Connie Sawyer
- Recitazione
- 27 novembre 1912 · Pueblo, Colorado, USA
- 22 gennaio 2018
Biografia
Connie Sawyer (born Rosie Cohen, November 27, 1912, in Pueblo, Colorado; died January 21, 2018, in Woodland Hills, California) was an American stage, film, and television actress of Romanian-Jewish descent, affectionately nicknamed "The Clown Princess of Comedy." She grew up in Oakland, California, began performing in vaudeville as a child, and appeared on variety television in the late 1940s and 1950s. Her first film role came at age 46 as Miss Wexler in Frank Capra's A Hole in the Head (1959, with Frank Sinatra and Edward G. Robinson), a part she had originated on Broadway. Over her nine-decade career she accumulated more than 140 credits and was still working past the age of 100, appearing on NCIS: Los Angeles (2013) and opposite Zooey Deschanel in New Girl (2014). Her most notable film credits include Mrs. McBee in The Way West (1967), a Woman at the Hanging in True Grit (1969, with John Wayne), a role in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Mrs. Levi in The Man in the Glass Booth (1975, with Max von Sydow), a heavenly customer in Oh, God! (1977, with Goldie Hawn), Gitel in And Justice for All (1979, with Al Pacino), a Documentary Couple in When Harry Met Sally... (1989, with Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan), the woman who steals Jim Carrey's wallet in Dumb and Dumber (1994), a role in Out of Sight (1998, with George Clooney and Steve Martin), Faye Belogus in Pineapple Express (2008, with Seth Rogen and James Franco), and Nana Bebe in Lovesick (2014, with Matt LeBlanc). On television she appeared in Seinfeld (1989), Will & Grace, ER (2006), The Office (2005), How I Met Your Mother (2007), 2 Broke Girls (2012), and Ray Donovan (2013, as James Woods's mother), with earlier credits in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970, 1975), Hawaii Five-O, Dynasty (1981), Murder, She Wrote (1986, 1991), Home Improvement (1991), and Archie Bunker's Place (1979).
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Filmografia
- Sunset over Hollywood · In persona
- Showfolk · In persona
- Lovesick · Bebe
- New Girl · Oldest Woman in the World
- 2 Broke Girls · Elderly Lady
- Up All Night · Shopper
- Troupers
- Parto col folle · Elderly Airport Passenger (uncredited)
- NCIS: Los Angeles · Ida
- Strafumati · Faye Belogus
- Relative Strangers - Aiuto! sono arrivati i miei · Old Lady
- How I Met Your Mother · Old Lady
- The Office (US) · Nana
- Ned - Scuola di sopravvivenza · June
- Promised Land · Hazel
- Tutto può succedere - Something's Gotta Give · Lady in Market
- Una hostess tra le nuvole · Grandma Stewart
- 8 semplici regole... per uscire con mia figlia · Louise's Mother
- The Michael Richards Show · Old Woman
- CSI: Scena del crimine · Old Lady
- Girlfriends · Martha
- Becker · Mrs. Yudelson
- Will & Grace · Old Woman
- L.A. Doctors · Mrs. Connor
- That '70s Show · Aunt Pearl
- Out of Sight - Gli opposti si attraggono · Old Elevator Lady
- L'atelier di Veronica · Margaret
- Scorpion Spring · Diner Waitress
- Presenze Aliene · Mrs. Otis
- I viaggiatori · Winifred
- Abandoned and Deceived · Rose
- E vissero infelici per sempre · Old Woman
- Scemo & più scemo · Elderly Lady
- Roseanne and Tom: Behind the Scenes · Motel Clerk
- E.R. - Medici in prima linea · Kathy Brennan, Second Old Lady
- Crescere, che fatica! · Foofie
- Dave's World · Mrs. Bondurant
- The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them · Waitress from Hell
- Majority Rule · Mary
- Morire d'amore · Elderly Woman
- Quell'uragano di papà · Old Lady
- Blue Desert · Elderly Lady 1
- Il falò delle vanità · Ruskin Family Member
- The End of Innocence · Grandma
- Una famiglia tutto pepe · Rita
- Dream On · Aunt Ruth
- Harry, ti presento Sally... · Documentary Couple
- Seinfeld · Old Woman
- Lontano da casa · Viney Hunt
- That's Adequate · Mrs. Duke Thorpe
- Murphy Brown · Woman on Elevator
- Due come noi · Helen
- Nights in White Satin · Martha the Bag Lady
- Matlock · Mrs. Kowalski
- 227
- Hot Chili · Mrs. Houston
- Do You Remember Love · Joan
- The Rosebud Beach Hotel · Carlotta
- V - Visitors · Old Woman
- La signora in giallo · Ethel, Elderly Lady
- Just Our Luck
- Il mio amico Ricky · Miss Bushmill
- Hill Street giorno e notte · Bag Lady, Tessie
- Dynasty
- ...e giustizia per tutti · Gitel
- Archie Bunker's Place
- Fast Break · Mom
- The President's Mistress · Cleaning Lady
- Bentornato Dio! · Mrs. Green
- Big Hawaii
- Lou Grant · Woman
- Little Ladies of the Night · Female Guard (uncredited)
- Delvecchio · Judge Olsen
- Laverne & Shirley
- Starsky & Hutch · Nurse, Manager
- I ragazzi del sabato sera · Aunt Josephine
- The Man in the Glass Booth · Mrs. Levi
- Agenzia Rockford · Mrs. Fornechefsky
- Good Times · Personnel Woman
- Kojak · Landlady, Mary Benson