Beth Grant
137 movies · 67 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 18, 1949 (age 77)
- Place of birth
- Gadsden, Alabama, USA
Biography
Beth Grant (born September 18, 1949) is an American actress. She is known for often playing characters who are conservatives, religious zealots or sticklers for rules.
She has appeared in dozens of films, including Rain Man, Speed; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar; Love Field; Donnie Darko; A Time to Kill; Little Miss Sunshine; Child's Play 2; Daltry Calhoun; City Slickers 2; Don't Tell Her It's Me; Matchstick Men; Factory Girl; The Wizard; Sordid Lives; The Rookie; All About Steve; No Country for Old Men, Crazy Heart, and Rango.
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Grant has also appeared in many TV shows, including Everwood; Delta; The Golden Girls; Malcolm in the Middle; The X-Files; Friends; CSI; Six Feet Under; Wonderfalls; My Name Is Earl; Yes, Dear; King of the Hill; The Office; Angel; Judging Amy; Jericho; Sordid Lives: The Series; Criminal Minds, Sabrina The Teenage Witch; True Blood; How I Met Your Mother; and The Mentalist.
Grant was born in Gadsden, Alabama, and is an alumna of East Carolina University. She is married to actor Michael Chieffo with whom she has one child.
Grant played the same character, Marianne Marie Beetle, in the short-lived show Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, both created by Bryan Fuller.
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Known for
Beth Grant: movies and TV shows
Acting (200)
- Upcoming The Long Home
as Mrs. Winer
- Upcoming The Dybbuk
as Frayda
- 2026 Remarkably Bright Creatures
as Barb Vanderhoof
- 2025
- 2025
- 2024 Sweet Dreams
as Sandra
- 2023
- 2023 Maximum Truth
as Mary Jo Nackserson
- 2023
- 2023
- 2022 Amsterdam
as Mrs. Dillenbeck
- 2022 Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin' Jimmy · TV
as Mrs. Brockfrater (voice) / Ms. Retch (voice) · 3 episodes
- 2021 Grave Intentions
as Mattie Whalen (segment "The Bridge Partner")
- 2021 Willy's Wonderland
as Sheriff Eloise Lund
- 2020 Wander Darkly
as Patty
- 2020 Words on Bathroom Walls
as Sister Catherine
- 2020
- 2020 Fully Realized Humans
as Tipper
- 2020
- 2020 La Sirena
as Penny
- 2020
- 2019 Hold On
as Shelly
- 2019
- 2019 William
as Dr. Thomas
- 2018 The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer
as Ms. Dobbins
- 2018 Hover
as Joanna
- 2018
- 2018 Wake the Riderless Horse
as Brenda
- 2018 Andover
as Rebecca
- 2018 Nostalgia
as Anna O'Bryan
- 2017 Tiny Mammals
as Narrator
- 2017 Lucky
as Elaine
- 2017 I Do... Until I Don't
as Phyllis
- 2017
- 2017 Tenn
as Edwina Williams
- 2017 Domain
as Nadine
- 2017
- 2017
- 2016 The Labyrinth
as Betsy
- 2016 Jackie
as Lady Bird Johnson
- 2016
- 2016 In Dubious Battle
as Ethel
- 2016 Heartland
as Crystal
- 2016 All In
as Cynthia
- 2016 Six L.A. Love Stories
as Meg Albright
- 2016 Tond
as Janice
- 2016 Great Plains
as Tess
- 2016 Boys on Film 14: Worlds Collide
as Linda Heim (segment "The Violation")
- 2016 Band of Robbers
as Widow Douglas
- 2015 Addicted to Fresno
as Tilda
- 2015
- 2015 The Midnight Swim
as Amelia Brooks / Great Aunt
- 2015 Consumed
as Kristin Kessler
- 2015 Just Before I Go
as Mrs. Lawrence
- 2015 Alex of Venice
as Teacher
- 2015 The Bridge Partner
as Mattie Whalen
- 2014 Faults
as Evelyn
- 2014 Odyssea
as Woman
- 2014
- 2013 As I Lay Dying
as Addie Bundren
- 2013
- 2013 Bad Words
as Bedazzled Judge
- 2013 Out West
as Tiffany Alcott
- 2013 The Violation
as Linda Heim
- 2013 Miss Dial
as Mrs. Wojiechowski
- 2012 Mockingbird Lane
as Marie
- 2012
- 2012 Blues for Willadean
as Willadean Winkler
- 2012
- 2011 Life of Lemon
as Phyllis
- 2011 The Artist
as Peppy's Maid
- 2011 Mister Handsome
as Emily's Mom
- 2011 Rango
as Bonnie (voice)
- 2011 Sedona
as Deb
- 2011 Valley of the Sun
as Marva
- 2010 Operation: Endgame
as Susan
- 2010 Spork
as Principal Tulip
- 2010 In My Sleep
as Evelyn
- 2010
- 2009 Crazy Heart
as Jo Ann
- 2009 Herpes Boy
as Mom
- 2009 Dear Lemon Lima
as Principal Applebomb
- 2009 Stolen
as Older Edvena
- 2009
- 2009 Extract
as Mary
- 2009 All About Steve
as Mrs. Horowitz
- 2009 Winged Creatures
as Carla's Mom
- 2008 Hide
as Candy
- 2008 Henry Poole Is Here
as Josie
- 2008
- 2008
- 2008 Polar Opposites
as General Railen
- 2007 Southland Tales
as Dr. Inga Von Westphalen
- 2007 No Country for Old Men
as Carla Jean's Mother
- 2007
- 2007 Welcome to Paradise
as Frances Loren
- 2007 The House of Usher
as Mrs. Thatcher
- 2007
- 2007 The Ungodly
as Emma Lemac
- 2006 Factory Girl
as Julia Warhol
- 2006 Flags of Our Fathers
as Mother Gagnon
- 2006 Hard Scrambled
as Alice
- 2006
- 2006
- 2006 Little Miss Sunshine
as Nancy Jenkins
- 2006 Rocker
as Mrs. Hill
- 2006 Hot Tamale
as Dori Woodriff
- 2005 Daltry Calhoun
as Ciotka Dee
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005 Hard Pill
as Mom
- 2005 Our Very Own
as Virginia Kendal
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005 Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend
as Angela
- 2005
- 2004 A One Time Thing
as Mom
- 2004 A Thief Of Time
as Ranger Mildred Luna
- 2004
- 2003 Evil Alien Conquerors
as Sheila
- 2003 Matchstick Men
as Laundry Lady
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002 Birdseye
as Ruth Betters
- 2002 The Rookie
as Olline
- 2002 Desert Saints
as Lou
- 2001
- 2001 Rock Star
as Mrs. Cole
- 2001
- 2001 Pearl Harbor
as Motherly Secretary
- 2001 Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
as Louisa Ashland
- 2001 The Rising Place
as Melvina Pou
- 2001 Donnie Darko
as Kitty Farmer
- 2000
- 2000 Sordid Lives
as Sissy Hickey
- 2000
- 1999 Blue Valley Songbird
as Ruby
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 1998 Making Sandwiches
as Mrs Hellman
- 1998 Dance with Me
as Lovejoy
- 1998
- 1998 Doctor Dolittle
as Woman
- 1998
- 1998 Angelmaker
as Mrs. Turcott
- 1997 Interruptions
as Peggy, The Mistress
- 1997 Lawn Dogs
as Trent's Mother
- 1997 Love Always
as Stephanie
- 1997 A Thousand Acres
as Roberta
- 1997
- 1997
- 1997 King of the Hill · TV
as Tilly Hill (voice) / Nurse (voice) / Doris (voice) / Blanche (voice) / Nurse (voice) (uncredited) / (voice) · 10 episodes
- 1996
- 1996
- 1996
- 1996
- 1996 A Time to Kill
as Cora Mae Cobb
- 1996 Norma Jean & Marilyn
as Grace Goddard
- 1995
- 1995 Safe
as Becky (Auditorium Speaker)
- 1995
- 1995 Lieberman in Love
as Linda Baker
- 1994
- 1994
- 1994 Speed
as Helen
- 1994
- 1993
- 1993
- 1993
- 1993 The Dark Half
as Shayla Beaumont
- 1992 Love Field
as Hazel
- 1992
- 1992 White Sands
as Roz Kincaid
- 1992 Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story
as Pat McGinty
- 1991
- 1990 Eating
as Carla
- 1990 Child's Play 2
as Miss Kettlewell
- 1990 Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
as Lillian Logerfield
- 1990 Don't Tell Her It's Me
as Babette
- 1990 Flatliners
as Housewife
- 1990
- 1990 Fall From Grace
as Paulene
- 1990
- 1990 The Image
as Martha Packard
- 1989 The Wizard
as Diner Manager
- 1989
- 1989
- 1988 Rain Man
as Mother at Farm House
- 1987 Under Cover
as Miss Randolph
- 1987
- 1987 Deadly Care
as Madge
- 1986 Picnic
as Irma Kronkite
- 1985
- 1984
- 1984
Behind the camera (5)
- Upcoming Operation Othello
Executive Producer
- 2024 Wildcat
Co-Executive Producer
- 2020 Fully Realized Humans
Additional Dialogue
- 2012 The Perfect Fit
Director
- 2011 Girls! Girls! Girls!
Writer, Director
Talk shows and appearances (5)
- 2024
- 2012
- 2011
- 2009
- 2005