Tess Harper was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her first film role in 1983's Tender Mercies, and for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Crimes of the Heart.
17 Facts About Tess Harper
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Tess Harper had a recurring role on the first three seasons of Breaking Bad.
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Tess Harper attended Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, graduated with a degree in education, and taught ninth-grade English in Springfield, Missouri.
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Tess Harper began acting in theater productions, theme parks, dinner theater, and children's theater.
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Tess Harper moved to Texas in order to appear in television commercials.
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Director Bruce Beresford was impressed with Tess Harper and cast her in the lead female role of Rosa Lee, the young widow and mother who marries country singer Mac Sledge.
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Beresford said that Tess Harper brought a kind of rural quality to the role without coming across as simple or foolish.
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Tess Harper earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for the role.
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Tess Harper appeared in the TV mini-series Chiefs and Celebrity, as well as many television movies including Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land and Reckless Disregard.
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In 1986, Tess Harper was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work as Chick Boyle in Crimes of the Heart, which was directed by her Tender Mercies director Bruce Beresford.
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Tess Harper later played parts in Ishtar, Far North, The Man in the Moon, The Jackal and Loggerheads.
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Tess Harper took part in Michael Jackson's music video "Black or White", playing the mother.
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From 1994 to 1995 Tess Harper had a regular role on the CBS series Christy, playing mountain woman Fairlight Spencer.
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Tess Harper had a recurring role on another CBS television series, Early Edition, from 1996 to 2000.
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Tess Harper portrayed the mother of lead character Gary Hobsen.
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Tess Harper shared a Screen Actors Guild Award with her fellow cast members in the Oscar-winning film No Country for Old Men, in which she played the wife of Tommy Lee Jones's character.
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Tess Harper had the recurring role of Mrs Pinkman on Breaking Bad, appearing in the first three seasons.