JoBeth Williams

JoBeth Williams

Nascimento : 1948-12-06, Houston, Texas, USA

História

Margaret JoBeth Williams (born December 6, 1948) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Emmy nominated American film and television actress and director, and current President of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. Williams rose to prominence appearing in such films as Stir Crazy (1980), Poltergeist (1982), The Big Chill (1983), The Day After (1983), Teachers (1984), and Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986). A three-time Emmy Award nominee, she was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her work in the TV movie Adam (1983) and the TV miniseries Baby M (1988). Her third nomination was for her guest role in the sitcom Frasier (1994). Her directorial debut with the 1994 short film On Hope earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. She also starred in the TV series The Client (1995–96), and had recurring roles in the TV series Dexter (2007) and Private Practice (2009–11). In 2009 she began serving as president of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation; she is President Emeritus of the foundation. She has also had numerous guest starring roles on TV and has starred in several TV movies.

Perfil

JoBeth Williams
JoBeth Williams

Filmes

The 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
Producer
The biggest names in film and television light up the red carpet and the stage for the SAG Awards. The 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, produced by Silent House Productions in partnership with SAG-AFTRA, will stream live globally on Netflix Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall.
Chantilly Bridge
Chantilly Bridge reunites a group of lifelong, steadfast friends who are still – in their later years -- chasing their dreams, fighting injustices, and sticking up for their convictions. The women lay bare their lives and deal with important issues that impact all women with humor, humility, humanity, and love. No topic escapes the razor-like wit and insight of these women: equality, sex, menopause, mortality, feminism, parenthood, careers, love, and even “me-too” moments. While women often feel invisible in the world, this film highlights who they are and what they care about. We experience what women are truly like and what they discuss in a setting where no men are present. Chantilly Bridge is also about reconnecting with old friends from the past and the beauty of a shared history.
What the Night Can Do
Bettye Sue Dryer
Luana é uma menina de 12 anos lutando para entender o mundo desmoronando ao seu redor, enquanto seus pais se separam e seu ex-avô adoece. É preciso uma pessoa improvável para ajudá-la a encontrar seu caminho.
A Caminho De Casa
Sherry
Um veterano perturbado da Guerra do Iraque, que luta para se reintegrar na sociedade, parte numa viagem entre países com a esperança de se reunir com o seu jovem filho.
Alex & the List
Mrs. Stern
Alex, a lovable, unassuming dog trainer is in love with a great woman - Katherine - smart, talented, from a good family. Katherine adores Alex's quirky sense of humor, honesty and capacity to listen. Having decided to pop the question, Alex is blindsided when Katherine produces a detailed list of well-thought-out "improvements" she feels will tweak Alex on their way to becoming the ideal couple. Alex instinctively rejects the suggestion that he needs to change anything. But with the threat of a new competitor, Alex decides to "do the list." Guided by a coterie of friends that include: Dave, Alex's loyal childhood buddy, best female friend Lily, her husband Michael, and their 8 year old son, Nicky, Alex's journey has him reconsider and question his beliefs, values and world.
Meia-irmã
Patricia
Sinaloa (Sophie Reid) é uma jovem britânica que ruma em direção ao Texas para encontrar Merle (Allison Tolman), sua meio-irmã por parte do seu falecido pai, que era músico do ritmo country. Não demora para que Sinaloa se insira na vida de Merle. Sua música acorda algo na vida da sua nova meio-irmã, apagando as dúvidas do parentesco entre as duas. Enquanto o legado musical da família trouxe esta estranha para a cidade, motivos mais obscuros estão entrelaçados na música que Sinaloa canta, mostrando sinais de uma violenta raiva construída há anos.
Morando Com o Medo
Rosemary Fletcher
Crawlspace conta a história de uma família que se muda para uma nova casa onde os antigos moradores foram misteriosamente assassinados. Vartan é um viúvo casado pela segunda vez e com uma filha. Após passar por uma fase de desemprego, ele encontra uma oportunidade em uma casa nova no subúrbio.
The Last Film Festival
Mayor
Dennis Hopper plays Nick Twain, a Hollywood Producer whose latest film is rejected by every film festival in the world except one- in Ohio. Nick will do anything to get his film distributed, including manipulating his dysfunctional cast into attending the festival. Hollywood egos and small town politics inevitably collide.
Em Meus Sonhos
Charlotte Smith
Natalie e Nick estão frustrados com a sua sorte no romance. Depois de lançar as moedas em uma fonte, os dois, em seguida, começam a sonhar um com o outro. Mas, de acordo com a mitologia da fonte, eles só têm uma semana para transformar esses sonhos em realidade.
Love's Christmas Journey
Beatrice
While still mourning the loss of her husband and daughter, recently widowed Ellie King visits her brother Aaron Davis and his children for Christmas. Ellie does her best to enjoy the holidays, even making new friends with Mrs. Thompson, a local shop keeper, and handsome admirer Deputy Strode. Settling in nicely with her brother's family, Ellie also meets Erik, a young man abandoned by his outlaw father whom Aaron has taken in as one of his own. When Aaron travels out of town to purchase adjacent land for farming, Ellie agrees to watch his children, but the season’s festivities are threatened when Aaron goes missing.
O Grande Ano
Edith
Brad Harris (Jack Black), Stu Preissler (Steve Martin) e Kenny Bostick (Owen Wilson) estão meio que passando por uma crise em suas respectivas vidas. Eles se conhecem e têm comum a paixão pelos pássaros, mas se o que une os três é o amor pelos seres alados, o que vai separá-los é uma competição de vigília onde o trio disputa quem consegue identificar as espécies mais raras na América do Norte. Será que isso vai dar certo?
Uncorked
Sophia Browning
Johnny is a high-powered executive who is definitely not looking to fall in love but a business conference takes her to wine country she meets a handsome widower Andrew who invites Johnny to meet his family after she loses her job. In helping his parents' winery she begins to fall in love with him and his family but when she gets offered another job she has to chose between her career or Andrew
Timer - Contagem Regressiva Para o Amor
Marion
In this comedic fantasy, science has facilitated the search for a soul mate via biotechnological implants that count down to the moment one is supposed to meet his or her match. But Oona is worried: She's nearly 30, and her TiMER isn't ticking yet. Will her dream guy get snatched up by someone else?
Sybil
Hattie Dorsett
A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder.
Eu e as Mulheres
Agnes Webb
Carter Webb é um jovem escritor que vai morar em Detroit para tomar conta da avó excêntrica e terminar seu romance. Lá, ele conhece a dona de casa Sarah, que com suas filhas Lucy e Paige vai tocar sua vida de uma forma especial.
14 Hours
Jeanette Makins
No ano de 2001, a a tempestade tropical Allison ameaça a cidade de Houston e a equipe do Hospital Hermann luta contra o tempo para que todos os pacientes sejam removidos com segurança. Baseado em fatos reais.
Crazylove
Mrs. Mayer
Letty Mayer, young and beautiful, has a cherished job as a teacher, a successful attorney boyfriend, and a tight knit family that is excited about her sister's impending wedding. But inside Letty there¹s an anxiety that¹s building. Suddenly the pressure of Letty's world overwhelms her and she suffers a devastating nervous breakdown. Institutionalized, she meets Michael, a schizophrenic who has been in and out of hospitals his entire life. Although major obstacles exist, Letty and Michael throw caution to the wind to pursue an intense new love as Letty finds herself torn between a safe past and a daring future...
Into the Fire
June Sickles
TV Movie Drama - Sean Patrick Flanery, Melina Kanakaredes, JoBeth Williams
Amor em Jogo
Maureen Meeks
Ben é um fã obcecado pelo time de beisebol Boston Red Sox. Ele conhece Lindsey Meeks dando uma palestra a um grupo de alunos e acaba se apaixonando por ela de imediato. O relacionamento entre eles segue muito bem, até que Lindsey percebe que sempre fica em segundo plano em relação ao time que Ben tanto adora.
Searching for Debra Winger
Self
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.
The Rose Technique
Dr. Lillian Rose
The Rose Technique revolves around the life of an off-beat psychiatrist who wants to join the crazy world of daytime TV.
Repossessed
A real estate agent shows a house to a woman who is more than she seems.
The Ponder Heart
Edna Earle Ponder
Uncle Daniel Ponder moves to give away his fortune, while his niece, Edna Earle, tries to tighten the reins on Daniel's generosity. After Daniel marries teenager Bonnie Dee Peacock, her death leads to Daniel's trial for murder
Frankie & Hazel
Director
Actress JoBeth Williams directed this Showtime family feature starring The Sixth Sense's Mischa Barton for Barbra Streisand's Barwood Films. Barton is Frankie and Ingrid Uribe is Hazel, Frankie's neighbor and best friend. Frankie is an orphan who lives with her imperious grandmother, Phoebe (Joan Plowright), while Hazel lives with her father and older brother. Frankie's mother was a prima ballerina--killed in a car crash along with her father--and Frankie's been following in her toe shoes ever since. Although she's the best dancer in her class, she'd rather play baseball, whereas Hazel's a local activist who'd rather be mayor. The story strains credibility when 13-year-old Hazel runs for office against the middle-aged incumbent, but Frankie's goal is more understandable, and both actresses make their characters sympathetic and believable. It's as hard not to like them as it is not to root for them to succeed.
Trapped in a Purple Haze
Sophie Hanson
When a charismatic teenager falters under constant pressure from his parents and school, he makes a potentially deadly mistake.
Jackie's Back!
Jo Face (Jackie's Vocal Coach)
A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback concert.
It Came From the Sky
Alice Bridges
Jarvis and Pepper crash land their small plane on the roof of the Bridges family. Pepper finds herself having a positive effect on the households' autistic son Andy.
The Big Chill: A Reunion
Self
A look back at the making of the film "The Big Chill" (1983) with cast and crew.
Justiça - Entre o Poder e a Lei
Jane Newhart
Procuradora federal sofre atentado, no qual seu sócio é morto. Ela pede ajuda a seus superiores, mas é ignorada. E acaba procurando a ajuda de agente do FBI que está infiltrado em organização mafiosa, para descobrir a verdade sobre os acontecimentos.
A Chance of Snow
Madeline 'Maddie Parker
After signing her divorce papers, a woman heads out to her Minnesota airport with her sister and daughters for a flight to her mother's home. At the airport, her sportswriter husband shows up to catch a flight to Miami to visit his father. When a blizzard hits, the two suddenly find they have time to re-evaluate their relationship with assistance from an older couple.
When Danger Follows You Home
Anne Werden
A single mom and psychiatric intern encounters a troubled but brilliant young man who turns up dead in her house after she befriended him. When she finds herself the prime suspect, she sets out to solve the crime and clear her name.
Meu Filho das Selvas
Dr. Patricia Cromwell
Executivo viaja até a selva amazônica para conseguir a assinatura de sua ex-mulher nos papéis do divórcio. Após uma longa viagem, ele tem a maior surpresa de sua vida: é pai de um índio adolescente chamado Mimi-Siku. Ele decide voltar para Nova York com o garoto, sem imaginar no que vai se transformar sua vida.
Just Write
Sidney Stone
A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.
Breaking Through
Pam Willis (as Jobeth Williams)
Laura is a 20 year old deaf girl who has never been taught sign language. She is rescued from neglect and physical abuse by Pam, a social worker. Pam teaches her how to communicate and uncovers Laura's true personality.
Ruby Jean and Joe
Rose
In a tale set in the rough and tumble world of professional rodeo, an over-the-hill former champion broncobuster and a young hitchhiker develop a special friendship.
A Season of Hope
Elizabeth Hackett
When trees in their only source of income, a lemon grove, start showing signs of disease, a burdened Californian family reaches their breaking point. Is there any hope left for them?
On Hope
Director
On Hope is a 1994 short film directed by JoBeth Williams, with Annette O'Toole, Mercedes Ruehl, Ray Baker, and Veronica Cartwright. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Vidas Paralelas
Winnie Winslow
Mulher reúne os antigos colegas de escola para matar as saudades. Um clima de nostalgia envolve a todos, até que um crime acontece, pondo um fim ao clima de coleguismo e trazendo à tona desavenças do passado
Wyatt Earp
Bessie Earp
Desde pequeno, Wyatt Earp aprendeu que nada é mais importante do que a família e a lei. Ele se torna o respeitado xerife de Dodge City e Tombstone. Com seus irmãos e Doc Halliday, Earp declara guerra às temidas gangues Clanton e McLaury.
Final Appeal
Christine Biondi
A lawyer must defend his sister in the court of law who's accused of murdering her seemingly perfect, but in fact very abusive husband.
Chantilly Lace
Natalie
A group of middle-aged women get together at a secluded house to learn about themselves.
Sex, Love and Cold Hard Cash
Sarah Gallagher
An ex-con whose share of a robbery disappeared joins forces with deluxe edition call-girl in order to get back the money she gave her accountant for investment purposes. The chase will lead them to the Carrabeans where they will have to go on a cruise...
Commercial Entertainment Product
Diane Freeling
The video debut of experimental musicians and culture jamming artists Emergency Broadcast Network.
Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted
Ginny Moore
A Down-syndrome boy left in an institute by his parents. Ginny works in the institute and wants to have Jonathan but has to fight the system and the parents.
Pare! Senão Mamãe Atira
Lt. Gwen Harper
Em Los Angeles Joe Bromowski, um detetive da polícia, há pouco tempo rompeu o relacionamento que tinha com Gwen Harper, sua namorada e também sua chefe no departamento de polícia. Assim Tutti, sua mãe, decide que está na hora de lhe fazer uma visita. Tutti transforma a vida de Joe em algo deprimente quando começa a criticar sua roupa, limpar seu apartamento e até mesmo lavar sua arma. Tutti participa de investigações e de alguma maneira se envolve com uma organização que comercializa armas ilegalmente e na qual a polícia tenta se infiltrar. Além disto, trata Joe como uma criança e, para seu desespero, ela não pode sair da cidade, pois testemunhou um crime.
Me, Myself and I
Crazy / Sane Diane
Diane is a growling, howling urban nightmare, suffering from paranoia, nymphomania, and a really bad hair day. Her neighbor, a TV writer, is subject to Diane's constant commentary on sex, violence and invisible persecutors through paper-thin walls. When Diane manages to seduce him, the two jaded New Yorkers discover that love works in mysterious ways.
De Volta pra Casa
Natalie Standish
O mimado e arrogante Doyle tem tudo que o dinheiro pode comprar, mas desde que seus pais (Natalie e Reed) se separaram, lhe falta a figura paterna, já que seu pai vem se distanciado a cada dia. Tudo piora quando Doyle descobre que seu pai prefere viajar a passar o feriado com ele. Revoltado, o garoto se nega a ir para casa da sua mãe. É quando o atrapalhado e divertido Dutch, namorado de Natalie, decide buscá-lo, no colégio interno, e trazê-lo para o feriado de ação de graças. Contrariado, Doyle promete não ceder e pretende transformar uma simples viagem de carro em uma verdadeira guerra.
Switch: Trocaram Meu Sexo
Margo Brofman
Steve, um mulherengo, é assassinado por suas três ex-namoradas. Antes de entrar no céu, porém, ele terá que voltar à Terra, no corpo de uma bela mulher, para salvar sua alma.
Vítimas do Amor
It's a romantic triangle with a lot of heat when a psychologist (JoBeth Williams) falls in love with a widowed professor (Pierce Brosnan) who's having an affair with one of her patients (Virginia Madsen). Williams turns a dangerous page when she uncovers that Brosnan is not only the root of Madsen's emotional turmoil, he also murdered his wife in order to be with Madsen. Better up that day rate.
Busca Desesperada
Co-Executive Producer
Repórter policial junta-se ao ex-marido na busca pelo filho desaparecido. Dois policiais são incumbidos do caso, mas têm poucas pistas. Ela resolve, então, utilizar tudo que aprendeu na profissão para encontrar o menino, antes que seja tarde demais.
Child in the Night
Dr. Hollis
A child psychologist, Hollis who's marriage collapsed after she learned she was barren, bonds with Luke Winfield, who witnessed his father's murder at the hands of rain-slicker wearing killer with a cargo hook. Along the way she befriends Detective Bass as he investigates a series of homicides, each with the same M.O. As Hollis gets closer to Luke she discovers some trouble family secrets ensuring she is next to be slain.
Welcome Home
Sarah
An Air Force officer returns to his father, son and remarried wife in Vermont after 17 years in Vietnam.
My Name Is Bill W.
Lois Wilson
Para Bill Wilson a vida era perfeita com uma mulher que o amava e uma promissora carreira. Mas com o impacto da grande depressão de 1930, sua vida desmorona em fracassos e sua mulher passa a testemunhar a lenta degradação profissional e moral do marido, que durante anos de entrega, cada vez mais, à dependência do álcool. Após várias tentativas para vencer sua dependência, um encontro com o Dr. Bob transformaria sua vida. Bill decide que é hora de travar sua própria batalha. Funda então, os Alcoólicos Anônimos. Uma instituição que alcançou o sucesso e se tornou a última esperança na vida de pessoas de todo o mundo. Uma história real. Uma luta vencida.
Recordações de Minha Vida
Lisa
Por insistência de sua namorada, um homem descontente tenta fazer as pazes com o seu pai.
Mãe de Aluguel
Marybeth Whitehead
Baby M is a two-part TV movie predicated on a headline-making true event. In 1985, Mary Beth Whitehead accepted $10,000 to bear a child, which then would be adopted by William and Elizabeth Stern. But after the baby's birth in March of 1986, Whitehead reneged on the agreement. The subsequent high-profile custody trial raged on for well over nine months.
Ordem de Matar
Lorna Anderson
This is the story of a minister who's feeling unhappy in his marriage who then has an affair with a church employee, who is also married, and who also has affairs, and whose husband is unwilling to divorce her. One day the minister's wife is found dead, in what appears to be an auto accident, but the highway patrolman who investigated the accident doesn't think that it's an accident but doesn't have enough evidence to justify an investigation. Later, when the woman's husband is killed an investigation begins.
Adam: His Song Continues
Reve Walsh
Follows the true story of John and Reve Walsh who, after their child was murdered, fought to raise national awareness of the problem of missing children.
Poltergeist II: O Outro Lado
Diane Freeling
A família Freeling se muda em uma tentativa de se recuperar do trauma causado pelo seqüestro de Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) pela Besta. No entanto, ela não será descartada assim tão facilmente. Assim, a Besta reaparece como o Reverendo Kane (Julian Beck), um religioso que foi responsável pela morte de muitos dos seus seguidores. O objetivo da Besta ter Carol Anne, mas para isto precisa ser mais forte que o amor da família dela, que se uniu a uma mediúnica que já os tinha ajudado no passado e a um sábio índio.
Deserto em Flor
Lily Chismore
The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic step-father. Her memories of Robin, her first-love, are much happier and she also recalls her colorful Aunt Starr -- who's visit is fun but also detrimental to her family's health. The setting of 1950s Las Vegas' bomb testing is increasingly significant to the development of the story.
Kids Don't Tell
Claudia Ryan
When a documentary-maker begins to make a film about child sexual abuse, the subject begins to eat into him and affect his relationship with those around him, particularly his wife.
As Aventuras de uma Sonhadora
Cathy Palmer
Dona de casa ganha concurso de ficção e recebe como prêmio uma viagem a Paris. Lá ela sofre um acidente e quando acorda acredita ser Rebecca Ryan, a aventureira personagem de seus livros.
Escola da Desordem
Lisa Hammond
A teacher tries to overcome his frustration teaching a high-school that seems to be full of flunkies.
O Dia Seguinte
Nurse Nancy Bauer
O filme retrata uma guerra fictícia entre as forças da OTAN e o Pacto de Varsóvia que rapidamente se transforma em uma troca em grande escala de mísseis nucleares entre os Estados Unidos e a União Soviética. A maior parte da atividade se concentra nos moradores de Lawrence - Kansas e Kansas City, Missouri, bem como vários fazendas situadas ao lado de silos de míssil nuclear.
Adam
Reve Walsh
Based on the true story that shocked the nation and led to vast changes in how law enforcement handled missing children cases...John and Reve Walsh deal with their grief in front of the whole country when their son, Adam, is abducted and later found dead.
O Reencontro
Karen Bowens
O filme mostra o reencontro de sete colegas da Universidade de Michigan, após dez anos da formatura, devido ao suicídio de um amigo em comum. A partir dessa reunião, eles iniciam um complexo balanço de suas vidas e muitos segredos e mentiras serão revelados.
Endangered Species
Harriet Purdue
A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.
Poltergeist: O Fenômeno
Diane Freeling
"Eles estão aqui". E parecem amistosos no começo, tentando equilibrar cadeiras na cozinha da casa da família Freenlings, num subúrbio americano. Então, as coisas tornam-se tenebrosas. Uma tempestade rompe, o ataque de uma árvore, a pequena Carol Anne Freeling desaparece num espectro sinistro. E assim que sua família confronta uma reação em cadeia de horror e luta para trazer sua caçula de volta, alguma outra coisa está aqui também: um novo marco nas histórias de fantasmas em Hollywood.
Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
Tiffany Farinpour
The first of three private-eye movies created by Robert Blake about rugged Joe Dancer as the forerunner to a prospective but unrealized series after the retirement of his "Baretta" character. In the initial outing, Blake, as Dancer, follows a trail of bodies through a maze of corruption involving a politically ambitious Beverly Hills family.
Cães de Guerra
Jessie
O veterano mercenário Shannon é procurado pelo inescrupuloso Endean, representante de um poderoso grupo financeiro internacional. Contratado para liquidar um impiedoso ditador, Shannon, disfarçado de fotógrafo, parte para a capital do pequeno país africano, a fim de estudar as necessidades para cumprir a difícil tarefa a que se propôs. Depois, reúne-se aos amigos mercenários Drew, Derek e Michel para formar o grupo conhecido como "Os Cães de Guerra" e depor o ditador do país à bala.
Loucos de Dar Nó
Meredith
O aspirante a dramaturgo Skip Donohue (Gene Wilder) e o pretendente a ator Harry Monroe (Richard Pryor) se laçam na estrada à procura do sucesso. Durante o caminho em busca da fortuna, eles acabam presos no Arizona. Fantasiados de passarinhos para uma promoção de um banco, Skip e Harry, são confundidos com ladrões e vão parar atrás das grades. Enfrentando diretores de presídio idiotas, policiais sádicos e seus colegas prisioneiros, os dois têm que participar de um rodeio na prisão.
Fun and Games
Laura Weston
A divorcee decides to fight back after her hopes of gaining a promotion are dashed by her rejection of the advances of her boss, and it is only after he actually attacks her that her company and her union take notice.
Kramer vs. Kramer
Phyllis Bernard
Ted Kramer é um profissional para quem o trabalho vem antes da família. Joanna, sua mulher, não pode mais suportar esta situação e sai de casa, deixando Billy, o filho do casal, com Ted, que tudo faz para poder educá-lo, trabalhando e fazendo as tarefas domésticas. Quando consegue ajustar seu trabalho a estas novas responsabilidades, Joanna reaparece exigindo a guarda da criança. Ted porém se recusa e os dois vão para o tribunal lutar pela custódia de Billy.
The World Beyond
Marian Faber
A golem made of mud terrorizes a couple on a remote Maine island.
Segal
Self
A documentary focusing on the life and career of actor George Segal.