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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

133

Gender

Female

Birthday

1932-01-22

Deathday

2023-10-14 (91 years old)

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Also Known As

Rosetta Jacobs
Fumio Yamaguchi
Пайпер Лори

Piper Laurie

Biography

Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; January 22, 1932 – October 14, 2023) was an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), and received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. She was also known for her performances as Kirsten Arnesen in the original TV production of Days of Wine and Roses, and as Catherine Martell in the television series Twin Peaks.

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Acting

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Science Fiction Film Awards as Herself

2023

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed as Self - Co-Star (voice) (archive footage)

2022

Gregory Peck, le gentleman acteur as Herself

2018		White Boy Rick as Grandma Verna Wershe
2018		Snapshots as Rose

2016

MacGyver as Edith

2012		Bad Blood... the Hunger as Milly Lathrop
2012		Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom as Self

2010		Another Harvest Moon as June
2010		Hesher as Madeleine Forney

2009

Saving Grace B. Jones as Marta Shrank

2007		Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
2007		Hounddog as Grammie

2006

The Dead Girl as Arden's Mother

2004

Eulogy as Charlotte Collins

2003		Cold Case as Rose (2005)
2003		Dead Like Me as Nina Rommey

2002

The Hustler: The Inside Story as Self (archive footage)

2001		Postcards From The Cast as Self
2001		The Last Brickmaker in America as Ruth Anne
2001		Acting 'Carrie' as Self
2001		Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror as Self
2001		Midwives as Cheryl Visco

2000

Possessed as Aunt Hanna

1999		Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dorothy Rudd
1999		The Mao Game
1999		Inherit the Wind as Sarah Brady
1999		The Rage: Carrie 2 as Margaret White (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999		Palmer's Pick-Up as Evangelist

1998		The Faculty as Mrs. Karen Olson
1998		Brother's Keeper as Jane Waide
1998		Will & Grace as Sharon
1998		St. Patrick's Day as Mary Pat

1997		A Christmas Memory as Jennie
1997		Alone as Lillie Dawson
1997		Intensity as Miriam Braynard
1997		Intensity as Miriam Braynard

1996		In the Blink of an Eye as Kay Trafero (uncredited)
1996		The Road to Galveston as Wanda Kirkman

1995		The Grass Harp as Dolly Talbo
1995		The Crossing Guard as Helen Booth
1995		Fighting for My Daughter as Judge Edna Burton

1994		Touched by an Angel as Annie Doyle
1994		Shadows of Desire as Ellis Snow
1994		ER as Sarah Ross
1994		Traps as Cora Trapchek

1993		Wrestling Ernest Hemingway as Georgia
1993		Diagnosis: Murder as A.D.A. Susan Turner
1993		Frasier as Marianne (voice)
1993		Frasier as Mrs. Mulhern
1993		Sad Inheritance as Margaret Kinsey
1993		Trauma as Adriana Petrescu

1992		Rich in Love as Vera Delmage
1992		Storyville as Constance Fowler

1991

Other People's Money as Bea Sullivan

1990		Rising Son as Martha Robinson
1990		Twin Peaks as Katherine Martell
1990		Twin Peaks as Tojamura / Catherine Martell (voice)
1990		Twin Peaks as Mr. Tojamura
1990		Twin Peaks as Catherine Martell (archive footage)
1990		Twin Peaks as Tojamura / Catherine Martell
1990		Twin Peaks as Catherine Martell

1989		Twin Peaks as Catherine Martell
1989		Dream a Little Dream as Gena Ettinger
1989		Mother, Mother as Martha Cousins

1988		Go Toward the Light as Margo
1988		Tiger Warsaw as Frances Warsaw
1988		Appointment with Death as Emily Boynton

1987		Beauty and the Beast
1987		Distortions as Margot Caldwell

1986		Promise as Annie Gilbert
1986		Children of a Lesser God as Mrs. Norman
1986		Matlock as Claire Leigh

1985		Toughlove as Darlene Marsh
1985		Love, Mary as Christine Groda
1985		The Twilight Zone as Gramma (voice) (uncredited) (segment "Gramma")
1985		The Twilight Zone as Aunt Neva (segment "The Burning Man")
1985		Tender Is the Night as Elsie Speers
1985		Return to Oz as Aunt Em

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Peggy Shannon

1983

The Thorn Birds as Anne Mueller

1982		St. Elsewhere as Fran Singleton
1982		Hotel
1982		Mae West as Matilda West

1981		The Bunker as Magda Goebbels
1981		Macbeth as Lady Macbeth

1980		Skag as Jo Skagska
1980		Skag

1979

Tim as Mary Horton

1978		Rainbow as Ethel Gumm
1978		The Boss' Son as Elaine

1977		In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan as Julie Quinlan
1977		Ruby as Ruby

1976

Carrie as Margaret White

1963

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Lee Wiley

1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961		Ben Casey
1961		The Hustler as Sarah Packard

1959

Winterset as Miriamne

1958		Days of Wine and Roses as Kirsten Arnesen Clay
1958		Naked City as Mary Highmark

1957		Until They Sail as Delia Leslie Friskett
1957		Kelly and Me as Mina Van Runkle
1957		The Ninth Day

1956

Playhouse 90

1955		Allen in Movieland as Self
1955		Ain't Misbehavin' as Sarah Hatfield
1955		Smoke Signal as Laura Evans

1954		Dawn at Socorro as Rannah Hayes
1954		Johnny Dark as Liz Fielding
1954		Dangerous Mission as Louise Graham

1953		The Golden Blade as Khairuzan
1953		General Electric Theater as Phoebe Durkin
1953		General Electric Theater as Cleopatra
1953		General Electric Theater as Jessica Galloway
1953		The Mississippi Gambler as Angelique Dureau
1953		The World's Most Beautiful Girls as Self

1952		Son of Ali Baba as Kiki / Princess Azura
1952		Has Anybody Seen My Gal? as Millicent Blaisdell
1952		No Room for the Groom as Lee Kingshead

1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Miriamne
1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Annie
1951		The Prince Who Was a Thief as Tina
1951		Francis Goes to the Races as Frances Travers

1950		The Milkman as Chris Abbott
1950		Louisa as Cathy Norton
1950		What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
1950		Robert Montgomery Presents as Stacey Spender

1948		Studio One as Ruth Cornelius
1948		The Ed Sullivan Show as Self

1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner