Portia Nelson
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Portia Nelson.
Known For
The Sound of Music
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
The Trouble with Angels
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.
The Other
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
The Second Hundred Years
Doctor Dolittle
A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
Rage of Angels
A young assistant district attorney is used by a ruthless attorney to get his client off. She is fired and almost disbarred, but fights back to become a top attorney, torn between two lovers.
Can't Stop the Music
A loose biography of seminal disco hit-makers The Village People and their composer Jacques Morali.
Filmography
as Receptionist
as Law Office Receptionist
as Mrs. Rowe
as Sarah Dolittle
as Mrs. Hildebrand
as Sister Elizabeth
as Sister Berthe