The Legend of Catclaws Mountain — Maggie Porter
• 202390 Hari Sebelum Cinta Pergi
• Fatal Attraction — Emma Rauch
• 2023House of Dolls — Celine Charles
• 2023Incubus: New Beginnings — Zura Valentine
• 2023Lena's Dance — Lena Swain
• 2023Love by Design — Diane Yeardly
• Paul T. Goldman — Terri Jay
• 2023The Little Mermaid — Sea Witch Revina (voice)
• 2022Jeepers Creepers: Reborn — Marie
• 2022Killer Design — Elana
• 2022Nix — Donna
• 2022The Munsters — Good Morning Transylvania Host
• 2022Time Pirates — The Crone
• 202113 Fanboy — Dee Wallace
• 2021Courageous Warriors Beauty from the Ashes — Narrator
• 2021Every Time a Bell Rings — Donna
• 2021The Nest — Marissa
• 2020Await the Dawn — Annie
• 2020Critters Attack! — Dee
• 2020Day 14
• 2020Stay Home — Herself, Executive Producer
• 2020The Gift of Christmas — Ellen Rodgers
• 20193 from Hell — Greta
• 2019Christmas in Louisiana — Doris
• 2019Dolls — Margaret
• 2019Renovation of the Heart — Diane Dover
• 2019Sunrise in Heaven — Marion
• 2019The Wrong Mommy — Carol
• 9-1-1 — Margaret Buckley
• 2018After Emma
• 2018Beyond the Sky — Lucille
• 2018Closure — The Superior
• 2018Death House — Dr. Eileen Fletcher
• 2018Every Other Holiday — Mimi
• 2018Jingle Belle — Shelby
• 2018Ouija House — Katherine Fields
• 2018The Wrong Teacher — Dr. Smith
• 2017Ayla — Susan
• 2017The Fuzz — Dawn Lockwood
• 2017This Old Machine — Irene
• 2016All Hallow's Eve — Haidy Hallow
• 2016Charlie's Gift
• Just Add Magic — Grandma
• 2016Red Christmas — Diane, Producer
• Shooter — Katherine Mayfield
• 2015Flowers in December — Hannah
• 2015Love & Mercy — Rosemary (uncredited)
• The Whispers — Willie Starling (Grammy)
• 2015Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard — Sharon Sommers
• 20142 Bedroom 1 Bath — Rose
• 2014Ejecta — Ashley Winnington-Ball (uncredited)
• 2014Haunting of Cellblock 11 — Ms. Simon
• 2014Snow Moon: Cinderella Chronicles Saga — Gram Pearl
• You're the Worst — Gail
• 2013As High as the Sky — Aunt Deborah (voice)
• 2013Bonnie & Clyde: Justified — Emma
• 2013Grand Piano — Marjorie Green
• 2013Hansel & Gretel — Lilith
• 2013My Stepbrother Is a Vampire!?! — Tabitha the Cat (voice)
• 2013RoboCroc — Dr. Riley
• 2013The Lords of Salem — Sonny
• 2012Aliens from Uranus — Olga
• 2012Collision Course — Polly
• 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen — (archive footage)
• 2012Fuzz Track City — Dawn Lockwood
• 2012Margarine Wars — Madge Havershank
• 2012Sebastian — Barbara Sample
• 2012The Boarder — Elizabeth
• 2011Bad Actress — Dee Wallace
• 2011Exit Humanity — Eve
• Grimm — Alice
• 2011Pound of Flesh — Dean Jean Clark
• 2011Sam Steele and the Crystal Chalice — Ms. Jenkins
• 2011Stay Cool — Mrs. McCarthy
• Switched at Birth — Lorena McGowen
• 2011The Junior Spy Agency — Ms. Jenkins
• 2011Walk a Mile in My Pradas — Mary
• 2010Bedrooms — Marnie
• 2010Between Heaven and Hell — Dr. Isabel Greenlee, Executive Producer
• 2010Extraordinary Measures — Sal
• Law & Order: LA — Ellen Powell
• 2010Raven — LuAnne
• 2010Soupernatural — Mrs. Conners
• 2010The Guardian — Mom
• 2009Babysitters Beware — Ms. Greene
• 2009Dark Fields — Jean Applebe
• 2009Happy in the Valley — Gloria
• 2009Stem Cell — The Healer
• 2009The Haunted World of El Superbeasto — Trixie (voice)
• 2009The House of the Devil — Landlady
• 2009The Mother of Invention — Nancy Dooly
• Warehouse 13 — Mrs. Garner
• 2008Little Red Devil — Mother
• 2008Matchmaker Mary — Aunt Karen
• 2007Bone Dry — Joanne
• 2007Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el — Helen Moret
• 2007Halloween — Cynthia Strode
• Saving Grace — Janice Shapiro
• 2007The Blue Rose — Mrs. Garrison
• 2006Abominable — Ethel Hoss
• 2006American Blend — Jayme
• 2006Expiration Date — Lucille
• 2006Kalamazoo? — Susan
• Sons & Daughters — Colleen Halbert
• 2006The Eden Formula — Rhonda
• 2006The Lost — Barbara Hanlon
• 2006The Plague — Nora
• 2006Voodoo Moon — Mary-Ann
• Bones — Special Agent Callie Warner
• 2005Boo — Nurse Russell
• Close to Home — Joan Monroe
• Criminal Minds — Dr. Jan Mohikian
• Ghost Whisperer — Claire Taylor
• Grey's Anatomy — Joan Waring
• 2005Headspace — Dr. Denise Bell
• My Name Is Earl — Governor Katherine Hazelwood
• 2005Scar — Isabella
• Supernatural — Mildred Baker
• 2005The Loch Ness Monster — Elizabeth Horner
• The Office — Ellen Bernard
• 2004Dead End Road — Mrs. Makepiece
• 2004Illusion Infinity — Patricia (as Dee Wallace Stone)
• 2004The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story — Sharon Rocha
• 2004Welcome to Werewolfland
• Cold Case — Charlotte Jones
• NCIS — Claire Hall
• 2003Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’
• 2002Fish Don't Blink — Dr. Roswell
• 2002Sex and the Teenage Mind — Francine Heitmeyer
• She Spies — Daphne
• 2002She's No Angel — Maureen Shawnessy
• Without a Trace — Lara Duncan
• 2001A Month of Sundays — Sarah McCabe
• Crossing Jordan — Lorraine Heeley
• 2001Killer Instinct — Sarah Fairchild
• 2001Out of the Black — Penny Hart
• The Agency — Doris, Quinn's Sister
• The Division — Paula Meeks
• 1999Invisible Mom II — Laura Griffin (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
• 1999Mutual Needs — Patricia
• 1999Pirates of the Plain — Glenna (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
• 1999To Love, Honor, & Betray — Julia Brennan (as Dee Wallace Stone)
• 1998Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story — Rodman's stepmother
• Felicity — Allison Covington
• 1998The Christmas Path — Jenny
• Ally McBeal — Gail Clarkson
• 1997Black Circle Boys — Barbara Sullivan
• 1997Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder — Linda Jones
• 1997Nevada — Ruby (as Dee Wallace Stone)
• 1997Skeletons — Heather Crane
• 1997The Perfect Mother — Gina Mitrou
• 1996Invisible Mom — Laura Griffin
• Nash Bridges — Susan Martin
• 1996Subliminal Seduction — Sissy Bonner
• 1996The Frighteners — Patricia Bradley
• 1995Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back — Georgia
• 1995Brothers' Destiny — Lucille Bastian
• 1995Cops n Roberts
• 1995Here Come the Munsters — Mrs. Walker
• High Sierra Search and Rescue
• JAG — Adele DeLong
• 1995My Family Treasure — Alex Danieloff
• 1995Temptress — Allison Mackie
• 1995The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet — Mother
• 1995The Skateboard Kid II — Lois Curtis
• 1994Discretion Assured — Kitten
• 1994Huck and the King of Hearts — Darlene
• 1994Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy — Suzanne Guthrie (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
• Rebel Highway — Mrs. Gordon
• 1994Runaway Daughters — Mrs. Gordon
• 1994Search and Rescue — Morgan
• Touched by an Angel — Sandra Browner
• Vanishing Son — Megan
• 1994Vanishing Son IV — Megan
• 1994Witness to the Execution — Emily Dawson (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
• 1993Alone in the Dark — Linda Grant (as Dee Wallace Stone)
• 1993Lightning in a Bottle — Jean Markley
• 1993Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story — Jackie Fields (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
• 1993Rescue Me — Sarah Sweeney
• 1991Alligator 2: The Mutation — Christine Hodges
• 1991Critters 3 — Mom (archive footage)
• P.S. I Luv U
• 1991Popcorn — Suzanne
• 1991Rock-A-Doodle — Dory (voice)
• 1990I'm Dangerous Tonight — Wanda
• The New Lassie — Dee McCullough
• 1988Addicted to His Love — Betty Ann Brennan
• 1988Stranger on My Land — Annie Whitman
• 1987Legend of the White Horse — Alta (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
• 1987The Christmas Visitor — Elizabeth O'Day
• 1986Club Life — Tilly Francesca
• 1986Critters — Helen Brown
• L.A. Law — Elaine Weston
• 1986Shadow Play — Morgan Hanna
• 1986Sin of Innocence — Vicki McGary
• Together We Stand — Lori Randall
• 1985Hostage Flight — Laura Kenrick
• 1985Secret Admirer — Connie Ryan
• 1985Suburban Beat — Joanna
• The Twilight Zone — (segment "Wish Bank")
• Finder of Lost Loves — Gail Aames
• Murder, She Wrote — Mildred Terhune, Ellen Wicker
• 1984The Shepherd
• 1984The Sky's No Limit — Dr. Maureen Harris
• 1983Cujo — Donna Trenton
• 1983Happy — Marilyn
• 1983I Take These Men — Elaine Zakarian
• 1983Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home — Pat Peters
• 1982E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial — Mary
• Hotel
• 1982Jimmy the Kid — May
• 1982Skeezer — Lucille
• 1981A Whale for the Killing — Janet Landon
• 1981Child Bride of Short Creek — Mary Jacobs
• Simon & Simon
• 1981The Five of Me — Ann
• 1981The Howling — Karen White
• Skag
• 1980The Secret War of Jackie's Girls — Maxine
• 197910 — Mary Lewis
• Hart to Hart — Connie
• Mrs. Columbo
• Trapper John, M.D.
• 1979Young Love, First Love — Leslie
• Taxi — Joyce
• 1977All the King's Horses — Sandy Benson
• CHiPs
• Lou Grant — Patti Oxley
• Man from Atlantis — Hot Dog Stand Owner (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
• 1977The Hills Have Eyes — Lynne Wood
• The San Pedro Beach Bums
• Ellery Queen
• Starsky & Hutch
• 1975The Stepford Wives — Nettie the Maid
• Police Woman
• Police Story
• The Streets of San Francisco
• Bits — Fallen One
• Campfire — Mrs. Hallowell
• Curse of Vandor — Ethel Gordon
• The Licked Hand — Eleanor
• Unhallowed — Rita Harrison

Appearances as themselves (26)

• 2022In Search of Darkness: Part III — Self
• 2022In Search of Tomorrow — Self - Interviewee
• 2022Making I'm Dangerous Tonight — Herself
• 2020Rondo and Bob — Self
• 2020Six feet of separation — Self
• The Very Very Best of the 70s — Self - Commentator
• 2019To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell — Self
• 2018They Bite!: The Making of Critters — Self
• 2017Horror Movie: A Low Budget Nightmare — Self
• 2017Midnight Madness: The Making of "Popcorn" — Self
• 2015Horror Icon: Inside Michael's Mask with Tony Moran — Self
• 2015The Abundance Factor — Herself
• 2012I Heart Monster Movies — Self
• 2012The 'E.T.' Journals — Self
• Celebrity Ghost Stories — Self
• 2008Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween — Self
• 2007Dog Days: The Making of 'Cujo' — Self
• 2007The Return of the Living Dead: The Decade of Darkness — Self
• 2006Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills — Self
• 2003Looking Back at 'The Hills Have Eyes' — Self
• 2002E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special — Self
• 1998The Making of 'The Frighteners' — Self
• 1996The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' — Self
• 1991The Horror Hall of Fame II — Self - Presenter
• 1987Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood — Self
• Howl: Inside the Forest Hills — Self