Martha Plimpton

Known for: Acting

Born: 1970-11-16 (age 55)

From: New York City, New York, USA

Martha Campbell Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American singer, stage and screen actress, best known for playing the lead role of Virginia Chance on the television sitcom "Raising Hope", and for guest starring as Patti Nyholm in the CBS legal drama "The Good Wife".

Filmography (94)

MOVIE
This Ordinary Thing
2025
as Self (voice)
TV★ 6.9
Task
2025
as Kathleen McGinty
MOVIE★ 6.6
Sovereign
2025
as Lesley Anne
TV★ 6.8
Prime Target
2025
as Jane Torres
MOVIE★ 7.7
Sardinia
2024
as Judith
TV★ 5.4
A Town Called Malice
2023
as Mint Ma Lord
TV★ 7.7
Sprung
2022
as Barb
TV★ 7.4
The Man Who Fell to Earth
2022
as Intake Officer K. Faraday
MOVIE★ 7.3
Mass
2021
as Gail
TV★ 7.2
Genera+ion
2021
as Megan
MOVIE★ 6.2
Pitch Black Panacea
2020
as Amy (voice)
TV★ 5.5
Reunited Apart
2020
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.2
Frozen II
2019
as Yelena (voice)
TV★ 6.8
Flack
2019
as Clara
TV★ 7.5
The Shivering Truth
2018
as (voice)
MOVIE★ 4.8
Honey Bee
2018
as Louise
TV★ 8.3
Minecraft: Story Mode
2018
as Olivia (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.9
Hello Again
2017
as Ruth
TV★ 7.0
The Guest Book
2017
as Shelley
TV★ 6.8
Brockmire
2017
as Shirley
TV★ 7.2
Baroness von Sketch Show
2016
as Margo
TV★ 5.7
To Tell the Truth
2016
as Self - Panelist
TV★ 7.2
The Real O'Neals
2016
as Eileen O'Neal
TV★ 6.8
Younger
2015
as Cheryl Sussman
TV★ 7.6
The Blacklist
2013
as Dr. Sharon Fulton
MOVIE★ 6.9
Company
2011
as Sarah
MOVIE★ 2.0
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011
as Self
TV★ 7.4
Raising Hope
2010
as Virginia Chance
MOVIE★ 5.3
Small Town Murder Songs
2010
as Sam
MOVIE★ 7.1
Remember Me
2010
as Alyssa Craig's Mom (uncredited)
TV★ 7.3
How to Make It in America
2010
TV★ 7.6
The Good Wife
2009
as Patti Nyholm
TV★ 5.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
TV★ 8.1
Fringe
2008
as Sheriff Ann Mathis
MOVIE
Marvelous
2008
as Gwen
MOVIE★ 6.4
Dante's Inferno
2007
as Celia / Lobbyist Singer / Lizzie Borden (voice)
TV★ 7.1
Surface
2005
as Mr. Big
TV★ 8.2
Grey's Anatomy
2005
as Pam Michaelson
TV★ 7.5
Medium
2005
as Rosemary Widdick
TV★ 6.8
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.4
Hair High
2004
as Miss Crumbles (voice)
TV★ 7.1
Karen Sisco
2003
TV★ 5.5
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
TV★ 5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
TV★ 7.9
Hack
2002
as Louise O'Connor
MOVIE★ 6.4
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self
TV★ 7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Jo Gage
MOVIE★ 5.3
The Sleepy Time Gal
2001
as Rebecca
TV★ 8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Claire Rinato
MOVIE★ 5.8
200 Cigarettes
1999
as Monica
TV★ 7.4
Family Guy
1999
as Stephanie (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.8
The Defenders: Taking the First
1998
as MJ Preston
MOVIE★ 6.1
Pecker
1998
as Tina
MOVIE★ 5.7
Music from Another Room
1998
as Karen Swan
MOVIE★ 4.5
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
1998
as Mary Jane Preston
MOVIE★ 6.0
Independent's Day
1998
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.8
Eye of God
1997
as Ainsley DuPree
MOVIE★ 4.5
The Defenders: Payback
1997
as M.J. Preston
MOVIE★ 6.8
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.3
Colin Fitz
1997
as Ann
MOVIE★ 5.7
I'm Not Rappaport
1996
as Laurie Campbell
TV★ 6.5
7th Heaven
1996
as Venus
MOVIE★ 6.1
I Shot Andy Warhol
1996
as Stevie
MOVIE★ 6.7
Beautiful Girls
1996
as Jan
MOVIE★ 5.8
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995
as Chloe Garfield
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
1994
as Earlene Pomerleau
TV★ 7.8
ER
1994
as Meg Corwin
MOVIE★ 5.9
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
as Jane Grant
MOVIE★ 4.8
My Life's in Turnaround
1994
as Herself
MOVIE★ 4.9
Josh & S.A.M.
1993
as Alison (The Liberty Maid)
MOVIE
The Perfect Woman
1993
MOVIE★ 9.0
Chantilly Lace
1993
as Ann
MOVIE★ 5.3
Daybreak
1993
as Laurie
MOVIE★ 4.8
Samantha
1992
as Samantha
MOVIE★ 3.6
Inside Monkey Zetterland
1992
as Sofie
MOVIE★ 10.0
A Blink of Paradise
1992
as Mother
MOVIE★ 6.5
A Woman at War
1991
as Helene Moszkiewiez
MOVIE★ 6.5
Stanley & Iris
1990
as Kelly King
MOVIE★ 6.7
Parenthood
1989
as Julie Buckman-Lampkin Higgins
MOVIE★ 7.0
Silence Like Glass
1989
as Claudia Jacoby
MOVIE★ 6.8
Another Woman
1988
as Laura
MOVIE★ 7.5
Running on Empty
1988
as Lorna Phillips
MOVIE★ 4.4
Stars & Bars
1988
as Bryant
MOVIE★ 6.3
Shy People
1987
as Grace
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Mosquito Coast
1986
as Emily Spellgood
MOVIE★ 7.5
The Goonies
1985
as Stef
MOVIE★ 6.1
The River Rat
1984
as Jonsy
TV★ 7.2
Family Ties
1982
as Jessie Blake
TV★ 6.6
American Playhouse
1982
as Earlene Pomerleau
MOVIE★ 5.2
Rollover
1981
as Fewster's Older Daughter
TV★ 7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TV
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
TV
East of Eden
—
as Faye
MOVIE
The Custom of the Country
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