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Jayne Houdyshell /ˈhaʊdiˌʃɛl/[1] (born September 25, 1953) is an American, Tony-winning actress known for her performances on stage and screen.

Jayne Houdyshell
Houdyshell at Transport Group Gala 2013
Born	(1953-09-25) September 25, 1953 (age 69) Topeka, Kansas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Houdyshell made her Broadway debut in the 2005 production of It's a Wonderful Life. The following year she earned her first Tony Award nomination for her role as Ann in the play Well in 2006. Since then she has received four more Tony Award nominations for her performances in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies in 2012, the new play by Lucas Hnath A Doll's House, Part 2 in 2017, and the revival of Meredith Willson's The Music Man in 2022. She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 2016 play The Humans.[2]

She is also known for her supporting film roles in Alexander Payne's science fiction comedy Downsizing (2017) and Greta Gerwig's period piece Little Women, and for reprising her role in the 2021 film adaptation of The Humans.

She has had recurring roles in various television series, including Third Watch, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Blue Bloods, and The Good Fight. She currently stars as "Bunny Folger" on the hit Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building, for which she was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

Biography

Early life

Raised in Topeka, Kansas, she is the youngest of four daughters born to Galen "Buzz" Houdyshell and Louella Taylor. She graduated from Topeka High School in 1971, and she went on to Emporia State University then on to graduate with honors from the Academy of Dramatic Art at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan[3] in 1974.

Stage

Since the mid-1970s, she has appeared in more than 200 plays at regional theaters throughout the United States, including the Meadow Brook Theater, Attic Theater, Missouri Repertory Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theater, McCarter Theater, Delaware Theater Company, Wilma Theater, Syracuse Stage, Studio Arena, GeVa Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, Steppenwolf Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Timber Lake Playhouse, Old Creamery Theatre, Totem Pole Playhouse, Peterborough Players, and others.

Houdyshell reminisces that, after moving to Manhattan in 1980, “I was traveling all that 20 years...There was a community of actors who did that. We were itinerant actors who just continually moved around the country from theater to theater and job to job."[4]

In New York, she is known for her role as "Ann Kron" in the Broadway production of Well by Lisa Kron. It was a role that garnered her a Tony Award nomination in 2006.[5] She won a Theater World Award and an Obie Award, Outstanding Performance, for the Off-Broadway production of Well, which ran in 2004 at the Public Theater.[6][7]

She received the 2005 Joseph Jefferson Award, Supporting Actress, Play for her performance in The Pain and the Itch for Steppenwolf Theatre Company[8] and a 2005 Barrymore Award, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play for her work in The Clean House at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia.[9][10]

Houdyshell's Broadway credits include Wicked, Well, Bye Bye Birdie,[11] and The Importance of Being Earnest. She played the role of "Hattie" in the 2011 revival of Follies,[12] and received a 2012 Tony Award nomination, Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance.[13] Houdyshell played the Nurse in the 2013 Broadway revival of Romeo and Juliet.[14]

She appeared in The Humans as "Deirdre Blake", first in its Off-Broadway engagement at the Roundabout Theatre Company in September 2015 to December 2015,[15] and then the Broadway production of the play which opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on February 18, 2016. For The Humans she won the 2016 Tony Award, Featured Actress in a Play,[16] the 2016 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble Performance,[17] and the Obie Award, Performance.[18] She was also nominated for the 2016 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play.

In 2017 she played Ann Marie in Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2.

Houdyshell's other New York credits include Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote at Primary Stages, Coraline,[19] The New Century, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center (2008);[20] The Receptionist at the Manhattan Theater Club (2007);[21] Much Ado About Nothing (Delacorte Theatre, 2004);[22] Fighting Words, and The Pain and the Itch at Playwrights Horizons (2009);[23] Attempts on Her Life at Soho Rep; and True Love at the Zipper Theater (2001).[24]^{[citation needed]}

In April 2019, Houdyshell returned to Broadway as the Earl of Gloucester in the Sam Gold directed production of King Lear, with Glenda Jackson in the title role. Houdyshell plays Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn in the 2022 revival of The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster.

Television and film

Houdyshell's television credits include appearances on Third Watch, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Blue Bloods, and The Good Fight,[25] and as "Bunny Folger"[26] on Only Murders in the Building.[27]

She has appeared in numerous films, including Changing Lanes (2002) with Ben Affleck, Maid in Manhattan (2002) with Jennifer Lopez, Garden State (2004) with Zach Braff and Natalie Portman, Trust the Man (2006) with Julianne Moore, and Everybody's Fine (2009) with Robert DeNiro, Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore, and Sam Rockwell.[25] She also had a role in the 2010 film The Bounty Hunter with Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler[28]

In 2010, she starred as the Stage Manager in the film Morning Glory opposite Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, and Rachel McAdams.

In 2015, she starred as "Rose Offer" on the NBC limited series American Odyssey opposite Anna Friel and Peter Facinelli.

In 2017, she appeared in Alexander Payne's science fiction comedy feature Downsizing opposite Matt Damon.

In 2018, she starred on the third season of the ABC thriller Quantico as "The Widow".[29]

In 2019, she appeared as the housekeeper "Hannah" in Greta Gerwig's critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated film adaptation of Little Women starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, and Meryl Streep.[30]

In 2021, she reprised her Tony-winning role of "Deidre Blake" in The Humans, the film adaptation of her Broadway play. The movie co-starred Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer, Beanie Feldstein, Steven Yeun, and June Squibb. It had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2021. The film was released by A24 on November 24, 2021, both in theaters and on Showtime.

In 2021 and 2022, she played the memorable role of "Bunny Folger" on seasons 1 and 2 of the hit, Emmy-nominated Hulu series Only Murders in the Building, opposite Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez.

Her next movie Causeway is a psychological drama film directed by Lila Neugebauer and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry.[31] It had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2022.[32] It is scheduled to be released theatrically and on Apple TV+ on November 4, 2022.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Changing Lanes	Miss Tetley
2002	Maid in Manhattan	Carmen
2004	Garden State	Mrs. Lubin
2005	Trust the Man	Sex Addicts Leader
2005	Road	Postal Clerk
2006	Things That Hang from Trees	Pam Dupont
2006	The Immaculate Conception	Sister Patricia
2009	Everybody's Fine	Alice
2010	The Bounty Hunter	Landlady
2010	Morning Glory	Stage Manager
2014	Romeo and Juliet	Nurse
2014	Lucky Stiff	Harry's Landlady
2017	Downsizing	Paul's Mother
2018	The Chaperone	Sister Delores
2019	Little Women	Hannah
2021	The Humans	Deirdre Blake
TBA	Causeway	Sharon	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Third Watch	Jane	Episode: "Welcome to Camelot"
1997–2002	Law & Order	Various Characters	3 episodes
2002–17	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Judge Ruth Linden	10 episodes
2005	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Ruth Pear	Episode: "The Unblinking Eye"
2006	Conviction	Judge Roberta Palski	2 episodes
2009	Loving Leah	Mrs. Finkelman	Television movie
2009	Guiding Light	Judger Burslem	Episode #1.15659
2010	Running Wilde	Gertie Stellvertretter	Pilot
2014	Blue Bloods	Roseanne Galecki	Episode: "Open Secrets"
2015	Elementary	Carla	Episode: "Hemlock"
2015	American Odyssey	Rose Offer	8 episodes
2015	Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter	Jane Cotton	2 episodes
2017	The Accidental Wolf	Rach	Episode: "Kathryn"
2017–18	The Good Fight	Renée Rampling	2 episodes
2018	Quantico	The Widow	Episode: "The Conscience Code"
2019	The Tick	Black Market Bob	Episode: "Magic is Real"
2020	Evil	Judge Sara Carl Shire	Episode: "Justice x 2"
2021–22	Only Murders in the Building	Bunny Folger	Recurring

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006–08	Wicked	Madame Morrible (replacement)	Gershwin Theatre
2006	Well	Ann	Longacre Theatre
2009–10	Bye Bye Birdie	Mae Peterson	Henry Miller's Theatre
2011	The Importance of Being Earnest	Miss Prism (replacement)	American Airlines Theatre
2011–12	Follies	Hattie Walker	Marquis Theatre Ahmanson Theatre
2011	8	Maggie Gallagher	Eugene O'Neill Theatre
2012–13	Dead Accounts	Barbara	Music Box Theatre
2013	Romeo and Juliet	Nurse	Richard Rodgers Theatre
2015	Fish in the Dark	Gloria Drexel	Cort Theatre
2015–17	The Humans	Deirdre Blake	Laura Pels Theatre Helen Hayes Theatre Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
2017	A Doll's House, Part 2	Anne Marie	John Golden Theatre
2018	The Humans	Deirdre Blake	Ahmanson Theatre Hampstead Theatre
2019	King Lear	Earl of Gloucester	Cort Theatre
2022	The Music Man	Mrs. Shinn	Winter Garden Theatre

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
2004	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play	Well	Nominated
	Obie Award	Distinguished Performance by an Actress		Won
2005	Joseph Jefferson Award	Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play	The Pain and the Itch	Won
	Barrymore Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play	The Clean House	Won
2006	Tony Award	Best Featured Actress in a Play	Well	Nominated
	Theatre World Award			Won
2012	Tony Award	Best Featured Actress in a Musical	Follies	Nominated
	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical		Nominated
2016	Tony Award	Best Featured Actress in a Play	The Humans	Won
	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Ensemble		Won
	Drama League Award	Distinguished Performance		Nominated
	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Actress in a Play		Nominated
	Obie Award	Distinguished Performance by an Actress		Won
	Lucille Lortel Award	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play		Nominated
2017	Tony Award	Best Featured Actress in a Play	A Doll's House, Part 2	Nominated
	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play		Nominated
	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play		Nominated
2022
	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series	Only Murders in the Building	Nominated
	Tony Award	Best Featured Actress in a Musical	The Music Man	Nominated

References

External links

• Jayne Houdyshell at IMDb
• Jayne Houdyshell at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jayne Houdyshell at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

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