Holland Taylor
Holland Virginia Taylor (born January 14, 1943) is an American actress. She won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on ABC's The Practice (1998–2003). For her portrayal of Evelyn Harper on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men (2003–15), she received a total of four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Taylor's other notable television credits include starring roles on the sitcoms Bosom Buddies (1980–82), The Powers That Be (1992–93) and The Naked Truth (1995–98). She also appeared as Jill Ollinger on the soap opera All My Children (1981–83), as Peggy Peabody on The L Word (2004–08), and as Ida Silver on Mr. Mercedes (2017–19). In 2020, she received critical praise and her eighth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for portraying Ellen Kincaid in the Netflix miniseries Hollywood. Taylor's feature film credits include Romancing the Stone (1984) and its sequel (1985), Alice (1990), To Die For (1995), One Fine Day (1996), George of the Jungle (1997), The Truman Show (1998), Happy Accidents (2000), Keeping the Faith (2000), Legally Blonde (2001), The Wedding Date (2005), Baby Mama (2008), Gloria Bell (2018), Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), and The Stand In (2020). Taylor wrote and starred in the one-woman play, Ann, based on the life and work of Ann Richards. For this, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Holland Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
123 acting credits
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American Dad!
2005
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Two and a Half Men
2003
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Monk
2002
ER
1994
Murder, She Wrote
1984
The Love Boat
1977
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
Billions
2016
The Practice
1997
Big Brother
2000
Strong Medicine
2000
Great Performances
1971
The Orville
2017
The L Word
2004
Hercules
1998
The Morning Show
2019
Mr. Mercedes
2017
Kojak
1973
Stars in the House
2020
The Truman Show
1998
Ally McBeal
1997
Wiseguy
1987
The Great North
2021
Speechless
2016
ABC Afterschool Special
1972
Kate & Allie
1984
The Naked Truth
1995
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
Legally Blonde
2001
Veronica's Closet
1997
Fillmore!
2002
Bosom Buddies
1980
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
2002
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003
Hollywood
2020
CBS Summer Playhouse
1987
Saved by the Bell: The College Years
1993
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002
Romancing the Stone
1984
George of the Jungle
1997
The Chair
2021
E!'s 101
2003
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
2007
DAG
2000
Bombshell
2019
The Powers That Be
1992
The Lot
1999
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
2020
Bill & Ted Face the Music
2020
To Die For
1995
The Jewel of the Nile
1985
Baby Bob
2002
Going Places
1990
Next Stop Wonderland
1998
The Wedding Date
2005
D.E.B.S.
2005
The Edge of Night
1956
Quiz Lady
2023
Beacon Hill
1975
Fame
1980
Fantasy Life
2026
One Fine Day
1996
Baby Mama
2008
The New Yorker Presents
2016
Alice
1990
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
The Stand In
2020
Gloria Bell
2019
She's Having a Baby
1988
Motherland
2025
The Sex Monster
1999
Keeping the Faith
2000
Cop & ½
1993
Harry
1987
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
1994
Town & Country
2001
Brothers
—
The Favor
1994
Strange Frequency
2001
Adele One Night Only
2021
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
1995
People Like Us
1990
Steal Big Steal Little
1995
Happy Accidents
2000
The Next Man
1976
Perry Mason Returns
1985
The Chosen One
2010
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
1987
Home Room
2002
Just Write
1997
The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
1982
Key Exchange
1985
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995
Mail to the Chief
2000
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
Me & Mom
1985
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
Betrayal of Trust
1994
The Deadly Look of Love
2000
The Sorrows of Gin
1979
The Rape of Doctor Willis
1991
The Counterfeit Contessa
1994
I Was a Mail Order Bride
1982
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1998
The Little Pageant That Could
2024
The Unknown Cyclist
1998
A Walton Wedding
1995
The Saint in Manhattan
1987
Awake to Danger
1995
The Spiral Staircase
2000
Divorce: The Greatest Hits
2016
O Youth and Beauty!
1979
Kepler's Dream
2016
Twinkle Toes
2011
J.T.
1971
With Hostile Intent
1993
Fits and Starts
2002
Betty
1997
My Mother Was Never a Kid
1981
Ann
2018
N/A
2026