Martha Plimpton
Biography
Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American singer, stage and screen actress, best known for playing the lead role of Virginia Chance on the television sitcom "Raising Hope", and for guest starring as Patti Nyholm in the CBS legal drama "The Good Wife".
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Acting History
2025
This Ordinary Thing as Voice
2025Task as Kathleen McGinty
2025Sovereign as Lesley Anne
2025Prime Target as Jane Torres
2024Sardinia as Judith
2023A Town Called Malice as Mint Ma Lord
2022Sprung as Barb
2022The Man Who Fell to Earth as Intake Officer K. Faraday
2021Mass as Gail
2021Genera+ion as Megan
2020Pitch Black Panacea as Amy (voice)
2020Reunited Apart as Self
2019Frozen II as Yelena (voice)
2019Flack as Clara
2018The Shivering Truth as (voice)
2018Honey Bee as Louise
2018Minecraft: Story Mode as Olivia (voice)
2017Hello Again as Ruth
2017The Guest Book as Shelley
2017Brockmire as Shirley
2016To Tell the Truth as Self - Panelist
2016Baroness von Sketch Show as Margo
2016The Real O'Neals as Eileen O'Neal
2015Younger as Cheryl Sussman
2013The Blacklist as Dr. Sharon Fulton
2011Company as Sarah
2011Adventures in Plymptoons! as Self
2010Raising Hope as Virginia Chance
2010Small Town Murder Songs as Sam
2010Remember Me as Alyssa Craig's Mom (uncredited)
2010How to Make It in America
2009The Good Wife as Patti Nyholm
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2008Fringe as Sheriff Ann Mathis
2008Marvelous as Gwen
2007Dante's Inferno as Celia / Lobbyist Singer / Lizzie Borden (voice)
2005Surface as Mr. Big
2005Grey's Anatomy as Pam Michaelson
2005Medium as Rosemary Widdick
2005The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
2004Hair High as Miss Crumbles (voice)
2003Karen Sisco
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002Hack as Louise O'Connor
2002Searching for Debra Winger as Self
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Jo Gage
2001The Sleepy Time Gal as Rebecca
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Claire Rinato
1999200 Cigarettes as Monica
1999Family Guy as Stephanie (voice)
1998The Defenders: Taking the First as MJ Preston
1998Pecker as Tina
1998Music from Another Room as Karen Swan
1998The Defenders: Choice of Evils as Mary Jane Preston
1998Independent's Day as Self
1997Eye of God as Ainsley DuPree
1997The Defenders: Payback as M.J. Preston
1997Who Is Henry Jaglom? as Self
1997Colin Fitz as Ann
1996I'm Not Rappaport as Laurie Campbell
19967th Heaven as Venus
1996I Shot Andy Warhol as Stevie
1996Beautiful Girls as Jan
1995Last Summer in the Hamptons as Chloe Garfield
1994The Beans of Egypt, Maine as Earlene Pomerleau
1994ER as Meg Corwin
1994Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle as Jane Grant
1994My Life's in Turnaround as Herself
1993Josh & S.A.M. as Alison (The Liberty Maid)
1993The Perfect Woman
1993Chantilly Lace as Ann
1993Daybreak as Laurie
1992Samantha as Samantha
1992Inside Monkey Zetterland as Sofie
1992A Blink of Paradise as Mother
1991A Woman at War as Helene Moszkiewiez
1990Stanley & Iris as Kelly King
1989Parenthood as Julie Buckman-Lampkin Higgins
1989Silence Like Glass as Claudia Jacoby
1988Another Woman as Laura
1988Running on Empty as Lorna Phillips
1988Stars & Bars as Bryant
1987Shy People as Grace
1986The Mosquito Coast as Emily Spellgood
1985The Goonies as Stef
1984The River Rat as Jonsy
1982Family Ties as Jessie Blake
1981Rollover as Fewster's Older Daughter
1956Tony Awards as Self - Performer
1956Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
—East of Eden as Faye