Celia Weston
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Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA
Born and raised in South Carolina, character actress Celia Weston has played many a tough Southern gal despite her theater training in both London and New York. Working both on and off Broadway in the '70s, she moved over to television as the snappy Mel's Diner waitress Jolene Hunnicut on the CBS sitcom Alice. After that, she appeared in Southern-tinged feature films like Honky Tonk Freeway and Stars and Bars. Also adept at playing matronly types, she played the mother of Beastie Boy Adam Horowitz in Lost Angels, the mother of one of the victims in Dead Man Walking, and the supposed mother of Ben Stiller in Flirting With Disaster. Back on the stage in 1997, she earned a Tony nomination for her role as Southern Jew Reba Freitag in Alfred Uhry's Last Night at Ballyhoo and returned to Broadway in 2000 as Mom in the revival of Sam Shepard's True West. She made a comeback to films as well with supporting roles in Ride With the Devil, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Snow Falling on Cedars. In 2001, she played a Southern belle mental patient in K-PAX followed by the gossip-hound Mona in Far From Heaven, the Fowler's family friend in In the Bedroom, and the guardian of teenaged Bruce Banner in The Hulk. In 2003 she was back to the small screen as a cast member on the Showtime original series Out of Order. Her career continued to gain momentum throughout the decade thanks to roles in films like The Village, Observe & Report, The Box, and Knight and Day, then in 2010 Weston beat out Delta Burke, Dianne Wiest and Kathy Bates to secure the role of Cameron's mother on the ABC sitcom Modern Family. That same year Weston joined the cast of TNT's Memphis Beat, though the series was cancelled after just two seasons.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Le secret : Oser le rêve |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Adam |
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— | 2020 |
28% | The Secret: Dare to Dream |
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— | 2020 |
36% | Poms |
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— | 2019 |
53% | Freak Show |
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— | 2018 |
0% | The Disappointments Room |
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$2.5M | 2016 |
No Score Yet | In the Radiant City |
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— | 2016 |
59% | The Intern |
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$60.9M | 2015 |
48% | Adult Beginners |
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$0.2M | 2015 |
62% | Goodbye to All That |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Demoted |
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— | 2011 |
42% | The Extra Man |
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$0.5M | 2010 |
52% | Knight & Day |
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$76.5M | 2010 |
25% | After.Life |
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— | 2010 |
27% | Happy Tears |
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— | 2010 |
43% | The Box |
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$114.9M | 2009 |
51% | Observe and Report |
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$24M | 2009 |
19% | The Invasion |
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$15.2M | 2007 |
42% | No Reservations |
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$43.1M | 2007 |
62% | Joshua |
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$0.5M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Return to Rajapur |
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— | 2006 |
86% | Junebug |
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$2.5M | 2005 |
43% | The Village |
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$114.2M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Undermind (At the End of the Day) |
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— | 2003 |
73% | Runaway Jury |
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$49.3M | 2003 |
62% | Hulk |
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$132.2M | 2003 |
87% | Far From Heaven |
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$15.9M | 2003 |
42% | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days |
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$105.8M | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Out of Order |
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— | 2003 |
76% | Igby Goes Down |
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$4.7M | 2002 |
93% | In the Bedroom |
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$35.8M | 2001 |
42% | K-PAX |
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$50.1M | 2001 |
49% | Hearts in Atlantis |
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$23.7M | 2001 |
90% | Getting to Know You |
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— | 2000 |
65% | Joe Gould's Secret |
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— | 2000 |
12% | Hanging Up |
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— | 2000 |
83% | The Talented Mr. Ripley |
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— | 1999 |
39% | Snow Falling on Cedars |
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— | 1999 |
64% | Ride With the Devil |
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— | 1999 |
40% | Celebrity |
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— | 1998 |
87% | Flirting With Disaster |
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— | 1996 |
95% | Dead Man Walking |
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— | 1995 |
75% | Unstrung Heroes |
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— | 1995 |
74% | Little Man Tate |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Lost Angels |
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— | 1989 |
29% | A New Life |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Stars and Bars |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Honky Tonk Freeway |
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— | 1981 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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85% |
Modern Family
2009-2020
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89% |
Psych
2006-2014
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68% |
Under the Dome
2013-2015
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38% |
Memphis Beat
2010-2011
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72% |
Desperate Housewives
2004-2012
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21% |
3 LBS
2006
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-2011
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93% |
Frasier
1993-2004
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999-2021
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No Score Yet |
ER
1994-2009
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No Score Yet |
Alice
1976-1985
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Quotes from Celia Weston's Characters
Peg: | Be quiet, Eugene, nobody's listenin' to you. |
Peg: | (after they realize Ashley was ready to give birth) Where are you goin'? |
Peg: | Where are you goin'? |
Eugene: | Bring the car upfront. |
Peg: | Don't just stand there, go get the car! |
Peg: | I don't want your water breakin'. We just had the upholstery cleaned. |