
Dee Wallace
Biography
Dee Wallace (born 14 December 1948) is an American actress and comedienne. She is perhaps best known for her roles in several popular films. These include the starring role as Elliot's mother in the Steven Spielberg film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), her most widely seen role. She also played key roles in popular cult films The Hills Have Eyes (1977) and The Howling (1981) and appeared in The Stepford Wives in 1975 and 10 (1979). In total, Wallace has appeared in more than 85 films.
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Known For
Acting History
2026
Water Rites as Caroline
2025If It Bleeds as Kelly
2025The Boy from Below as Sybil
2025Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch as Alice Cassidy
2025The Lies We Bury as Lynn Wright
2025Roswell Delirium as Betty
2024The Forest Hills as Angela
2024Stream as Linda Spring
2024Last Night on Earth as Carla
2024The Legend of Catclaws Mountain as Maggie Porter
2023House of Dolls as Celine Charles
2023Love by Design as Diane Yeardly
2023The Little Mermaid as Sea Witch Revina (voice)
2023Fatal Attraction as Emma Rauch
2023Lena's Dance as Lena Swain
2023Incubus: New Beginnings as Zura Valentine
2023Paul T. Goldman as Terri Jay
2022In Search of Darkness: Part III as Self
20221982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! as Self
2022Nix as Donna
2022The Munsters as Good Morning Transylvania Host
2022Jeepers Creepers: Reborn as Marie
2022Time Pirates as The Crone
2022Making I'm Dangerous Tonight as Herself
2022Killer Design as Elana
2022In Search of Tomorrow as Self - Interviewee
2021Every Time a Bell Rings as Donna
2021Courageous Warriors Beauty from the Ashes as Narrator
202113 Fanboy as Dee Wallace
2021The Nest as Marissa
2020Rondo and Bob as Self
2020Critters Attack! as Dee
2020The Gift of Christmas as Ellen Rodgers
2020Stay Home as Herself
2020Await the Dawn as Annie
2020Day 14
2020Six feet of separation as Self
2019Christmas in Louisiana as Doris
20193 from Hell as Greta
2019To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell as Self
2019Renovation of the Heart as Diane Dover
2019The Wrong Mommy as Carol
2019Dolls as Margaret
2019The Very Very Best of the 70s as Self - Commentator
2019Sunrise in Heaven as Marion
2018The Wrong Teacher as Dr. Smith
2018After Emma
2018They Bite!: The Making of Critters as Self
2018Jingle Belle as Shelby
2018Every Other Holiday as Mimi
2018Beyond The Sky as Lucille
2018Ouija House as Katherine Fields
2018Death House as Dr. Eileen Fletcher
20189-1-1 as Margaret Buckley
2017This Old Machine as Irene
2017Horror Movie: A Low Budget Nightmare as Self
2017Ayla as Susan
2017The Fuzz as Dawn Lockwood
2016Charlie's Gift
2016Shooter as Katherine Mayfield
2016All Hallow's Eve as Haidy Hallow
2016Red Christmas as Diane
2016Just Add Magic as Grandma
2015The Abundance Factor as Herself
2015Flowers in December as Hannah
2015The Whispers as Willie Starling (Grammy)
2015Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard as Sharon Sommers
2015Horror Icon: Inside Michael's Mask with Tony Moran as Self
2014Ejecta as Ashley Winnington-Ball (uncredited)
2014You're the Worst as Gail
2014Haunting of Cellblock 11 as Ms. Simon
20142 Bedroom 1 Bath as Rose
2014Snow Moon: Cinderella Chronicles Saga as Gram Pearl
2013Bonnie & Clyde: Justified as Emma
2013Grand Piano as Marjorie Green
2013My Stepbrother Is a Vampire!?! as Tabitha the Cat (voice)
2013RoboCroc as Dr. Riley
2013The Lords of Salem as Sonny
2013As High as the Sky as Aunt Deborah (voice)
2013Hansel & Gretel as Lilith
2012Aliens from Uranus as Olga
2012I Heart Monster Movies as Herself
2012The 'E.T.' Journals as Self
2012The Boarder as Elizabeth
2012Sebastian as Barbara Sample
2012Fuzz Track City as Dawn Lockwood
2012Margarine Wars as Madge Havershank
2012Collision Course as Polly
2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011Sam Steele and the Crystal Chalice as Ms. Jenkins
2011Grimm as Alice
2011Exit Humanity as Eve
2011Stay Cool as Mrs. McCarthy
2011Switched at Birth as Lorena McGowen
2011Pound of Flesh as Dean Jean Clark
2011Bad Actress as Dee Wallace
2010Between Heaven and Hell as Dr. Isabel Greenlee
2010The Guardian as Mom
2010Law & Order: LA as Ellen Powell
2010Raven as LuAnne
2010Soupernatural as Mrs. Conners
2010Extraordinary Measures as Sal
2010Bedrooms as Marnie
2009Babysitters Beware as Ms. Greene
2009The House of the Devil as Landlady
2009Dark Fields as Jean Applebe
2009Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
2009The Haunted World of El Superbeasto as Trixie (voice)
2009Warehouse 13 as Mrs. Garner
2009The Mother of Invention as Nancy Dooly
2009Stem Cell as The Healer
2009Happy in the Valley as Gloria
2008Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween as Self
2008Matchmaker Mary as Aunt Karen
2008Little Red Devil as Mother
2007The Blue Rose as Mrs. Garrison
2007Dog Days: The Making of 'Cujo' as Self
2007Halloween as Cynthia Strode
2007Saving Grace as Janice Shapiro
2007The Return of the Living Dead: The Decade of Darkness as Self
2007Bone Dry as Joanne
2007Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el as Helen Moret
2006The Plague as Nora
2006The Eden Formula as Rhonda
2006Voodoo Moon as Mary-Ann
2006Abominable as Ethel Hoss
2006Kalamazoo? as Susan
2006The Lost as Barbara Hanlon
2006Sons & Daughters as Colleen Halbert
2006Expiration Date as Lucille
2006Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills as Self
2005Ghost Whisperer as Claire Taylor
2005Criminal Minds as Dr. Jan Mohikian
2005My Name Is Earl as Governor Katherine Hazelwood
2005Close to Home as Joan Monroe
2005Headspace as Dr. Denise Bell
2005Supernatural as Mildred Baker
2005Bones as Special Agent Callie Warner
2005Scar as Isabella
2005Boo as Nurse Russell
2005The Loch Ness Monster as Elizabeth Horner
2005Grey's Anatomy as Joan Waring
2005The Office as Ellen Bernard
2004Dead End Road as Mrs. Makepiece
2004Welcome to Werewolfland
2004Illusion Infinity as Patricia (as Dee Wallace Stone)
2004The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story as Sharon Rocha
2003Cold Case as Charlotte Jones
2003Looking Back at 'The Hills Have Eyes' as Self
2003NCIS as Claire Hall
2003Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’
2002Without a Trace as Lara Duncan
2002She Spies as Daphne
2002Fish Don't Blink as Dr. Roswell
2002E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special as Self
2002She's No Angel as Maureen Shawnessy
2002Sex and the Teenage Mind as Francine Heitmeyer
2001The Agency as Doris, Quinn's Sister
2001Crossing Jordan as Lorraine Heeley
2001A Month of Sundays as Sarah McCabe
2001Out of the Black as Penny Hart
2001Killer Instinct as Sarah Fairchild
2001The Division as Paula Meeks
1999Pirates of the Plain as Glenna (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
1999Invisible Mom II as Laura Griffin (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
1999To Love, Honor, & Betray as Julia Brennan (as Dee Wallace Stone)
1998The Making of 'The Frighteners' as Herself
1998Felicity as Allison Covington
1998Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story as Rodman's stepmother
1998The Christmas Path as Jenny
1997Ally McBeal as Gail Clarkson
1997Skeletons as Heather Crane
1997Mutual Needs as Patricia
1997Nevada as Ruby (as Dee Wallace Stone)
1997Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder as Linda Jones
1997The Perfect Mother as Gina Mitrou
1997Black Circle Boys as Barbara Sullivan
1996The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' as Self
1996The Frighteners as Patricia Bradley
1996Nash Bridges as Susan Martin
1996Invisible Mom as Laura Griffin
1996Subliminal Seduction as Sissy Bonner
1995The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet as Mother
1995JAG as Adele DeLong
1995High Sierra Search and Rescue
1995My Family Treasure as Alex Danieloff
1995Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back as Georgia
1995Here Come the Munsters as Mrs. Walker
1995The Skateboard Kid II as Lois Curtis
1995Temptress as Allison Mackie
1995Brothers' Destiny as Lucille Bastian
1995Cops n Roberts
1994Vanishing Son IV as Megan
1994Touched by an Angel as Sandra Browner
1994Runaway Daughters as Mrs. Gordon
1994Discretion Assured as Kitten
1994Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy as Suzanne Guthrie (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
1994Search and Rescue as Morgan
1994Vanishing Son as Megan
1994Witness to the Execution as Emily Dawson (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
1994Huck and the King of Hearts as Darlene
1993Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story as Jackie Fields (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
1993Lightning in a Bottle as Jean Markley
1993Alone in the Dark as Linda Grant (as Dee Wallace Stone)
1992Rescue Me as Sarah Sweeney
1991Critters 3 as Mom (archive footage)
1991P.S. I Luv U
1991Rock-A-Doodle as Dory (voice)
1991Alligator 2: The Mutation as Christine Hodges
1991Popcorn as Suzanne
1990I'm Dangerous Tonight as Wanda
1989The New Lassie as Dee McCullough
1988Addicted to His Love as Betty Ann Brennan
1988Stranger on My Land as Annie Whitman
1987The Christmas Visitor as Elizabeth O'Day
1987Legend of the White Horse as Alta (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
1987Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1986Together We Stand as Lori Randall
1986Shadow Play as Morgan Hanna
1986L.A. Law as Elaine Weston
1986Critters as Helen Brown
1986Sin of Innocence as Vicki McGary
1986Club Life as Tilly Francesca
1985Hostage Flight as Laura Kenrick
1985The Twilight Zone as (segment "Wish Bank")
1985Suburban Beat as Joanna
1985Secret Admirer as Connie Ryan
1984Murder, She Wrote as Mildred Terhune
1984Murder, She Wrote as Ellen Wicker
1984Finder of Lost Loves as Gail Aames
1984The Sky's No Limit as Dr. Maureen Harris
1984The Shepherd
1983Happy as Marilyn
1983Cujo as Donna Trenton
1983Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home as Pat Peters
1983I Take These Men as Elaine Zakarian
1982Skeezer as Lucille
1982Jimmy the Kid as May
1982Hotel
1982E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial as Mary
1981Child Bride of Short Creek as Mary Jacobs
1981Simon & Simon
1981The Five of Me as Ann
1981A Whale for the Killing as Janet Landon
1981The Howling as Karen White
1980The Secret War of Jackie's Girls as Maxine
1980Skag
1979Young Love, First Love as Leslie
197910 as Mary Lewis
1979Trapper John, M.D.
1979Hart to Hart
1979Mrs. Columbo
1978Taxi as Joyce
1977Man from Atlantis as Hot Dog Stand Owner (as Dee Wallace-Stone)
1977The San Pedro Beach Bums
1977CHiPs
1977The Hills Have Eyes as Lynne Wood
1977All the King's Horses as Sandy Benson
1975Ellery Queen
1975Starsky & Hutch
1975The Stepford Wives as Nettie the Maid
1974Police Woman
1973Police Story
1972The Streets of San Francisco
—The Pitchfork Retreat as Helen
—25 Miles to Normal as Deborah
—Howl: Inside the Forest Hills as Self
—Campfire as Mrs. Hallowell
—Bits as Fallen One
—The Licked Hand as Eleanor
—Ted Bunny
—Unhallowed as Rita Harrison
—American Blend
—Curse of Vandor as Ethel Gordon
—Godmother









