Martha Plimpton has appeared in The Mosquito Coast, Shy People, Running on Empty, Parenthood, Samantha, Small Town Murder Songs, Frozen II and Mass.
52 Facts About Martha Plimpton
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Martha Plimpton is recognized on Broadway for her roles in The Coast of Utopia, Shining City, Top Girls, and Pal Joey.
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Martha Plimpton returned to Broadway in the fall of 2014 in a revival of A Delicate Balance, and starred in the ABC sitcom The Real O'Neals from March 2016 to March 2017.
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Martha Plimpton played Virginia Chance in the Fox sitcom Raising Hope, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Martha Plimpton has received three Tony Award nominations, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2002, and again in 2012 as attorney Patti Nyholm in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife, the latter of which she won.
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Martha Plimpton is the daughter of actors Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton.
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Martha Plimpton's parents met while performing in the original Broadway run of Hair.
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Martha Plimpton is an eighth cousin once removed of writer and editor George Plimpton.
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Martha Plimpton is related to cartoonist Bill Plympton, despite the different spelling.
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Martha Plimpton made her feature film debut in 1981 with a small role in the film Rollover.
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Martha Plimpton appeared that year in the sitcom Family Ties.
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Martha Plimpton began a career making small independent film appearances with supporting roles in big-budget films.
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Martha Plimpton appeared in the 1988 Woody Allen film Another Woman.
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Martha Plimpton starred as a cancer patient in the German film Zwei Frauen.
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Martha Plimpton shaved her head to play a cancer patient in Zwei Frauen.
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Martha Plimpton played the independent teenage daughter of Dianne Wiest's character in Parenthood.
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Martha Plimpton appeared in the 1991 TV movie A Woman At War in the lead role as Helene Moskiewicz.
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Martha Plimpton played the starring role of Samantha in the film Samantha.
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Martha Plimpton appeared as an activist in the independent film Inside Monkey Zetterland released in 1993.
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Martha Plimpton appeared in the television film Daybreak.
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Martha Plimpton appeared in the Showtime television film Chantilly Lace.
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Martha Plimpton played the lead in The Beans of Egypt, Maine, based on the Carolyn Chute novel.
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Martha Plimpton appeared as herself in the independent film by Eric Schaeffer My Life's in Turnaround, a movie about filmmakers trying to make a movie.
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Martha Plimpton appeared as a close friend of radical feminist Valerie Solanas in the film I Shot Andy Warhol.
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Martha Plimpton became involved with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, appearing in Hedda Gabler among others.
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Martha Plimpton appeared in the John Waters film Pecker in 1998.
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Martha Plimpton was the voice of Miss Crumbles in the 2004 animated film Hair High by Bill Plympton.
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Martha Plimpton wrote the episode of the show entitled "Red Socks", which aired in 2005.
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Martha Plimpton had a recurring role in the NBC show Surface.
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Martha Plimpton won a Drama Desk Award and was nominated for a Tony award, Featured Actress in a Play.
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From August to September 2007, Martha Plimpton appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park production as "Helena".
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Martha Plimpton co-founded a production company, Everything is Horrible, which has produced short films for the Internet.
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Martha Plimpton received her second nomination for a Tony Award in 2008, Best Performance by a Featured Actress In a Play, for her work in Top Girls at the Biltmore Theater.
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Martha Plimpton exudes a been-there, frowzy sensuality that summons a host of hard-bitten dames from 1930s movie melodramas.
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Martha Plimpton appeared in the 2008 Entertainment Weekly photo issue spread as one of "The Hardest Working Actors In Showbiz".
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Martha Plimpton has appeared multiple times as a guest on public radio's The Leonard Lopate Show, and performed in a roast of Lopate celebrating the 25th anniversary of his radio program.
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Martha Plimpton is on the board of directors of The Players, a New York City social club founded in 1888 by actor Edwin Booth.
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In November 2009, Martha Plimpton signed on for the Fox sitcom Raising Hope.
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Martha Plimpton narrates audiobooks, including the novels Diary by Chuck Palahniuk and Mrs Kimble by Jennifer Haigh.
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Martha Plimpton had a recurring role in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife from 2009 to 2013, playing attorney Patti Nyholm, who appeared through four seasons.
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Martha Plimpton's performance earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2012.
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Martha Plimpton sang "God Bless America" during the seventh inning stretch of Game 3 of the 2010 World Series in Texas on Fox, October 30,2010.
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On December 15,2010, Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre announced that Martha Plimpton would be the guest of honor at their second-annual "Salute to Women in the Arts".
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In 2014, Martha Plimpton returned to Broadway as Julia, the daughter of Glenn Close and John Lithgow in a revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance.
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Martha Plimpton starred in The Real O'Neals, an ABC sitcom that premiered on March 2,2016.
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In July 2019, it was revealed that Martha Plimpton had left the Steppenwolf Theater ensemble.
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Martha Plimpton appeared as one of four leads in the drama film Mass, which was released in 2021 to positive reviews, and earned her nominations for the Dorian Award for Best Supporting Film Performance and the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Martha Plimpton shared the Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award with the cast of Mass.
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Martha Plimpton played a conservative mother in the HBO dramedy series Generation, which was cancelled after one season.
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Martha Plimpton had to change himself, and he didn't want to yet.
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Martha Plimpton is an abortion-rights campaigner who has lobbied Congress on behalf of Planned Parenthood and is on the board of directors of the women's-rights organization "A Is For"; according to the organization's website, Martha Plimpton has been politically active in abortion rights since her teenage years and speaks at campuses and rallies.
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In 2014, Plimpton wrote a lengthy article decrying both US Supreme Court decisions in Burwell v Hobby Lobby and McCullen v Coakley and revealing in part that she herself has had an abortion more than once.