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Tess Harper

Highest Rated:: 100% Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Lowest Rated:: 0% Karla (2005)

Birthday:: Aug 15, 1950
Birthplace:: Not Available
Bio:: Born in Arkansas and schooled in Missouri, actress Tess Harper worked hard to shed her Southern accent. Nevertheless, some of her best movies have been set in the American South. Her film breakthrough came in 1983 opposite Robert Duvall in Bruce Beresford's Tender Mercies. As compassionate Rosa Lee,…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%

Number of Movies: 46

Box Office Since 2001: $74.4M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2011		A Christmas Wish	Actor	--
2008		Fatal Secrets	Actor	--
2007		Saving Sarah Cain	Miriam	--
2007	12%	Broken	Actor	--
2007	95%	No Country for Old Men	Loretta Bell	$74.2M
2007	29%	Kiss the Bride	Barbara	--
2006	5%	Broken Bridges	Actor	$0.2M
2005	0%	Karla	Molly Czehowicz	--
2005		Jam	Ruby	--
2005		Jesus, Mary and Joey	Actor	--
2005	74%	Loggerheads	Elizabeth	--
2004		Angel in the Family	Mrs. Nelly Tomkins	--
2002	13%	The Rising Place	Rebecca Hodge	--
2002		Christy: The Sweetest Gift	Actor	--
2000	2%	The In Crowd	Actor	--
1998		Christy - Amazing Grace	Actor	--
1997		The Secret (The Killing Secret)	Actor	--
1997	12%	The Jackal	The First Lady	--
1996		The Road To Galveston	Actor	--
1996		A Stranger To Love	Linda Grant	--
1994		Death in Small Doses	Actor	--
1992		Children of Fury	Actor	--
1992	50%	My New Gun	Kimmy Hayes	--
1992		Turning	Martha Harnish	--
1991	33%	My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys	Cheryl Hornby	--
1991	89%	The Man in the Moon	Abigail Trant	--
1990		Dark River - A Father's Revenge	Actor	--
1990		Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?	Sara Lee	--
1989	15%	Her Alibi	Sally Blackwood	--
1989		Incident at Dark River	Actor	--
1989	38%	Criminal Law	Detective Stillwell	--
1988	17%	Far North	Rita	--
1988		Little Girl Lost	Actor	--
1988		In the Line of Duty: Siege at Marion (Children of Fury)	Actor	--
1987	19%	Ishtar	Willa	--
1987		Daddy	Actor	--
1986	100%	Crimes of the Heart	Chick Boyle	--
1985		Celebrity	Susan French	--
1984		Reckless Disregard	Meredith Craig	--
1984		A Summer to Remember	Actor	--
1984		Flashpoint	Ellen	--
1983	0%	Amityville 3-D	Nancy Baxter	--
1983		Chiefs	Carrie Lee	--
1983	85%	Tender Mercies	Rosa Lee	--
1983	70%	Silkwood	Linda Dawson	--
1983		Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (Airport 85)(Starflight One)	Actor	--

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Quotes from Tess Harper's Characters

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1. Loretta Bell: How'd you sleep?
2. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: I don't know. Had dreams.
3. Loretta Bell: Well you got time for 'em now. Anythin' interesting?
4. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: They always is to the party concerned.
5. Loretta Bell: Ed Tom, I'll be polite.
6. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em. It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember too well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past... and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up...
From No Country for Old Men. Submitted by Jennifer S (6 months ago)