Debra Monk
出生 : 1949-02-27, Middletown - Ohio - USA
略歴
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Debra Monk (born February 27, 1949) is an American actress, singer, and writer, best known for her performances on the Broadway stage. Monk has received a Tony Award and Emmy Awards.
Monk was born in Middletown, Ohio. She was voted "best personality" by the graduating class at Wheaton High School in Silver Spring,Maryland. She graduated from Frostburg State University in 1973. In 1975, Monk received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Monk garnered first attention in theatrical circles as one of the co-writers and co-stars of the 1982 musical Pump Boys and Dinettes. She has won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for performance in Redwood Curtain (1993). She also was nominated an Tony Award for roles in Picnic (1994), Steel Pier (1997), and Curtains (2007). In 2000, she has won Obie Award for The Time of the Cuckoo. Monk has appeared in over 30 films as of early 1990s. She made her film debut in the movie version of Prelude to a Kiss, playing Aunt Dorothy. She later appeared in The Bridges of Madison County and The Devil's Advocate. On television, she has won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for recurring performance as Katie Sipowicz in the ABC series, NYPD Blue. She also guest-starred on Law & Order, Desperate Housewives, The Closer, and Girls. Monk had a recurring roles in A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001-2002), Grey's Anatomy (2006-2011), and Damages (2007-2012).
Jeanie Rollins
An unlikely friendship kindles between a struggling stand-up comedian from L.A. — forced to move back home to Eastern Long Island with his tail between his legs — and a tragically flawed, but charming and charismatic, alcoholic dermatologist. Discovering to be kindred spirits, each helps the other find healing, in addition to the confidence to face the "failures" in their lives.
Davis' Mom
NY。妻ジュリアの父親フィルが経営する投資銀行で働くデイヴィスだが、妻が運転する車で出社する途中、彼女は事故死してしまう。デイヴィスはそんな悲劇を機に、自分がジュリアを愛していなかったと感じるように。そんなデイヴィスは、自販機から商品が出てこなかったと苦情の手紙を送ったのを機に、自販機を管理する会社で苦情処理係をするシングルマザー、カレンと知り合い、彼女やその息子クリスと交流するようになる。
Linda Callen
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.
Trudy
When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to go.
Mrs. Plum
An unemployed lingerie buyer convinces her bail bondsman cousin to give her a shot as a bounty hunter. Her first assignment is to track down a former cop on the run for murder – the same man who broke her heart years before. With the help of some friends and the best bounty hunter in the business, she slowly learns what it takes to be a true bounty hunter.
Petunia
Teddy Duncan's middle-class family embarks on a road trip from their home in Denver to visit Mrs. Duncans Parents, the Blankenhoopers, in Palm Springs. When they find themselves stranded between Denver and Utah, they try to hitch a ride to Las Vegas with a seemingly normal older couple in a station wagon from Roswell, New Mexico. It turns out that the couple believes they are the victims of alien abduction. The Duncan's must resort to purchasing a clunker Yugo to get to Utah, have their luggage stolen in Las Vegas, and survive a zany Christmas with Grandpa and Grandma Blankenhooper.
Laura Greenleaf
Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge a connection with her stepson William and to resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife.
Doreen
When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician struggling to resurrect his career. This leads to a journey across the country staging the comeback of a lifetime.
Nancy Lachman
父から虐待されて育ったジョンとウェンディ。それぞれ自立して暮らしていたが、認知症となった父を引き取ることに……。人生に悩む中年兄妹が再び家族と向き合うさまを、フィリップ・シーモア・ホフマン主演で描く。
Lick Me-Bite Me
After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
Young Dahlia's Teacher
Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. She is currently in midst of divorce proceedings and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. From the time she arrives, there are mysterious occurrences and there is a constant drip from the ceiling in her daughter's bedroom.
Mama Sunshine
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
Maggie
Eloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza hotel. The owner of the hotel's daughter is getting married, but Eloise decides she is marrying him for the wrong reasons and tries her hand at a spot of matchmaking, but will it work?
Mrs. Paroo
Con man "Professor" Harold Hill arrives in River City, Iowa, promising that he can teach the small town's children how to play in a magnificent marching band. It's all part of a big swindle, but falling in love with the town librarian wasn't part of the deal.
Edna Burroghs
Having lived his entire life under the watchful eye of his overbearing mother, Albert must fend for himself when an unidentified automobile suddenly kills her. Free for the first time, Albert quickly responds to the bait dangling in front of him, putting his aggressors against one another in a race for his trust. Using his skills that make him a gifted fisherman, Albert turns the tables on his seemingly doomed fate, capturing the heart of the woman most eager to deceive him, and fooling the man most intent on destroying him.
Officer Avon
Inez Macbeth is a pretty young woman married to Edgar, a moody and unstable felon. When Inez becomes interested in the sensitive and wealthy lawyer Druden Hunt, Edgar derails their budding romance by keeping her captive in their home. With his scruffy buddy, Flowers, on hand to watch Inez, Edgar continues to hold her prisoner, but eventually she devises a way to escape that tests the loyalty of Flowers and leads to murder.
Eloise is a precocious but loveable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza hotel. Eloise's long-suffering nanny has her hands full trying to keep her charge out of mischief, but when a young prince arrives, Eloise takes him on all kinds of adventures- and can't resist matchmaking at a debutante ball.
Nancy
A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
Self - Performer
On Sept. 28, 1998, some of the greatest divas in musical theater -- including Marin Mazzie, Judy Kuhn and Audra McDonald -- took the stage at New York City's Carnegie Hall to belt out songs that made them famous. Julie Andrews hosted the event. Showstoppers include Liza Minnelli performing "Some People"; Andrea McArdle singing "Look for the Silver Lining" and "Tomorrow"; and Bebe Neuwirth and Karen Ziemba teaming for "Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag." Originally broadcast on PBS's "Great Performances" (season 28, episode 4).
Catherine
KnitWits Revisited brings us back to the KnitWits' knitting store.
Helen
腐敗しきった政治の世界に嫌気がさして、自らの暗殺計画を企てるベテラン議員が主人公のブラック・コメディ。怖いものがなくなった彼は過激な発言を連発。それが逆に彼の支持を広げることに……。
Aunt Nadine
After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.
Pam Garrety
新進気鋭の若き弁護士ケヴィンはその才能と野心を認められ、NYのミルトン法律事務所に夢のような条件でスカウトされる。そして次第に失われていく良心……そこは、悪魔の巣窟だったのだ。
Mrs. Lester
インディアナ州の小さな町に暮らすハワード・ブラケットは、誰からも好かれる高校教師。恋人であるエミリーとの結婚も決まっていた。かつての教え子キャメロンは俳優となり、ついに今日、アカデミー賞の栄冠に輝いたのだった。そして迎えた受賞スピーチ。町中の人々がテレビに見入っていた。しかし、彼の言葉に誰もが耳を疑った——。“ブラケット先生はゲイです”かくして、町中を揺るがす大騒動の幕明けとなるのであった。
Catherine
Saturday afternoon in a knitting store in New York City.
Dr. Judith Gruszynski
Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.
Jilted Lover
長年連れ添った夫に捨てられた3人の女性。彼女たちが結束し、元夫たちに復讐を開始する！ ゴールディ・ホーン、ベット・ミドラー、ダイアン・キートンという、アメリカを代表する3人の女優競演でおくる痛快コメディ。
Martha Hackett
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the company, grows frustrated with Isaac's emotional decline and attempts to take over the firm. The resulting crisis involves Isaac's other two children, his daughter Sarah and his dying son Martin.
Lieutenant Ambrose
Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hospital to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.
Lewis' Mom
リサ・ウォーカーは重役に抜擢され、将来を嘱望されるビジネス・ウーマン。仕事中毒なほど仕事熱心な彼女は、しかし心にはいつも孤独な影があった。そんな彼女のもとにただ1人の身内であった男性の訃報が届いた人生最悪の日の朝、オフィスに突然、差出人不明の美しい花束が届いた。気になった彼女がその差出人を捜し出すと、その人物は悲しげな彼女の姿を偶然見かけたという花の配達人の青年。そんな事がきっかけで2人は付き合い始め、リサは次第に彼に魅かれてゆくが…
Therapist
On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.
Mom
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.
Madge
アイオワ州マディソン群の片田舎。農場主の妻フランチェスカは、夫と二人の子供に囲まれ平凡な主婦として穏やかな毎日を送っていた。そんなある日、一人で家の留守をしていた彼女の所へある男が道を尋ねてくる。男の名はロバート・キンケイド。旅のカメラマンで、この近くの屋根のある橋ローズマン・ブリッジを撮影に来たが道に迷ったという。橋までの道案内に車に同乗したフランチェスカ。それは二人にとって、永遠に心に残る4日間の始まりであった……。
Geneva, Laird's Sister
Geri Riordan is adopted, half-Vietnamese, eighteen, and a piano prodigy. She also feels as if she doesn't know who she really is, and when her adopted father dies, she begins to search for her biological father.
Kintner's Secretary
ハーヴィーは、人気クイズ番組『21』の勝ち抜きチャンピオン。しかし視聴率を気にするスポンサーによって、名門出身の若くハンサムな挑戦者と交代させられて……。アメリカで実際に起きたTV界のスキャンダルを基に、メディアの内実を描くサスペンス・ドラマ。
Alison
航空機墜落。地面に激突し真っ二つに引き裂かれた機体から、パニック状態の乗客たちを安全な場所へと導くひとりの男がいた。彼の名はマックス。妻と息子を持つごく普通の男性であったが、この事件をきっかけに、恐怖を超越、極度の苺アレルギーも一切なくなるなど、まさに別人に変わってしまう。
マスコミはまるで救世主のように書き立てた。そんな折、マックスは同じ事故で赤ん坊を死なせたカーラと接触。これを機に彼女は立ち直り始めるが、彼は妻と息子を拒絶するなど、どうしても元には戻れない。はたしてマックスはどうなってしまうのか…。
Mrs. Wegman
自分のホテルを経営するという大きな夢を抱く接客係マイケルの前に、スポンサー候補の実業家が現われる。だが実業家がマイケルの愛する美女に惚れ、彼は選択を迫られる。マイケル・J．フォックス主演のラブ・コメディ。
Aunt Dorothy
A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.
