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Name: Elizabeth Perkins  
   
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Date of Birth: 18th November 1960
   
Place of Birth: Queens, New York, USA
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

 Elizabeth Perkins
Elizabeth Perkins

Elizabeth Perkins (born November 18, 1960) is a well-known American movie, television and theater actress. She was born in Queens, New York, and was raised in Vermont. After finishing high school she spent three years in Chicago taking acting lessons at the famous Goodman School of Drama. Back in New York in 1984, she did her first theater performance. Thereafter she worked in several ensembles and has since then considered theater playing as a priority of her career.

As a movie actress she made her film debut in 1986 in Edward Zwick's About Last Night.... She then had her breakthrough starring with Tom Hanks in Big. She then received critical acclaim for her performance in Barry Levinson's Avalon. Of all the films she has acted in, her biggest success so far has been however The Flintstones, starring also John Goodman, in which she plays the long-suffering Wilma Flintstone.

Recently, Perkins was convincing as hospital staff psychiatrist Dr. Emma Temple in the 2005 suspense thriller, The Ring Two, starring Naomi Watts.

In 1993 Perkins made her television debut in For Their Own Good. She starred thereafter in the comedy series Battery Park and If These Walls Could Talk, and has since then played roles in television films on a regular basis.

Perkins' first husband was Terry Kinney, from whom she divorced. In 2000 she married her present husband, Julio Macat.

Perkins currently plays Celia Hodges, upstanding PTA mother, alongside Mary-Louise Parker and Justin Kirk on the new Showtime series Weeds.

Selected Filmography

  • Must Love Dogs (2005)
  • The Ring Two (2005)
  • Weeds (2005) (TV series)
  • Speak (2004)
  • Finding Nemo (2003)
  • Try Seventeen (2002)
  • Cats & Dogs (2001)
  • Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
  • The Flintstones (1994)
  • He Said, She Said (1991)
  • Avalon (1990)
  • Big (1988)
  • About Last Night (1986)

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