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Holland Taylor

Born 1943-01-14
📍 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Holland Virginia Taylor (born January 14, 1943) is an American actress. She won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Judge Roberta Kittleson on ABC's The Practice (1998–2003). For her portrayal of Evelyn Harper on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men (2003–15), she received a total of four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Taylor's other notable television credits include starring roles on the sitcoms Bosom Buddies (1980–82), The Powers That Be (1992–93) and The Naked Truth (1995–98). She also appeared as Jill Ollinger on the soap opera All My Children (1981–83), as Peggy Peabody on The L Word (2004–08), and as Ida Silver on Mr. Mercedes (2017–19). In 2020, she received critical praise and her eighth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for portraying Ellen Kincaid in the Netflix miniseries Hollywood.

Taylor's feature film credits include Romancing the Stone (1984) and its sequel (1985), Alice (1990), To Die For (1995), One Fine Day (1996), George of the Jungle (1997), The Truman Show (1998), Happy Accidents (2000), Keeping the Faith (2000), Legally Blonde (2001), The Wedding Date (2005), Baby Mama (2008), Gloria Bell (2018), Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), and The Stand In (2020).

Taylor wrote and starred in the one-woman play, Ann, based on the life and work of Ann Richards. For this, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress.

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Filmography 114

Fantasy Life
as Dr. Greene
2026
Motherland
as Toni
2025
The Little Pageant That Could
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Quiz Lady
as Francine
2023
Adele One Night Only
as Self
2021
The Chair
as Joan Hambling
2021
The Great North
as Goldie (voice)
2021
The Stand In
as Barbara Cox
2020
Bill & Ted Face the Music
as The Great Leader
2020
Hollywood
as Ellen Kincaid
2020
Stars in the House
as Self
2020
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
as Stormy
2020
Bombshell
as Faye (uncredited)
2019
The Morning Show
as Cybil Richards
2019
Gloria Bell
as Hillary Bell
2019
Ann
as Ann Richards
2018
The Orville
as Jeannie Mercer
2017
Mr. Mercedes
as Ida Silver
2017
Kepler's Dream
as Violet von Stern
2016
Speechless
as Andrea
2016
The New Yorker Presents
as Truman's Moher
2016
Billions
as Dr. Eleanor Mayer
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
Twinkle Toes
as Principal Garfield (voice)
2011
The Chosen One
as Ruth
2010
Baby Mama
as Rose
2008
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
as Prudence (voice)
2007
D.E.B.S.
as Ms. Petrie
2005
American Dad!
as Mrs. Dawson (voice)
2005
The Wedding Date
as Bunny
2005
The L Word
as Peggy Peabody
2004
Two and a Half Men
as Evelyn Harper
2003
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
as Grandmother
2003
Fillmore!
as Mrs. Cornwall (voice)
2002
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
as Grandmother
2002
Monk
as Peggy Davenport
2002
Home Room
as Dr. Hollander
2002
Baby Bob
as Madeline Collins
2002
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
as Prudence (voice)
2002
The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Nancy Reagan
2001
Legally Blonde
as Professor Stromwell
2001
Town & Country
as Mistress of Ceremonies
2001
DAG
as Kathering Twigg
2000
Strong Medicine
as Lillian Pynchon
2000
The Deadly Look of Love
as Evelyn McGinnis
2000
Big Brother
as Self - Actress, 'Two & a ½ Men'
2000
Keeping the Faith
as Bonnie Rose
2000
Mail to the Chief
as Katherine Horner
2000
The Spiral Staircase
as Emma
2000
Happy Accidents
as Therapist
2000
The Lot
as Letitia DeVine
1999
The Sex Monster
as Muriel
1999
The Unknown Cyclist
as Celia (uncredited)
1998
Hercules
as Queen Myrrha (voice)
1998
Next Stop Wonderland
as Piper Castleton
1998
The Truman Show
as Angela Montclair / Alanis Montclair
1998
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
as Alanis Montclair
1998
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
Veronica's Closet
as Millicent
1997
Ally McBeal
as Judge Roberta Kittleson
1997
George of the Jungle
as Beatrice Stanhope
1997
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
as Self
1997
The Practice
as Judge Roberta Kittleson
1997
Just Write
as Emma Jeffreys
1997
Betty
as Crystal Ball
1997
One Fine Day
as Rita
1996
Last Summer in the Hamptons
as Davis Mora Axelrod
1995
How to Make an American Quilt
as Mrs. Rubens
1995
Steal Big Steal Little
as Mona Rowland-Downey
1995
To Die For
as Carol Stone
1995
The Naked Truth
as Camilla Dane
1995
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
as Janice
1995
Awake to Danger
as Dr. Joyce Lindley
1995
A Walton Wedding
as Aunt Flo
1995
ER
as Phyllis Farr
1994
The Favor
as Maggie Sand
1994
The Counterfeit Contessa
as Wallace Everett
1994
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
as Florence Newsom
1994
Betrayal of Trust
as Mary Shelton
1994
Diagnosis: Murder
as Agent Gretchen McCord
1993
Saved by the Bell: The College Years
as Dean Susan McMann
1993
Cop & ½
as Captain Rubio
1993
The Powers That Be
as Margaret Powers
1992
The Rape of Doctor Willis
as Dr. Greenway
1991
Alice
as Helen
1990
Going Places
1990
People Like Us
as Dolly
1990
She's Having a Baby
as Sarah Briggs
1988
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
as Ernestine King
1987
Wiseguy
1987
The Saint in Manhattan
as Fran Grogan
1987
CBS Summer Playhouse
as Fran Grogan
1987
Perry Mason Returns
as Paula Gordon
1985
Key Exchange
as Mrs. Fanshaw
1985
The Jewel of the Nile
as Gloria
1985
Murder, She Wrote
as Winifred Thayer
1984
Romancing the Stone
as Gloria
1984
Kate & Allie
1984
I Was a Mail Order Bride
as Dottie Birmingham
1982
The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
as Frances Shand Kydd
1982
My Mother Was Never a Kid
as Felicia Martin
1981
Bosom Buddies
as Ruth Dunbar
1980
Fame
as Claudia van Doren (uncredited)
1980
O Youth and Beauty!
as Beverly Trencher
1979
The Sorrows of Gin
as Beverly Trencher
1979
The Love Boat
as Kathy Brighton
1977
The Next Man
as TV Interviewer
1976
Beacon Hill
as Marilyn Gardiner
1975
Kojak
as Elizabeth
1973
ABC Afterschool Special
as Felicia Martin
1972
J.T.
as Mrs. Arnold
1971
Great Performances
as Ernestine King
1971
The Edge of Night
1956