Blair Brown
Acting · Crew
Born April 23, 1946, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Blair Brown (born April 23, 1946) is an American stage, film and television actress. For her role in Copenhagen, Brown won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She was the leading actress in feature films such as Altered States (1980), Continental Divide (1981), and Strapless (1989), and she played the title character in the television comedy-drama The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. Later supporting roles include Nina Sharp on Fringe and Judy King on Orange Is the New Black.
Filmography
- Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan — Director Sue Joyce
- 2016My Art — Mickey
- Limitless — Marie Finch
- Forever — Fawn Mahoney Ames
- The Affair — Dr. Gunderson
- Orange Is the New Black — Judy King
- Elementary — Kate Durning
- Political Animals — Mrs. Berg
- Falling Skies
- Person of Interest — Emma Blake
- 2011The Speed of Thought — Bridger
- 2010The Buddha — Narrator
- 2008Dark Matter — Hildy
- Fringe — Nina Sharp
- The Jewish Americans — Voices (voice)
- 2007Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency — Margaret Bayard Smith (voice)
- 2007First Born — Laura's Mother
- 2007Sister Aimee — Narrator (voice)
- 2006Griffin & Phoenix — Eve
- 2006Test Tube Babies — Narrator
- 2006The Sentinel — National Security Advisor
- 2005Dark Shadows — Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
- 2005Loverboy — Jeanette Rawley
- 2005Manderlay — Thanks
- 2005The Massie Affair — Narrator (voice)
- 2004Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman — Narrator
- 2004RF — Narrator
- 2003Dogville — Mrs. Henson
- 2002A Little Night Music: Live from the Kennedy Center — Desiree Armfeldt
- Benjamin Franklin — Jane Mecom
- CSI: Miami — Margie Winters
- 2002Young Dr. Freud — Narrator
- 2001Follow the Stars Home — Hannah Parker
- Smallville — Rachel Dunleavy
- 2000Hamlet — Gertrude
- 2000In His Life: The John Lennon Story — Mimi Smith
- 2000Space Cowboys — Dr. Anne Caruthers
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Defense Attorney Lynne Riff
- 1999The Astronaut's Wife — Shelly McLaren
- 1997Convictions — Zalinda Dorcheus
- Feds
- A Season in Purgatory — Grace Bradley
- 1996The Ultimate Lie — Joan 'Joanie' McGrath
- 1995Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West — Narrator
- ER — Dr. Vicki Ford
- 1994Moment of Truth: To Walk Again — Carol Keating
- 1994The Gift of Love — Helen Porter
- Touched by an Angel — Mayor Victoria Lewis
- Frasier — Jill (voice)
- 1993Rio Shannon — Elizabeth Cleary
- 1993The Day My Parents Ran Away — Judy Miller
- 1993The River Ran Red — Narrator
- 1992Majority Rule — Gen. Katherine Taylor
- 1992Passed Away — Amy Scanlan
- 1992Those Secrets — Nellie Banesh
- 1991The Good Policeman — Rebecca Karp
- 1990Extreme Close-Up — Margaret Toll
- Law & Order — Defense Attorney Virginia Masters
- 1989Strapless — Dr. Lillian Hempel
- American Experience — Ellen Wilson (voice), Narrator (voice)
- 1988Stealing Home — Ginny Wyatt
- 1987Hands of a Stranger — Diane Benton
- The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd — Molly Dodd
- 1985Don't Touch — Joan Stewart
- Space — Penny Hardesty Pope
- 1985The Bad Seed — Christine Penmark
- The Comedy Factory — Valerie Arnold
- 1984A Flash of Green — Kat Hubble
- Kennedy — Jacqueline Kennedy
- 1983The Skin of Our Teeth — Sabina
- American Playhouse — Lilly Sabina, Kat Hubble
- 1981Continental Divide — Nell Porter
- 1980Altered States — Emily Jessup
- 1980One Trick Pony — Marion
- 1979The Child Stealer — Jan Rodman
- 1978And I Alone Survived — Lauren Elder
- Wheels — Barbara Lipton
- 1977Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging — Charity
- 1977Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years — Anna Roosevelt
- 1977The 3,000 Mile Chase — Rachel Kane
- 1977The Choirboys — Kimberly Lyles
- 1977The Quinns — Millicent Priestley
- Captains and the Kings — Elizabeth Healey Hennessey
- Family — Flora Jessup
- 1975The School for Scandal — Lady Teazle
- The Rockford Files — Kate Flanders / Dep. DA Kate Doyle
- 1973Dracula — Mina
- Kojak — Stella
- Purple Playhouse — Mina
- 1973The Paper Chase — Miss Farranti
- 1972Brutalités amoureuses
- Great Performances — Lady Taezle
Appearances as themselves (7)
- Celebrity Ghost Stories — Self
- 2009Fringe: Access All Areas — Self
- 2004Dogville Confessions — Self
- 2002Woodrow Wilson — Self - voice
- 2000The Fall of Newt Gingrich — Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
- Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee