Beth Grant

Beth Grant (born September 18, 1949) is an American actress. She is known for often playing characters who are conservatives, religious zealots or sticklers for rules. She has appeared in dozens of films, including Rain Man, Speed; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar; Love Field; Donnie Darko; A Time to Kill; Little Miss Sunshine; Child's Play 2; Daltry Calhoun; City Slickers 2; Don't Tell Her It's Me; Matchstick Men; Factory Girl; The Wizard; Sordid Lives; The Rookie; All About Steve; No Country for Old Men, Crazy Heart, and Rango. Grant has also appeared in many TV shows, including Everwood; Delta; The Golden Girls; Malcolm in the Middle; The X-Files; Friends; CSI; Six Feet Under; Wonderfalls; My Name Is Earl; Yes, Dear; King of the Hill; The Office; Angel; Judging Amy; Jericho; Sordid Lives: The Series; Criminal Minds, Sabrina The Teenage Witch; True Blood; How I Met Your Mother; and The Mentalist. Grant was born in Gadsden, Alabama, and is an alumna of East Carolina University. She is married to actor Michael Chieffo with whom she has one child. Grant played the same character, Marianne Marie Beetle, in the short-lived show Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, both created by Bryan Fuller. Description above from the Wikipedia article Beth Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Gadsden, Alabama, USA, 1949-09-18

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1986	Picnic	Irma Kronkite	0
2	1987	Deadly Care	Madge	60
3	1987	Under Cover	Miss Randolph	48
4	1988	Rain Man	Mother at Farm House	78
5	1989	The Wizard	Diner Manager	60
6	1990	The Image	Martha Packard	42
7	1990	Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael	Lillian Logerfield	62
8	1996	Norma Jean & Marilyn	Grace Goddard	62
9	1998	Doctor Dolittle	Woman	57
10	1998	Dance with Me	Lovejoy	69
11	1998	Making Sandwiches	Mrs Hellman	57
12	2001	Pearl Harbor	Motherly Secretary	69
13	2001	Rock Star	Mrs. Cole	67
14	2002	Birdseye	Ruth Betters	0
15	2005	Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend	Angela	72
16	2009	Stolen	Older Edvena	59
17	2009	Crazy Heart	Jo Ann	69
18	2010	Spork	Principal Tulip	59
19	2015	Addicted to Fresno	Tilda	52
20		The Long Home	Mrs. Winer	0
21	1990	Fall From Grace	Paulene	53
22	1990	Flatliners	Housewife	65
23	1990	Don't Tell Her It's Me	Babette	57
24	1990	Child's Play 2	Miss Kettlewell	63
25	1990	Eating	Carla	17
26	1991	Switched at Birth	Sophie	60
27	1992	Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story	Pat McGinty	25
28	1992	White Sands	Roz Kincaid	59
29	1992	Love Field	Hazel	59
30	1993	The Dark Half	Shayla Beaumont	60
31	1994	Speed	Helen	71
32	1994	City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold	Lois	53
33	1995	Lieberman in Love	Linda Baker	69
34	1995	Safe	Becky (Auditorium Speaker)	70
35	1995	To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar	Loretta	74
36	1996	A Time to Kill	Cora Mae Cobb	74
37	1997	To Dance with Olivia		0
38	1997	Desert's Edge		0
39	1997	A Thousand Acres	Roberta	58
40	1997	Love Always	Stephanie	0
41	1997	Lawn Dogs	Trent's Mother	71
42	1997	Interruptions		20
43	1999	Blue Valley Songbird	Ruby	46
44	2000	Sordid Lives	Sissy Hickey	65
45	2001	Donnie Darko	Kitty Farmer	78
46	2001	The Rising Place	Melvina Pou	60
47	2001	Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man	Louisa Ashland	63
48	2002	Desert Saints	Lou	57
49	2002	The Rookie	Olline	68
50	2003	Matchstick Men	Laundry Lady	70
51	2003	Evil Alien Conquerors	Sheila	54
52	2004	A Thief Of Time	Ranger Mildred Luna	47
53	2004	Donnie Darko: Production Diary	Self	75
54	2004	A One Time Thing	Mom	0
55	2005	#1 Fan: A Darkomentary	Self	66
56	2005	Our Very Own	Virginia Kendal	59
57	2005	Hard Pill	Mom	55
58	2005	Daltry Calhoun	Ciotka Dee	51
59	2006	Hot Tamale	Dori Woodriff	53
60	2006	Rocker	Mrs. Hill	22
61	2006	Little Miss Sunshine	Nancy Jenkins	77
62	2006	Hard Scrambled	Alice	50
63	2006	Flags of Our Fathers	Mother Gagnon	69
64	2006	Factory Girl	Julia Warhol	60
65	2007	The Ungodly	Emma Lemac	47
66	2007	No Country for Old Men	Carla Jean's Mother	79
67	2007	The House of Usher	Mrs. Thatcher	45
68	2007	Welcome to Paradise	Frances Loren	68
69	2007	Southland Tales	Dr. Inga Von Westphalen	52
70	2008	Polar Opposites	General Railen	41
71	2008	Henry Poole Is Here	Josie	59
72	2008	Hide	Candy	54
73	2009	Winged Creatures	Carla's Mom	59
74	2009	All About Steve	Mrs. Horowitz	50
75	2009	Extract	Mary	58
76	2009	Dear Lemon Lima	Principal Applebomb	56
77	2009	Herpes Boy	Mom	0
78	2009	Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe	Self	30
79	2010	In My Sleep	Evelyn	54
80	2010	Operation: Endgame	Susan	50
81	2011	Valley of the Sun	Marva	44
82	2011	Sedona	Deb	56
83	2011	Rango	Bonnie (voice)	69
84	2011	Hollywood to Dollywood	Self	74
85	2011	Mister Handsome	Emily's Mom	0
86	2011	The Artist	Peppy's Maid	75
87	2011	Life of Lemon	Phyllis	100
88	2012	Blues for Willadean	Willadeen Winkler	45
89	2012	La Classe américaine	Self	58
90	2012	Mockingbird Lane	Marie	63
91	2013	Miss Dial	Mrs. Wojiechowski	51
92	2013	The Violation	Linda Heim	48
93	2013	Out West	Tiffany Alcott	40
94	2013	Bad Words	Bedazzled Judge	64
95	2013	As I Lay Dying	Addie Bundren	52
96	2014	Odyssea	Woman	0
97	2014	Faults	Evelyn	67
98	2015	The Bridge Partner	Mattie Whalen	68
99	2015	Alex of Venice	Teacher	59
100	2015	Just Before I Go	Mrs. Lawrence	64
101	2015	Consumed	Kristin Kessler	55
102	2015	The Midnight Swim	Amelia Brooks / Great Aunt	49
103	2016	Band of Robbers	Widow Douglas	59
104	2016	Boys on Film 14: Worlds Collide	Linda Heim (segment "The Violation")	40
105	2016	Great Plains	Tess	68
106	2016	Tond	Janice	0
107	2016	Six L.A. Love Stories	Meg Albright	50
108	2016	All In	Cynthia	0
109	2016	Heartland	Crystal	59
110	2016	In Dubious Battle	Ethel	59
111	2016	Jackie	Lady Bird Johnson	65
112	2016	The Labyrinth	Betsy	92
113	2017	Actors Anonymous		60
114	2017	Domain	Nadine	57
115	2017	Tenn	Edwina Williams	30
116	2017	I Do... Until I Don't	Phyllis	50
117	2017	Lucky	Elaine	73
118	2018	Nostalgia	Anna O'Bryan	55
119		Underwater Upside Down	Mrs. Sheraton	100
120	2017	Tiny Mammals	Narrator	75
121	2018	Wake the Riderless Horse	Brenda	0
122	2018	Andover	Rebecca	52
123	2018	Mississippi Requiem		0
124	2018	Hover	Joanna	52
125	2018	The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer	Ms. Dobbins	0
126	2019	William	Dr. Thomas	62
127	2019	Hold On	Shelly	0
128	2020	La Sirena	Penny	60
129	2020	Sordid Lives		0
130	2020	Fully Realized Humans	Tipper	48
131	2020	Words on Bathroom Walls	Sister Catherine	78
132	2020	Wander Darkly	Patty	61
133	2021	Willy's Wonderland	Sheriff Eloise Lund	60
134	2021	Grave Intentions	Mattie Whalen (segment "The Bridge Partner")	44
135	2022	Amsterdam	Mrs. Dillenbeck	61
136	2023	Maximum Truth	Mary Jo Nackserson	56
137	2024	Sweet Dreams	Sandra	49
138	2024	Doc of Chucky	Self	0
139		Remarkably Bright Creatures		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1984	Hunter	Dottie Pinder	72
2	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Meg Thomas	75
3	1985	The Golden Girls	Terry Franco	75
4	1985	The Golden Girls	Louise	75
5	1987	Hooperman		61
6	1988	TV 101		50
7	1989	Coach	Martha	68
8	1989	Coach	Maid	68
9	1989	I Know My First Name Is Steven	Mrs. Beta	67
10	1990	The Outsiders	Mrs. Jones	73
11	1990	Dream On	Farm Woman	69
12	1992	Delta	Thelma Wainwright	60
13	1993	The X-Files	Iris Finster	84
14	1993	Bakersfield P.D.	Donna Stiles	80
15	1993	Diagnosis: Murder	Penelope	71
16	1994	Friends	Lizzy	84
17	1996	Goode Behavior	Pearl	0
18	1996	The Pretender	Mrs. Haring	74
19	1996	Sabrina, the Teenage Witch	Mrs. Popowski	78
20	1996	Sabrina, the Teenage Witch	Mrs. Grant	78
21	1997	King of the Hill	Tilly Hill (voice)	73
22	1997	King of the Hill	Nurse (voice)	73
23	1997	King of the Hill	Doris (voice)	73
24	1997	King of the Hill	Blanche (voice)	73
25	1997	King of the Hill	Nurse (voice) (uncredited)	73
26	1997	King of the Hill	(voice)	73
27	1998	Two Guys and a Girl	Tufts College Employee	72
28	1998	Maximum Bob	Inez Crowe	65
29	1999	Providence	Lillian Gerrish	65
30	1999	Judging Amy	Principal Mott	75
31	1999	Angel	Maude Pearson	79
32	2000	Malcolm in the Middle	Dorene Hooper	85
33	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Sally Roth	76
34	2001	Six Feet Under	Dorothy Sheedy	81
35	2001	According to Jim	Mrs. Whitney	65
36	2002	Everwood	Miss Violet	75
37	2002	8 Simple Rules	Mrs. Whitley	68
38	2002	Boomtown	Landlady	65
39	2003	The Pitts	Nadine	50
40	2004	Wonderfalls	Marianne Marie Beattle	77
41	2005	Medium	Librarian	75
42	2005	American Dad!	(voice)	70
43	2005	The Office	Melvina	86
44	2005	Grey's Anatomy	Sheila Olsen	82
45	2005	Bones	Lizbeth Harding	82
46	2005	My Name Is Earl	Lorraine Mariano	77
47	2005	Criminal Minds	Anita Weld Roycewood	83
48	2006	Jericho	Gracie Leigh	74
49	2006	Dexter	Donna Randall	82
50	2007	Drive	The Waitress	62
51	2007	Pushing Daisies	Marianne Marie Beattle	78
52	2008	The Secret Life of the American Teenager	Victoria	71
53	2008	Sordid Lives: The Series	Sissy Hickey	72
54	2009	Modern Family	Maxine	79
55	2010	Justified	Mother Truth	79
56	2012	The Mindy Project	Beverly	62
57	2012	Mockingbird Lane	Marie	70
58	2014	I Didn't Do It	Judy Tanzer-Dinkins	76
59	2015	Con Man	Susan	66
60	2016	Goliath	Judge Meredith Caplan Reiss	76
61	2017	A Series of Unfortunate Events	Woman with Hair But No Beard	74
62	2017	American Gods	Jack	71
63	2019	Dollface	Cat Lady	71
64	2020	Beef House	Eric's Mom	64
65	2020	Teenage Bounty Hunters	Church Lady	77
66	2022	Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin' Jimmy	Ms. Retch (voice)	38
67	2022	Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin' Jimmy	Mrs. Brockfrater (voice)	38
68	2023	Mayfair Witches	Carlotta Mayfair	74
69	2023	Carol & the End of the World	Pauline (voice)	76
70	2025	Unconventional	Charlene Baker	0
71	2025	The Bondsman	Kitty	0