Dana Ivey

Dana Ivey (born August 12, 1941) is an American actress. She is a five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, and won the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her work in both Sex and Longing and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. She originated the title role in Driving Miss Daisy and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for Best Actress in a Play. Her film appearances include The Color Purple (1985), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), The Addams Family (1991), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Addams Family Values (1993), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Rush Hour 3 (2007), and The Help (2011).

Known For: Acting

Born: Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 1941-08-12

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1985	Explorers	Mrs. Müller	62
2	1985	The Color Purple	Miss Millie	78
3	1986	Sunday in the Park with George	Yvonne / Naomi	73
4	1986	Heartburn	Wedding Speaker	60
5	1988	The Appointments of Dennis Jennings	Newscaster	65
6	1988	Another Woman	Engagement Party Guest	68
7	1988	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	Mrs. Reed	71
8	1990	Postcards from the Edge	Wardrobe Mistress	66
9	1990	William Shakespeare's Hamlet	Gertrude	0
10	1991	The Addams Family	Margaret Alford / Margaret Addams	70
11	1992	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York	Desk Clerk	68
12	1992	A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story	Lois Jurgens	69
13	1993	The Adventures of Huck Finn	Widow Douglas	62
14	1993	Class of '61	Mrs. Julia Peyton	44
15	1993	Guilty as Sin	Judge Tompkins	57
16	1993	Sleepless in Seattle	Claire	67
17	1993	Addams Family Values	Margaret Addams	70
18	1995	The Scarlet Letter	Meredith Stonehall	61
19	1995	Sabrina	Mack	62
20	1998	Simon Birch	Grandmother Wenteworth	68
21	1998	The Impostors	Mrs. Essendine	58
22	1999	Walking Across Egypt	Beatrice Vernon	49
23	1999	A Lesson Before Dying	Edna Guidry	52
24	1999	Mumford	Mrs. Crisp	65
25	2000	The Kid	Dr. Alexander	67
26	2002	Orange County	Vera Gantner	60
27	2002	Two Weeks Notice	Ruth Kelson	64
28	2003	Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde	Congresswoman Libby Hauser	57
29	2006	A Very Serious Person	Betty	58
30	2007	Rush Hour 3	Sister Agnes	65
31	2007	Broken English	Elinor Gregory	60
32	2008	Ghost Town	Marjorie Pickthall	65
33	2009	Did You Hear About the Morgans?	Trish Pinger	54
34	2011	The Help	Gracie Higginbotham	82
35	2013	Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight	Mrs. Paige	64
36	2014	We'll Never Have Paris	Francoise	49
37	2017	Broadway: The Next Generation	Self	100
38	2017	Professional Cuddler	Gloria	0
39	2018	The Leisure Seeker	Lillian	71
40	2018	Ocean's Eight	Diana	70
41	2019	Georgica	Dorothy	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	The Beachcomber	Kahlana	0
2	1971	Great Performances	Lady Ariadne Utterword	54
3	1971	Great Performances	Gertrude	54
4	1982	Little Gloria... Happy at Last		68
5	1986	Easy Street		57
6	1990	Law & Order	Shore	74
7	1993	Homicide: Life on the Street	Margie Bolander	80
8	1993	Frasier	Ms. Langer	77
9	1997	The Practice		77
10	1997	Oz	Patricia Nathan	80
11	1998	Sex and the City	Trudy Stork	74
12	2002	Monk	Mrs. Eels	79
13	2006	Ugly Betty	Roberta	63
14	2008	The Return of Jezebel James		25
15	2010	Boardwalk Empire	Mrs. McGarry	80