Martha Plimpton
Date of birth: 1970-11-16
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Martha Campbell Plimpton
Biography
Martha Campbell Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American singer, stage and screen actress, best known for playing the lead role of Virginia Chance on the television sitcom "Raising Hope", and for guest starring as Patti Nyholm in the CBS legal drama "The Good Wife".
Movie Credits
Parenthood
1989-07-31
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjo
The Mosquito Coast
1986-11-26
An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a
Another Woman
1988-10-13
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to wor
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994-09-07
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed w
Pecker
1998-09-25
A Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turn
I Shot Andy Warhol
1996-05-01
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in he
The Goonies
1985-06-07
Young teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure
200 Cigarettes
1999-02-26
In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness,
Eye of God
1997-10-17
A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied b
Rollover
1981-10-11
The wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of hi
Daybreak
1993-05-08
When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical
The River Rat
1984-09-28
On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent fat
Music from Another Room
1998-04-24
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who gre
Running on Empty
1988-09-09
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixti
Josh & S.A.M.
1993-11-24
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and
Shy People
1987-12-04
A Cosmo Magazine journalist and her daughter leave New York City to visit their distant relatives de
Small Town Murder Songs
2010-09-14
A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Men
My Life's in Turnaround
1994-06-17
Two Manhattan slackers want to make a movie about their lives. One drives a cab, the other tends bar
Colin Fitz
1997-01-19
Two security guards, Paul and Grady, are hired to guard the grave of dead rock legend, Colin Fitz. T
Remember Me
2010-03-11
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins d
Company
2011-06-15
Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes
The Sleepy Time Gal
2001-01-24
A young woman learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job and goes on a journey to
Stars & Bars
1988-03-18
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
Samantha
1992-11-20
A young woman sets out to find her birth parents when she finds out that she is adopted.
Inside Monkey Zetterland
1992-09-12
An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, t
Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995-11-22
Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the
Chantilly Lace
1993-07-18
A group of middle-aged women get together at a secluded house to learn about themselves.
The Defenders: Payback
1997-10-12
Television movie remake of the 1960s courtroom drama series, "The Defenders." After the death of his
A Woman at War
1991-08-10
Helene Moskiewicz, a young Jewish woman living in pre-World War II Belgium, is forced to suffer thro
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
1994-11-23
The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot
Silence Like Glass
1989-07-06
True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.
The Perfect Woman
1993-10-16
The camera focuses up close on a series of unnamed women as they talk to their men. In every case, e
Hair High
2004-04-17
Rod and Cherri are the unmistakable king and queen of Echo High. When new kid Spud arrives, he makes
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
1998-01-18
The Defenders are a crack team of lawyers dedicated to one principle - the accused is innocent until
Stanley & Iris
1990-02-09
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011-05-30
A documentary film about Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton. This is a portrait piece that inclu
A Blink of Paradise
1992-01-17
"A Blink of Paradise" is a twelve minute investigation into the event that caused one woman's first
Beautiful Girls
1996-02-09
During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifel
Sovereign
2025-07-11
Struggling single father Jerry indoctrinates his son Joe into the sovereign citizen movement, teachi
Marvelous
2008-02-08
After her husband leaves her, Gwen goes to live with her sister Queenie. She discovers that she has
Hello Again
2017-11-08
Ten lost souls slip in and out of one another's arms in a daisy-chained musical exploration of love'
Independent's Day
1998-01-15
Filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival discuss what it is like to be an independent filmmaker, and
Honey Bee
2018-11-28
Follows the journey of Natalie "Honey Bee" Sorensen, an underage truck stop prostitute trapped in a
Dante's Inferno
2007-01-18
A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of us
I'm Not Rappaport
1996-12-24
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His compan
Frozen II
2019-11-20
Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and Olaf head far into the forest to learn the truth about an ancient mystery o
The Defenders: Taking the First
1998-10-25
A racist provokes four teens into beating a Latino youth to death after one of his fiery speeches on
Pitch Black Panacea
2020-05-04
Amy and Carl both have lazy eyes. Amy’s left and Carl’s right. They are strangers, volunteers for an
Searching for Debra Winger
2002-07-13
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the en
Mass
2021-10-08
Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997-07-08
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismi
Sardinia
2024-08-10
A serious man tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopia
This Ordinary Thing
2025-12-05
A film about non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust.