Elizabeth Perkins

Elizabeth Ann Perkins (born November 18, 1960) is an American actress. Her film roles have included About Last Night... (1986), Big (1988), The Flintstones (1994), Miracle on 34th Street (1994) and Avalon (1990). She is known for her role as Celia Hodes in the Showtime TV series Weeds, for which she received three Primetime Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations.
== Early life ==
Perkins was born in Queens, New York, the daughter of Jo Williams, a drug treatment counselor and concert pianist, and James Perkins, a farmer, writer, and businessman. She has two older sisters.[1] Her paternal grandparents were Greek immigrants from Salonika who anglicized their surname from "Pisperikos" to "Perkins" when they moved to the United States.[2][3][4] Perkins was raised in Colrain, Massachusetts; her parents divorced in 1963.[5] She began working in theatre with Arena Civic Theatre, a non-profit community theatre group based in Greenfield, Massachusetts.[6] Perkins attended Northfield Mount Hermon School, an elite preparatory school, and then spent 1978 to 1981 in Chicago attaining her BFA in Acting from the Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University.[5] In 1984, she made her theatrical debut on Broadway in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs[7] and afterward, worked in a number of ensemble companies, including The New York Shakespeare Festival and the Steppenwolf Theater.[8]
== Career ==
She was listed as one of the 12 "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John Willis' Screen World, and has since landed numerous film roles. Perkins made her film debut in 1986 in Edward Zwick's About Last Night... and had a career breakthrough co-starring with Tom Hanks in Big. She received critical acclaim for her performance in Barry Levinson's Avalon,[9] and was a standout opposite William Hurt in The Doctor (1991), receiving critical acclaim for her performance as a terminal cancer patient.[5] In 1993, Perkins appeared in the television project For Their Own Good.[10] She later starred in the comedy series Battery Park and has appeared in television and films including the 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street and 2000's 28 Days starring as Sandra Bullock's sister. Perkins also had a small role in the 2003 film Finding Nemo, voicing the clownfish who was the wife of Marlin and mother of Nemo, and who was killed by a barracuda at the beginning of the film. Perkins also appeared as a psychiatrist in the 2005 suspense thriller, The Ring Two, starring Naomi Watts.
She played Wilma Flintstone in the 1994 live-action comedy The Flintstones.
From 2005 to 2009, Perkins played Celia Hodes, an alcoholic and image-obsessed PTA mother, alongside Mary-Louise Parker and Justin Kirk on the Showtime series Weeds. For her work on Weeds, Perkins received two Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series, Miniseries or Made for TV Motion Picture (in 2006 and 2007).[5] She was also nominated three times for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Weeds.[5] At a screening of the season 2 finale of Weeds, at the Museum of TV and Radio on October 25, 2006, Perkins said that she considers Celia Hodes her favorite role in her career.[5] On May 6, 2010, she announced that the fifth season of Weeds was her last despite the cliffhanger her character had in the season finale.[11]
She starred in the ABC comedy series How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life).[12]
== Personal life ==
Perkins married Terry Kinney in 1984; they divorced in 1988.[13] She has one daughter, born in 1991, with Maurice Phillips. In 2000, she married Argentinian-born cinematographer Julio Macat, gaining three stepsons: Maximillian, Alexander and Andreas.[14]
In 2005, at the age of 44, she learned that she had latent autoimmune diabetes, a form of type 1 diabetes that is most often diagnosed in middle age.[15]
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1986	About Last Night 	Joan 	
1987	From the Hip 	Jo Ann 	
1988	Big 	Susan Lawrence 	
1988	Sweet Hearts Dance 	Adie Nims 	
1990	Love at Large 	Stella Wynkowski 	
1990	Enid Is Sleeping 	June 	
1990	Avalon 	Ann Kaye 	
1991	He Said, She Said 	Lorie Bryer 	
1991	The Doctor 	June Ellis 	
1993	Indian Summer 	Jennifer Morton 	
1994	The Flintstones 	Wilma Flintstone 	
1994	Miracle on 34th Street 	Dorey Walker 	
1995	Moonlight and Valentino 	Rebecca Trager Lott	
1997	Lesser Prophets 	Susan 	
1998	I'm Losing You 	Aubrey Wicker 	
1999	Crazy in Alabama 	Joan Blake 	
2000	28 Days 	Lily Cummings 	
2001	Cats & Dogs 	Mrs. Caroline Brody	
2002	All I Want 	Blanche 	AKA, Try Seventeen
2003	Finding Nemo 	Coral 	Voice role
2004	Gilded Stones 	Polly 	Short film
2004	Speak 	Joyce Sordino 	
2004	Jiminy Glick in Lalawood	Miranda Coolidge 	
2005	The Ring Two 	Dr. Emma Temple 	
2005	The Thing About My Folks	Rachel Kleinman 	
2005	Must Love Dogs 	Carol Nolan 	
2005	Kids in America 	Sondra Carmichael 	
2009	Le chat est mort 	Rhonda 	Short film
2011	Hop 	Bonnie O'Hare 	
2016	Ghostbusters 	Phyllis Adler 	Scenes deleted
=== Television films ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1993	For Their Own Good 	Sally Wheeler 	
1997	Cloned 	Skye Weston 	
1997	Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women	Gertruda Babilinska	
2000	If These Walls Could Talk 2 	Alice Hedley 	
2001	What Girls Learn 	Mama 	
2002	My Sister's Keeper 	Judy Chapman 	
2011	Vince Uncensored 	Janet Donohue 	
=== Television series ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1998 	From the Earth to the Moon 	Marilyn Lovell 	Episode: "The Original Wives Club"
2000 	Battery Park 	Captain Madeline Dunleavy	6 episodes
2002 	King of the Hill 	Jan Shaw 	Episode: "Get Your Freak Off"
2004 	King of the Hill 	Mrs. Ashmore 	Episode: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying"
2004 	King of the Hill 	Sherilyn 	Episode: "The Redneck on Rainey Street"
2005 	Hercules 	Alcmene 	2 episodes
2005–09	Weeds 	Celia Hodes 	63 episodes
2009 	Monk 	Christine Rapp 	Episode: "Mr. Monk's Favorite Show"
2011 	The Closer 	Gail Meyers 	Episode: "Road Block"
2013 	How to Live with Your Parents
(For the Rest of Your Life)''	Elaine Green 	13 episodes
2014 	Hell's Kitchen 	Herself 	Episode: "15 Chefs Compete"
2014 	How to Get Away with Murder	Marren Trudeau 	Episode: "Let's Get to Scooping"
2014 	One Child 	Katherine Ashley 	3 episodes
2017–18	This Is Us 	Janet Malone 	3 episodes
2017 	GLOW 	Birdie 	Episode: "The Liberal Chokehold"
2017 	Curb Your Enthusiasm 	Marilyn 	2 episodes
2018 	Sharp Objects 	Jackie O'Neill 	Main role
== Awards and nominations ==
Awards
Year	Award 	Category 	Production	Result
1992	CFCA Award 	Best Supporting Actress 	The Doctor	Nominated
2005	Satellite Award 	Outstanding Actress in a Series, Comedy or Musical 	Weeds 	Nominated
2006	Satellite Award 	Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series, or TV Movie 	Weeds 	Nominated
2006	Golden Globe Award 	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series, or TV Movie	Weeds 	Nominated
2006	Primetime Emmy Award 	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series 	Weeds 	Nominated
2007	Primetime Emmy Award 	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series 	Weeds 	Nominated
2007	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series 	Weeds 	Nominated
2007	Golden Globe Award 	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series, or TV Movie	Weeds 	Nominated
2007	Golden Nymph 	Outstanding Actress – Comedy Series 	Weeds 	Nominated
2009	Primetime Emmy Award 	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series 	Weeds 	Nominated
2009	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series 	Weeds 	Nominated