Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
In 1984, she portrayed McCoy in the film "Streets of Fire", and also had a supporting role as Viola Kelsey in "Places in the Heart". In 1985, she starred in the television film "The Laundromat" written by Marsha Norman, opposite Carol Burnett. She won a CableACE Award for her performance as Deedee Johnson. She then co-starred as Glory Scheer, alongside her husband Ed Harris, in "Alamo Bay", directed by Louis Malle. Also in 1985, she portrayed Sunny Mackenzie-Sobel in "Twice in a Lifetime", for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.