Holland Taylor

Holland Virginia Taylor (born January 14, 1943) is an American actress. She won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on ABC's The Practice (1998–2003). For her portrayal of Evelyn Harper on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men (2003–15), she received a total of four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Taylor's other notable television credits include starring roles on the sitcoms Bosom Buddies (1980–82), The Powers That Be (1992–93) and The Naked Truth (1995–98). She also appeared as Jill Ollinger on the soap opera All My Children (1981–83), as Peggy Peabody on The L Word (2004–08), and as Ida Silver on Mr. Mercedes (2017–19). In 2020, she received critical praise and her eighth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for portraying Ellen Kincaid in the Netflix miniseries Hollywood. Taylor's feature film credits include Romancing the Stone (1984) and its sequel (1985), Alice (1990), To Die For (1995), One Fine Day (1996), George of the Jungle (1997), The Truman Show (1998), Happy Accidents (2000), Keeping the Faith (2000), Legally Blonde (2001), The Wedding Date (2005), Baby Mama (2008), Gloria Bell (2018), Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), and The Stand In (2020). Taylor wrote and starred in the one-woman play, Ann, based on the life and work of Ann Richards. For this, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Holland Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 1943-01-14

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1969	J.T.	Mrs. Arnold	0
2	1976	The Next Man	TV Interviewer	46
3	1979	The Sorrows of Gin	Beverly Trencher	100
4	1979	O Youth and Beauty!	Beverly Trencher	100
5	1980	Fame	Claudia van Doren (uncredited)	64
6	1981	My Mother Was Never a Kid	Felicia Martin	0
7	1982	The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana	Frances Shand Kydd	47
8	1982	I Was a Mail Order Bride	Dottie Birmingham	56
9	1984	Romancing the Stone	Gloria	68
10	1985	The Jewel of the Nile	Gloria	62
11	1985	Key Exchange	Mrs. Fanshaw	48
12	1985	Perry Mason Returns	Paula Gordon	70
13	1987	The Saint in Manhattan	Fran Grogan	0
14	1987	Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson	Ernestine King	68
15	1988	She's Having a Baby	Sarah Briggs	59
16	1990	People Like Us	Dolly	43
17	1990	Alice	Helen	64
18	1991	The Rape of Doctor Willis	Dr. Greenway	45
19	1993	Cop & ½	Captain Rubio	45
20	1993	With Hostile Intent	Lois Baxter	60
21	1994	Betrayal of Trust	Mary Shelton	60
22	1994	In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness	Florence Newsom	65
23	1994	The Counterfeit Contessa	Wallace Everett	55
24	1994	The Favor	Maggie Sand	50
25	1995	A Walton Wedding	Aunt Flo	0
26	1995	Awake to Danger	Dr. Joyce Lindley	60
27	1995	Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester	Janice	75
28	1995	To Die For	Carol Stone	66
29	1995	Steal Big Steal Little	Mona Rowland-Downey	43
30	1995	How to Make an American Quilt	Mrs. Rubens	64
31	1995	Last Summer in the Hamptons	Davis Mora Axelrod	55
32	1996	One Fine Day	Rita	64
33	1997	Betty	Crystal Ball	20
34	1997	Just Write	Emma Jeffreys	53
35	1997	Who Is Henry Jaglom?	Self	66
36	1997	George of the Jungle	Beatrice Stanhope	56
37	1998	The Truman Show: Tru-Talk	Alanis Montclair	67
38	1998	The Truman Show	Angela Montclair / Alanis Montclair	81
39	1998	Next Stop Wonderland	Piper Castleton	59
40	1998	The Unknown Cyclist	Celia (uncredited)	47
41	1999	The Sex Monster	Muriel	52
42	2000	Happy Accidents	Therapist	68
43	2000	Mail to the Chief	Katherine Horner	57
44	2000	The Spiral Staircase	Emma	51
45	2000	Keeping the Faith	Bonnie Rose	61
46	2000	The Deadly Look of Love	Evelyn McGinnis	42
47	2001	Town & Country	Mistress of Ceremonies	44
48	2001	Legally Blonde	Professor Stromwell	68
49	2001	The Day Reagan Was Shot	Nancy Reagan	64
50	2002	Fits and Starts		0
51	2002	Cinderella II: Dreams Come True	Prudence (voice)	61
52	2002	Home Room	Dr. Hollander	68
53	2002	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams	Grandmother	56
54	2003	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over	Grandmother	51
55	2004	D.E.B.S.	Ms. Petrie	64
56	2005	The Wedding Date	Bunny	68
57	2007	Cinderella III: A Twist in Time	Prudence (voice)	65
58	2008	Baby Mama	Rose	60
59	2010	The Chosen One	Ruth	44
60	2011	Twinkle Toes	Principal Garfield (voice)	60
61	2016	Electric City	Voice Actor (voice)	65
62	2016	Divorce: The Greatest Hits		0
63	2016	Kepler's Dream	Violet von Stern	50
64	2018	Ann	Ann Richards	40
65	2019	Gloria Bell	Hillary Bell	60
66	2019	Bombshell	Faye (uncredited)	68
67	2020	To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You	Stormy	68
68	2020	Bill & Ted Face the Music	The Great Leader	59
69	2020	The Stand In	Barbara Cox	53
70	2021	Adele One Night Only	Self	79
71	2023	Quiz Lady	Francine	67
72	2024	The Little Pageant That Could	Self (archive footage)	0
73	2025	Fantasy Life		0
74	2025	Motherland	Toni	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	The Edge of Night		61
2	1971	Great Performances	Ernestine King	53
3	1972	ABC Afterschool Special	Felicia Martin	64
4	1973	Kojak	Elizabeth	70
5	1975	Beacon Hill	Marilyn Gardiner	50
6	1977	The Love Boat	Kathy Brighton	63
7	1980	Bosom Buddies	Ruth Dunbar	64
8	1984	Kate & Allie		59
9	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Winifred Thayer	75
10	1985	Me & Mom		50
11	1987	Harry		50
12	1987	CBS Summer Playhouse	Fran Grogan	63
13	1987	Wiseguy		65
14	1990	Going Places		55
15	1992	The Powers That Be	Margaret Powers	83
16	1993	Saved by the Bell: The College Years	Dean Susan McMann	68
17	1993	Diagnosis: Murder	Agent Gretchen McCord	71
18	1994	ER	Phyllis Farr	78
19	1995	The Naked Truth	Camilla Dane	64
20	1997	The Practice	Judge Roberta Kittleson	77
21	1997	Ally McBeal	Judge Roberta Kittleson	66
22	1997	Veronica's Closet	Millicent	52
23	1997	The Wonderful World of Disney		67
24	1998	Hercules	Queen Myrrha (voice)	68
25	1999	The Lot		5
26	2000	Big Brother	Self - Actress, 'Two & a ½ Men'	50
27	2000	Strong Medicine	Lillian Pynchon	71
28	2000	DAG	Kathering Twigg	70
29	2002	Baby Bob	Madeline Collins	100
30	2002	Monk	Peggy Davenport	79
31	2002	Fillmore!	Mrs. Cornwall (voice)	73
32	2003	E!'s 101	Self	0
33	2003	Two and a Half Men	Evelyn Harper	75
34	2004	The L Word	Peggy Peabody	76
35	2005	American Dad!	Mrs. Dawson (voice)	70
36	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
37	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
38	2016	Billions	Dr. Eleanor Mayer	77
39	2016	The New Yorker Presents	Truman's Moher	68
40	2016	Speechless	Andrea	71
41	2017	Mr. Mercedes	Ida Silver	71
42	2017	The Orville	Jeannie Mercer	76
43	2019	The Morning Show	Cybil Richards	78
44	2020	Stars in the House	Self	0
45	2020	Hollywood	Ellen Kincaid	73
46	2021	The Great North	Goldie (voice)	69
47	2021	The Chair	Joan Hambling	65
48		Brothers	Ma Mac	0

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