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Piper Laurie

Profession: Actress | Director
Piper Laurie
  Real name: Rosetta Jacobs
Birthdate: January 22, 1932
Date of death: October 14, 2023
Age: 90 years
Country: United States United States
Horoscope: Aquarius
Stature: 1,64 m.

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Rosetta Jacobs, better known as Piper Laurie, was an American Actress and Director. She has won an Golden Globes Awards and an Emmy Awards. She's known for Hounddog (2008), Children of a Lesser God (1986) and The Hustler (1961).

All Movies of Piper Laurie

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  • White Boy Rick
    6.2
    The story of teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
    Character: Grandma Verna Wershe
    United States  2018
  • Hesher
    6.4
    A mysterious, anarchical trickster descends on the lives of a family struggling to deal with a painful loss.
    Character: Grandma
    United States  2010
  • Hounddog
    5.4
    Like a lily growing in the swamp, Lewellen, a precocious southern girl, radiates splendor amidst the murk that surrounds her. She is being raised by her abusive father and disciplinarian grandmother, and finds comfort, joy, and st...
    Character: Grammie
    United States  2008
  • The Dead Girl
    6.4
    The stories of five seemingly unrelated people just might lock together to reveal the circumstances surrounding the death of a young girl (Brittany Murphy). “The Stranger” is about the woman (Toni Collette) who finds the bo...
    Character: Arden's Mother
    United States  2006
  • Eulogy
    When three generations of a deliciously dysfunctional family gather to bury the family patriarch, the beloved granddaughter of the deceased is given the task of delivering the eulogy. In the days leading up to the funeral, family ...
    United States  2004
  • The Last Brickmaker in America (TV)
    A craftsman who makes bricks is grief-stricken over the death of his wife. He meets a 13 year-old boy from a dysfunctional family who helps him find the strength to continue his life's work.
    Character: Ruth Anne
    United States  2001
  • Midwives (TV)
    A midwife in rural Vermont is wrongly accused of murder in the death of one of her patients by the woman's husband.
    United States  2001
  • Inherit the Wind (TV)
    7.3
    Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
    Character: Sarah Brady
    United States  1999
  • The Faculty
    6.3
    A horror tale set in a High School where the students suspect the teaching staff of being aliens, who are intent on making the students their victims.
    Character: Mrs. Karen Olson
    United States  1998
  • The Road to Galveston (TV)
    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 pat...
    Character: Wanda Kirkman
    United States  1996
  • The Grass Harp
    7.1
    After his mother's death, Collin Fenwick goes to live with his father's cousins, the wealthy, avaricious, and controlling Verena Talbo, and her compliant, earthy sister Dolly. When a city slicker comes to town and convinces Verena...
    Character: Dolly Talbo
    United States  1995
  • The Crossing Guard
    5.7
    Freddie Gale is a seedy jeweler who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl. After a hit-and-run takes the life of a man's daughter, breaking his heart and destroying his marriage, he plots revenge on the man...
    Character: Helen Booth
    United States  1995
  • Trauma
    5.8
    While driving home one day, David sees a young girl on the edge of a bridge, possibly about to jump to her death. He rescues the girl, named Aura, who is anorexic. The two are suddenly separated, though, when Aura is reunited with...
    Character: Adriana Petrescu
    United States  1993
  • Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
    6.5
    Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. They beg...
    Character: Georgia
    United States  1993
  • Twin Peaks (TV Series)
    8.3
    TV Series (1990-1991). 2 Seasons. 30 episodes. The body of a young girl (Laura Palmer) is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. Eccentric FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate...
    Character:  Catherine Martell / ... 27 episodes, 1989-1991
    United States  1990
  • Twin Peaks - Pilot Episode
    The small town of Twin Peaks, in Washington, is shaken up when the body of the Homecoming Queen, Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), is discovered washed up on a riverbank, wrapped in plastic. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan...
    United States  1990
  • Dream a Little Dream
    6.1
    Bobby Keller (Corey Feldman) has a best friend and a girlfriend. But, he's not happy. His parents don't notice him, he's failing in school, and he has a crush. He feels his life is pointless. Then, one night, everything changes wh...
    Character: Gena Ettinger
    United States  1989
  • Appointment with Death
    6.0
    Emily Boynton, step-mother to the three Boynton children and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying a second will of her late husband which would have freed the childern from her dominatin...
    Character: Emily Boynton
    United States  1988
  • Promise (TV)
    When his mother dies, Bob not only inherits her house, but also the custody of his younger brother, who suffers from schizophrenia and epilepsy. At the age of 21, Bob promised to look after his brother. Although he has barely seen...
    United States  1986
  • Children of a Lesser God
    7.1
    James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using ...
    Character: Mrs. Norman
    United States  1986
  • The Twilight Zone (TV Series)
    7.0
    A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but often have a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected twist.
    United States  1985
  • Tender Is the Night (TV Miniseries)
    Dick and Nicole Diver are a glamorous couple who take a villa in the South of France and surround themselves with a circle of friends, mainly Americans. Also staying at the resort are Rosemary Hoyt, a young actress, and her mother...
    United Kingdom  1985
  • Return to Oz
    6.9
    Dorothy, back in Kansas, can't stop thinking about Oz, and even believes that her friends have sent her a key. Auntie Em, worried for Dorothy's health, takes her to a famous doctor who works miracles with electricity. When Dorothy...
    Character: Aunt Em
    United States  1985
  • The Thorn Birds (TV Miniseries)
    7.0
    Adapted from the bestselling novel by Colleen McCullough, the production stars Richard Chamberlain as an ambitious Catholic priest named Ralph de Bricassart, whose life in Australia between 1920 and 1962 is one long torment as he ...
    United States  1983
  • Mae West (TV)
    Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.
    United States  1982
  • The Bunker (TV)
    6.4
    Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
    Character: Magda Goebbels
    United States  1981
  • Skag (TV Series)
    Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forced him to stay at home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems which included his you...
    United States  1980
  • Tim
    6.2
    Character: Mary Horton
    Australia  1979
  • Carrie
    8.2
    Carrie White, the teenage daughter of a religious fanatic, has her first menstrual period in the school locker-room shower and is so sexually ignorant that she thinks she is bleeding to death. The rest of the girls cruelly taunt h...
    Character: Margaret White
    United States  1976
  • The Hustler
    7.7
    "Fast" Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) is a self-assured upstart pool shark who frequents the local halls to get a crack at bringing down the legendary Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason). Under the wing of corrupt manager Bert G...
    Character: Sarah Packard
    United States  1961
  • Kelly and Me
    6.8
    Flop vaudeville performer Len Carmody is adopted by Kelly, a trained dog abandoned by Malo's dog act. When Kelly joins Len's ho-hum song and dance, a popular comedy act is born. On the train, Len meets young Mina Van Runkel, daugh...
    Character: Mina Van Runkel
    United States  1957
  • Dawn at Socorro
    Gunfighter Brett Wade, diagnosed with tuberculosis, tries to get out of his former life while helping a young woman.
    United States  1954
  • Dangerous Mission
    6.7
    Witness to a mob killing and afraid to testify, young Louise Graham flees to Montana where she hopes to disappear working in the gift shop at Glacier National Park. Staying at the park are vacationers Matt Hallett, ex-marine, and ...
    United States  1954
  • The Mississippi Gambler
    6.0
    Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, ...
    Character: Angelique 'Leia' Dureau
    United States  1953
  • Has Anybody Seen My Gal
    7.6
    Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate to the family of his first love, who turned down his marriage proposal years ago because he was poor. But he wants to test the fam...
    Character: Millicent Blaisdell
    United States  1952
  • Louisa
    6.0
    The Norton family is in a turmoil due to faultfinding grandma Louisa. Strongly urged to find outside interests, Louisa starts dating grocer Hammond; their necking among the teenagers shocks the latter (!), and Louisa's architect s...
    Character: Cathy Norton
    United States  1950
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