Mary Kay Place

Highest Rated:
93% Being John Malkovich (1999)
Lowest Rated:
8% Mama's Boy (2007)
Birthday:
Sep 23, 1947
Birthplace:
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Bio:
University of Tulsa graduate Mary Kay Place hightailed it to Hollywood in hopes of becoming a writer and performer of comedy material. She was hired for 1970s The Tim Conway Comedy Hour as a production assistant to both star Conway and producer Norman Lear. It was Conway who gave her her first…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 8% - 93%
Number of Movies: 65
Box Office Since 2001: $598.0M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 45% Leonie
  • Albiana Leonie's Mother
$48.8k
2013 Milo
  • Actor
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2012 84% Smashed
  • Rochelle
$0.4M
2010 66% Youth in Revolt
  • Mrs. Saunders
$15.2M
2010 57% Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4)
  • Guard Witch
$238.3M
2009 75% Julie & Julia
  • Julie's Mother
$94.1M
2009 56% It's Complicated
  • Joanne
$112.7M
2008 53% City of Ember
  • Mrs. Murdo
$7.8M
2008 50% The Toe Tactic
  • Mona's Mom
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2008 War Eagle, Arkansas
  • Jessie
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2007 8% Mama's Boy
  • Barbara
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2006 Killer Diller
  • Actor
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2005 75% Nine Lives
  • Alma
$0.1M
2005 60% Lonesome Jim
  • Sally
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2004 75% Death & Texas
  • Actor
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2004 48% Silver City
  • Grace Seymour
$0.9M
2004 43% Latter Days
  • Gladys Davis
$0.6M
2004 Killer Diller
  • Dr. Bradley
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2003 Nobody Knows Anything
  • Actor
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2003 44% Evergreen
  • Director
  • Susan Turly
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2002 Nailed
  • Actor
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2002 Junk
  • Actor
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2002 37% Sweet Home Alabama
  • Pearl Smooter
$127.2M
2001 49% Human Nature
  • Nathan's Mother
$0.7M
2001 53% My First Mister
  • Patty [Nurse]
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2001 48% The Safety of Objects
  • Helen Christianson
$86.2k
2001 Nailed
  • Actor
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2001 A Woman's a Helluva Thing
  • Cecilia
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2000 45% Committed
  • Actor
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1999 93% Being John Malkovich
  • Floris
  • Director
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1999 54% Girl, Interrupted
  • Mrs. Gilcrest
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1999 Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story
  • Jan Martinez
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1998 Naturally Native
  • Madam Celeste
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1998 52% Pecker
  • Joyce
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1997 85% Eye Of God
  • Claire Spencer
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1997 My Very Best Friend
  • Actor
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1997 82% The Rainmaker
  • Dot Black
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1996 80% Citizen Ruth
  • Gail
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1996 62% Manny & Lo
  • Elaine
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1996 Indecent Seduction (For My Daughter's Honor)
  • Amy's Mother
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1995 Gospel According to Jesus
  • Actor
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1994 Teresa's Tattoo
  • Nora
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1992 Samantha
  • Marilyn
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1992 21% Captain Ron
  • Katherine Harvey
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1991 Crazy From The Heart
  • Merilee
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1991 80% Bright Angel
  • Judy
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1989 Out on the Edge
  • Sondra Evetts
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1988 29% A New Life
  • Donna
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1988 Portrait Of A White Marriage
  • Actor
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1986 The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
  • Actor
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1985 78% Smooth Talk
  • Katherine
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1985 The History of White People in America
  • Actor
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1985 78% Explorers
  • Mrs. Crandall
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1984 For Love or Money
  • K.K.
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1983 Waltz Across Texas
  • Kit
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1983 68% The Big Chill
  • Meg
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1983 87% Terms of Endearment
  • Doris
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1981 Modern Problems
  • Lorraine
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1980 87% Private Benjamin
  • Pvt. Mary Lou Glass
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1980 Act of Love
  • Becky Wiggins
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1979 22% More American Graffiti
  • Teensa
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1979 Starting Over
  • Marie
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1977 67% New York, New York
  • Bernice
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1976 82% Bound for Glory
  • Actor
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1972 Kansas City Bomber
  • Actor
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Quotes from Mary Kay Place's Characters

    1. Meg: I feel terrible. The last time I spoke with Alex we had a fight. I yelled at him.
    2. Nick: That's probably why he killed himself.
    From The Big Chill. Submitted by Mark H (8 months ago)
    1. Gladys Davis: My son? Let me tell you something you son of a bitch, thanks to you, my son took a razor to his wrist! Thanks to you, I have lost my son! [cuts to Christian on the phone, Glady's voice] And I hope you burn! I hope you burn forever!
    From Latter Days. Submitted by Nhia T (16 months ago)
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