Beth Grant

Biography

Beth Grant (born September 18, 1949) is an American actress. She is known for often playing characters who are conservatives, religious zealots or sticklers for rules. She has appeared in dozens of films, including Rain Man, Speed; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar; Love Field; Donnie Darko; A Time to Kill; Little Miss Sunshine; Child's Play 2; Daltry Calhoun; City Slickers 2; Don't Tell Her It's Me; Matchstick Men; Factory Girl; The Wizard; Sordid Lives; The Rookie; All About Steve; No Country for Old Men, Crazy Heart, and Rango. Grant has also appeared in many TV shows, including Everwood; Delta; The Golden Girls; Malcolm in the Middle; The X-Files; Friends; CSI; Six Feet Under; Wonderfalls; My Name Is Earl; Yes, Dear; King of the Hill; The Office; Angel; Judging Amy; Jericho; Sordid Lives: The Series; Criminal Minds, Sabrina The Teenage Witch; True Blood; How I Met Your Mother; and The Mentalist. Grant was born in Gadsden, Alabama, and is an alumna of East Carolina University. She is married to actor Michael Chieffo with whom she has one child. Grant played the same character, Marianne Marie Beetle, in the short-lived show Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, both created by Bryan Fuller. Description above from the Wikipedia article Beth Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Kitty Farmer

Donnie Darko

Mother at Farm House

Rain Man

Lou

Desert Saints

Helen

Speed

Cora Mae Cobb

A Time to Kill

Dori Woodriff

Hot Tamale

Mother Gagnon

Flags of Our Fathers

Mattie Whalen (segment "The Bridge Partner")

Grave Intentions

Dr. Inga Von Westphalen

Southland Tales

Miss Kettlewell

Child's Play 2

Ciotka Dee

Daltry Calhoun

Emma Lemac

The Ungodly

Sheila

Evil Alien Conquerors

Carla Jean's Mother

No Country for Old Men

Mrs. Horowitz

All About Steve

Laundry Lady

Matchstick Men

Julia Warhol

Factory Girl

Mary

Extract

Mom

Hard Pill

Josie

Henry Poole Is Here

Evelyn

In My Sleep

Susan

Operation: Endgame

Olline

The Rookie

Carla's Mom

Winged Creatures

Candy

Hide

Phyllis

Life of Lemon

Madge

Deadly Care

To Dance with Olivia

Stephanie

Love Always

Interruptions

Melvina Pou

The Rising Place

Alice

Hard Scrambled

Roberta

A Thousand Acres

Hazel

Love Field

Roz Kincaid

White Sands

Sissy Hickey

Sordid Lives

Principal Applebomb

Dear Lemon Lima

Mrs. Hill

Rocker

Frances Loren

Welcome to Paradise

Virginia Kendal

Our Very Own

Mrs. Thatcher

The House of Usher

Peppy's Maid

The Artist

Martha Packard

The Image

Mary Jo Nackserson

Maximum Truth

General Railen

Polar Opposites

Marva

Valley of the Sun

Addie Bundren

As I Lay Dying

Self

Hollywood to Dollywood

Ruby

Blue Valley Songbird

Deb

Sedona

Bedazzled Judge

Bad Words

Mom

Herpes Boy

Mrs. Wojiechowski

Miss Dial

Self

#1 Fan: A Darkomentary

Louisa Ashland

Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man

Linda Baker

Lieberman in Love

Becky (Auditorium Speaker)

Safe

Willadeen Winkler

Blues for Willadean

Amelia Brooks / Great Aunt

The Midnight Swim

Tiffany Alcott

Out West

Woman

Odyssea

Shayla Beaumont

The Dark Half

Pat McGinty

Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story

Mrs. Dillenbeck

Amsterdam

Ms. Dobbins

The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer

Mom

A One Time Thing

Lois

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

Evelyn

Faults

Kristin Kessler

Consumed

Widow Douglas

Band of Robbers

Tilda

Addicted to Fresno

Mrs. Cole

Rock Star

Mrs. Winer

The Long Home

Principal Tulip

Spork

Rebecca

Andover

Tess

Great Plains

Lady Bird Johnson

Jackie

Nancy Jenkins

Little Miss Sunshine

Grace Goddard

Norma Jean & Marilyn

Nadine

Domain

Actors Anonymous

Betsy

The Labyrinth

Mississippi Requiem

Crystal

Heartland

Motherly Secretary

Pearl Harbor

Mrs Hellman

Making Sandwiches

Sandra

Sweet Dreams

Lillian Logerfield

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Elaine

Lucky

Ethel

In Dubious Battle

Mrs. Lawrence

Just Before I Go

Teacher

Alex of Venice

Bonnie (voice)

Rango

Jo Ann

Crazy Heart

Older Edvena

Stolen Lives

Angela

Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend

Ranger Mildred Luna

A Thief Of Time

Lovejoy

Dance with Me

Woman

Doctor Dolittle

Miss Randolph

Under Cover

Diner Manager

The Wizard

Housewife

Flatliners

Shelly

Hold On

Ruth Betters

Birdseye

Dr. Thomas

William

Linda Heim

The Violation

Edwina Williams

Tenn

Phyllis

I Do... Until I Don't

Janice

Tond

Anna O'Bryan

Nostalgia

Narrator

Tiny Mammals

Joanna

Hover

Marie

Mockingbird Lane

Mattie Whalen

The Bridge Partner

Brenda

Wake the Riderless Horse

Patty

Wander Darkly

Loretta

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Sheriff Eloise Lund

Willy's Wonderland

Sophie

Switched at Birth

Self

Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe

Paulene

Fall From Grace

Irma Kronkite

Picnic

Desert's Edge

Self

Donnie Darko: Production Diary

Tipper

Fully Realized Humans

Penny

La Sirena

Sordid Lives

Sister Catherine

Words on Bathroom Walls

Self

La Classe américaine

Linda Heim (segment "The Violation")

Boys on Film 14: Worlds Collide

Babette

Don't Tell Her It's Me

Carla

Eating

Emily's Mom

Mister Handsome

Meg Albright

Six L.A. Love Stories

Self

Doc of Chucky

Cynthia

All In

Trent's Mother

Lawn Dogs

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Mrs. Turcott

Angelmaker

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

139

Gender

Female

Birthday

1949-09-18

Place of Birth

Gadsden, Alabama, USA

Also Known As

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