
Nancy Lenehan
Biography
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Nancy Lenehan (born April 26, 1953 in Long Island, New York) is an American actress who has appeared in film and television since the 1980s. Her most recent starring role was on the short-lived sitcom Worst Week. She also co-starred as Sandy Kelly, the matriarch in the sitcom Married to the Kellys. She also had a recurring role on My Name Is Earl as Earl and Randy's mother, Kay Hickey.
She has appeared in featured, recurring and guest roles in many television shows and television movies, and feature films, including Malcolm in the Middle, Everybody Loves Raymond, Judging Amy, Gilmore Girls, Caroline in the City, Dharma & Greg, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, 3rd Rock from the Sun, ER, Boy Meets World, The Nanny, Quantum Leap, Roseanne, V, The Facts of Life, Hill Street Blues and Alice.
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Acting History
2025
The Paper as Ann Putnam
2024Night Swim as Kay
2024Self Reliance as Laurie
2023Extended Family as Rose
2022That's Amor as Lainie
2022A League of Their Own as Vivienne
2021American Auto as Winnie
2019All Rise as Camille Park
2019The Boys as Barbara
2019Bless This Mess as Deb
2018Forever as Heather Jacoby
2018Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan as Senator Jennings
2018Champions as Maureen
2016Man with a Plan as Alice
2016People of Earth as Margaret Flood
2015Superstore as Judy
2014black-ish as Barbara Piermont
2014Sex Tape as Linda
2012Veep as Nancy Ryan
2011How to Be a Gentleman as Diane
2011A Better Life as Mrs. Donnely
2011The Selling as Mom / Mrs. Scarry
2011Episodes as Sex Therapist
2010Outsourced as Todd's Mom
2009The Middle as Penny
2009Accidentally on Purpose
2008Worst Week as Angela Clayton
2006Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006The New Adventures of Old Christine as Principal Marcie Nunley
2006The New Adventures of Old Christine as Kit
2005My Name Is Earl as Kay Hickey
2005Close to Home as Patty - Ab's Mom
2005How I Met Your Mother as Cheryl Whittaker
2005Beauty Shop as Mrs. Struggs
2004Jack & Bobby
2003Married to the Kellys as Sandy Kelly
2003Joan of Arcadia as Erica Marx
2003Nip/Tuck as Sue Alderman
2003Eddie's Million Dollar Cook Off as Mrs. Hadley (uncredited)
2002Catch Me If You Can as Carol Strong
2002Adaptation. as Kaufman’s Mother
2002What I Like About You as Linda
2002Full Frontal as Woman on Plane
2002Door to Door
2002Door to Door as Charlotte
2001The Bernie Mac Show as Sister Lane
2001Men, Women & Dogs
2001Human Nature as Puff's Mother
2000Gilmore Girls as LaDawn
2000Titus as Faye
2000Malcolm in the Middle as Christie
2000Malcolm in the Middle as Helen
1999The Limey as Lady on Plane
1999Judging Amy as Mrs. Hoeller
1999Providence as Jane
1998Felicity as Faye Rotundi
1998Pleasantville as Marge Jenkins
1998That '70s Show as Nina's Mom
1998Two Guys and a Girl as Dr. Peel
1997Working as Meredith Hirsh
1997Dharma & Greg as Karen Love
1997George & Leo
1997Ally McBeal as Principal Deborah Harkness
1997Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Pat
1997The Practice as Nurse MacKenzie
1997Just Shoot Me! as Bunny
1996The Cherokee Kid as Sister Faith
1996Townies
1996Everybody Loves Raymond as Pamela
1996The Faculty as Daisy Skelnick
19963rd Rock from the Sun as Mrs. St. Clair
1995Caroline in the City as Plum
1994ER as Edie Harvell
1994Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight as Radio Show Hostess
1994Ellen as Margaret
1993The Nanny as Russian Woman
1993Grace Under Fire as Audrey Sheffield
1993Boy Meets World as Susan Kalliback
1993Bakersfield P.D. as Amy Baker
1993Dudley as Nancy
1992Great Scott! as Beverly Melrod
1992Mad About You as Dr. Wallach
1992Out on a Limb as Miss Clayton
1991To the Moon, Alice as Mother
1991Runaway Father as Blanche
1991Step by Step as Mrs. Tubman
1991Sisters
1990The Dreamer of Oz as Harriet Baum Neal
1989Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon as Mrs. Harris
1989Seinfeld as Volunteer
1989Quantum Leap as Colleen McBain
1988Murphy Brown as Sydney
1988Dear John as Mrs. Williams
1988The Great Outdoors as Waitress
1988She's Having a Baby as Cynthia
1988Jake's Journey as Mother
1987Student Exchange as Mrs. Barton
1987Beverly Hills Buntz as Mrs. Fairchild
1987Like Father Like Son as Waitress in Desert Diner
1987Beauty and the Beast
1987CBS Summer Playhouse as Vivian
1986ALF as Laverne Litwak
1986Heart of the City as Linda Kilmer
1986Assassin as Grace Decker
1986Popples as Mom
1985Annie Oakley as Lyda
1985Stoogemania as Connie Smoynek
1985Tall Tales & Legends as Lyda
1985The Golden Girls as Nun
1984V as Science Frontiers Scientist
1984Beauty and the Beast as Georgette
1984Night Court as Ms. Abrams
1983Emergency Room as Young Woman
1982Newhart
1982Family Ties as Roberta
1982Faerie Tale Theatre as Georgette
1982Faerie Tale Theatre as Maiden at Ball
1982Fame
1981Hill Street Blues
1980Smokey and the Bandit II as Ramona
1979When She Was Bad... as Bonnie
1979The Facts of Life
1976Alice








