Valerie Mahaffey

Valerie Mahaffey

Nacimiento : 1953-06-16, Sumatra, Indonesia

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Valerie Mahaffey (born June 16, 1953) is an American actress and producer. She began her career starring in the NBC daytime soap opera The Doctors (1979–81), for which she received a nomination for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. In 1992, Mahaffey won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the CBS drama series Northern Exposure. She later won fame through her portrayal of extroverted and friendly but ultimately insane women on the television shows Wings, Desperate Housewives, Devious Maids and Big Sky. Mahaffey also appeared in a number of movies, including Senior Trip (1995), Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), Jack and Jill (2011), Sully (2016), and most notably French Exit (2020), for which she received critical acclaim and an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Valerie Mahaffey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Valerie Mahaffey

Películas

Salida francesa
Mme Reynard
Una viuda de la alta sociedad de Manhattan se muda con lo poco que le queda de su herencia a un pequeño apartamento en París. Le acompañan su hijo y su gato, que según ella es su marido reencarnado.
The Witch Files
Claire's Mom
A coven of young women with incredible powers and difficult pasts discovers that they are able to make their every wish come true. Things, however, take a dangerous turn when they discover that their newly-found abilities come with a price and that they may not be as in control as they think.
No Pay, Nudity
Lisa
El actor Lester Rosenthal (Gabriel Byrne), que ha perdido el rumbo con su carrera, con su familia y con sus amigos (Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy y Boyd Gaines) descubre que la salida ha terminado.
Sully
Diane Higgins
Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger es un piloto comercial que en 2009 se convirtió en un héroe cuando, al poco de despegar, su avión se averió y el comandante logró realizar un aterrizaje forzoso del aparato en pleno río Hudson, en Nueva York, con 155 pasajeros a bordo.
If I Were You
Lydia
When a woman tries to outwit her husband's sexy young mistress, the unexpected consequences include starring as King Lear in a very amateur production - with the mistress, an aspiring actress, playing The Fool.
Crazy Eyes
Zach's Mother
Para Zach, la fiesta nunca tiene fin. Pero cuando conoce a la chica a la que apoda 'Crazy Eyes' la incapacidad de tenerla, combinada con sus problemas familiares, son señales de que su vida ociosa necesita un cambio.
Jack y su gemela
Bitsy Simmons
Jack (Adam Sandler) es un padre de familia que tiene que afrontar un arduo problema: la llegada por Navidad de su odiada hermana Jill. Por si fuera poco, lo que, en principio, iba a ser una visita de pocos días, se alarga más de lo previsto, lo que obliga a Jack y Jill a intentar limar asperezas.
Summer Eleven
The poignant, coming of age story about a group of eleven year old girls in their final summer before middle school.
A Previous Engagement
Grace
When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a date made twenty-five years earlier with her first love.
My First Wedding
Grace
A young lady about to get married realizes that she has a problem: she fantasizes about every man she sees. She goes to confess at church but unknowingly confesses to a young man who is not a priest. He agrees to help her, but falls in love with her along the way. Unfortunately she still thinks he is a priest.
Seabiscuit, más allá de la leyenda
Annie Howard
Nos encontramos en la Gran Depresión estadounidense, a finales de la década de los años treinta. La economía ha sufrido un golpe catastrófico y millones de personas han perdido su trabajo y su hogar. Poco lugar queda para la esperanza y el optimismo. Es un momento de devastación, Estados Unidos se encuentra sumido en una bache del que parece imposible salir.
Par 6
Pecan Hegelman
A cynical man returns to his family's homestead in Texas and starts up a golf course with his brothers and sisters.
No Ordinary Baby
Virginia Hytner
A reporter (Bridget Fonda) gets the scoop on the first ever human cloning, but the furor surrounding the event jeopardizes the baby's birth and the career of the doctor (Mary Beth Hurt) responsible for creating the clone.
Dinner at Fred's
Susan
A young businessman with a skill for magic tricks breaks down en route to his fiancee's parents' house on Christmas and ends up spending the holiday with a very different kind of family.
De jungla a jungla
Jan Kempster
Michael Cromwell, de Nueva York, de repente se entera que tiene un hijo de 13 años que ha sido criado en la selva. Él trae al niño a Nueva York, y allí es donde comienza la diversión.
Desmadre sobre ruedas
Miss Tracy Milford
Un grupo de estudiantes viaja a Washington para ser recibido por el presidente de los EEUU.
Witch Hunt
Trudy
Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood.
They
Chris Samuels
A father experiences strange apparitions after his daughter is killed in a car accident.
Till Death Us Do Part
Gail Bugliosi
This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Charles Manson away.) On December 11, 1966, a murder occurs in a small neighborhood of El Sereno, CA. In the middle of the night, Henry Stockton is shot three times in the head and twice in the chest and then his house is set on fire. The murderer left no clues, baffling the police, until a year later when a young pregnant woman is found bludgeoned to death in a Jaguar. Strangely, these two murders are related. As the mystery unfolds a horrific tale of greed, lust and ambition are revealed.
Perry Mason: El caso del asesino a sueldo
D.A. Barbara August
Un jugador de hockey profesional es acusado de asesinar al dueño de su equipo. Un caso bastante complicado de defender.
Perry Mason: El caso del telón final
D.A. Barbara August
Un nuevo caso para Perry Mason, se tendrá de encargar de la defensa de un joven director de teatro que está acusado de matar a un famoso director de Broadway.
Her Secret Life
Becky
Kate Capshaw plays a schoolteacher and suburban housewife who happens to be an ex-spy. Nobody knows of Capshaw's previous espionage activities, least of all her somewhat obtuse husband Cliff De Young. When Capshaw's ex-lover Jeroen Krabbe, an intimate of Castro, lands in a Cuban prison, she is swept back into the spy business, leaving her nonplussed hubby in the dust.
Prisioneras de guerra
Lt. Katherine R. Grace
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). En 1941, durante la invasión de Filipinas, un grupo de enfermeras del ejército estadounidense fueron capturadas por tropas japonesas y encerradas en un campo de concentración. Durante tres años, estas mujeres lucharon denodadamente por sobrevivir, a pesar de trabajar 14 horas al día, con una pésima y reducida alimentación y sin ninguna atención médica. La coronel Margaret Ann Jessup (Sarandon) reclama a las autoridades militares que concedan al grupo la medalla de bronce al valor. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mr. Bill's Real Life Adventures
Mrs. Bill
Based on the "Saturday Night Live" shorts, Mr. Bill stars in his own show, but this time he's played by a human actor.
Tell Me My Name
Alexandra / Sarah
Based on the book by Mary Carter, "Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave her up for adoption 19 years earlier. The adoption was a secret which now threatens to destroy the entire family.