Elizabeth Perkins
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Queens, New York, USA
Born in New York and raised in Vermont, actress Elizabeth Perkins headed for Chicago after high school, where she was trained at the Goodman School of Drama. In a busy three-year period (1984-1987), Perkins co-starred in the touring company of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, married Chicago-based actor Terry Kinney (they have since split), was featured on Broadway, and made her film debut in About Last Night... (1986). The actress went on to play Tom Hanks' vis-Ã -vis in Big (1988), the terminal cancer patient with whom William Hurt begins a relationship in The Doctor (1992), and the "She" to Kevin Bacon's "He" in He Said, She Said (1991). The biggest box-office hit with which Elizabeth Perkins has been associated was 1994's The Flintstones, in which she portrayed the long-suffering Wilma.Though supporting roles in such projects as From the Earth to the Moon, 28 Days, and The Ring Two kept Perkins busy over the next decade, it couldn't help but feel like her career momentum had stalled out a bit by the mid-2000s. Fortunately for comedy fans, television writer/producer Jenji Kohan (Gilmore Girls) recognized her talent, and in 2005 Perkins began a successful four year run on the hit television series Weeds. Cast as the busybody neighbor of a suburban single mother-turned-pot dealer played by Mary-Louise Parker, the talented comic actress earned three Emmy nominations for her role in the series, though the actual award sadly slipped through her fingers each time. Nevertheless, the success appeared to reinvigorate Perkins' small screen career, with roles in Vince Uncensored, teh Closer, and How to Live WIth Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life following in quick succession.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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24% | Hop |
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$108.1M | 2011 |
17% | Kids in America |
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$0.5M | 2005 |
45% | The Thing About My Folks |
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$0.8M | 2005 |
36% | Must Love Dogs |
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$43.9M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Hercules |
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— | 2005 |
22% | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood |
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$26.2k | 2005 |
24% | Fierce People |
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— | 2005 |
20% | The Ring Two |
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$75.9M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Speak |
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— | 2004 |
99% | Finding Nemo |
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$380.6M | 2003 |
0% | All I Want (Try Seventeen) |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | My Sister's Keeper |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | What Girls Learn |
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— | 2001 |
54% | Cats & Dogs |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | If These Walls Could Talk 2 |
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— | 2000 |
33% | 28 Days |
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— | 2000 |
30% | Crazy in Alabama |
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— | 1999 |
40% | I'm Losing You |
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$13.2k | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Rescuers: Stories of Courage---Two Couples |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Lesser Prophets (The Last Bet) |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Cloned |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Rescuers: Stories of Courage---Two Women |
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— | 1997 |
15% | Moonlight and Valentino |
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— | 1995 |
60% | Miracle on 34th Street |
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— | 1994 |
20% | The Flintstones |
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— | 1994 |
58% | Indian Summer |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | For Their Own Good |
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— | 1992 |
82% | The Doctor |
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— | 1991 |
31% | He Said, She Said |
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— | 1991 |
85% | Avalon |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Enid Is Sleeping |
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— | 1990 |
75% | Love at Large |
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— | 1990 |
50% | Sweet Hearts Dance |
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— | 1988 |
97% | Big |
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— | 1988 |
22% | From the Hip |
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— | 1987 |
61% | About Last Night |
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— | 1986 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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64% |
The Moodys
2019
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31% |
Truth Be Told
2019-2020
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95% |
Corporate
2018
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92% |
Sharp Objects
2018
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No Score Yet |
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen
2009
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93% |
This Is Us
2016
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92% |
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000-2020
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No Score Yet |
Lass es, Larry!
2000-2017
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88% |
How to Get Away With Murder
2014
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67% |
One Child
2014
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17% |
How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)
2013
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No Score Yet |
The Doctors
2008
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No Score Yet |
The Chew
2011-2018
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82% |
The Closer
2005-2012
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91% |
Monk
2002-2009
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70% |
Weeds
2005-2012
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No Score Yet |
King of the Hill
1997-2010
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31% |
Battery Park
2000
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
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Quotes from Elizabeth Perkins' Characters
Fred Flintstone: | My wife is the most beautiful gal in Bedrock. |
Dictabird: | My wife is the most beautiful gal in Bedrock. |
Wilma Flintstone: | Nice try, Fred. |
Dictabird: | Nice try, Fred. |
June: | Just let down your arms, Jack, and we'll all come to you. |
June: | I'm dying. Please don't waste my time. |
Joan: | I refuse to date a guy whose ass is smaller than mine |
Joan: | I refuse to date a guy whose ass is smaller than mine. |
Jennifer Morton: | I want to be a kid again. I was good at being a kid. |
Coral: | Shh! you're gonna wake the kids! |
Marlin: | Oh right! |
Coral: | Aw look there dreaming, we still have to name them! |
Marlin: | You wanna name all of them right now? Okay we'll name this have Marlin Jr. and this have Coral Jr. Okay we're done! |
Marlin: | You wanna name all of them right now? Okay we'll name this half Marlin Jr. and this half Coral Jr. Okay we're done! |
Coral: | I like Nemo |
Marlin: | Nemo? Okay we'll name one Nemo but I would most of them to be Marlin Jr. |
Coral: | Can you believe in just a couple of days we're gonna be parents! |
Marlin: | Yeah, what if they don't like me? |
Coral: | Marlin! |
Marlin: | I mean honestly |
Coral: | There's over 400 eggs odds are one of them is bound to like you! |
Coral: | You still have to name them. |
Marlin: | You wan to name them right now? Ok then we'll name this half Marlin Jr. and then this half Coral Jr. Ok we're done! |
Coral: | I like Nemo. |
Marlin: | Nemo? Well we'll name one Nemo but I'd like most of them to be Marlin Jr. |