Jean Smart
Acting • Born 1951-09-13
Biography
Jean Elizabeth Smart (born September 13, 1951) is an American actress. She has received numerous accolades including five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, four Critics' Choice Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for a Tony Award and a Grammy Award. Smart first gained prominence for her leading role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women, in which she starred from 1986 to 1991. She went on to win five Primetime Emmy Awards for her roles as Lana Gardner in the NBC series Frasier (2000–01), Regina Newley in the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? (2007–09), and Deborah Vance in the HBO Max comedy series Hacks (2021–present). She was Emmy-nominated for her roles in The District (2000–04), 24 (2006–07), Harry's Law (2011), Fargo (2015), Watchmen (2019) and Mare of Easttown (2021). She also acted in FX's Legion (2017–2019) and voiced Ann Possible in the Disney Channel animated series Kim Possible (2002–2007). On stage, she made her Broadway debut portraying Marlene Dietrich in the biographical play Piaf (1981). She returned to Broadway in the revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000) for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Smart's film credits include The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Garden State (2004), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Accountant (2016), A Simple Favor (2018), and Babylon (2022). She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Guinevere (1999). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Smart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
136 credits
Garden State
Movie • 2004
Carol
I ♥ Huckabees
Movie • 2004
Mrs. Hooten
Getting Ed Laid
Movie • 2016
The Hooker
The Messenger
Movie • 2018
The Woman
Bringing Down the House
Movie • 2003
Kate Sanderson
The Kid
Movie • 2000
Deirdre Lefever
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
Movie • 2005
Dr. Ann Possible (voice)
42.6 Years
Movie
Guinevere
Movie • 1999
Deborah Sloane
Snow Day
Movie • 2000
Laura Brandston
Wildflower
Movie • 2023
Peg
Life As We Know It
Movie • 2010
Helen Berenson (uncredited)
Edie & Pen
Movie • 1996
Wendy the Waitress
Hero Wanted
Movie • 2008
Melanie McQueen
Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story
Movie • 1992
Aileen Wuornos
Project X
Movie • 1987
Dr. Criswell
Flashpoint
Movie • 1984
Doris
Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time
Movie • 2003
Dr. Ann Possible (voice)
Mistress
Movie • 1992
Patricia Riley
Hope Springs
Movie • 2012
Eileen, Kay's Friend
Fire with Fire
Movie • 1986
Sister Maria
Change of Heart
Movie • 1998
Elaine Marshall
A Very Married Christmas
Movie • 2004
Ellen Griffin
Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong
Movie • 2003
Agent Candice DeLong
Waking
Movie • 2013
Dr. Hinton
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Movie • 2013
Claire
William & Catherine: A Royal Romance
Movie • 2012
HRH Camilla
A Panoramic Canvas Called Babylon
Movie • 2023
Self
Audrey's Rain
Movie • 2003
Audrey Walker
When Calls the Heart
Movie • 2013
Frances Tunnecliffe
The Brady Bunch Movie
Movie • 1995
Mrs. Dena Dittmeyer
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage
Movie • 1991
Cathy
Miss Meadows
Movie • 2014
Mother Meadows
Warren
Movie • 2014
Claire Cavanee
The Yearling
Movie • 1994
Ory Baxter
Balto III: Wings of Change
Movie • 2004
Stella (voice)
Babylon
Movie • 2022
Elinor St. John
Too Good
Movie
God
Hoodlums
Movie • 1980
Carol
Sweet Home Alabama
Movie • 2002
Stella Kay Perry
Woke Up Dead
Movie • 2010
Meryl Greene
A Place at the Table
Movie • 1988
Susan Singer
Just My Imagination
Movie • 1992
Pally Thompson
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
Movie • 2016
Self
The Accountant
Movie • 2016
Rita Blackburn
The Designing Women Reunion
Movie • 2003
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Movie • 1993
Kate
Barry Munday
Movie • 2010
Carol Munday
Awaken the Shadowman
Movie • 2017
Evette
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Movie • 2000
Lorraine Sheldon
Before and After
Movie • 1979
Woman Bather
A Simple Favor
Movie • 2018
Margaret McLanden
Protocol
Movie • 1984
Ella
The Odd Couple II
Movie • 1998
Holly
Life Itself
Movie • 2018
Linda Dempsey
Brampton's Own
Movie • 2018
Judy
A Shoe Addict's Christmas
Movie • 2018
Charlie
Forever Fabulous
Movie • 1999
Loreli Daly
A Fight for Jenny
Movie • 1986
Valerie Thomas
Piaf
Movie • 1984
Marlene
A Stranger in Town
Movie • 1995
Rose
Single Bars, Single Women
Movie • 1984
Virge
Superintelligence
Movie • 2020
President Monahan
Youth in Revolt
Movie • 2009
Estelle Twisp
The Yarn Princess
Movie • 1994
Margaret Thomas
Miss Macy
Movie
Miss Macy
Lucky You
Movie • 2007
Michelle Carson
Senior Moment
Movie • 2021
Caroline Summers
A Seduction in Travis County
Movie • 1991
Karen
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Movie • 2025
Self
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
Movie • 2022
Self
Garden State - The 20th Anniversary Concert
Movie • 2025
Self - Presenter
Alice
TV • 1976
Remington Steele
TV • 1982
Gloria Blyer
The District
TV • 2000
Sherry Regan
Designing Women
TV • 1986
Charlene Frazier Stillfield
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
Static Shock
TV • 2000
Richie's Mom (voice)
Kim Possible
TV • 2002
Dr. Ann Possible (voice)
24
TV • 2001
Martha Logan
The View
TV • 1997
Self
Samantha Who?
TV • 2007
Regina Newly
The Oblongs
TV • 2001
Pickles Oblong (voice)
Frasier
TV • 1993
Lorna Lynley
Hacks
TV • 2021
Deborah Vance
Center of the Universe
TV • 2004
Kate Barnett
Lime Street
TV • 1985
High Society
TV • 1995
Ellie Walker
The View
TV • 1997
Self - Guest
In-Laws
TV • 2002
Marlene Pellet
Batman: The Animated Series
TV • 1992
Helen Ventrix (voice)
Teachers Only
TV • 1982
Shari Kirkland
Reggie
TV • 1983
Joan Reynolds
Psych
TV • 2006
Gillian Tucker
Fargo
TV • 2014
Floyd Gerhardt
Dirty John
TV • 2018
Arlane Hart
Kim Possible
TV • 2002
Dr. Ann Possible / Tutor Woman (voice)
Legion
TV • 2017
Melanie Bird
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Goodnight, Beantown
TV • 1983
Frasier
TV • 1993
Lana Gardner
Arrested Development
TV • 2003
Mimi
Hey Arnold!
TV • 1996
Phoebe's Mother (voice)
Angie Tribeca
TV • 2016
Carnie
Who Do You Think You Are?
TV • 2010
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
$#*! My Dad Says
TV • 2010
Rosemary Pernworth
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
Harry's Law
TV • 2011
Roseanna Remmick
Bad Internet
TV • 2016
President Powers
Veep
TV • 2012
Imogene Walsh
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
Sirens
TV • 2014
Nora Farrell
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self
Hot in Cleveland
TV • 2010
Bess
Hawaii Five-0
TV • 2010
Governor Pat Jameson
Mad About You
TV • 2019
Chelsea Stevens-Kobolakis
Big Mouth
TV • 2017
Depression Kitty (voice)
Style & Substance
TV • 1998
Chelsea Stevens
Halt and Catch Fire
TV • 2014
LouLu Lutherford
Watchmen
TV • 2019
Laurie Blake
Big Mouth
TV • 2017
Mare of Easttown
TV • 2021
Helen Fahey
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
The Studio
TV • 2025
Jean Smart
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
The Emmy Awards
TV • 1949
Self - Winner
Getting On
TV • 2013
Arlene Willy-Weller
The Facts of Life
TV • 1979
Ellen Slater
The Emmy Awards
TV • 1949
Self
E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
TV • 2025
Narrator (voice)
Kim Possible
TV • 2002
Dr. Anne Possible (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
Scarlett
TV • 1994
Sally Brewton
Undue Influence
TV • 1996
Dana Colby