Kathleen Chalfant
- Acting
- January 14, 1945 · San Francisco, California, USA
Biography
Kathleen Chalfant (b. 1945, San Francisco) is an American actress, primarily a stage performer. She earned a Tony nomination for Angels in America (1993) and won multiple awards for Wit (1998), including a Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Obie. She received the Obie for Lifetime Achievement in 2018. On screen, her highlights include Old (2021) and Familiar Touch (2024), the latter earning her the Venice Orizzonti Award and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress. She is married to photographer Henry Chalfant.
Known for
Filmography
- The Copenhagen Test · St. George
- Where to Land · Elizabeth
- Familiar Touch · Ruth
- Turning Blue · Clara
- The Courtroom · Judge Easterbrook
- Old · Agnes
- 500 Calories · Ms. Evangeline
- New Amsterdam · Molly
- They Shall Not Perish · Mabel Elliot
- Class Rank · Barbara – The Editor in Chief
- Ambition's Debt · Soothsayer
- Welcome to This House · Elizabeth Bishop
- The Affair · Margaret Butler
- Forever · Gloria Carlyle
- Madam Secretary · Dean Felicia Ward, Dean Ward
- The Strain · Abraham's Grandmother
- My America
- A Dream of Flying · Old Woman
- Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight · Ethel Harlan
- The Blacklist · Alberta Gilbert
- Isn't It Delicious · Joan Weldon
- House of Cards · Margaret Tilden
- The Americans · Aunt Helen
- Elementary · Mrs. Clennon
- Heart of Broadway: The Ensemble Behind Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS · Self
- The Last New Yorker · Mimi
- The People Speak · Self
- Mercy
- Georgia O'Keeffe · Mrs. Stieglitz
- Duplicity · Pam Frailes
- Perfect Stranger · Elizabeth Clayton
- First Born · Mrs. Kasperian
- The Book of Daniel · Catherine Webster
- Lackawanna Blues · Mrs. Carmichael
- Kinsey · Barbara Merkle
- Rescue Me · Sean's Ma
- 2BPerfectlyHonest · Female Customer
- The Pornographer: A Love Story · Mom
- Book of Kings · Nina
- A Death in the Family · Aunt Hannah
- The Laramie Project · Anonymous Female Rancher
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent · Bessie Holland, Priscilla Van Acker
- The Guardian · Laurie Solt
- The Beat
- Company Man · Mother Quimp
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Judge Cutress, Mrs. Nash
- Storm of the Century · Joanna Stanhope
- Side Streets · Nanda
- The Last Days of Disco · Zenia
- A Price Above Rubies · Beggar Woman
- QM, I Think I'll Call Her QM · Dr. Ruth Fielding
- David Searching · Grandmother
- Spin City · Mother Superior
- MURDER and murder · Mildred
- Junior · Casitas Madres Receptionist
- New York Undercover
- In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
- Bob Roberts · Constance Roberts
- Jumpin' at the Boneyard · Mom
- Out of the Rain · Ruth
- Dangerous Music · Therapist
- Law & Order · Defense Attorney Lisa Cutler, Lisa Cutler
- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie · Dean (segment ‘Lot 249’)
- Miss Firecracker · Miss Lilly
- Five Corners · Mrs. Fitzgerald
- L.A. Law · Sister Marlene Branson
- American Playhouse · Erna Hauser, Self