Tess Harper

Tess Harper

Nascimento : 1950-08-15, Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, USA

História

Tessie Jean "Tess" Harper (née Washam; born August 15, 1950) is an American actress. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her first film role in 1983's Tender Mercies, and for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Crimes of the Heart. Her other film appearances include Flashpoint (1984), Ishtar (1987), Far North (1988), and No Country for Old Men (2007). She also had a recurring role on the first three seasons of Breaking Bad (2008–2010). From Wikipedia

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Filmes

Good Side of Bad
Mary Ellen
Three adult siblings are brought back together after a shocking diagnosis forces them to confront harsh future realities regarding the mental state of one of their own.
Rosebud Lane
Sugar
When a middle aged Hollywood filmmaker receives an unexpected card from his young son whom he has never met, he makes the difficult decision to go see him in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Both of their lives then take a life-altering turn as drama surrounding the boy’s mother unfolds in the small mountain town.
Our Almost Completely True Story
Tess
Mariette Hartley has been acting for over 60 years. She has an Emmy, has been nominated 5 times, has 3 Clios, done Broadway, hundreds of TV series, films like “Ride the High Country” and “1969” and those Polaroid commercials. A friend pressures her to tackle online dating. Jerry had a thriving voice-over career in N.Y. so he moved to L.A. to do TV and hasn’t worked since. How they meet, in a bird store, (the parrot section) tells it all... almost.
The Evening Hour
Dorothy Freeman
Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his rural Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts. But when an old friend returns with plans that upend the fragile balance and identity he's so painstakingly crafted, Cole is forced to take action.
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
Self
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page presents an unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling “Little House” series. The documentary delves into the legacy of the iconic pioneer as well as the way she transformed her early life into enduring legend, a process that involved a little-known collaboration with her daughter Rose.
The Long Shadow
Mama Doris
Uma jovem xerife da área rural da Louisiana assume o antigo estabelecimento de dinheiro da cidade quando a mulher que ela ama – um advogado que luta para impedir um acordo ferroviário que ameaça deslocar os pobres da cidade – é assassinada.
Burden
Hazel
O órfão Mike Berden cresceu sob os auspícios de membros da Ku Klux Klan. O herói se apaixona por uma garota e decide deixar a comunidade. Ex-associados pretendem se vingar de Mike, mas o Rev. Kennedy, que lidera a congregação de afro-americanos, leva o cara, sua namorada e o filho sob sua proteção..
The Road to El Camino: Behind the Scenes of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Self
Aaron Paul, Vince Gilligan and other cast members, producers and crew share stories and footage from the making of "El Camino."
El Camino: Um Filme de Breaking Bad
Mrs. Pinkman
Após sua dramática fuga do cativeiro, Jesse precisa se reconciliar com o passado para que consiga criar algum tipo de futuro. Escrito e dirigido pelo criador de Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan, e estrelado por Aaron Paul.
O Cara Perfeito
Mrs. McCarthy
Leah parece ter uma vida ideal, aos 36 anos ela está pronta para ter um casamento e uma família. Porém, o medo desse compromisso leva a uma ruptura com seu namorado. Ao mesmo tempo, um jovem bonito e educado surge em sua vida. A relação entre eles avança rápido, mas esse homem pode ser sua amaior ameaça.
Boys On Film 13: Trick & Treat
Linda (segment "Surprise")
Boys On Film surprises and delights with films exploring relationships, dark desires, and confronting hidden secrets. Volume 13: Trick & Treat features 10 new award-winning shorts, including: Anna Österlund Nolskog's "Boygame" starring Charlie Gustafsson and Joakim Lang; Christopher Brown's "Remission" starring Teddy Nicholas, Cai Brigden, and Antony De Liseo; Lazlo & Dylan Tonk's "Caged" starring Joël Mellenberg and Josha Stradowski; Charlie Francis's "Middle Man" starring Tommy Jay Brennan and Joe Cassidy; Dan Connolly's "Vis à Vis" starring Belinda Misevski, Dan Connolly, and David Harrison; Casper Andreas's "A Last Farewell" starring Tomas von Brömssen, Iwar Wiklander, and Liv Mjönes; Neil Ely's "Mirrors" starring Jody Latham and Liam Boyle; Tim Marshall's "Followers" starring Valmai Jones and Mark Oliver; Leslie Bumgarner's "Surprise" starring Tess Harper and Austin Fryberger; and Philip J. Connell's "Kissing Drew" starring Eden Ocean Sanders, Ben Hargreaves, and Chris Handfield.
Surprise
Linda
A mother and son confess their secrets.
The Christmas Heart
Elizabeth
The tight-knit neighbors on Arthur Avenue have proudly lit Christmas luminaries for 40 years, but that long-standing tradition is cancelled this year when Matt Norman, a teenage boy in the neighborhood, is hospitalized in desperate need of a heart transplant. As his parents Ann and Mike anxiously pray by his bedside, a donor is found, while in Detroit, a mother is in anguish at her own son’s bedside. When Matt's neighbors decide to honor him in the best way they know how, they just might help save his life.
Frank
Frank's Mom
Jon, um músico ávido mas sem talento, junta-se à banda pop de vanguarda The Soronprfbs numa tentativa de se livrar de sua vida de cidade pequena e de sua rotina diária. O líder é o excêntrico e emocionalmente instável Frank, que se esconde sob uma enorme cabeça de papier-mâché que ele nunca tira.
Parceiros No Amor
Kathleen
Quickie-mart employee Melissa and paraplegic Richie are very much in love. Supported only by Melissa’s small hourly wage, they are nevertheless thrilled to learn that Melissa is pregnant. Then their situation deteriorates, and their tenuous financial situation threatens to bring their happy life crashing down.
Tudo em Família
Mother
William (Luke Wilson) e Katherine (Anna Paquin) têm dois filhos, mas estão sempre muito ocupados com o trabalho ou com viagens de negócios para dar atenção a eles. Quando o irmão de William, Scott (Ryan Phillippe) sai da reabilitação e vai para a casa deles a pedido de sua falecida mãe, carregando somente uma mochila cheia de bebidas e de maconha, o rapaz começa a se integrar com as crianças e a ensiná-as sobre a vida. Mas à medida em que convive com Katherine, Scott lida com o sentimento de rejeição, já que a mulher por quem ele é apaixonado o trocou pelo seu irmão.
Desejo de Natal
Trudy Willis
Poucos dias antes do Natal, Martha Evans (Kristy Swanson) é abandonada pelo marido, que a deixa com as filhas e o enteado e leva todo o seu dinheiro. Em desespero, ela sai em busca de algum trabalho e acaba encontrando uma lanchonete onde ela poderia ser garçonete, em uma pacata cidade do interior. Contudo, as contas e os problemas em família começam a quebrar todo o clima natalino, até que as orações de Martha começam a surtir efeito, e eles podem viver o mais lindo Natal que poderiam imaginar.
Saving Sarah Cain
Miriam Esh
When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to Lancaster County to finish raising them there herself, or let them be separated by the foster care system, Sarah decides to take them with her back to Portland where she believes she can make a new life for them. However, she soon realizes that the modern world has forced them to compromise who they are, and that she has moved them there for all the wrong reasons - a motive which is soon exposed - because secrets can really never be kept secret. In order to find her own redemption, she knows she must make a choice to give them back their lives in Amish Country. And whether she remains part of their lives will have a lot to do with how much she has grown to love them.
Beije a Noiva
Barbara Davis
No colegial, Matt e Ryan eram um pouco mais que melhores amigos, mas com o passar dos anos acabaram perdendo contato. Quando Matt recebe o convite de casamento de Ryan ele fica supreso..., principalmente porque Ryan vai se casar com uma mulher. Matt resolve voltar a sua cidade natal e salvar seu antigo namorado dessa mulher demoníaca que o colocou nessa terrível armadilha. Mas Alex, a noiva, acaba caindo nas graças de Matt e enquanto ele tenta convencer Ryan de que tudo isso é um erro, Ryan diz que o romance deles foi uma coisa de adolescência, só que Matt percebe que Ryan ainda é o grande amor de sua vida. Matt tem que lidar com a decepção, com a noiva que virou sua "nova melhor amiga", com as famílias e a cidade que ele pensou ter deixado para trás.
Este País Não É Para Velhos
Loretta Bell
A história começa quando Llewelyn Moss descobre uma pickup guardada por um grupo de mortos. Um carregamento de heroína e dois milhões de dólares em dinheiro vivo estão ainda na caixa aberta da carrinha. Quando Moss leva consigo o dinheiro, despoleta uma reacção em cadeia de imensa violência, que nem mesmo a lei – na pessoa do velho e desiludido Xerife Bell – consegue travar. Á medida que Moss procura escapar aos seus perseguidores – em particular a uma misteriosa personagem que atira a moeda ao ar para decidir se poupa ou não uma vida – o filme simultaneamente desmonta o género do crime dramático americano e alarga os seus interesses para abordar temas tão antigos como a Bíblia e tão sanguinariamente contemporâneos como os cabeçalhos da manhã.
Pecados Mortais
Clare
Na esperança de encontrar sucesso como cantora, Hope vai morar em Los Angeles. Lá ela conhece Will e se apaixona, mas a relação dos dois se torna cada vez mais complicada e apoiada em vícios. Após o término e enquanto tenta refazer sua vida, Hope é encontrada por Will, que está determinado a impedir que isso aconteça.
Pontes Partidas
Dixie Rose Delton
Bo Price (Toby Keith), estrela country em baixa na carreira, volta à sua cidade natal para o velório do irmão, reencontra uma antiga paixão e descobre que tem uma filha já adolescente. É o momento de acertar as contas com o passado e repensar o futuro.
Jam
Ruby
A traffic accident on a rural mountain road becomes a life changing experience for fifteen diverse travelers.
Jesus, Mary and Joey
Liz O`Callahan
Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolmate, Mary O'Callahan. Once mocked as 'Scary Mary' this ugly duckling has blossomed into an irresistible beauty. She's returned to the old neighborhood after an intense bout with cancer. When Joey learns her cure was the result of a miracle, friendship turns to romance as she educates him on the crossroads to the Almighty. Joey challenges his family's faith with his new found revelations and chaos ensues as they all search for a miracle of their own.
Tartarugas também choram
Elizabeth Austin
“Tartarugas também choram” combina três histórias distintas, porém interligadas, que acontecem em diferentes partes da Carolina do Norte. É dia das Mães, 1999, e um jovem andarilho, interessado em tartarugas, inicia um relacionamento com George, dono do motel local. No dia das Mães, 2000, Elizabeth, mãe adotiva de Mark, se pergunta por onde andará seu filho sumido. É dia das Mães, 2001, quando Grace, mãe biológica de Mark, larga seu emprego para dar início a uma busca pelo filho que ela abandonara ao nascer. Essa busca terminará por unir as três histórias.
Angel in the Family
Mrs. Nelly Tomkins
Sisters separated by a lifetime of misunderstanding and their family desperately in need of healing old wounds, find themselves brought back together on one amazing Christmas.
Lonely Place
A menacing farmhand worms his way between a husband and wife on an old peach farm.
The Rising Place
Rebecca Hodge
The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Falsas Intenções
Dr. Amanda Giles
Recém-saída de uma clínica psiquiátrica, Adrien arruma emprego em um luxuoso clube. Lá ela faz amizade com Brittany, de férias com um grupo de amigos estudantes. Um deles é Matt, que se interessa por Adrien, despertando a fúria de Brittany.
Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Narrator / Older Laura Ingalls Wilder
A version of the "Little House" stories that cover some of the events that take place in the last three books of the series and the book "The First Four Years" Laura is living on the prairie near De Smet, South Dakota and eventually meets the man that she will marry, Almanzo Wilder. Life, however, is not easy on the prairie and after a crop lost to hail, the loss of their baby son, the burning down of their house, and a terrible bout of diphtheria, the Wilders must make some hard choices about how to move on from the tragedies. Written by Anonymous
O Chacal
The First Lady
Durante uma operação do FBI em uma casa noturna de Moscou, o irmão do gângster russo Terek Murad é morto. Murad quer vingança e contrata o pistoleiro de aluguel conhecido como Chacal para matar o diretor do FBI como retaliação. Com a ajuda da agente russa Valentina Koslova, o FBI encontra o único homem que conhece a fisionomia do perigoso Chacal: o terrorista do IRA Declan Mulqueen. Declan, então, é forçado a ajudar na caça pelo infame assassino sem identidade.
A Child's Wish
Joanna Chandler
A family discovers their youngest daughter has cancer. But the real struggle has yet to start.
The Killing Secret
Tina Decapprio
A pregnant teen is murdered and a popular high-school senior is suspected. But will his girlfriend stick by him to prove his innocence despite the fact she has bonded with the victim's mother?
De Caso Com um Estranho
Linda Grant
In this Hallmark story, Allan is a normal middleaged man with a wife and two kids. When Alan is suddenly attacked one night, he loses his memory, leading his family to believe that he is dead.
The Road to Galveston
Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind woman who was a nurse: enter a foster care program in which one takes care of patients in their own home. The patients she cares for are Alzheimers sufferers, and she shares her home with three other women in advanced stages of the disease, one (Gayle) wheelchair bound. And with these women, Jordan realizes a lifelong dream - to feel the ocean breeze. An accidental find of a coffee can stash of cash, buried by her late husband, makes the trip possible. Based on the true story of Peggy Lee of Camilla, Texas (the Alzheimers, the patients, and the foster care program are actual, the trip to the Galveston beaches is fictional).
Death in Small Doses
Jerri Sims
One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her temporarily the year before because of an affair. Especially Nancy's brother is keen on getting the children away from the suspected murderer. All evidence points against Richard, but in court Richard surprisingly presents proof that his wife had depressions and maybe killed herself - or are these proofs just fake? -- Depicts an authentic case.
Michael Jackson - Dangerous - The Short Films
Mother (Black or White)
Michael Jackson's Dangerous album once again rocketed the global superstar to mega-platinum success! "Dangerous - The Short Films" captures the visual and musical highlights of his most recent string of hit singles. As well as extensive behind the scenes profiles of the making of Michael's state of the art short films.
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
Verna Heath
A homemaker is driven by jealousy to conspire against the mother of her daughter's rival.
My New Gun
Kimmy Hayes
Debbie and Gerald's lives drastically change after they get a gun. Their mysterious neighbor, Skippy, becomes an important and transforming figure in their lives.
In the Line of Duty: Siege at Marion
Vickie Singer
Adam Swapp and his brother Jonathan are suspects in the bombing of Mormon Center in Utah. The brothers and their families hold-up on their farm with provisions and enough ammunition to withstand the governments siege. They are devout in their beliefs and purposes and are determined to stand up for their rights.
The Turning
Martha Harnish
Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson's psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rage. Four years earlier his family was on the verge of breaking up. Now he's returned to put things right, fired by a psychopathic determination he is intent on destroying his father's new relationship...whatever it takes.
Black or White
Mother
Short film accompanying Michael Jackson's Black or White single.
No Mundo da Lua
Abigail Trant
Duas irmãs descobrem o amor em uma pequena cidade. Uma delas é Dani Trant (Reese Witherspoon), cujo objeto de desejo é o belo jovem Court Foster (Jason London). Maureen (Emily Warfield), a irmã mais velha, também está às voltas do primeiro amor.
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Cheryl
H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Jolie is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl has put his father in a nursing home.
Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
Sara Lee
Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed.
Conspiração Tóxica
Betty McFall
When Tim McFall's young daughter dies as the result of toxic waste dumped in the local river, he tries to shut down the company and everybody turns against him. In his fight he is joined by a beautiful student activist, and soon his obsession with revenge threatens his marriage as well as his career.
Inocente ou Culpado?
Detective Stillwell
Após conseguir uma absolvição em um julgamento por assassinato, o advogado de defesa Ben Chase tenta provar que o cliente, Martin Thiel, é um assassino em série. Quando acontecem novas mortes, Ben decide agir, dando início a uma batalha psicológica com Martin.
Adorável Sedutora
Sally Blackwood
Blackwood é um autor de romances de mistério que, sem inspiração, resolve frequentar os tribunais em busca de uma ideia. Ele fica fascinado por uma romena misteriosa acusada de assassinato e recupera a criatividade ao se envolver com a moça.
Unconquered
Mrs. Mary Flowers
In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family's peace.
A Casa de Kate é um Caso
Rita
Kate volta para casa quando seu pai é internado. Apesar de toda sua sofisticação, ela volta à infância, tentando desesperadamente ganhar a aprovação do pai machista. Para isso, ela jura matar o velho cavalo que causou os ferimentos do pai.
Little Girl Lost
Clara Brady
This heart-wrenching story inspired by real events depicts the trials of the Brady family, who are trying desperately to adopt a helpless little girl they took in when she was in a foster care program. Clara and Tim Brady are in for the fight of their lives as they find that adopting Tella will not be so easy -- especially when social services puts her back into the care of her abusive father.
Ishtar
Willa
Dois músicos americanos fracassados são convencidos pelo empresário a viajar para o Oriente. Lá, são recrutados por facções políticas rivais para desastradas missões de espionagem, enquanto disputam bela guerrilheira feminista.
Daddy
Ann Burnette
Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant.
Crimes do Coração
Chick Boyle
Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.
Promises to Keep
Gwen Palmer
An aging cowboy returns to the family he abandoned 30 years ago with a terrifying secret.
A Summer to Remember
Jeannie Wyler
Silent since losing his hearing to meningitis, young Toby Wyler takes a bitter stance against the world and his family, refusing to accept his new stepfather. But when a highly trained orangutan named Casey is thrown from a truck near Toby's home, the boy soon has a secret friend he can communicate with via sign language.
Reckless Disregard
Meredith Craig
Meredith Craig is lawyer who has a small practice. She is then approached by a Dr. Lucas who is a doctor at a clinic, who was exposed on a television news program as writing prescriptions for drugs in exchange for money. He says that he is innocent and asks Meredith to file a lawsuit against the program and its staff. Can a small lawyer beat a big television network?
Flashpoint
Ellen
Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether to keep the money or report it, they privately investigate the clues and unravel a decades old mystery.
Amityville 3: O Demônio
Nancy Baxter
Após se divorciar de Nancy (Tess Harper), um cético repórter, John Baxter (Tony Roberts), compra por um preço bem baixo, já que ninguém queria o imóvel, a assustadora casa de Long Island, onde já tinham havido várias mortes. Logo John constata que a razão deste temor não eram tolas superstições e sim algo bem terrível.
A Força do Carinho
Rosa Lee
Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall) é um cantor de músicas country que guarda amargas recordações de sua vida. Com sua carreira em declínio, ele se entrega de vez à bebida. Até que, num hotel do Texas, conhece Rosa Lee (Tess Harper), uma viúva com um filho de 10 anos. Logo Rosa e Mac iniciam um relacionamento, que o faz recuperar a alegria de viver.
Starflight One
Janet Briggs
Starflight One, a commercial aircraft that can whisk passengers around the globe in a matter of hours, embarks on its maiden voyage. The trip goes horribly awry, however, when the aircraft is forced out of the atmosphere and into outer space. As it is too dangerous to attempt reentry, Captain Cody Briggs, his passengers and his crew brave declining levels of oxygen while NASA scientists scramble to launch a rescue mission in a race against time.
Kentucky Woman
A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.
The Dougherty Gang
Loretta Hillhouse
Facing the possibility of prison - and in search of an idealized freedom - 3 siblings take matters in to their own hands with a cross country crime spree of epic proportions.