Blair Brown
Acting • Born 1946-04-23
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.
Filmography
99 credits
Dogville
Movie • 2003
Mrs. Henson
Dark Shadows
Movie • 2005
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
The Astronaut's Wife
Movie • 1999
Shelly McLaren
Space Cowboys
Movie • 2000
Dr. Anne Caruthers
Altered States
Movie • 1980
Emily Jessup
Stealing Home
Movie • 1988
Ginny Wyatt
Continental Divide
Movie • 1981
Nell Porter
One Trick Pony
Movie • 1980
Marion
The Buddha
Movie • 2010
Narrator
The Paper Chase
Movie • 1973
Miss Farranti
Dark Matter
Movie • 2008
Hildy
Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman
Movie • 2004
Narrator
In His Life: The John Lennon Story
Movie • 2000
Mimi Smith
Loverboy
Movie • 2005
Jeanette Rawley
A Flash of Green
Movie • 1984
Kat Hubble
Dogville Confessions
Movie • 2004
Self
The Bad Seed
Movie • 1985
Christine Penmark
Strapless
Movie • 1989
Dr. Lillian Hempel
Hamlet
Movie • 2000
Gertrude
Sister Aimee
Movie • 2007
Narrator (voice)
Woodrow Wilson
Movie • 2002
voice
The Skin of Our Teeth
Movie • 1983
Sabina
Moment of Truth: To Walk Again
Movie • 1994
Carol Keating
And I Alone Survived
Movie • 1978
Lauren Elder
The Sentinel
Movie • 2006
National Security Advisor
Those Secrets
Movie • 1992
Nellie Banesh
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Movie • 1977
Anna Roosevelt
The Quinns
Movie • 1977
Millicent Priestley
Follow the Stars Home
Movie • 2001
Hannah Parker
The Child Stealer
Movie • 1979
Jan Rodman
The Choirboys
Movie • 1977
Kimberly Lyles
Passed Away
Movie • 1992
Amy Scanlan
The Day My Parents Ran Away
Movie • 1993
Judy Miller
Extreme Close-Up
Movie • 1990
Margaret Toll
Griffin & Phoenix
Movie • 2006
Eve
First Born
Movie • 2007
Laura's Mother
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
Movie • 1995
Narrator
Brutalités amoureuses
Movie • 1972
Don't Touch
Movie • 1985
Joan Stewart
The River Ran Red
Movie • 1993
Narrator
Hands of a Stranger
Movie • 1987
Diane Benton
Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Movie • 1977
Charity
RFK
Movie • 2004
Narrator
The Massie Affair
Movie • 2005
Narrator (voice)
Convictions
Movie • 1997
Zalinda Dorcheus
The Ultimate Lie
Movie • 1996
Joan 'Joanie' McGrath
Dracula
Movie • 1973
Mina
Young Dr. Freud
Movie • 2002
Narrator
Majority Rule
Movie • 1992
Gen. Katherine Taylor
My Art
Movie • 2016
Mickey
A Season in Purgatory
Movie • 1996
Grace Bradley
The School for Scandal
Movie • 1975
Lady Teazle
Rio Shannon
Movie • 1993
Elizabeth Cleary
The Speed of Thought
Movie • 2011
Bridger
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
Movie • 2007
Margaret Bayard Smith (voice)
The 3,000 Mile Chase
Movie • 1977
Rachel Kane
Test Tube Babies
Movie • 2006
Narrator
The Good Policeman
Movie • 1991
Rebecca Karp
The Gift of Love
Movie • 1994
Helen Porter
A Little Night Music: Live from the Kennedy Center
Movie • 2002
Desiree Armfeldt
Fringe: Access All Areas
Movie • 2009
Self
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
TV • 1987
Molly Dodd
Fringe
TV • 2008
Nina Sharp
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Defense Attorney Lynne Riff
Frasier
TV • 1993
Jill (voice)
Smallville
TV • 2001
Rachel Dunleavy
American Playhouse
TV • 1982
Falling Skies
TV • 2011
Feds
TV • 1997
Family
TV • 1976
Flora Jessup
Forever
TV • 2014
Fawn Mahoney Ames
Person of Interest
TV • 2011
Emma Blake
Wheels
TV • 1978
Barbara Lipton
Political Animals
TV • 2012
Mrs. Berg
Space
TV • 1985
Penny Hardesty Pope
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Purple Playhouse
TV • 1973
Mina
Kennedy
TV • 1983
Jacqueline Kennedy
Captains and the Kings
TV • 1976
Elizabeth Healey Hennessey
American Experience
TV • 1988
Ellen Wilson (voice)
American Experience
TV • 1988
Narrator (voice)
Elementary
TV • 2012
Kate Durning
CSI: Miami
TV • 2002
Margie Winters
Benjamin Franklin
TV • 2002
Jane Mecom
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Kate Flanders / Dep. DA Kate Doyle
Limitless
TV • 2015
Marie Finch
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Defense Attorney Virginia Masters
Celebrity Ghost Stories
TV • 2009
Self
ER
TV • 1994
Dr. Vicki Ford
Orange Is the New Black
TV • 2013
Judy King
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
TV • 2018
Director Sue Joyce
Kojak
TV • 1973
Stella
The Jewish Americans
TV • 2008
Voices (voice)
Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Mayor Victoria Lewis
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Lady Taezle
The Comedy Factory
TV • 1985
Valerie Arnold
A Season in Purgatory
TV • 1996
Grace Bradley
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
The Affair
TV • 2014
Dr. Gunderson