Ann Dowd
Actress
Birth Date: January 30, 1956
Age: 67 years old
Birth Place: Holyoke, Massachusetts
A prolific character actress from the mid-1980s into the 21st century, Ann Dowd worked steadily if largely anonymously in television and features like "Philadelphia" (1993), "Garden State" (2004) and "Flags of Our Fathers" (2006) before breaking out with a stellar supporting turn in the grueling indie feature "Compliance" (2012). She began her career in Chicago theater, netting several awards for her stage work before moving into television and features in 1985. Dowd worked her way up from bit roles to supporting turns, often as mothers with varying degrees of warmth, before winning critical accolades as a fast food restaurant manager who appeared to blindly acquiesce to an unseen caller's cruel demands upon her workers in "Compliance." The performance vaulted Dowd to national attention, and signaled what seemed to most as the beginning of a new phase in her career.
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The Exorcist: Believer
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Movie
2023
Family Squares
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Judith
Movie
2022
The IndependentStream
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Patricia Turnbull
Movie
2022
Live in Front of a Studio Audience
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Mrs. Garrett
Special
2021
One Burning Question: The Handmaid's Tale
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Show
2021
Mass
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Linda
Movie
2021
RebeccaStream
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Mrs. Van Hopper
Movie
2020
Cowboys
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Faith
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2020
Lambs of God
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Sister Margarita
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2019
Speed of Life
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June
Movie
2019
HereditaryStream
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Joan
Movie
2018
American Animals
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Betty Jean Gooch
Movie
2018
A Kid Like Jake
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Catherine
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2018
Nancy
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Betty
Movie
2018
Tyrel
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Silvia
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2018
Without Grace
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2018
The Handmaid's TaleStream
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Aunt Lydia
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2017
Hedgehog
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Joan
Movie
2017
Good BehaviorStream
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Agent Lashever
Series
2016
Captain FantasticStream
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Abigail
Movie
2016
Collateral Beauty
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Sally Price
Movie
2016
The Great & The Small
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Dupre
Movie
2016
The Late Show With Stephen ColbertStream
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Talk
2015
Our Brand Is Crisis
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2015
Olive KitteridgeStream
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Bonnie
Miniseries
2014
The LeftoversStream
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Patti Levin
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2014
The LeftoversStream
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Patti Levin
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2014
Late Night With Seth MeyersStream
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2014
True DetectiveStream
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2014
St. Vincent
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Shirley
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2014
Gimme Shelter
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Kathy
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2014
The DropStream
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Dottie
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2014
Big DriverStream
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Ramona Norvell
Movie
2014
Wildlike
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Jeanie
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2014
Masters of SexStream
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2013
The Social
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2013
Side EffectsStream
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Martin's Mother
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2013
GirlsStream
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Phaedra
Series
2012
The Discoverers
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Patti
Movie
2012
Compliance
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Sandra
Movie
2012
Pan Am
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Marjorie Lowery
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2011
LouieStream
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Nun
Series
2010
Watch What Happens Live With Andy CohenStream
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Talk
2009
Marley & MeStream
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Dr. Platt
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2008
Familiar Strangers
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Dottie Worthington
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2008
Gardener of Eden
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Ma Harris
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2007
The Living Wake
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Librarian
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2007
The Babysitters
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Tammy Lyner
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2007
Goodbye Baby
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Terri
Movie
2007
etalk
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2006
Saving Shiloh
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Louise
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2006
ET Canada
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2005
Popcorn
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2005
The Thing About My Folks
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Linda
Movie
2005
HouseStream
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Mother Superior
Series
2004
Garden StateStream
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Olivia
Movie
2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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Talk
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!Stream
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Talk
2003
Lucy
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Dede
Movie
2003
Law & Order: Criminal IntentStream
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Series
2001
The Education of Max Bickford
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2001
Amy and Isabelle
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Lenora
Movie
2001
Baby
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Ms. Minifred
Movie
2000
Sofi Baby
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2000
Freaks and GeeksStream
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Cookie Kelly
Series
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims UnitStream
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Louise Durning
Series
1999
Family Law
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Series
1999
Judging Amy
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Series
1999
Providence
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Series
1999
Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season
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Louise Preston
Movie
1999
Apt Pupil
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Monica Bowden
Movie
1998
Nothing Sacred
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Sister Maureen
Series
1997
Shiloh
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Mrs. Preston
Movie
1997
All Over Me
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Anne
Movie
1996
Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
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Rose Long
Movie
1995
Bushwhacked
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Mrs. Patterson
Movie
1995
Touched by an AngelStream
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Series
1994
Heaven and Hell: North and South, Book III
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Maureen
Show
1994
The Cosby Mysteries
Actor
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1994
NYPD BlueStream
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Ann Collins
Series
1993
The X-FilesStream
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Mrs. Reed
Series
1993
Law & OrderStream
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Series
1990
This Morning
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Show
1988
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