Laurie Metcalf

Laura Elizabeth Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an American actress. Over the course of her four-decade career, she has been the recipient of numerous acting awards and nominations. She has won three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and has been nominated for an Academy Award.

Laurie Metcalf
Metcalf in 2008 after a performance of November
Born	Laura Elizabeth Metcalf (1955-06-16) June 16, 1955 Carbondale, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1974–present
Spouse(s)	Jeff Perry ​ ( m. 1983; div. 1986) Matt Roth ​ ( m. 1993; div. 2014)
Children	4 (including Zoe Perry)
Awards	Full list

Metcalf began her career with the Steppenwolf Theater Company and frequently works in Chicago theater. For her stage performances and work on Broadway, Metcalf has received six Tony Award nominations, winning Best Actress in a Play in 2017 for her performance in A Doll's House, Part 2 and Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 2018 revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women.

She gained national attention for her performance as Jackie Harris in the ABC sitcom Roseanne (1988–1997, 2018) and its spinoff The Conners (2018–present) for which she won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (1992–1994). An eleven-time Emmy Award nominee, Metcalf's other television credits include 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Norm Show, Frasier, Desperate Housewives and The Big Bang Theory. She played a leading role in the HBO comedy series Getting On (2013–2015), for which she received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.[1]

Metcalf has starred in numerous films and is known for her critically acclaimed performance in Greta Gerwig's comedy-drama film Lady Bird, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a BAFTA Award. Since 1995, she has voiced Mrs. Davis (Andy's mom) in the Toy Story franchise.

Early life

Metcalf was born in Carbondale, Illinois, the eldest of three children. She, her brother James and her sister Linda[2] were raised in Edwardsville, Illinois, which she has said "isn't anywhere near a theatre."[3] Her father, James, was the budget director at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville at the time of his sudden death in 1984. Her mother, Libby, was a librarian.[4][5] Her great-aunt was the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Zoë Akins.[6] She is an alumna of Illinois State University, class of 1976.[7]

Metcalf, who worked as a secretary while in college, said she enjoyed seeing a pile of paper in the to-do box on one side of her desk move over to the completed side by the end of the day. She was often so focused on her work she missed lunch.[3] She originally majored in German, thinking she could work as an interpreter, and then in anthropology before accepting that majoring in theatre was her true passion. She has said that theatre work also involves interpreting and studying human behavior. She has described herself as hideously shy, and yet she found the courage to audition for a few plays in high school and was "hooked". She initially did not choose acting as a career because it was unlikely to lead to regular work.[3][8]

Career

Stage

Metcalf in 1992

Metcalf attended Illinois State University and earned her Bachelor of Arts in Theater in 1976. While at ISU, she met fellow theater students, among them John Malkovich, Glenne Headly, Joan Allen, Terry Kinney, and Jeff Perry, the latter two of whom, along with Perry's high school classmate Gary Sinise, went on to establish Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Metcalf began her professional career at Steppenwolf, of which she was a charter member.[9][10] Metcalf went to New York to appear in an Off-Broadway Steppenwolf production of Balm in Gilead at Circle Repertory in 1984[11] for which she received the 1984 Obie Award for Best Actress and a 1984–85 Theatre World Award (for best debut in a Broadway or Off-Broadway performance).[9] Metcalf was praised for her performance as Darlene, and was specifically singled out for her twenty-minute act two monologue. Chicago critic Richard Christiansen said of her performance:

There's a moment when Laurie Metcalf—who plays this poor young thing that comes to the big city and hangs out at this greasy spoon diner where the play is set—is talking about her once boyfriend who is an albino; I think it's a monologue of about five, six, seven minutes. Just to sit there and watch and hear Laurie unspool that story, it just brought tears coming down your eyes—oh, boy, it was something.[12]

Metcalf relocated to New York City and began to work in both film and theater, including such productions as David Mamet's November on Broadway in 2008.[13]

In June 2009, Metcalf starred in Justin Tanner's play, Voice Lessons with French Stewart, in Hollywood before beginning rehearsals to play Kate Jerome in the Broadway revival of Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, directed by David Cromer. The former production's run, however, lasted for nine performances in October 2009, while the latter was canceled prior to opening.[14][15][16]

Voice Lessons, however, with its original cast intact, went on to three more runs — one Off-Broadway in May 2010,[17] another in Hollywood in May 2011,[18] and another in Chicago in May 2016.[19]

In September 2010, Metcalf returned to Steppenwolf and starred in Lisa D'Amour's play, Detroit.[20]

In 2011, she appeared in the Off-Broadway play The Other Place by Sharr White, directed by Joe Mantello.[21] She won the 2011 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lead Actress, and the 2011 Obie Award, for her performance.[22]

In 2012, Metcalf joined David Suchet in a West End production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, for which she was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress.[23][24]

In 2013, The Other Place transferred to Broadway with Metcalf reprising her role and earning Tony and Drama League nominations.[25][26][27] She starred with her real-life daughter, Zoe Perry.[28]

In 2013, Metcalf starred in Bruce Norris's Off-Broadway play Domesticated with Jeff Goldblum at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater of Lincoln Center.[29] She was nominated for the 2014 Drama League Award, Distinguished Performance and the 2014 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her performance.[22]

In 2015, she took the role of Annie Wilkes in the Broadway production of Stephen King's Misery, opposite Bruce Willis. The play premiered on November 15, 2015 at the Broadhurst Theatre.[30] It received mixed reviews from critics, however Metcalf's performance was widely acclaimed.[31] She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, her third Tony nomination overall.[30]

Metcalf appeared on Broadway in Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2 with Chris Cooper at the John Golden Theatre. which opened in April 2017. She received critical acclaim for her performance and earned her first Tony Award, winning for Best Actress in a Play.[32]

In 2018, Metcalf performed in the Broadway revival of Three Tall Women with Glenda Jackson and Allison Pill at the John Golden Theatre. She won her second consecutive Tony Award, this time for Best Featured Actress in a Play.[33]

Metcalf played Hillary Clinton opposite John Lithgow as Bill Clinton in Lucas Hnath's Hillary and Clinton on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre. The play was directed by Joe Mantello and ran April 18, 2019 through June 23, 2019.[34] Metcalf was nominated for the 2019 Tony Award, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play.[35]

Television and film

Metcalf (right) with Rosie O'Donnell (left) at the 1992 Emmy Awards.

Metcalf has performed in roles that range from very large to very small in many films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Making Mr. Right, Miles from Home, Internal Affairs, Stars and Bars, Beer League, Mistress, A Dangerous Woman, Uncle Buck, Blink, The Secret Life of Houses, Treasure Planet, Toy Story, Runaway Bride, Bulworth, Meet the Robinsons, Georgia Rule, Fun with Dick and Jane, Leaving Las Vegas, Scream 2, Stop Loss, and Hop.[36]

Metcalf has often appeared against type in both film and television; in JFK (1991), she played a dramatic role as one of Jim Garrison's chief investigators.[37] She appeared as the murderous mother of Billy Loomis in the horror film Scream 2 (1997);[38] and portrayed real-life Carolyn McCarthy in the television movie The Long Island Incident (1998).[39]

Metcalf has appeared in several television series, including being a cast member for a single episode of Saturday Night Live—the final episode of the show's tumultuous 1980–1981 season.[40] In 1981, she appeared as a feature player on the first Dick Ebersol-produced episode of Saturday Night Live following the firing of Jean Doumanian. She appeared in a Weekend Update segment about taking a bullet for the President of the United States. Because of the sketch show's severe decline in quality at the time and the 1981 Writers Guild of America strike, the show was put on hiatus for retooling. Metcalf was never asked back to be a cast member.

Metcalf is perhaps best known for her role as Jackie Harris, the multiple-careered, low self-esteemed, amiable sister of the title character, in the hit series Roseanne. Her performance garnered three consecutive Emmy Awards. Roseanne originally ran from 1988 to 1997. On April 28, 2017, it was announced that a revival of Roseanne was in the works and that Metcalf along with most of the original cast and some of the producers would return for the limited series that was being shopped around with ABC and Netflix the frontrunners to land the show.[41] On May 16, 2017 producers confirmed that eight episodes would air mid-season in 2018 on ABC.[42] On May 29, 2018, in the wake of racist remarks by Barr posted on Twitter regarding Valerie Jarrett (an advisor of former president Barack Obama), ABC cancelled the revival after a single season.[43][44][45] Metcalf appeared as Jackie over the show's entire run.[46] Metcalf reprised her role in The Conners, a spinoff of Roseanne without Barr's involvement which premiered in fall 2018.[47] In 2018, Metcalf's performance on the revival of Roseanne was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Comedy Actress in a Supporting Role.[48]

She subsequently appeared with Norm Macdonald on The Norm Show (or Norm), which ran for three seasons (1999–2001),[49] and was also a regular character on the 2003 Nathan Lane series Charlie Lawrence, which was cancelled after the airing of two episodes.[50] Metcalf has made guest appearances on Absolutely Fabulous, Malcolm in the Middle, My Boys, Dharma & Greg, Frasier, Without a Trace, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Big Bang Theory, and Monk. She has been nominated for the Emmy Award as Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series for the latter three listed roles. In The Big Bang Theory she played Sheldon Cooper's mother. In the prequel spinoff Young Sheldon her daughter Zoe Perry has been cast as the same character. In December 2018 Metcalf was nominated for a Critics' Choice Award for the best supporting actress in a comedy series for The Conners, competing against her own daughter Zoe Perry who was nominated in the same category for her role in Young Sheldon. Neither won.

Metcalf took a recurring role on Desperate Housewives, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series,[51] and also appeared alongside her ex-husband Jeff Perry in an episode of Grey's Anatomy. In fall 2008, Metcalf starred in the CW dramedy Easy Money, as the matriarch of a family of loan sharks. The series was canceled after three episodes.[52] Alongside this role, she was the lead actress in the short-lived CBS sitcom The McCarthys (2014–15).[53]

From 2013 to 2015, Metcalf starred in HBO comedy series Getting On with Alex Borstein.[51] Metcalf was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Leading Actress in a Comedy Series for the final season.

In 2016, Metcalf took a role in the third episode of Louis C.K.'s self-funded show Horace and Pete.[54] She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Guest Actress in a Drama for her performance.[55]

In 2017, Metcalf received universal critical acclaim for her performance in Greta Gerwig's coming of age film Lady Bird starring alongside Saoirse Ronan and Tracy Letts.[56][57] For her performance, she was nominated for numerous awards, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Award.[58]

Personal life

In 1983, Metcalf married Jeff Perry, co-founding member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company. They had a daughter, Zoe Perry, in 1983. They divorced in 1986.[59]

Metcalf later began a relationship with Matt Roth, the Roseanne co-star who played her abusive boyfriend, Fisher. By November 1993 they had a son, Will, and eventually married. They also worked together on occasion in the 1994 feature film thriller Blink and the 1998 drama Chicago Cab,[60] they also appeared together in an episode of Desperate Housewives. Their daughter, Mae Akins, was born in 2005 via surrogate. They had a second son, Donovan, whom they fostered at six years old in 2006 and permanently adopted.[61] On November 26, 2008, Metcalf and Roth separated. In September 2011, Roth filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. In May 2014, the divorce was finalized.[62]

Metcalf has self-disclosed as a workaholic and that she is hard on herself during rehearsals.[63] She has often said that she prefers theatre over other acting media as it is where she feels most comfortable.[63]

She has also appeared in commercials for Plan USA, a humanitarian organization which helps children in need around the world.[64]

Theatre credits

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1979	The Glass Menagerie	Laura Wingfield	Steppenwolf Theatre
1980	Balm in Gilead	Darlene	Steppenwolf Theatre
1981	Balm in Gilead	Darlene	Apollo Theater Center
1984–1985	Balm in Gilead	Darlene	Circle Repertory Theatre
1985	Coyote Ugly	Scarlet	Steppenwolf Theatre
1985–1986	You Can't Take It with You	Gay Wellington	Steppenwolf Theatre
1986–1987	Bodies, Rest and Motion	Beth	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
1987	Educating Rita	Rita	Steppenwolf Theatre
1987	Educating Rita	Rita	Westside Theatre
1992	My Thing of Love	Elly	Steppenwolf Theatre
1994	Libra	Margeurite Oswald / David Ferrie	Steppenwolf Theatre
1995	My Thing of Love	Elly	Martin Beck Theatre
2001	All My Sons	Kate Keller	Lyttelton Theatre
2004	Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune	Frankie	Steppenwolf Theatre Company[65]
2007	The Quality of Life	Jeannette	Geffen Playhouse
2008	November	Clarice Bernstein	Ethel Barrymore Theatre
2008	The Quality of Life	Jeannette	American Conservatory Theater
2009	Voice Lessons	Ginny	Zephyr Theatre
2009	Brighton Beach Memoirs	Kate Jerome	Nederlander Theatre
2010	A Lie of the Mind	Meg	Acorn Theatre
2010	Voice Lessons	Ginny	Studio Theatre
2010	Detroit	Mary	Steppenwolf Theatre
2011	The Other Place	Juliana	Lucille Lortel Theatre
2011	Voice Lessons	Ginny	The Broadwater
2012	Long Day's Journey into Night	Mary Tyrone	Apollo Theatre
2013	The Other Place	Juliana	Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
2013–2014	Domesticated	Judy	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
2015	All My Sons	Kate Keller	John Drew Theatre
2015–2016	Misery	Annie Wilkes	Broadhurst Theatre
2016	Voice Lessons	Ginny	Steppenwolf Theatre
2017	A Doll's House, Part 2	Nora Helmer	John Golden Theatre
2018	Three Tall Women	B	John Golden Theatre
2019	Hillary and Clinton	Hillary Clinton	John Golden Theatre
2020	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Martha	Booth Theatre

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	A Wedding	Maid	Uncredited[66]
1985	Desperately Seeking Susan	Leslie Glass
1987	Making Mr. Right	Sandy
1988	Candy Mountain	Alice
1988	Stars and Bars	Melissa
1988	The Appointments of Dennis Jennings	Emma	Short film
1988	Miles from Home	Exotic Dancer
1989	Uncle Buck	Marcie Dahlgren-Frost
1990	Internal Affairs	Amy Wallace
1990	Pacific Heights	Stephanie MacDonald
1991	JFK	Susie Cox
1992	Mistress	Rachel Landisman
1993	A Dangerous Woman	Anita Bell
1994	The Secret Life of Houses	Ann
1994	Blink	Candice
1995	Leaving Las Vegas	Landlady
1995	Toy Story	Mrs. Davis	Voice role
1996	Dear God	Rebecca Frazen
1997	U Turn	Bus Station Clerk
1997	Chicago Cab	Female Ad Exec
1997	Scream 2	Debbie Salt / Mrs. Loomis
1998	Bulworth	Mimi
1999	Runaway Bride	Betty Trout	Uncredited
1999	Toy Story 2	Mrs. Davis	Voice role
2000	Timecode	Dava Adair	Scenes deleted
2002	Treasure Planet	Sarah Hawkins	Voice role
2005	Fun with Dick and Jane	Phyllis	Uncredited role
2006	Steel City	Marianne Karn
2006	Beer League	Mrs. DeVanzo
2007	Meet the Robinsons	Lucille Krunklehorn-Robinson	Voice role
2007	Georgia Rule	Paula Richards
2008	Stop-Loss	Mrs. Colson
2010	Toy Story 3	Mrs. Davis	Voice role
2017	Lady Bird	Marion McPherson
2019	Toy Story 4	Mrs. Davis	Voice role

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Saturday Night Live	Weekend Update Reporter[67][68]	Episode: "Jr. Walker & the All-Stars"
1985	The Execution of Raymond Graham	Kathy Bates	Television film
1986	The Equalizer	Theresa	Episode: "No Conscience"
1988–1997, 2018	Roseanne	Jackie Harris
1988	Saturday Night Live	"Laurie Has A Story"[69][70]	Episode: "Matthew Broderick/The Sugarcubes"
1992	The Jackie Thomas Show	Jackie Harris	Episode: "The Joke"
1995–1996	Duckman	Various	Voice role Episodes: "Research and Destroy" and "Forbidden Fruit"
1997	King of the Hill	Cissy Cobb	Voice role Episode: "Peggy the Boggle Champ"
1997	The Eddie Files	Special Agent Hicks	Episode: "Decimals – The Fake Money Caper"
1997	Life with Louie	Miss Kinney	Voice role Episode: "The Kiss Is the Thing"
1997	Dharma & Greg	Spyder	Episode: "Instant Dharma"
1998	Always Outnumbered	Halley Grimes	Television film
1998	The Long Island Incident	Carolyn McCarthy	Television film
1998	3rd Rock from the Sun	Jennifer Ravelli	3 episodes
1999	Balloon Farm	Casey Johnson	Television film
1999–2001	The Norm Show	Laurie Freeman
2000–2011	God, the Devil and Bob	Donna Allman	Voice role
2002	Two Families		Unsold pilot
2003	Phil at the Gate	Teddy Duffy	Unsold pilot
2003	Charlie Lawrence	Sarah Dolecek	7 episodes
2004	Malcolm in the Middle	Susan	Episode: "Lois's Sister"
2004	Frasier	Nanny G	Episode: "Caught in the Act"
2004	Absolutely Fabulous	Crystalline	Episode: "White Box"
2005	Without a Trace	Susan Hopkins	Episode: "A Day in the Life"
2006	Monk	Cora	Episode: "Mr. Monk Bumps His Head"
2006	Grey's Anatomy	Beatrice Carver	Episode: "The Name of the Game"
2006	Desperate Housewives	Carolyn Bigsby	4 episodes
2006	My Boys	Aunt Phyllis	Episode: "When Heroes Fall from Grace"
2007	The Virgin of Akron, Ohio	Lydia	Pilot episode
2007	Raines	Alice Brody	Episode: "Reconstructing Alice"
2007–2018	The Big Bang Theory	Mary Cooper	Recurring role
2008–2009	Easy Money	Bobette Buffkin
2009	The Farm	Warden Margaret Elder	Unsold pilot
2013	The Goodwin Games	Dr. Richland[71]	2 episodes
2013–2015	Getting On	Jenna James	Series regular
2014	Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories	Gabrielle	Episode: "Baby"
2014–2015	The McCarthys	Marjorie McCarthy	Series regular
2016	Horace and Pete	Sarah	Episode #1.3
2017	Portlandia	Jill	Episode: "Friend Replacement"
2017	Playing House	Leslie Rollins	Episode: "You Wanna Roll with This"
2017	The Accidental Wolf	Ram	Episode: "Bradley"
2018	American Dad!	Elizabeth Hadley	Voice role Episode: "Shell Game"
2018	Supergirl	Mary McGowan	Episode: "Schott Through the Heart"
2018–present	The Conners	Jackie Harris

Awards and nominations

• List of awards and nominations received by Laurie Metcalf

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External links

• Laurie Metcalf on IMDb
• Laurie Metcalf at the Internet Broadway Database
• Laurie Metcalf at the Internet Off-Broadway Database