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Deborah Rush

ActorBorn April 10, 1954 (71 years)
Deborah Rush (born April 10, 1954) is an American actress. She has worked in television, film and on Broadway. In 1984, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for Michael Frayn's comedy Noises Off. She also acted in Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. In 2003 she acted in the comedy film American Wedding, as Mary Flaherty, Michelle Flaherty's mom. In December 2008, she joined the cast of the Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Half Nelson
  • Strangers with Candy
  • Fling
  • Split Image
  • Rhymes with Banana

Known For

  • American Wedding
  • The Good Girl
  • My Blue Heaven
  • Three to Tango
  • Big Business
  • Family Business
  • Strangers with Candy
  • Parents
  • The Box
  • Ava's Possessions
  • Strangers with Candy
  • A Night in Heaven
  • Earthly Possessions
  • Heat
  • The Good Life
  • Compromising Positions
  • Women Who Kill
  • Reckless
  • Accommodations

Filmography

2020
Before/During/After · as Therapist #4
2018
Accommodations · as Victoria Maason
2016
Search Party (2016) (TV Series) · as Gertrude
2016
Crisis in Six Scenes (TV Series) · as Judy
2016
Women Who Kill · as Grace
2016
Billions (TV Series)
2015
Ava's Possessions · as Joanna
2013
The Blacklist (TV Series) · as Stella Bisset
2013
Orange Is the New Black (TV Series) · as Carol Chapman
2013
Inside Amy Schumer (TV Series) · as Mom
2012
2012
Girls (TV Series) · as Thomas-John's Mother
2010
Big Lake (TV Series) · as Linda Franklin
2009
The Box · as Clymene Steward
2009
The Good Wife (TV Series) · as Judge Sally Rigby
2009
Julie & Julia · as Avis De Voto
2008
Fling · as Katherine
2007
The Visitor · as Upper Eastside Woman
2007
The Good Life · as Diane
2006
The Electric Company (2009) (TV Series) · as Caroline Heffenbacher
2006
Half Nelson · as Jo Dunne
2005
2004
The Jury (2004) (TV Series)
2003
American Wedding · as Mary Flaherty
2002
The Good Girl · as Gwen Jackson
2002
Bad Company · as Mrs. Peterson
2000
Madigan Men (TV Series)
1999
Three to Tango · as Lenore
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) · as Christina Harlin
1999
Strangers with Candy (TV Series) · as Sara Blank
1999
Earthly Possessions · as Heidi Anderson
1999
Advice from a Caterpillar · as Diner Hostess
1998
You've Got Mail · as Veronica Cash
1997
In & Out · as Ava Blazer
1996
Spin City (TV Series) · as Helen
1995
Reckless · as Trish
1995
The Client (TV Series) · as Phoebe Halliwell
1992
Unnatural Pursuits (TV Series) · as Stephanie Didcot
1992
Passed Away · as Denise Scanlan
1990
Against the Law (TV Series)
1990
Law & Order (TV Series) · as Frances Houston
1990
My Blue Heaven · as Linda
1989
Family Business · as Michele Dempsey
1989
She-Devil · as 'people Reporter
1989
Parents · as Mrs. Gladys Zellner
1988
Big Business · as Binky Shelton
1987
Leg Work (TV Series) · as Judy
1986
Heat · as D.d.
1986
Crime Story (TV Series) · as Penelope Worth
1985
Spenser: For Hire (TV Series)
1985
Compromising Positions · as Brenda Dunck
1985
1983
A Night in Heaven · as Patsy
1983
Zelig · as Lita Fox
1982
1982
1982
Alice at the Palace · as Alice's Mother
1981
Honky Tonk Freeway · as Sister Mary Magdalene
1981
Kiss Me, Petruchio · as Bianca
1979
10 · as Dental Assistant
1978
Oliver's Story · as Girl In Bar
1964
Another World (TV Series) · as Nadine

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