Martha Plimpton

Martha Plimpton

CountryUnited States United States
GenderFemale
BirthdayNov 16, 1970
BiographyMartha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American actress and member of the Carradine family. Her feature-film debut was in Rollover (1981), but she subsequently rose to prominence in the Richard Donner film The Goonies (1985). Plimpton has also appeared in The Mosquito Coast (1986), Shy People (1987), Running on Empty (1988), Parenthood (1989), Samantha (1991), Small Town Murder Songs (2011), Frozen II (2019), and Mass (2021).

Plimpton appeared on Broadway in The Coast of Utopia (2006–2007), Shining City (2006–2007), Top Girls (2007–2008), and Pal Joey (2008–2009). Other theatre productions in which she has performed include The Playboy of the Western World, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Glass Menagerie, The Sisters Rosensweig, and Uncle Vanya. Plimpton returned to Broadway in the fall of 2014 in a revival of A Delicate Balance, and starred in the ABC sitcom The Real O'Neals from March 2016 to March 2017.

Plimpton played Virginia Chance in the Fox sitcom Raising Hope, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Plimpton has also received three Tony Award nominations, as well as Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for the NBC crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2002 and for the CBS legal drama The Good Wife in 2012, winning for the latter.

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