Valerie Mahaffey

Valerie Mahaffey

出生 : 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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French Exit
Mme Reynard
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.
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
Aging actor Lester Rosenthal (Gabriel Byrne), who has lost his way with his career, with his family, and with his friends (Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy, & Boyd Gaines) finds out that the way out is through.
ハドソン川の奇跡
Diane Higgins
2009年1月15日、真冬のニューヨークで、安全第一がモットーのベテラン操縦士サレンバーガー機長は、いつものように操縦席へ向かう。飛行機は無事に離陸したものの、マンハッタンの上空わずか850メートルという低空地点で急にエンジンが停止してしまう。このまま墜落すれば、乗客はおろか、ニューヨーク市民にも甚大な被害が及ぶ状況で彼が下した決断は、ハドソン川への着水だった。
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
Zack is a young, divorced father who starts to develop romantic feelings towards his friend Rebecca, whom he refers to as "Crazy Eyes". He spends a lot of time at a bar run by his best friend Dan Drake and hanging out with Autumn. As he pursues a sexual relationship with Rebecca, Zack grows increasingly aware of the importance of his son's role in his life amidst the failing health of his own father.
ジャックとジル
Bitsy Simmons
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.
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.
シービスケット
Annie Howard
 1929年10月、アメリカは株の大暴落で大恐慌時代に陥った。それまで自動車ディーラーとして成功を収めていたハワードは、最愛の息子を交通事故で亡くし、妻にも去られてしまった。そんな彼は1933年、運命的に出会った女性マーセラと結婚。そして、乗馬の愛好家である彼女に影響を受け、競馬の世界に傾倒していく。やがて、彼はカウボーイのスミスを調教師として雇う。スミスは“シービスケット”と呼ばれる小柄で気性の荒いサラブレッドの潜在能力に目を付け、その騎手として気の強い男ジョニー・ポラードを起用するのだった。
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.
Jungle 2 Jungle
Jan Kempster
Uptight New York City executive, Michael Cromwell, pursues his soon-to-be ex-wife to South America and returns home with the son he never knew he had—a boy raised in a tribal village in Brazil. Armed with only his blowgun, the 13-year-old Mimi-Siku discovers that the world outside his jungle home is indeed a strange place.
Senior Trip
Miss Tracy Milford
While on detention, a group of misfits and slackers have to write a letter to the President explaining what is wrong with the education system. There is only one problem, the President loves it! Hence, the group must travel to Washington to meet the Main Man.
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: The Case of the All-Star Assassin
D.A. Barbara August
A hockey player of friend of Ken Malansky's is accused of murdering a team owner. Perry takes the case.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder
D.A. Barbara August
A young theatre director is accused of killing a more famous Broadway director. Perry takes his case.
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.
Women of Valor
Lt. Katherine R. Grace
A group of American Army nurses are captured by the Japanese in April 1942 and spend three years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Bataan. Lt Margaret Ann Jessup, the head army nurse, survives the camp and testifies against the Japanese in front of the United States Congressional subcommittee years later as a colonel.
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.