Laurie Metcalf

Image via Wikipedia
Lauren Elizabeth "Laurie" Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an American actress. She is widely known for her performance as Jackie Harris on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, the voice of Mrs. Davis in the Toy Story film series and as Debbie Salt in Scream 2. She is presently working in Chicago theater, where she is well-known for her performance in the 1983 revival of Balm in Gilead. She is also a part of Plan USA, a humanitarian organization which helps children in need around the world.
She is a three-time Emmy award winner, as well as being nominated for two Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Contents [hide]
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Stage
2.2 Television and film
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
5 Awards and nominations
6 References
7 External links
[edit]Early life

Metcalf was born in Carbondale, Illinois, the eldest of three children, and was raised in Edwardsville, Illinois. Her father was the budget director at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and her mother, Libby, was a librarian.[1][2] Her great-aunt was the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Zoe Akins.[3] Metcalf is an alumna of Illinois State University, class of 1976.[4]
[edit]Career

[edit]Stage
Metcalf attended Illinois State University and obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Theater in 1977. While at ISU, she met fellow theater students, among them John Malkovich, Glenne Headley, Joan Allen, and Gary Sinise - who went on to establish Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Metcalf began her professional career at Steppenwolf. It was in Steppenwolf that Metcalf got the nickname "crazy pants." In 1981, she was brought on as a performer on Saturday Night Live for their cast, but appeared in only one episode before the season abruptly ended due to a writer's strike; she was not asked back in the fall. In 1983, Metcalf went to New York to appear in a Steppenwolf production of Balm in Gilead, for which she received the 1984 Obie Award for Best Actress. Metcalf was showered with praise for her performance as, "Darlene," specifically for her tour de force twenty minute Act Two monologue. She relocated to Manhattan and began to work in both film and theater, most recently in David Mamet's November.
“ 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. ”
 
— Chicago critic Richard Christiansen on Balm in Gilead
Through the end of June 2009, Metcalf starred with French Stewart in Justin Tanner's play, Voice Lessons, 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 but one week while the latter was canceled prior to opening. Voice Lessons, however, with its original cast intact, went on to two more runs - one Off-Broadway in May 2010,[5] and another in Hollywood in May 2011.[6]
In September 2010, Metcalf returned to Steppenwolf and starred in Lisa D'Amour's play, Detroit. In the Spring of 2011, she began work on an off-Broadway play, The Other Place by Sharr White .[7]
[edit]Television and film
Metcalf has performed in roles that range from very large to very small in many films, including Desperately Seeking Susan, Making Mr. Right, Miles from Home, Internal Affairs, Stars and Bars, Uncle Buck, Beer League, A Dangerous Woman, Pacific Heights, 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, and Stop Loss. In JFK, she played a dramatic role against type, as one of Jim Garrison's chief investigators. She appeared as the murderous mother of "Billy Loomis" in the horror film Scream 2 and portrayed real-life Carolyn McCarthy in the television movie The Long Island Incident.
Metcalf has appeared in several television series, including being a cast member for only one episode of Saturday Night Live on the final episode of the show's tumultuous 1980-1981 season, but she is best-known as "Jackie", sister to the title character in the hit series Roseanne. Her performance garnered her three consecutive Emmy Awards. Roseanne ran from 1988 to 1997, and Laurie appeared as Jackie over the show's entire run.
She subsequently appeared with Norm Macdonald on The Norm Show (or Norm), which ran for three seasons, and was also a regular character on the 2003 Nathan Lane series Charlie Lawrence, which was cancelled after only two episodes aired. She made guest appearances on Absolutely Fabulous, Malcolm in the Middle, Monk, My Boys, Dharma & Greg, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Frasier and Without a Trace
She took a recurring role on Desperate Housewives–for which she received an Emmy and a Satellite Award nomination–and alongside her ex-husband Jeff Perry in an episode of Grey's Anatomy. In fall 2008, Metcalf starred in the 2008 CW dramedy Easy Money as the matriarch of a family of loan sharks. The series was canceled after only three episodes. She has also had a recurring guest star role as Sheldon Cooper's mother Mary on The Big Bang Theory, alongside former Roseanne cast-mates Johnny Galecki and Sara Gilbert.
[edit]Personal life

Metcalf married Steppenwolf co-founding member Jeff Perry. They had a daughter, Zoe in 1984, and later divorced.[8]
Metcalf later fell in love 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 work together on occasion, as in the 1994 feature film thriller Blink and the 1998 drama Chicago Cab.[9] Both Metcalf and Roth appeared in the same episode of Desperate Housewives. Their daughter Mae was born in 2005 via surrogate.
In September of 2011, Matt filed papers citing irreconcilable differences. According to legal documents, the date of separation is November 26, 2008.
[edit]Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1978 A Wedding Maid Uncredited Role
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/Ghostface
1998 Bulworth Mimi
1999 Runaway Bride Betty Trout Uncredited Role
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 Artie's Mom
2007 Meet the Robinsons Lucille Krunklehorn-Robinson Voice role
2007 Georgia Rule Paula Richards
2008 Stop-Loss Mrs. Colson
2008 Persepolis Mother of a young teenage boy Voice role
2010 Toy Story 3 Mrs. Davis Voice role
2011 Hop Mrs. Bunny Voice role
Title
Year Title Role Notes
1981 Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Reporter Episode: Jr. Walker & The All-Stars
1985 The Execution of Raymond Graham Carol Graham Television film
1986 The Equalizer Theresa Episode: "No Conscience"
1988–97 Roseanne Jackie Harris 221 episodes
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Comedy Series (1992–94)
Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series (1995)
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film (1993, 1995)
1995–96 Duckman Voice role
Episodes: "Research and Destroy" and "Forbidden Fruit"
1997 King of the Hill Cissy Cobb 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 Episodes: "What's Love Got to Do, Got to Do With Dick?", "I Am Dick Pentameter!" and "D3 - Judgment Day"
Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series
1999 Balloon Farm Casey Johnson Television film
1999–01 The Norm Show Laurie Freeman 54 episodes
2000 God, the Devil and Bob Donna Allman Voice role
13 episodes
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"
Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series
2006 Grey's Anatomy Beatrice Carver Episode: "The Name of the Game"
2006 Desperate Housewives Carolyn Bigsby 4 episodes
Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
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"
2007–10 The Big Bang Theory Mary Episodes: "The Luminous Fish Effect", "The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation" and "The Zazzy Substitution"
2008–09 Easy Money Bobette Buffkin 8 episodes
2009 The Farm Warden Margaret Elder Unsold pilot
[edit]Awards and nominations

Emmy Awards
1992 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for: Roseanne
1993 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for: Roseanne
1994 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for: Roseanne
Nominations
1995 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Roseanne
1999 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for: 3rd Rock From the Sun
2006 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for: Monk
2007 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for: Desperate Housewives
Golden Globe Awards
Nominations
1993 Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for: Roseanne
1995 Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for: Roseanne
Tony Awards
Nominations
2008 Best Featured Actress In A Play for: November