Beth Grant

Born: 1949-09-18 in Gadsden, Alabama, USA

Known For: Acting

Biography

Beth Grant (born September 18, 1949) is an American actress. She is known for often playing characters who are conservatives, religious zealots or sticklers for rules. She has appeared in dozens of films, including Rain Man, Speed; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar; Love Field; Donnie Darko; A Time to Kill; Little Miss Sunshine; Child's Play 2; Daltry Calhoun; City Slickers 2; Don't Tell Her It's Me; Matchstick Men; Factory Girl; The Wizard; Sordid Lives; The Rookie; All About Steve; No Country for Old Men, Crazy Heart, and Rango. Grant has also appeared in many TV shows, including Everwood; Delta; The Golden Girls; Malcolm in the Middle; The X-Files; Friends; CSI; Six Feet Under; Wonderfalls; My Name Is Earl; Yes, Dear; King of the Hill; The Office; Angel; Judging Amy; Jericho; Sordid Lives: The Series; Criminal Minds, Sabrina The Teenage Witch; True Blood; How I Met Your Mother; and The Mentalist. Grant was born in Gadsden, Alabama, and is an alumna of East Carolina University. She is married to actor Michael Chieffo with whom she has one child. Grant played the same character, Marianne Marie Beetle, in the short-lived show Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, both created by Bryan Fuller. Description above from the Wikipedia article Beth Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2026

Remarkably Bright Creatures as Barb Vanderhoof

2025

The Bondsman as Kitty Halloran
Unconventional as Charlene Baker

2024

Sweet Dreams as Sandra
Doc of Chucky as Self
Wildcat ... (Co-Executive Producer)

2023

Mayfair Witches as Carlotta Mayfair
Digman! as Laverne Dawson (voice)
Carol & the End of the World as Pauline (voice)
Maximum Truth as Mary Jo Nackserson

2022

Amsterdam as Mrs. Dillenbeck
Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin' Jimmy as Mrs. Brockfrater (voice)

2021

Willy's Wonderland as Sheriff Eloise Lund
Grave Intentions as Mattie Whalen (segment "The Bridge Partner")

2020

Teenage Bounty Hunters as Church Lady
Wander Darkly as Patty
Words on Bathroom Walls as Sister Catherine
Beef House as Eric's Mom
Sordid Lives
Fully Realized Humans as Tipper
La Sirena as Penny

2019

Dollface as Cat Lady
William as Dr. Thomas
Operation Othello ... (Executive Producer)
Hold On as Shelly

2018

Nostalgia as Anna O'Bryan
Hover as Joanna
Andover as Rebecca
Mississippi Requiem
The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer as Ms. Dobbins
Wake the Riderless Horse as Brenda

2017

American Gods as Jack
A Series of Unfortunate Events as Woman with Hair But No Beard
Lucky as Elaine
Actors Anonymous
I Do... Until I Don't as Phyllis
Domain as Nadine
Tiny Mammals as Narrator
Tenn as Edwina Williams

2016

Goliath as Judge Meredith Caplan Reiss
Jackie as Lady Bird Johnson
In Dubious Battle as Ethel
Band of Robbers as Widow Douglas
The Labyrinth as Betsy
Great Plains as Tess
Six L.A. Love Stories as Meg Albright
Boys on Film 14: Worlds Collide as Linda Heim (segment "The Violation")
Heartland as Crystal
Tond as Janice
All In as Cynthia

2015

Con Man as Susan
Just Before I Go as Mrs. Lawrence
Alex of Venice as Teacher
Consumed as Kristin Kessler
Addicted to Fresno as Tilda
The Bridge Partner as Mattie Whalen
The Midnight Swim as Amelia Brooks / Great Aunt

2014

I Didn't Do It as Judy Tanzer-Dinkins
Faults as Evelyn
Odyssea as Woman

2013

The Millers as Myra
Bad Words as Bedazzled Judge
As I Lay Dying as Addie Bundren
Out West as Tiffany Alcott
Miss Dial as Mrs. Wojiechowski
The Violation as Linda Heim

2012

The Mindy Project as Beverly
Mockingbird Lane as Marie
Mockingbird Lane as Marie
La Classe américaine as Self
Blues for Willadean as Willadean Winkler
The Perfect Fit ... (Director)

2011

Rango as Bonnie (voice)
The Artist as Peppy's Maid
Sedona as Deb
Valley of the Sun as Marva
Life of Lemon as Phyllis
Hollywood to Dollywood as Self
Girls! Girls! Girls! ... (Writer)
Mister Handsome as Emily's Mom

2010

Justified as Mother Truth
Operation: Endgame as Susan
In My Sleep as Evelyn
Spork as Principal Tulip

2009

Modern Family as Maxine
Crazy Heart as Jo Ann
All About Steve as Mrs. Horowitz
Extract as Mary
Winged Creatures as Carla's Mom
Stolen as Older Edvena
Herpes Boy as Mom
Dear Lemon Lima as Principal Applebomb
Extract: Mike Judge's Secret Recipe as Self

2008

The Secret Life of the American Teenager as Victoria
Sordid Lives: The Series as Sissy Hickey
Henry Poole Is Here as Josie
Polar Opposites as General Railen
Hide as Candy

2007

No Country for Old Men as Carla Jean's Mother
Pushing Daisies as Marianne Marie Beattle
Drive as The Waitress
Southland Tales as Dr. Inga Von Westphalen
Welcome to Paradise as Frances Loren
The Ungodly as Emma Lemac
The House of Usher as Mrs. Thatcher

2006

Dexter as Donna Randall
Jericho as Gracie Leigh
Hot Tamale as Dori Woodriff
Little Miss Sunshine as Nancy Jenkins
Flags of Our Fathers as Mother Gagnon
Factory Girl as Julia Warhol
Hard Scrambled as Alice
Rocker as Mrs. Hill

2005

Grey's Anatomy as Sheila Olsen
Criminal Minds as Anita Weld Roycewood
Bones as Lizbeth Harding
American Dad! as (voice)
The Office as Melvina
Medium as Librarian
My Name Is Earl as Lorraine Mariano
Our Very Own as Virginia Kendal
Hard Pill as Mom
Daltry Calhoun as Ciotka Dee
Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend as Angela
#1 Fan: A Darkomentary as Self

2004

Wonderfalls as Marianne Marie Beattle
A Thief Of Time as Ranger Mildred Luna
A One Time Thing as Mom

2003

The Pitts as Nadine
Matchstick Men as Laundry Lady
Evil Alien Conquerors as Sheila

2002

Everwood as Miss Violet
8 Simple Rules as Mrs. Whitley
Boomtown as Landlady
The Rookie as Olline
Desert Saints as Lou
Birdseye as Ruth Betters

2001

Six Feet Under as Dorothy Sheedy
According to Jim as Mrs. Whitney
Pearl Harbor as Motherly Secretary
Donnie Darko as Kitty Farmer
Rock Star as Mrs. Cole
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man as Louisa Ashland
The Rising Place as Melvina Pou

2000

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Sally Roth
Malcolm in the Middle as Dorene Hooper
Sordid Lives as Sissy Hickey

1999

Angel as Maude Pearson
Judging Amy as Principal Mott
Providence as Lillian Gerrish
Blue Valley Songbird as Ruby

1998

Two Guys and a Girl as Tufts College Employee
Doctor Dolittle as Woman
Maximum Bob as Inez Crowe
Dance with Me as Lovejoy
Making Sandwiches as Mrs Hellman
Angelmaker as Mrs. Turcott

1997

King of the Hill as Tilly Hill (voice)
Lawn Dogs as Trent's Mother
A Thousand Acres as Roberta
Love Always as Stephanie
Interruptions as Peggy, The Mistress
Desert's Edge
To Dance with Olivia

1996

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Mrs. Popowski
The Pretender as Mrs. Haring
Profiler as Cook
A Time to Kill as Cora Mae Cobb
Goode Behavior as Pearl
Norma Jean & Marilyn as Grace Goddard

1995

Cybill as Waiter's Mother
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar as Loretta
Safe as Becky (Auditorium Speaker)
Lieberman in Love as Linda Baker

1994

Friends as Lizzy
Sister, Sister as Angie
Speed as Helen
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold as Lois

1993

The X-Files as Iris Finster
Diagnosis: Murder as Penelope
Bakersfield P.D. as Donna Stiles
The Dark Half as Shayla Beaumont

1992

Delta as Thelma Wainwright
White Sands as Roz Kincaid
Love Field as Hazel
Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story as Pat McGinty

1991

Switched at Birth as Sophie

1990

Dream On as Farm Woman
The Outsiders as Mrs. Jones
Child's Play 2 as Miss Kettlewell
Flatliners as Housewife
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael as Lillian Logerfield
Don't Tell Her It's Me as Babette
The Image as Martha Packard
Eating as Carla
Fall From Grace as Paulene

1989

Coach as Martha
I Know My First Name Is Steven as Mrs. Beta
The Wizard as Diner Manager

1988

Rain Man as Mother at Farm House

1987

Hooperman
Under Cover as Miss Randolph
Deadly Care as Madge

1986

Picnic as Irma Kronkite

1985

The Golden Girls as Terry Franco

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Meg Thomas
Hunter as Dottie Pinder