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Martha Plimpton

Actor
Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American singer, stage and screen actress, best known for playing the lead role of Virginia Chance on the television sitcom "Raising Hope", and for guest starring as Patti Nyholm in the CBS legal drama "The Good Wife".

16-11-1970

Birthday

Scorpio

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

52

Total Films

Also known as (female)

New York City, New York, USA

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

52 Works

producer

1 Works

director

2 Works

writer

0 Works

other

1 Works

Sardinia

Sardinia

A serious man tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society.
9.0

Year:

2024

Mass

Mass

Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.
7.5

Year:

2021

Pitch Black Panacea

Pitch Black Panacea

Amy and Carl both have lazy eyes. Amy’s left and Carl’s right. They are strangers, volunteers for an unusual, life-altering treatment in which they will enter a completely dark room together for ten days. But in the hallucination-inducing darkness, they are forced to confront personal demons.
6.4

Year:

2020

Frozen II

Frozen II

Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and Olaf head far into the forest to learn the truth about an ancient mystery of their kingdom.
7.3

Year:

2019

Honey Bee

Honey Bee

Follows the journey of Natalie "Honey Bee" Sorensen, an underage truck stop prostitute trapped in a human trafficking ring until she is transplanted into foster care in remote Northern Ontario and forced to confront her identity.
6.0

Year:

2018

Hello Again

Hello Again

Ten lost souls slip in and out of one another's arms in a daisy-chained musical exploration of love's bittersweet embrace. A film adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa's celebrated musical, originally based on Arthur Schnitzler's play, La Ronde.
5.9

Year:

2017

Company

Company

Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slightly envious friends.
7.1

Year:

2011

Adventures in Plymptoons!

Adventures in Plymptoons!

A documentary film about Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton. This is a portrait piece that includes interviews with family, friends, colleagues, critics, and fans.
2.0

Year:

2011

Small Town Murder Songs

Small Town Murder Songs

A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life.
5.4

Year:

2010

Remember Me

Remember Me

Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.
7.1

Year:

2010

Marvelous

Marvelous

After her husband leaves her, Gwen goes to live with her sister Queenie. She discovers that she has suddenly acquired a special gift that enables her to make mechanical objects work again and also healing powers. As news of this travels they find themselves pursued by the press and people and take refuge in the home of a wealthy elderly woman cured by Gwen. Gwen is disturbed by all the publicity, but Queenie relishes it and claims she has is a medium.
0.0

Year:

2008

Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno

A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps. And the Prince of Darkness himself.
6.3

Year:

2007

Hair High

Hair High

Bill Plympton's gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly wrong. Two murdered teens return from the grave, then go to their prom to get revenge.
6.6

Year:

2004

Searching for Debra Winger

Searching for Debra Winger

Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.
6.3

Year:

2002

The Sleepy Time Gal

The Sleepy Time Gal

A young woman learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job and goes on a journey to find her birth mother.
5.3

Year:

2001

200 Cigarettes

200 Cigarettes

In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years Eve.
5.9

Year:

1999

The Defenders: Taking the First

The Defenders: Taking the First

A racist provokes four teens into beating a Latino youth to death after one of his fiery speeches on a college campus. The Prestons are first called upon to defend one of the youths who gives testimony against the other three. Then, in a turnaround, the family of the murdered boy hires the Prestons to try to get a conviction against the racist.
6.5

Year:

1998

Pecker

Pecker

A Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turning into a nationwide sensation, with a fateful choice between his life and his art.
6.1

Year:

1998

Music from Another Room

Music from Another Room

Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.
5.7

Year:

1998

The Defenders: Choice of Evils

The Defenders: Choice of Evils

The Defenders are a crack team of lawyers dedicated to one principle - the accused is innocent untill proven guilty. This time, they defend a man wrongly convicted of murder.
4.0

Year:

1998

Independent's Day

Independent's Day

Filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival discuss what it is like to be an independent filmmaker, and what Sundance has done for them.
5.0

Year:

1998

Eye of God

Eye of God

A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the local sheriff embarks on a quest to uncover the roots of a gruesome crime. He's led to Ainsley DuPree and her new husband, Jack, a man whose interest in family may very well outweigh his morals.
5.8

Year:

1997

The Defenders: Payback

The Defenders: Payback

Television movie remake of the 1960s courtroom drama series, "The Defenders." After the death of his eldest son and his partner in the law firm of Preston and Preston, senior partner, Lawrence Preston enlists his granddaughter, M.J, a former prosecutor, and his other son Don, a law professor, to continue the work of ensuring that every individual accused of a crime is entitled to a proper defense. In this telefilm, a father murders the rapist of his young daughter after the man is released from prison and moves back to his old neighborhood. The Prestons take the case even though the father is unrepentent and unwilling to offer the attorneys any help in finding legally mitigating circumstances for his actions.
3.5

Year:

1997

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?
6.6

Year:

1997

Colin Fitz

Colin Fitz

Two security guards, Paul and Grady, are hired to guard the grave of dead rock legend, Colin Fitz. Through the course of one bizarre night, these two opposites learn a lot about life, death, and the magic of Colin Fitz.
5.0

Year:

1997

I'm Not Rappaport

I'm Not Rappaport

Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.
5.6

Year:

1996

I Shot Andy Warhol

I Shot Andy Warhol

Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story.
6.2

Year:

1996

Beautiful Girls

Beautiful Girls

During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dreams and desires.
6.7

Year:

1996

Last Summer in the Hamptons

Last Summer in the Hamptons

Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Before she completes the sale, she wants to have one last gathering of family and friends, with dramatic performances. Bringing everyone together, though, creates rivalries and tension, especially for Oona, a temperamental but successful movie actress who seeks the approval of her creative peers.
5.5

Year:

1995

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives across the street from the Bean's trailer, and the view from her window is better than any daytime television soap opera; especially Beal Bean, and especially Beal Bean shirtless. When Reuben Bean is sent to prison for resisting arrest for out-of-season deer hunting, Beal takes up with Reuben's woman Roberta. He also has a child by Earlene, with a triangle of sex complicated by poverty.
5.0

Year:

1994

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
6.0

Year:

1994

My Life's in Turnaround

My Life's in Turnaround

Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar; neither has a clue how to make a movie. Things look up when real-life actors Phoebe Cates and Martha Plimpton agree to star in the project.
4.7

Year:

1994

Josh and S.A.M.

Josh and S.A.M.

Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile, Josh tells Sam that he is a "S.A.M." that is going to be sent to Africa to fight in a war and that Canada is a safe haven for any S.A.M. unwilling to fight. Will Josh & S.A.M. make it to Canada or will they wish they should have never left home?
4.7

Year:

1993

The Perfect Woman

The Perfect Woman

The camera focuses up close on a series of unnamed women as they talk to their men. In every case, even though we don't hear what the men are saying, we know exactly what line and lie they're pitching. The women, who are desperate for affection and a relationship, apologize, bend over backwards to accommodate, cooperate with every male fantasy, tolerate every male insecurity, ignore infidelities, and pick up the check.
0.0

Year:

1993

Chantilly Lace

Chantilly Lace

A group of middle-aged women get together at a secluded house to learn about themselves.
10.0

Year:

1993

Daybreak

Daybreak

When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death. But a gutsy rebel named Torch sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary.
5.3

Year:

1993

Samantha

Samantha

A young woman sets out to find her birth parents when she finds out that she is adopted.
4.0

Year:

1992

Inside Monkey Zetterland

Inside Monkey Zetterland

An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.
2.9

Year:

1992

A Blink of Paradise

A Blink of Paradise

"A Blink of Paradise" is a twelve minute investigation into the event that caused one woman's first memory. Obsessed by past images of herself as a baby in a carriage, she uncovers a simple fact concerning her mother that explains why she has been haunted by them ever since. This is realized through an interweaving of her present life (on a therapist's couch) and the visual fragments she has retained of that day. Having located the source of her pain, she is now able to go forward with newfound understanding.
0.0

Year:

1992

A Woman at War

A Woman at War

Helene Moskiewicz, a young Jewish woman living in pre-World War II Belgium, is forced to suffer through German occupation by watching her parents arrested and her life destroyed. To fight back, Regine joins the underground resistance movement and strikes the Nazis from within...by joining the infamous Gestapo.
4.0

Year:

1991

Stanley & Iris

Stanley & Iris

An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
6.4

Year:

1990

Parenthood

Parenthood

The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
6.7

Year:

1989

Silence Like Glass

Silence Like Glass

True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.
7.5

Year:

1989

Another Woman

Another Woman

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
6.8

Year:

1988

Running on Empty

Running on Empty

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.
7.5

Year:

1988

Stars & Bars

Stars & Bars

A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
4.4

Year:

1988

Shy People

Shy People

New York journalist visits her distant cousin for the first time to write an article about her hard life in the bayous of Louisiana. Journalist's wild drug addicted daughter just adds to tensions between two families' cultures.
6.5

Year:

1987

The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast

Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.
6.4

Year:

1986

The Goonies

The Goonies

A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of Pirate One-Eyed Willie.
7.5

Year:

1985

The River Rat

The River Rat

On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent father. But the reunion is tainted with the whereabouts of the stolen loot, and those who come looking for it...
6.5

Year:

1984

Rollover

Rollover

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
5.1

Year:

1981

Sovereign

Sovereign

Based on real events, the story follows a father and son who identify as Sovereign Citizens, a group of anti-government extremists, as they venture across the country and find themselves in a standoff with a chief of police that sets off an intense manhunt with tragic consequences.
0.0

Year:

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