Ann Dowd
Acting
Biography
Ann Dowd (born January 30, 1956) is an American actress. She decided to become an actress while a premed student at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She graduated in 1978 and went on to study at The Theatre School at DePaul University. In 1993 she won the Clarence Derwent Award for her performance in the play Candida. She has appeared in television shows including House, The X-Files, Third Watch and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Films Dowd has appeared in include Lorenzo's Oil, Philadelphia, Apt Pupil, Garden State and Flags of Our Fathers.
Born: January 30, 1956
Place of Birth: Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
Known For
Nothing Sacred
Father Ray, a card-playing, cocktail-sipping, blues-loving priest, ministers to his parishioners at St. Thomas, a large urban church in an inner-city neighborhood. He grapples with his own personal failings, including occasional crises of faith. Offering support are wise older priest Father Leo, young idealist Father Eric, and feminist nun Sister Maureen.
House
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
The X-Files
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
True Detective
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
Family Law
Family attorney and mom, Lynn Holt, has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together, since her husband left her and took most of their joint law practice with him. Although the attorneys are carting plenty of life's baggage, they're all determined to make the most of this unexpected second chance—and make each month's mortgage payment.
Freaks and Geeks
High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").
The Handmaid's Tale
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
The inner workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment, and continuing through the prosecutors' complicated process of building a case, investigating leads and preparing witnesses for trial.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Filmography
as Aunt Lydia
as Marjorie
as Nurse Ann Brooks
as Patricia Turnball
as Judith
as Linda
as Mrs. Van Hopper
as Faith
as June
as Sister Margarita
as Narrator
as Paula Davies
as Betty
as Joan
as Betty Jean 'BJ' Gooch
as Catherine
as Silvia
as Joan
as Aunt Lydia Clements
as Sally Price
as Paula Jo
as Naomi
as Abigail Bertrang
as Dupre
as Jeanie
as Nell
as Bonnie Newton
as Ramona
as Shirley
as Dottie
as Patti Levin
as Patti
as Betty Childress
as Kathy
as Estabrooks Masters
as Mrs. Taylor
as Sandra
as Victoria Archer
as Lynne
as Mrs. Grimes
as Sister Carson
as Gretchen
as Kate Medford
as Self - Guest
as Honey Woman
as Dr. Platt
as Tammy Lyner
as Aunt Sally
as Glenn
as Librarian
as Ma Harris
as Terri
as Mrs. Strank
as Louise Preston
as Edna Page
as Linda
as Karen Ames
as Miss Macadoo (voice)
as Mother Superior
as Eileen the Accountant
as Congresswoman Beckett
as Olivia
as Mother
as DeDe
as Laurie Manotti
as Sarah
as Ms. Minifred
as Cookie Kelly
as Sgt. Beth Markham
as Louise Durning
as Sally Wilkens
as Mrs. Schleewee
as Louise Preston
as Mary
as Monica Bowden
as Sister Mo
as Anne
as Louise Preston
as Mrs. Patterson
as Rose Long
as Paula Dardenne
as Eleanor Robertson
as Carol
as Jill Beckett
as Mrs. Reed
as Pediatrician
as Peggy
as Dorothy Baxter
as Teresa Franz
as Dr. Beth Allison
as Patricia Smith
as Nurse Courtney
as Maureen