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Holland Taylor

Profession
Acting
Born
January 14, 1943 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

Holland Virginia Taylor (born January 14, 1943) is an American actress. She won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on ABC's The Practice (1998–2003). For her portrayal of Evelyn Harper on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men (2003–15), she received a total of four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Taylor's other notable television credits include starring roles on the sitcoms Bosom Buddies (1980–82), The Powers That Be (1992–93) and The Naked Truth (1995–98). She also appeared as Jill Ollinger on the soap opera All My Children (1981–83), as Peggy Peabody on The L Word (2004–08), and as Ida Silver on Mr. Mercedes (2017–19). In 2020, she received critical praise and her eighth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for portraying Ellen Kincaid in the Netflix miniseries Hollywood. Taylor's feature film credits include Romancing the Stone (1984) and its sequel (1985), Alice (1990), To Die For (1995), One Fine Day (1996), George of the Jungle (1997), The Truman Show (1998), Happy Accidents (2000), Keeping the Faith (2000), Legally Blonde (2001), The Wedding Date (2005), Baby Mama (2008), Gloria Bell (2018), Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), and The Stand In (2020). Taylor wrote and starred in the one-woman play, Ann, based on the life and work of Ann Richards. For this, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Holland Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

The Truman Show poster
The Truman Show
Film · 1998 · ★ 8.2
Legally Blonde poster
Legally Blonde
Film · 2001 · ★ 6.8
Two and a Half Men poster
Two and a Half Men
Series · 2003 · ★ 7.4
Bombshell poster
Bombshell
Film · 2019 · ★ 6.8
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You poster
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
Film · 2020 · ★ 6.8
American Dad! poster
American Dad!
Series · 2005 · ★ 7.0
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over poster
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Film · 2003 · ★ 5.1
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams poster
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Film · 2002 · ★ 5.7
George of the Jungle poster
George of the Jungle
Film · 1997 · ★ 5.7
Romancing the Stone poster
Romancing the Stone
Film · 1984 · ★ 6.8
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True poster
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
Film · 2002 · ★ 6.1
The Orville poster
The Orville
Series · 2017 · ★ 7.6

Filmography