Elizabeth Marvel
Biography
Elizabeth Marvel (born November 27, 1969) is an American actress. Her most prominent roles include Det. Nancy Parras on The District, Solicitor General Heather Dunbar on House of Cards, and President Elizabeth Keane on Homeland. Film roles include Burn After Reading; Synecdoche, New York; True Grit; Lincoln; and The Meyerowitz Stories.
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Acting History
2026
Run Amok as Nancy
2025G20 as Treasury Secretary Joanna Worth
2024Presumed Innocent as Lorraine Horgan
2023The Color Purple as Miss Millie
2023Love & Death as Jackie Ponder
2023Mrs. Davis as Celeste Abbott
2022The Dropout as Noel Holmes
2021With/In Volume 2 as (segment "In the Air")
2021Being Dead as Celice Adkins
2021All the Little Things We Kill as Deb Anderson
2020News of the World as Mrs. Gannett
2020Helstrom as Victoria Helstrom
2020Swallow as Katherine Conrad
2019Dark Waters as Dr. Karen Frank (voice)
2019Unbelievable as Judith
2019Native Son as Mrs. Dalton
2018Manifest as The Major
2018The Land of Steady Habits as Sophie
2017The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) as Jean Meyerowitz
2017Easy Living as Abby
2017Gifted as Gloria Davis
2016The $100,000 Pyramid as Self
2016The Phenom as June Epland
2016The Congressman as Rae Blanchard
2015Consumed as Connie Conway
2015Aloha as Launch Announcer
2014A Most Violent Year as Mrs. Rose
2014Fargo as Constance Heck
2013King & Maxwell as Kelly Nelson
2013House of Cards as Heather Dunbar
2012Hyde Park on Hudson as Missy
2012Lincoln as Mrs. Jolly
2012Elementary as Cassandra Walker
2012The Bourne Legacy as Dr. Connie Dowd
2012The Newsroom as Sharon
2011Homeland as Elizabeth Keane
2011Person of Interest as Alicia Corwin
2011Somewhere Tonight as Martha
2010True Grit as 40-Year-Old Mattie
2010The Other Woman as Pia
2010Holy Rollers as Elka Gold
2010Goldstar, Ohio as Edie Deyarmin
2010Past Life as Lynn Sampels
2009White Collar as Dr. Mara Summers
2009The Good Wife as Lauren Chatham
2009A Dog Year as Margo
2008The Guitar as Ma Wilder
2008Synecdoche, New York as Warehouse Realtor
2008Burn After Reading as Sandy Pfarrer
2008Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women as Louisa May Alcott
2008Pretty Bird as Tonya Honeycutt
200630 Rock as Emily
2006Kidnapped
2005The Dying Gaul as Kelli
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Sylvia Moon
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Jenny Hendry
2000The District as Nancy Parras
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Rita Calhoun
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Frantz
1998A Will of their Own as Diana
1993Homicide: Life on the Street
1990Law & Order as Ms. Grubman
1990Law & Order as Rita Calhoun
—The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd
—Devoted as Kay