Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs) is an American actress of stage and screen best known for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks and the films The Hustler, Carrie, and Children of a Lesser God, all of which brought her Academy Award nominations.
She was nominated by BAFTA as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best performance by an actress in ‘The Hustler’ with Paul Newman.
She stopped working for fifteen years after ‘The Hustler’ to devote her energies to the Civil Rights movement and to the Vietnam War, feeling acting was less important.
When she accepted work again she was nominated for an Academy Award as best supporting actress for the original ‘Carrie’ with Sissy Spacek, and again as best supporting actress in ‘Children of a Lesser God’ with Marlee Matlin. In 1991, she won the Golden Globe for her portrayal as Catherine Martell in the David Lynch cult favorite Twin Peaks, and was nominated for an Emmy for both best actress and best supporting actress.
She has been nominated twelve times for an Emmy, including one for the original and celebrated live broadcast of ‘The Days of Wine and Roses’ with Cliff Robertson, directed by John Frankenheimer, as well as for her comedic performance in ‘Frasier’. She won the Emmy for ‘Promise’ opposite James Woods and James Garner. She was Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year, and she also received an SFECA award for her performance as Dolly in the film of ‘The Grass Harp’.
Piper Laurie Biography / Wiki
| Name | Piper Laurie |
| Also Know | Rosetta Jacobs, Fumio Yamaguchi |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| Date of Birth | January 22, 1932 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 91 |
| Deathday |
Piper Laurie Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Tim | Mary Horton | 1979-07-13 | Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she… |
| The Grass Harp | Dolly Talbo | 1995-09-10 | Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in … |
| Has Anybody Seen My Gal? | Millicent Blaisdell | 1952-06-25 | When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions…. |
| Ruby | Ruby | 1977-06-23 | Strange killings occur at Ruby’s drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend…. |
| Bad Blood… the Hunger | Milly Lathrop | 2012-10-26 | Several college students embark on a summer of sun and fun, but find that their adventure turns eerily macabre when dark and ancient forces propel the… |
| St. Patrick’s Day | MaryPat Donnelly-McDonough | 1996-01-01 | An Irish family has a reunion near St Patrick’s Day, and all of the expected drama ensues…. |
| Snapshots | Rose | 2018-08-14 | Rose spends her days fishing near the beautiful lake house she’s called home for 50 years. She’s not getting any younger and her daughter Patti wo… |
| Carrie | Margaret White | 1976-10-31 | Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers… |
| Francis Goes to the Races | Frances Travers | 1951-05-01 | In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter get a job working on a horse-breeder’s ranch. They … |
| Son of Ali Baba | Kiki / Princess Azura | 1952-08-15 | In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl w… |
| The Prince Who Was a Thief | Tina | 1951-05-17 | An Arabian prince, kidnapped at birth and raised as a thief, plots to regain his throne from his evil uncle in this colorful costume adventure…. |
| A Christmas Memory | Jennie | 1997-12-21 | A new version of Truman Capote’s 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a speci… |
| The Golden Blade | Khairuzan | 1953-08-12 | Harum is a fearless man of the people who comes to Bagdad to avenge the murder of his father and meets Krairuzan, a princess disguised as a commoner, … |
| Johnny Dark | Liz Fielding | 1954-06-25 | A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George Sherman’s 1954 film stars Tony Curtis, Piper Laur… |
| Dangerous Mission | Louise Graham | 1954-03-06 | A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing…. |
| Tiger Warsaw | Frances Warsaw | 1988-05-11 | Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forg… |
| Another Harvest Moon | June | 2010-10-06 | Another Harvest Moon is a tender drama about four elderly Americans coping with life in a nursing home. FRANK, ELLA, ALICE and JUNE gather each mornin… |
| Smoke Signal | Laura Evans | 1955-03-01 | Capt. Harper’s cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Hallid… |
| No Room for the Groom | Lee Kingshead | 1952-06-13 | Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper’s daughter. But Alvah’s chicken pox postpone the weddin… |
| Dawn at Socorro | Rannah Hayes | 1954-09-01 | Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En rout… |
| Kelly and Me | Mina Van Runkle | 1957-04-10 | Failing vaudeville performer, Len, is taken under the wing of the German Shepherd wonder dog, Kelly, and a new act is born. Len hopes all his dreams a… |
| The Mississippi Gambler | Angelique Dureau | 1953-01-29 | Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamb… |
| Macbeth | Lady Macbeth | 1981-01-01 | An adaptation of Shakespeare’s play…. |
| The Road to Galveston | 1996-01-24 | Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind w… | |
| Rising Son | Martha Robinson | 1990-07-23 | A factory foreman with 36 years experience becomes despondent after being laid off by his company which has just been taken over by a Japanese conglom… |
| Fighting for My Daughter | Judge Edna Burton | 1995-01-09 | Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a dangerous prostitution ring…. |
| Ain’t Misbehavin’ | Sarah Hatfield | 1955-06-30 | Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her…. |
| In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan | Julie Quinlan | 1977-09-26 | Based on a true case, this tells the story of two parents in New Jersey whose daughter has lapsed into a coma from which doctors say she will never re… |
| Days of Wine and Roses | Kirsten Arnesen Clay | 1958-10-02 | An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his “passion” together…. |
| Skag | Jo Skagska | 1980-01-06 | Pete “Skag” Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life… |
| The Hustler | Sarah Packard | 1961-09-25 | Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary… |
| Children of a Lesser God | Mrs. Norman | 1986-09-13 | Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the school… |
| The Milkman | Chris Abbott | 1950-10-17 | A dairy owner’s son takes a job as milkman with a rival company…. |
| Distortions | Margot Caldwell | 1987-05-10 | A man goes to speak with a gigolo and is promptly beaten for his trouble. Soon afterward, his wife is told that he burned to death in a car wreck and … |
| Dream a Little Dream | Gena Ettinger | 1989-03-03 | Bobby Kellar has a crush on Lainie Diamond, girlfriend of school jerk Joel. Coleman is working on an experiment which will help him move into a place … |
| Mae West | Matilda West | 1982-05-02 | Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex…. |
| Trauma | Adriana Petrescu | 1993-03-12 | An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are … |
| Promise | Annie Gilbert | 1986-12-21 | Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother DJ, who is … |
| Mother, Mother | Martha Cousins | 1989-01-06 | A Blue Ribbon winner at the American Film Festival, this hard-hitting, dramatic production is about the relationship between a young man with AIDS and… |
| Other People’s Money | Bea Sullivan | 1991-10-18 | When a corporate raider threatens a hostile takeover of a ‘mom and pop’ company, the patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife’s attractiv… |
| Return to Oz | Aunt Em | 1985-06-21 | Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and… |
| Until They Sail | Delia Leslie Friskett | 1957-10-08 | Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII…. |
| Go Toward the Light | Margo | 1988-11-01 | A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS…. |
| The Mao Game | 1999-06-04 | Growing up neurotic in a Hollywood family… | |
| Appointment with Death | Emily Boynton | 1988-04-15 | Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed … |
| The Crossing Guard | Helen Booth | 1995-11-15 | After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day… |
| Hounddog | Grammie | 2007-01-22 | A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley…. |
| Hesher | Madeleine Forney | 2010-01-22 | A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even m… |
| Rich in Love | Vera Delmage | 1992-10-01 | Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him unexpectedly. With Helen gone, Warren’s kindheart… |
| Love, Mary | Christine Groda | 1985-10-08 | A teen, who is always in trouble in school and has been sent to reform school, turns her life around when a counselor discovers she is dyslexic…. |
| Shadows of Desire | Ellis Snow | 1994-09-20 | A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother…. |
| The Hustler: The Inside Story | Herself (archive footage) | 2002-01-01 | A brief overview of The Hustler’s making and the players involved…. |
| Wrestling Ernest Hemingway | Georgia | 1993-12-17 | Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet … |
| Storyville | Constance Fowler | 1992-08-26 | While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family’s deep secrets…. |
| Louisa | Cathy Norton | 1950-05-31 | Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically invol… |
| Intensity | Miriam Braynard | 1997-08-05 | Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton’s house, a farm in … |
| Winterset | Miriamne | 1959-10-26 | Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of t… |
| The Last Brickmaker in America | Ruth Anne | 2001-09-23 | A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-yea… |
| Sad Inheritance | Margaret Kinsey | 1993-03-14 | After filling her life with addictions, Christina (Susan Dey) is left with a dead-end job, a deadbeat boyfriend and a bad rapport with her mother (Pip… |
| The Dead Girl | Arden’s Mother | 2006-11-07 | The clues to a young woman’s death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect…. |
| Toughlove | Darlene Marsh | 1985-10-13 | The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the “Toughlove” program in searching for a… |
| The Bunker | Magda Goebbels | 1981-04-15 | Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler’s last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle f… |
| Rainbow | Ethel Gumm | 1978-11-06 | The early life and struggles of Judy Garland (portrayed by Andrea McArdle), and of the film star’s trials as a youngster in dealing with the movie stu… |
| Midwives | Cheryl Visco | 2001-04-02 | It’s a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of … |
| White Boy Rick | Grandma Verna Wershe | 2018-09-14 | The story of a teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-t… |
| Acting ‘Carrie’ | Self | 2001-08-28 | In this documentary, director Brian De Palma and the stars from his film “Carrie” (such as Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, Piper Laurie, William Katt, Nancy… |
| Postcards From The Cast | Self | 2001-12-18 | “Postcards From The Cast” is a featurette originally released in the 2001 DVD release, Twin Peaks: The First Season. It was later re-released in the B… |
| Possessed | Aunt Hanna | 2000-10-22 | An 11 year old boy starts throwing temper tantrums, vomiting on and attacking people, and swearing uncontrollably. Furniture begins to move on its ow… |
| Eulogy | Charlotte Collins | 2004-10-15 | A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch – unveiling a litany of family secrets a… |
| Alone | Lillie Dawson | 1997-12-21 | John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, a… |
| The Faculty | Mrs. Karen Olson | 1998-12-25 | When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make the chilling discovery that their faculty is being contro… |
| The Boss’ Son | Elaine | 1978-10-02 | Bobby Rose has just returned home after graduating business school. He agrees to start working for his father, a successful carpet manufacturer. Bobby… |
| Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom | Self | 2012-03-20 | Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean. A sex symbol, a matinee idol, a powerful and magnetic actor, Tony Curtis was the ori… |
| Palmer’s Pick Up | Evangelist | 1999-02-09 | Two dimwit owners of a struggling hauling company are approached about hauling a huge, mysterious box across country at the end of the century. The ca… |
| Twin Peaks | Catherine Martell | 1990-04-08 | An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the… |
| Inherit the Wind | Sarah Brady | 1999-05-29 | Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution…. |
| Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror | Herself | 2001-04-15 | Documentary that explores Argento’s film career…. |
| Allen in Movieland | Self | 1955-07-02 | TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in “The Benny Goodman Story.”… |
| Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks | 2007-10-30 | A select group of key creative forces involved in the making of Twin Peaks reveals their take on the fascinating creation and journey of the wildly po… | |
| The Rage: Carrie 2 | Margaret White (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1999-03-11 | After the suicide of her only friend, Rachel has never felt more on the outside. The one person who reached out to her, Jessie, also happens to be par… |
| Terror in the Aisles | Margaret White (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1984-10-26 | A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time…. |
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