Tessie Jean “Tess” Harper (née Washam; born August 15, 1950) is an American actress. She 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. Her other film appearances include Flashpoint (1984), Ishtar (1987), Far North (1988), and No Country for Old Men (2007). She also had a recurring role on the first three seasons of Breaking Bad (2008–2010).
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Tess Harper Biography / Wiki
| Name | Tess Harper |
| Also Know | Tesa Harper |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1950-08-15 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 72 |
| Deathday |
Tess Harper Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Little Girl Lost | Clara Brady | 1988-04-25 | This heart-wrenching story inspired by real events depicts the trials of the Brady family, who are trying desperately to adopt a helpless little girl … |
| Lonely Place | 2004-09-12 | A menacing farmhand worms his way between a husband and wife on an old peach farm…. | |
| Surprise | Linda | 2015-04-28 | A mother and son confess their secrets…. |
| Reckless Disregard | Meredith Craig | 1985-03-17 | Meredith Craig is lawyer who has a small practice. She is then approached by a Dr. Lucas who is a doctor at a clinic, who was exposed on a television … |
| The Long Shadow | Mama Doris | 2020-04-20 | A young female Sheriff’s Deputy in rural Louisiana takes on her town’s old money establishment when the woman she loves – an attorney fighting to stop… |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page | Self | 2020-12-30 | Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page presents an unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas o… |
| Amityville 3-D | Nancy Baxter | 1983-11-18 | To debunk the Amityville house’s infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place… |
| Tender Mercies | Rosa Lee | 1983-04-02 | Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his… |
| Loggerheads | Elizabeth Austin | 2005-10-14 | A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a … |
| A Summer to Remember | Jeannie Wyler | 1985-03-27 | Silent since losing his hearing to meningitis, young Toby Wyler takes a bitter stance against the world and his family, refusing to accept his new ste… |
| A Child’s Wish | Joanna Chandler | 1997-01-21 | A family discovers their youngest daughter has cancer. But the real struggle has yet to start…. |
| Death in Small Doses | Jerri Sims | 1995-01-16 | One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after – poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her … |
| Incident at Dark River | Betty McFall | 1989-12-04 | When Tim McFall’s young daughter dies as the result of toxic waste dumped in the local river, he tries to shut down the company and everybody turns ag… |
| Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story | Verna Heath | 1992-11-08 | A homemaker is driven by jealousy to conspire against the mother of her daughter’s rival…. |
| Broken | Clare | 2006-11-04 | A waitress confronts all the wrong turns she has made in her short life and ultimately ends up facing the biggest wrong turn of all: her dangerous ex-… |
| Daddy’s Dyin’… Who’s Got the Will? | Sara Lee | 1990-05-04 | Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed…. |
| Criminal Law | Det. Jean Stillwell | 1988-01-01 | A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previousl… |
| The Man in the Moon | Abigail Trant | 1991-09-30 | Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and C… |
| Far North | Rita | 1988-11-09 | After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues…. |
| A Stranger to Love | Linda Grant | 1996-03-24 | In this Hallmark story, Allan is a normal middleaged man with a wife and two kids. When Alan is suddenly attacked one night, he loses his memory, lead… |
| The Christmas Heart | Elizabeth | 2014-11-06 | The tight-knit neighbors on Arthur Avenue have proudly lit Christmas luminaries for 40 years, but that long-standing tradition is cancelled this year … |
| 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… | |
| My New Gun | Kimmy Hayes | 1992-10-26 | Debbie and Gerald’s lives drastically change after they get a gun. Their mysterious neighbor, Skippy, becomes an important and transforming figure in … |
| Unconquered | Mrs. Mary Flowers | 1989-01-15 | In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family’… |
| The Killing Secret | Tina Decapprio | 1997-01-06 | A pregnant teen is murdered and a popular high-school senior is suspected. But will his girlfriend stick by him to prove his innocence despite the fac… |
| Daddy | Ann Burnette | 1987-04-14 | Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant…. |
| The Turning | Martha Harnish | 1992-01-01 | Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson’s psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rag… |
| Angel in the Family | Mrs. Nelly Tomkins | 2004-11-24 | Sisters separated by a lifetime of misunderstanding and their family desperately in need of healing old wounds, find themselves brought back together … |
| My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys | Cheryl | 1991-03-01 | H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed … |
| Sunlight Jr. | Kathleen | 2013-04-20 | Quickie-mart employee Melissa and paraplegic Richie are very much in love. Supported only by Melissa’s small hourly wage, they are nevertheless thri… |
| Promises to Keep | Gwen Palmer | 1985-10-15 | An aging cowboy returns to the family he abandoned 30 years ago with a terrifying secret…. |
| Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder | Narrator / Older Laura Ingalls Wilder | 1999-01-21 | A version of the “Little House” stories that cover some of the events that take place in the last three books of the series and the book “The First Fo… |
| Our Almost Completely True Story | Tess | 2022-04-03 | Mariette Hartley has been acting for over 60 years. She has an Emmy, has been nominated 5 times, has 3 Clios, done Broadway, hundreds of TV series, fi… |
| The In Crowd | Dr. Amanda Giles | 2000-07-19 | A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique of wealthy college kids where she’s taken under the win… |
| The Dougherty Gang | Loretta Hillhouse | Facing the possibility of prison – and in search of an idealized freedom – 3 siblings take matters in to their own hands with a cross country crime sp… | |
| Crimes of the Heart | Chick Boyle | 1986-12-12 | Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother’s suicide…. |
| Kentucky Woman | 1983-01-11 | A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad…. | |
| Ishtar | Willa | 1987-05-15 | Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the … |
| Her Alibi | Sally Blackwood | 1989-02-03 | A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers’ block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thin… |
| The Rising Place | Rebecca Hodge | 2001-02-01 | The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injust… |
| A Christmas Wish | Trudy Willis | 2011-11-20 | MARTHA EVANS has been abandoned by her ne’er-do-well husband, who took all their cash and left her homeless and virtually destitute with her two daugh… |
| Burden | Hazel | 2020-02-28 | Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, un… |
| Kiss the Bride | Barbara Davis | 2007-07-23 | In high school, Matt and Ryan were best friends. More than friends, actually. But in the ensuing ten years, they’ve lost contact. So when Matt receive… |
| Jesus, Mary and Joey | Liz O`Callahan | 2006-01-01 | Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolma… |
| No Country for Old Men | Loretta Bell | 2007-06-13 | Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it,… |
| Starflight One | Janet Briggs | 1983-02-27 | Starflight One, a commercial aircraft that can whisk passengers around the globe in a matter of hours, embarks on its maiden voyage. The trip goes hor… |
| Michael Jackson – Dangerous – The Short Films | Mother (Black or White) | 1993-09-28 | Michael Jackson’s Dangerous album once again rocketed the global superstar to mega-platinum success! “Dangerous – The Short Films” captures the visual… |
| Frank | Frank’s Mom | 2014-05-02 | A young wannabe musician who discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmati… |
| In the Line of Duty: Siege at Marion | Vickie Singer | 1992-02-10 | Adam Swapp and his brother Jonathan are suspects in the bombing of Mormon Center in Utah. The brothers and their families hold-up on their farm with p… |
| Straight A’s | Mother | 2013-01-16 | Pressured by his deceased mother’s ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and h… |
| The Evening Hour | Dorothy Freeman | 2021-07-30 | Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his rural Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm while selling their excess painkillers to… |
| The Jackal | The First Lady | 1997-11-14 | Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal prov… |
| Flashpoint | Ellen | 1984-04-19 | Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether… |
| Broken Bridges | Dixie Rose Delton | 2006-09-08 | A fading country music star (Keith) returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter f… |
| Jam | Ruby | 2006-04-01 | A traffic accident on a rural mountain road becomes a life changing experience for fifteen diverse travelers…. |
| The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Self | 2019-10-28 | Aaron Paul, Vince Gilligan and other cast members, producers and crew share stories and footage from the making of “El Camino.”… |
| Saving Sarah Cain | Miriam Esh | 2007-08-19 | When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that sh… |
| The Perfect Guy | Mrs. McCarthy | 2015-09-11 | After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers someone mysteriously lurking around her surroundings…. |
| El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Mrs. Pinkman | 2019-10-11 | In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future…. |
| Boys On Film 13: Trick & Treat | Linda (segment “Surprise”) | 2015-07-13 | Boys On Film surprises and delights with films exploring relationships, dark desires, and confronting hidden secrets. Volume 13: Trick & Treat feature… |
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