Dana Ivey
Acting
Biography
Dana Ivey (born August 12, 1941) is an American actress. She is a five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, and won the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her work in both Sex and Longing and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. She originated the title role in Driving Miss Daisy and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for Best Actress in a Play. Her film appearances include The Color Purple (1985), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), The Addams Family (1991), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Addams Family Values (1993), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Rush Hour 3 (2007), and The Help (2011).
Born: August 12, 1941
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Known For
Broadway: The Next Generation
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
The Help
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Homicide: Life on the Street
An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.
Boardwalk Empire
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
Oz
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
Monk
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
The Color Purple
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.
Frasier
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
The Practice
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
Sex and the City
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene.
Filmography
as Diana
as Lillian
as Gloria
as Francoise
as Nelly Conlon
as Mrs. Paige
as Gracie Higginbotham
as Miss Prism
as Mrs. McGarry
as Trish Pinger
as Marjorie Pickthall
as Elinor Gregory
as Sister Agnes
as Roberta
as Betty
as Libby Hauser
as Ruth Kelson
as Mrs. Eels
as Vera Gantner
as Dr. Alexander
as Mrs. Crisp
as Edna Guidry
as Beatrice Vernon
as Mrs. Essendine
as Grandmother Wenteworth
as Trudy Stork
as Patricia Nathan
as Judge Natalie Brown
as Mack
as Meredith Stonehall
as Margaret Addams
as Ms. Langer
as Claire
as Judge Tompkins
as Mrs. Julia Peyton
as Widow Douglas
as Margie Bolander
as Lois Jurgens
as Desk Clerk
as Margaret Alford / Margaret Addams
as Gertrude
as Wardrobe Mistress
as Shore
as Mrs. Reed
as Engagement Party Guest
as Newscaster
as Wedding Speaker
as Yvonne / Naomi
as Miss Millie
as Mrs. Müller
as Lady Ariadne Utterword
as Gertrude