Holland Taylor
Holland Taylor
Biography
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
Actor
as Francine
as Self
as Joan Hambling
as Goldie (voice)
as Barbara Cox
as The Great Leader
as Stormy
as Ellen Kincaid
as Self
as Faye (uncredited)
as Hillary Bell
as Cybil Richards
as Ann Richards
as Jeannie Mercer
as Ida Silver
as Violet von Stern
as Voice Actor (voice)
as Andrea
as Truman's Moher
as Dr. Eleanor Mayer
as Self
as Principal Garfield (voice)
as Ruth
as Rose
as Prudence (voice)
as Ms. Petrie
as Bunny
as Mrs. Dawson (voice)
as Peggy Peabody
as Grandmother
as Evelyn Harper
as Self
as Grandmother
as Dr. Hollander
as Prudence (voice)
as Mrs. Cornwall (voice)
as Peggy Davenport
as Madeline Collins
as Nancy Reagan
as Professor Stromwell
as Mistress of Ceremonies
as Evelyn McGinnis
as Bonnie Rose
as Katherine Horner
as Emma
as Therapist
as Kathering Twigg
as Lillian Pynchon
as Guest
as Muriel
as Celia (uncredited)
as Piper Castleton
as Angela Montclair / Alanis Montclair
as Alanis Montclair
as Queen Myrrha (voice)
as Beatrice Stanhope
as Self
as Emma Jeffreys
as Crystal Ball
as Millicent
as Judge Roberta Kittleson
as Rita
as Davis Mora Axelrod
as Mrs. Rubens
as Mona Rowland-Downey
as Carol Stone
as Dr. Joyce Lindley
as Aunt Flo
as Camilla Dane
as Maggie Sand
as Wallace Everett
as Florence Newsom
as Mary Shelton
as Phyllis Farr
as Lois Baxter
as Captain Rubio
as Agent Gretchen McCord
as Dean Susan McMann
as Margaret Powers
as Dr. Greenway
as Helen
as Dolly
as Sarah Briggs
as Ernestine King
as Fran Grogan
as Fran Grogan
as Paula Gordon
as Mrs. Fanshaw
as Gloria
as Gloria
as Winifred Thayer
as Dottie Birmingham
as Frances Shand Kydd
as Felicia Martin
as Claudia van Doren (uncredited)
as Ruth Dunbar
as Beverly Trencher
as Beverly Trencher
as TV Interviewer
as Elizabeth
as Felicia Martin
as Ernestine King
as Mrs. Arnold
Crew
as Thanks
Writer
as Writer