Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Spenser: For Hire | Elizabeth Haller | 1 episode | ||
| 1986 | Equalizer, TheThe Equalizer | Deborah Wade | 1 episode | ||
| 1990 | Old Man and the Sea, TheThe Old Man and the Sea | Mary Pruitt | |||
| 1990 | Tales from the Crypt | Suzy | 1 episode | ||
| 1990 | Law & Order | Laura Winthrop | 1 episode | ||
| 1991 | Davis Rules | Cosmo Yeargin | 8 episodes | ||
| 1992 | Blind Man's Bluff | Dr. Virginia Hertz | |||
| 1992 | American Story, AnAn American Story | Barbara Meade | |||
| 1992 | Legacy of Lies | Pat Rafael | |||
| 1992 | Four Eyes and Six Guns | Lucy Laughton | |||
| 1993 | Queen | Elizabeth "Lizzie" Perkins | Television miniseries | ||
| 1993 | Caught in the Act | Meg | |||
| 1994 | She Led Two Lives | Desiree Parnell | |||
| 1995–96 | Murder One | Annie Hoffman | 20 episodes | ||
| 1996 | London Suite | Diana Nichols | |||
| 1996 | Wedding, TheThe Wedding | Della McNeil | |||
| 2000 | Wonderland | Mrs. Tammy Banger | 8 episodes | ||
| 2001 | Frasier | Claire French | 5 episodes | ||
| 2002 | Carrie | Margaret White | |||
| 2002–05 | Six Feet Under | Sarah O'Connor | 7 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Drama Series (2002, 2006) |
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| 2007 | American Masters | Narrator | 1 episode | ||
| 2009 | Saturday Night Live | Mother of Justin Timberlake's character | May 9, 2009 SNL Digital Short "Motherlover" | ||
| 2011 | Saturday Night Live | Mother of Justin Timberlake's character | May 21, 2011 SNL Digital Short 3-Way (The Golden Rule) | ||
| 2011 | Parks and Recreation | Tammy Swanson I | |||
| 2012 | The Dust Bowl | Hazel Lucas Shaw | directed by Ken Burns | ||
| 2012 | Women's Image Network Awards | Outstanding Outstanding Made For Television Film | Patricia Clarkson
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Nominated | Pending |
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)
“Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy.... In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)