Blair Brown
Date of birth: 1946-04-23
Place of birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Bonnie Blair Brown, Blaire Brown
Biography
Blair Brown (born April 23, 1946) is an American stage, film and television actress. For her role in Copenhagen, Brown won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She was the leading actress in feature films such as Altered States (1980), Continental Divide (1981), and Strapless (1989), and she played the title character in the television comedy-drama The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. Later supporting roles include Nina Sharp on Fringe and Judy King on Orange Is the New Black.
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Dogville
2003-05-21
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange fo
Dark Shadows
2005-07-01
The pilot for a proposed remake of the '60s gothic soap opera. It was produced in 2004 for The WB ne
The Astronaut's Wife
1999-08-27
When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he d
Space Cowboys
2000-08-04
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daeda
Altered States
1980-12-25
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory dep
Stealing Home
1988-08-26
Billy Wyatt, a former high school and minor-league baseball player, receives a telephone call from h
Continental Divide
1981-09-18
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
One Trick Pony
1980-10-03
An aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and
The Buddha
2010-04-17
This documentary for PBS by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere, tells
The Paper Chase
1973-10-16
A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daugh
Dark Matter
2008-04-24
Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American l
Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman
2004-04-12
The remarkable life of the immigrant christened "the most dangerous woman in America" is explored in
In His Life: The John Lennon Story
2000-12-03
A film about the early life of the rock musician and his burgeoning career as a member of the Beatle
Loverboy
2005-01-24
A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of
A Flash of Green
1984-10-05
A reporter at a local Florida newspaper is torn between his friendship with a corrupt real estate de
Dogville Confessions
2004-06-27
A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others
The Bad Seed
1985-02-07
Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several d
Strapless
1989-05-14
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger s
Hamlet
2000-12-10
A revised version of the Shakespeare play set in turn-of-the-20th-century America, where a prince se
Sister Aimee
2007-04-02
At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing la
Woodrow Wilson
2002-01-06
A gifted orator, Woodrow Wilson was supremely confident before crowds, yet uneasy in small groups. A
The Skin of Our Teeth
1983-01-18
Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play "The Skin of Our Teeth," the story of Mr. and
Moment of Truth: To Walk Again
1994-02-16
A marine is paralyzed after being shot during a training exercise, leaving his parents to fight to g
And I Alone Survived
1978-11-27
Based on a true story, this tells the story of a young woman who is the only survivor of a plane cra
The Sentinel
2006-04-19
Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently fra
Those Secrets
1992-03-16
A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1977-03-13
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
The Quinns
1977-07-01
A drama about three generations of Irish-American firefighters in the New York City Fire Department,
Follow the Stars Home
2001-05-06
Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother W
The Child Stealer
1979-03-09
A young mother battles to get her children back after her ex-husband kidnaps them and the law won't
The Choirboys
1977-12-23
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in va
Passed Away
1992-04-24
Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving ecce
The Day My Parents Ran Away
1993-12-13
An irresponsible teen examines his life after his fed-up parents leave him to fend for himself.
Extreme Close-Up
1990-10-22
Innovative drama mixing film and video, with a teenager obsessed with watching his late mother, kill
Griffin & Phoenix
2006-09-12
A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent tog
First Born
2007-03-20
Laura's expecting. Her husband, Steven's a loving guy but has little time for her. Her mom lives tho
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
1995-05-10
Real stories of five women of the Old West....
Brutalités amoureuses
1972-11-08
Distraught, Catherine wanders the Canadian countryside and takes refuge in an isolated villa. She ta
Don't Touch
1985-11-06
A teenager babysitting a young girl discovers that she is being molested by a family friend when har
The River Ran Red
1993-09-11
Blair Brown narrates this gripping account of a community's struggle to preserve its way of life. In
Hands of a Stranger
1987-05-10
A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.
Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
1977-06-09
A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. H
RFK
2004-05-01
David Grubin's probing and perceptive biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of Bobby K
The Massie Affair
2005-04-18
In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy w
Convictions
1997-11-10
It has been nine years since Bancroft's character shot Brown's son. She goes to the prison to vent h
The Ultimate Lie
1996-03-18
A spoiled young rich girl rebels against her parents by becoming a call girl. However, one night she
Dracula
1973-01-01
This 1973 Canadian TV movie adaptation of DRACULA played on CBC's Purple Playhouse program. Norman
Young Dr. Freud
2002-11-27
This documentary retraces the life of the famous Austrian psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud, from his birt
Majority Rule
1992-10-27
A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in
My Art
2016-09-05
A 65-year-old single artist living in New York City has a good life: a stable teaching job, successf
A Season in Purgatory
1996-05-05
True story about a kid from rich family with political ties who covers up a suspicious death of a yo
The School for Scandal
1975-04-02
London society matron Lady Sneerwell loves to gossip and spends her free time engaged in manipulatio
Rio Shannon
1993-08-14
A widow and her family face new challenges when they relocate to a run-down guest ranch in New Mexic
The Speed of Thought
2011-04-29
Joshua Lazarus (Nick Stahl) is a telepath who has been raised in a NSA foster home. Lazarus helps th
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
2007-06-01
A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America's great presi
The 3,000 Mile Chase
1977-06-16
Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from S
Test Tube Babies
2006-10-23
The world's first successful in-vitro fertilization takes place in Great Britain resulting in a live
The Good Policeman
1991-01-01
Isaac Seidel is a highly unconventional New York police-commissioner. He is well-abled in dealing wi
The Gift of Love
1994-12-17
A Little Night Music: Live from the Kennedy Center
2002-08-02
Inspired by Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, a tangled web of affairs is weaved around act
Fringe: Access All Areas
2009-10-06
In time for the spectacular second season premiere of Fringe on Sky 1, this special documentary, nar