Portrait of Blair Brown

Blair Brown

Acting

Biography

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.

Born: April 23, 1946

Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Filmography

2018
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

as Director Sue Joyce

2016
My Art

as Mickey

2015
Limitless

as Marie Finch

2014
Forever

as Fawn Mahoney Ames

2013
2012
Elementary

as Kate Durning

2012
Political Animals

as Mrs. Berg

2011
Person of Interest

as Emma Blake

2011
2010
The Buddha

as Narrator

2008
Fringe

as Nina Sharp

2008
Dark Matter

as Hildy

2008
The Jewish Americans

as Voices (voice)

2007
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency

as Margaret Bayard Smith (voice)

2007
First Born

as Laura's Mother

2006
Test Tube Babies

as Narrator

2006
The Sentinel

as National Security Advisor

2005
Dark Shadows

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

2005
The Massie Affair

as Narrator (voice)

2005
Loverboy

as Jeanette Rawley

2004
RFK

as Narrator

2003
Dogville

as Mrs. Henson

2002
Young Dr. Freud

as Narrator

2002
CSI: Miami

as Margie Winters

2002
2001
Smallville

as Rachel Dunleavy

2001
Follow the Stars Home

as Hannah Parker

2000
Hamlet

as Gertrude

2000
Space Cowboys

as Dr. Anne Caruthers

1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Defense Attorney Lynne Riff

1999
The Astronaut's Wife

as Shelly McLaren

1997
Convictions

as Zalinda Dorcheus

1997
1996
A Season in Purgatory

as Grace Bradley

1996
The Ultimate Lie

as Joan 'Joanie' McGrath

1994
The Gift of Love

as Helen Porter

1994
Touched by an Angel

as Mayor Victoria Lewis

1994
ER

as Dr. Vicki Ford

1993
1993
Frasier

as Jill (voice)

1993
Rio Shannon

as Elizabeth Cleary

1992
Majority Rule

as Gen. Katherine Taylor

1992
Passed Away

as Amy Scanlan

1992
Those Secrets

as Nellie Banesh

1991
The Good Policeman

as Rebecca Karp

1990
Extreme Close-Up

as Margaret Toll

1990
Law & Order

as Defense Attorney Virginia Masters

1989
Strapless

as Dr. Lillian Hempel

1988
American Experience

as Ellen Wilson (voice)

1988
American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

1988
Stealing Home

as Ginny Wyatt

1987
Hands of a Stranger

as Diane Benton

1985
The Comedy Factory

as Valerie Arnold

1985
Space

as Penny Hardesty Pope

1985
The Bad Seed

as Christine Penmark

1984
A Flash of Green

as Kat Hubble

1983
Kennedy

as Jacqueline Kennedy

1981
Continental Divide

as Nell Porter

1980
Altered States

as Emily Jessup

1980
1979
The Child Stealer

as Jan Rodman

1978
And I Alone Survived

as Lauren Elder

1978
Wheels

as Barbara Lipton

1977
The Choirboys

as Kimberly Lyles

1977
The Quinns

as Millicent Priestley

1977
The 3,000 Mile Chase

as Rachel Kane

1976
Captains and the Kings

as Elizabeth Healey Hennessey

1976
Family

as Flora Jessup

1975
1974
The Rockford Files

as Kate Flanders / Dep. DA Kate Doyle

1973
Kojak

as Stella

1973
The Paper Chase

as Miss Farranti

1973
1971
Great Performances

as Lady Taezle

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee