Jane Kaczmarek
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Down to earth midwesterner Jane Kaczmarek established herself as a multi-talented supporting actress in movies and TV before Malcolm in the Middle turned her into a bona fide TV star in 2000. Born in Milwaukee on December 22nd, 1955, Kaczmarek considered a teaching career, but majored in theater at the University of Wisconsin instead. After earning her M.F.A. at the Yale Drama School, Kaczmarek headed to New York to hit the stage. Moving from theater into TV and film in the early '80s, Kaczmarek revealed her aptitude for both comedy, in such TV movies as Door to Door (1984), and drama, with recurring guest parts on St. Elsewhere in 1983 and Hill Street Blues in 1984, as well as a small role in the ground-breaking TV film There's Something About Amelia (1984). As a testament to her acting chops, Kaczmarek earned her first starring film role as Robert De Niro's wronged wife in the De Niro/Meryl Streep romance Falling in Love (1984). Kaczmarek was back to comedy with the ill-received fantasy The Heavenly Kid (1985) and the Judge Reinhold age-switch romp Vice Versa (1988). After she married fellow actor Bradley Whitford in 1992, Kaczmarek starred in the TV movie Without Warning (1994) and nabbed multi-episode guest-starring parts in several TV series, including Party of Five and Cybill in 1996. Following a small role as Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon's mother in the reflexive fantasy Pleasantville (1998), Kaczmarek was ready to settle down to raise her family. When the producers of Malcolm in the Middle came calling, however, Kaczmarek signed on, figuring it wouldn't last. Instead, Malcolm's absurd, unsentimental take on sitcom family life became a spring 2000 hit, earning Kaczmarek Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors' Guild nominations for her performance as the no-nonsense mother of a genius and his incorrigible brothers. Malcolm in the Middle enjoyed a long run from 2000 to 2006. In 2010, Kaczmarek she starred as the mother of a 16-year-old girl in an abusive relationship for the Lifetime Original Movie Reviving Ophelia.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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0% | Wolves at the Door |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | The Boat Builder |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Lost On Purpose |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Reviving Ophelia |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Wheels On the Bus |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | America: A Tribute to Heroes |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Jenifer (The Jenifer Estess Story) |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | The Last Leaf |
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— | 2001 |
85% | Pleasantville |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Apollo 11 |
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— | 1996 |
12% | The Chamber |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Wildly Available |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Without Warning |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | All's Fair |
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— | 1988 |
58% | D.O.A. |
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— | 1988 |
43% | Vice Versa |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | The Christmas Gift |
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— | 1986 |
22% | The Heavenly Kid |
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— | 1985 |
58% | Falling in Love |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Door to Door |
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— | 1984 |
56% | Uncommon Valor |
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— | 1983 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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50% |
Carol's Second Act
2019-2020
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No Score Yet |
Trolls: The Beat Goes On!
2018-2019
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No Score Yet |
Tavis Smiley
2013-2018
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86% |
Playing House
2014-2017
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50% |
Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life
2016
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81% |
The Big Bang Theory
2007-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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69% |
Salem Rogers
2015
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57% |
The McCarthys
2014-2015
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No Score Yet |
Phineas and Ferb
2007-2015
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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No Score Yet |
The Middle
2009-2018
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21% |
Whitney
2011-2013
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83% |
Wilfred
2011-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Wendy Williams Show
2008-2020
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No Score Yet |
The Bonnie Hunt Show
2008-2010
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22% |
Raising the Bar
2008-2009
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85% |
The Simpsons
1989
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50% |
Help Me Help You
2006
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
Malcolm in the Middle
2000-2006
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
Felicity
1998-2002
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No Score Yet |
Party of Five
1994-2000
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No Score Yet |
The Practice
1997-2004
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93% |
Frasier
1993-2004
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No Score Yet |
Touched by an Angel
1994-2003
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82% |
Picket Fences
1992-1996
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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50% |
Big Wave Dave's
1993
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No Score Yet |
American Playhouse
1982-1996
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No Score Yet |
Remington Steele
1982-1987
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100% |
Equal Justice
1991
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No Score Yet |
Us & Them
2013-2014
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Quotes from Jane Kaczmarek's Characters
Marie Jones: | He hit you! |