14 Facts About Jayne Houdyshell

Jayne Houdyshell made her Broadway debut in the musical A Wonderful Life.

Jayne Houdyshell went on to receive the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Humans.

Jayne Houdyshell was Tony-nominated for her roles in the Lisa Kron play Well, the revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies, the new play by Lucas Hnath A Doll's House, Part 2, and the revival of Meredith Willson's The Music Man.

Jayne Houdyshell is known for her supporting film roles in Alexander Payne's science fiction comedy Downsizing and Greta Gerwig's period piece Little Women, and for reprising her role in the 2021 film adaptation of The Humans.

Jayne Houdyshell graduated from Topeka High School in 1971, and she went on to Emporia State University then on to graduate with honors from the Academy of Dramatic Art at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan in 1974.

Jayne Houdyshell had a role in the 2010 film The Bounty Hunter with Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler.

Jayne Houdyshell won a Theater World Award and an Obie Award, Outstanding Performance, for the Off-Broadway production of Well, which ran in 2004 at the Public Theater.

Jayne Houdyshell received the 2005 Joseph Jefferson Award, Supporting Actress, Play for her performance in The Pain and the Itch for Steppenwolf Theatre Company and a 2005 Barrymore Award, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play for her work in The Clean House at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia.

Jayne Houdyshell played the role of "Hattie" in the 2011 revival of Follies, and received a 2012 Tony Award nomination, Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance.

Jayne Houdyshell played the Nurse in the 2013 Broadway revival of Romeo and Juliet.

Jayne Houdyshell appeared in The Humans as "Deirdre Blake", first in its Off-Broadway engagement at the Roundabout Theatre Company in September 2015 to December 2015, and then the Broadway production of the play which opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on February 18,2016.

Jayne Houdyshell was nominated for the 2016 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play.

In 2022 Jayne Houdyshell played Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn in musical revival of Meredith Willson's The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster.

Jayne Houdyshell returned to Broadway in the revival of Anton Chekov Uncle Vanya at Vivian Beaumont Theater starring Steve Carell, Allison Pill, William Jackson Harper, and Alfred Molina.