
Holland Taylor
ActingAlso Known As
Holland Virginia Taylor, ホランド・テイラー
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Holland Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
(74 total)
The Truman Show
as Angela Montclair / Alanis Montclair

Legally Blonde
as Professor Stromwell

Bombshell
as Faye (uncredited)

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
as Grandmother

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
as Grandmother

George of the Jungle
as Beatrice Stanhope

Romancing the Stone
as Gloria

Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
as Prudence (voice)

Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
as Prudence (voice)

The Jewel of the Nile
as Gloria

The Wedding Date
as Bunny

Bill & Ted Face the Music
as The Great Leader

To Die For
as Carol Stone

One Fine Day
as Rita

Baby Mama
as Rose

Keeping the Faith
as Bonnie Rose

D.E.B.S.
as Ms. Petrie

Fame
as Claudia van Doren (uncredited)

Gloria Bell
as Hillary Bell
TV Shows
(48 total)
Two and a Half Men
as Evelyn Harper

American Dad!
as Mrs. Dawson (voice)

The Orville
as Jeannie Mercer

Monk
as Peggy Davenport

Billions
as Dr. Eleanor Mayer

ER
as Phyllis Farr

The Morning Show
as Cybil Richards

The L Word
as Peggy Peabody

Murder, She Wrote
as Winifred Thayer

Mr. Mercedes
as Ida Silver

Ally McBeal
as Judge Roberta Kittleson

Hollywood
as Ellen Kincaid

Hercules
as Queen Myrrha (voice)

Big Brother
as Self - Actress, 'Two & a ½ Men'

The Love Boat
as Kathy Brighton

The Chair
as Joan Hambling

Kojak
as Elizabeth

Diagnosis: Murder
as Agent Gretchen McCord


