Blair Brown

Biography

Blair Brown (born April 23, 1946) is an American stage, film and television actress. For her role in Copenhagen, Brown won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She was the leading actress in feature films such as Altered States (1980), Continental Divide (1981), and Strapless (1989), and she played the title character in the television comedy-drama The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. Later supporting roles include Nina Sharp on Fringe and Judy King on Orange Is the New Black.

Known For

Mrs. Henson

Dogville

Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

Dark Shadows

Shelly McLaren

The Astronaut's Wife

Dr. Anne Caruthers

Space Cowboys

Emily Jessup

Altered States

Ginny Wyatt

Stealing Home

Nell Porter

Continental Divide

Marion

One Trick Pony

Narrator

The Buddha

Miss Farranti

The Paper Chase

Hildy

Dark Matter

Narrator

Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman

Mimi Smith

In His Life: The John Lennon Story

Jeanette Rawley

Loverboy

Kat Hubble

A Flash of Green

Self

Dogville Confessions

Christine Penmark

The Bad Seed

Dr. Lillian Hempel

Strapless

Gertrude

Hamlet

Narrator (voice)

Sister Aimee

voice

Woodrow Wilson

Sabina

The Skin of Our Teeth

Carol Keating

Moment of Truth: To Walk Again

Lauren Elder

And I Alone Survived

National Security Advisor

The Sentinel

Nellie Banesh

Those Secrets

Anna Roosevelt

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

Millicent Priestley

The Quinns

Hannah Parker

Follow the Stars Home

Jan Rodman

The Child Stealer

Kimberly Lyles

The Choirboys

Judy Miller

The Day My Parents Ran Away

Amy Scanlan

Passed Away

Margaret Toll

Extreme Close-Up

Eve

Griffin & Phoenix

Laura's Mother

First Born

Narrator

Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West

Brutalités amoureuses

Joan Stewart

Don't Touch

Narrator

The River Ran Red

Diane Benton

Hands of a Stranger

Charity

Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging

Narrator

RFK

Narrator (voice)

The Massie Affair

Zalinda Dorcheus

Convictions

Joan 'Joanie' McGrath

The Ultimate Lie

Mina

Dracula

Narrator

Young Dr. Freud

Gen. Katherine Taylor

Majority Rule

Mickey

My Art

Grace Bradley

A Season in Purgatory

Lady Teazle

The School for Scandal

Elizabeth Cleary

Rio Shannon

Bridger

The Speed of Thought

Margaret Bayard Smith (voice)

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency

Rachel Kane

The 3,000 Mile Chase

Narrator

Test Tube Babies

Rebecca Karp

The Good Policeman

Helen Porter

The Gift of Love

Desiree Armfeldt

A Little Night Music: Live from the Kennedy Center

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

60

Gender

Female

Birthday

1946-04-23

Place of Birth

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Also Known As

Bonnie Blair Brown