Laura Elizabeth Metcalf was born on June 16,1955 and is an American actress and comedian.
59 Facts About Laurie Metcalf
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Laurie Metcalf has received various accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades, including two Tony Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.
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Laurie Metcalf began her career with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and frequently works in Chicago theatre.
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Laurie Metcalf made her Broadway debut in the 1985 play My Thing of Love.
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Laurie Metcalf went on to receive six Tony Award nominations, winning Best Actress in a Play in 2017 for her performance in A Doll's House, Part 2 and Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 2018 revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women.
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Laurie Metcalf gained national attention for her performance as Jackie Harris on the sitcom Roseanne and its spinoff The Conners, for which she won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Laurie Metcalf won a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest role in Hacks, and her other Emmy-nominated roles include 3rd Rock from the Sun, Monk, Desperate Housewives, The Big Bang Theory, Getting On, and Horace and Pete.
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Laurie Metcalf appeared on The Norm Show, Frasier, and The Dropout.
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In film, Laurie Metcalf is best known for her performance as Marion McPherson in Greta Gerwig's comedy-drama film Lady Bird.
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Laurie Metcalf was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a BAFTA Award.
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Laurie Metcalf's great-aunt was the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Zoe Akins.
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Laurie Metcalf is an alumna of Illinois State University, class of 1976.
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Laurie Metcalf worked as a secretary while in college and has said that she enjoyed seeing a pile of paper in the to-do box on one side of her desk move over to the completed side by the end of the day.
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Laurie Metcalf was often so focused on her work she missed lunch.
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Laurie Metcalf originally majored in German, thinking she could work as an interpreter, and then in anthropology before accepting that majoring in theatre was her true passion.
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Laurie Metcalf has said that theatre work involves interpreting and studying human behavior.
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Laurie Metcalf has described herself as hideously shy, and yet she found the courage to audition for a few plays in high school and was "hooked".
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Laurie Metcalf initially did not choose acting as a career, because it was unlikely to lead to regular work.
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Laurie Metcalf attended Illinois State University and earned her Bachelor of Arts in Theater in 1976.
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Laurie Metcalf began her professional career at Steppenwolf, of which she was a charter member.
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Laurie Metcalf was praised for her performance as Darlene, and was specifically singled out for her 20-minute act two monologue.
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Laurie Metcalf ultimately relocated to New York City and began to work in theatrical productions such as David Mamet's November on Broadway in 2008, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.
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In June 2009, Laurie Metcalf starred in Justin Tanner's play Voice Lessons with French Stewart in Hollywood before beginning rehearsals to play Kate Jerome in the Broadway revival of Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, directed by David Cromer.
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In September 2010, Laurie Metcalf returned to Steppenwolf and starred in Lisa D'Amour's play Detroit.
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Laurie Metcalf won the 2011 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lead Actress, and the 2011 Obie Award, for her performance.
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In 2012, Laurie Metcalf joined David Suchet in a West End production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, for which she was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress.
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In 2013, The Other Place transferred to Broadway with Laurie Metcalf reprising her role and earning Tony and Drama League nominations.
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In 2013, Laurie Metcalf starred in Bruce Norris's Off-Broadway play Domesticated with Jeff Goldblum at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater of Lincoln Center.
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Laurie Metcalf was nominated for the 2014 Drama League Award, Distinguished Performance and the 2014 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her performance.
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Laurie Metcalf was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, her third Tony nomination overall.
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Laurie Metcalf appeared on Broadway in Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2 with Chris Cooper at the John Golden Theatre.
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Laurie Metcalf received critical acclaim for her performance and earned her first Tony Award, winning for Best Actress in a Play.
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Laurie Metcalf won her second consecutive Tony Award, this time for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
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Laurie Metcalf played Hillary Clinton opposite John Lithgow as Bill Clinton in Lucas Hnath's Hillary and Clinton on Broadway in 2019 at the John Golden Theatre.
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Laurie Metcalf was nominated for the 2019 Tony Award, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play.
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The production was directed by Joe Mantello and Laurie Metcalf starred alongside Rupert Everett.
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Laurie Metcalf appeared in a Weekend Update segment about taking a bullet for the president of the United States.
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Laurie Metcalf was not asked to return as a cast member the following year.
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In 1988, Laurie Metcalf debuted in what is arguably her best known role as Jackie Harris, the multiple-careered, low self-esteemed, amiable sister of the title character in the hit ABC sitcom series Roseanne, starring alongside Roseanne Barr and John Goodman.
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Laurie Metcalf's performance garnered four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, a category that she won three consecutive times, from 1992 to 1994.
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Roseanne ran through 1997; Laurie Metcalf appeared as Jackie over the show's entire nine-season run.
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From 1999 to 2001, Laurie Metcalf costarred with Norm Macdonald on The Norm Show, which ran for three seasons, and later starred opposite Nathan Lane in the 2003 comedy series Charlie Lawrence, which was cancelled after the airing of two episodes.
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In 2008, Laurie Metcalf starred in The CW dramedy Easy Money, as the matriarch of a family of loan sharks.
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In 2007, Laurie Metcalf made her first appearance as Mary Cooper, the mother of Sheldon Cooper, one of the main characters, on the top-rated CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
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From 2013 to 2015, Laurie Metcalf starred in the HBO comedy series Getting On.
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Laurie Metcalf was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for its final season, losing to Julia Louis-Dreyfus of Veep.
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Laurie Metcalf was the was the lead actress in the short-lived CBS family sitcom The McCarthys.
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Laurie Metcalf reprised her role in The Conners, a spinoff of Roseanne without Barr's involvement which premiered in fall 2018.
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Laurie Metcalf's first on-screen appearance was an uncredited role as a maid in Robert Altman's comedy A Wedding.
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Laurie Metcalf played minor roles in Warren Beatty's political drama Bulworth and the Garry Marshall romantic comedy Runaway Bride.
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Laurie Metcalf voiced Andy's mother in the Disney-Pixar animated film Toy Story, reprising the role in Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, and Toy Story 4.
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Laurie Metcalf's character was revealed at the end of the movie to be not only one of the killers, but the mother of Billy Loomis, one of the killers from the first film.
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Laurie Metcalf made a brief foray into television films in the late 1990s, notably portraying the real-life gun control activist Carolyn McCarthy in the NBC film The Long Island Incident.
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In 2017, Laurie Metcalf received universal critical acclaim for her performance in Greta Gerwig's coming of age film Lady Bird starring alongside Saoirse Ronan and Tracy Letts.
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In 1983, Laurie Metcalf married Jeff Perry, co-founding member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company; the two had a daughter, Zoe Perry, in 1983.
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Laurie Metcalf later began a relationship with Matt Roth, the Roseanne co-star who played her abusive boyfriend Fisher.
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Laurie Metcalf has described herself as a workaholic and stated that she is hard on herself during rehearsals.
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Laurie Metcalf has said that she prefers theatre over other acting media as it is where she feels most comfortable.
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Laurie Metcalf has appeared in commercials for Plan USA, a humanitarian organization that helps children in need around the world.