Dorothy Lyman
Acting • Born 1947-04-18
Biography
Dorothy Lyman is an American television actress, director, and producer. She is most known for her work as Gwen Frame on Another World, on All My Children as the original Opal Sue Gardner, as Rebecca Whitmore on Generations, and on the sitcom Mama's Family as Naomi Harper.
Filmography
53 credits
World Trade Center
Movie • 2006
Allison's Mother
Ruby in Paradise
Movie • 1993
Mildred Chambers
Camp Cucamonga
Movie • 1990
Millie Schector
Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss
Movie • 1988
Mom
Summer Fantasy
Movie • 1984
Dr. Nancy Brannigan
Bad Hurt
Movie • 2016
Mrs. Salisbury
Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story
Movie • 1994
Dorothy
The Departed
Movie • 2006
Woman at Bar #1
The People Across the Lake
Movie • 1988
Ruth Mortimer
The Northern Kingdom
Movie • 2009
Nan
Blind
Movie • 2017
Judge
Young Goodman Brown
Movie • 1993
Sarah Good
Bullitt County
Movie • 2018
The Mrs.
Speechless...
Movie • 2001
Margaret Tanner
Back Fork
Movie • 2019
Susie
Night of the Juggler
Movie • 1980
Nurse Jenny
The Price for Silence
Movie • 2018
Wendy Moro
The 300-Year Weekend
Movie • 1971
Jean
Blow
Movie • 2001
Judge (Chicago)
Dinner and Driving
Movie • 1997
Rita
I Love Trouble
Movie • 1994
Suzie
Jack the Bear
Movie • 1993
Mrs. Morris
Boys Will Be Boys
Movie • 1994
Mrs. Green
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Norma Shey
Tales from the Darkside
TV • 1984
Catherine
All My Children
TV • 1970
Opal Cortlandt
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Dorothy Carr
Reba
TV • 2001
Helen
CSI: Miami
TV • 2002
Vivian Kensington
Judging Amy
TV • 1999
Ms. Patterson
The Nanny
TV • 1993
Maureen Wentworth
Battlestar Galactica
TV • 2004
Socrata Thrace
V.I.P.
TV • 1998
Granny Goshen
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Principal Parker
The Practice
TV • 1997
Dr. Diane Starger
The Edge of Night
TV • 1956
Sisters
TV • 1991
Another World
TV • 1964
ALF
TV • 1986
Maura Norris
Hunter
TV • 1984
Sgt. Carol James Meyers
A World Apart
TV • 1970
Mama's Family
TV • 1983
Naomi Oates Harper
The Nanny
TV • 1993
Dr. Quinn Director (voice) (uncredited)
FBI
TV • 2018
Jilly Peters
Hope and Gloria
TV • 1995
Maxine
Blue Bloods
TV • 2010
Elizabeth
The Blacklist
TV • 2013
Delaine Uhlman
Elementary
TV • 2012
Belinda
Bob
TV • 1992
Patty Fleisher
Divorce
TV • 2016
Bridget
Law & Order: Organized Crime
TV • 2021
Lucia Spezzano
The Nanny
TV • 1993
Stewardess
Taina
TV • 2001
Ms. Harper