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Jean Smart
Seattle, Washington, USA
Jean Elizabeth Smart (born September 13, 1951) is an American actress. She has received numerous accolades including five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, four Critics…
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Jean Elizabeth Smart (born September 13, 1951) is an American actress. She has received numerous accolades including five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, four Critics' Choice Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for a Tony Award and a Grammy Award. Smart first gained prominence for her leading role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women, in which she starred from 1986 to 1991. She went on to win five Primetime Emmy Awards for her roles as Lana Gardner in the NBC series Frasier (2000–01), Regina Newley in the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? (2007–09), and Deborah Vance in the HBO Max comedy series Hacks (2021–present). She was Emmy-nominated for her roles in The District (2000–04), 24 (2006–07), Harry's Law (2011), Fargo (2015), Watchmen (2019) and Mare of Easttown (2021). She also acted in FX's Legion (2017–2019) and voiced Ann Possible in the Disney Channel animated series Kim Possible (2002–2007). On stage, she made her Broadway debut portraying Marlene Dietrich in the biographical play Piaf (1981). She returned to Broadway in the revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000) for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Smart's film credits include The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), Garden State (2004), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Accountant (2016), A Simple Favor (2018), and Babylon (2022). She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Guinevere (1999). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Smart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Deborah Vance and Friends
Movie Deborah Vance
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2025
E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2025
Too Good
Movie God
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2025
Garden State - The 20th Anniversary Concert
Movie Self - Presenter
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2025
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Movie Self
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2025
The Studio
TV show Jean Smart
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2023
A Panoramic Canvas Called Babylon
Movie Self
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2023
Wildflower
Movie Peg
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2022
Babylon
Movie Elinor St. John
- 2022
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2021
Hacks
TV show Deborah Vance
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2021
Mare of Easttown
TV show Helen Fahey
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2021
Senior Moment
Movie Caroline Summers
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2020
Superintelligence
Movie President Monahan
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2019
Mad About You
TV show Chelsea Stevens-Kobolakis
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2019
Watchmen
TV show Laurie Blake
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2018
Dirty John
TV show Arlane Hart
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2018
A Shoe Addict's Christmas
Movie Charlie
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2018
Brampton's Own
Movie Judy
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2018
Life Itself
Movie Linda Dempsey
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2018
A Simple Favor
Movie Margaret McLanden
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2018
The Messenger
Movie The Woman
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2017
Big Mouth
TV show Depression Kitty (voice)
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2017
Awaken the Shadowman
Movie Evette
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2017
Legion
TV show Melanie Bird
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2016
The Accountant
Movie Rita Blackburn
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2016
Bad Internet
TV show President Powers
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2016
Getting Ed Laid
Movie The Hooker
- 2016
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2016
Angie Tribeca
TV show Carnie
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2014
The McCarthys
TV show Lydia
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2014
Miss Meadows
Movie Mother Meadows
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2014
Halt and Catch Fire
TV show LouLu Lutherford
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2014
Fargo
TV show Floyd Gerhardt
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2014
Sirens
TV show Nora Farrell
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self
