Beth Grant
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.
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Acting
Movie
Donnie Darko
as Kitty Farmer
2001
Movie
No Country for Old Men
as Carla Jean's Mother
2007
TV
Grey's Anatomy
as Sheila Olsen
2005
TV
Friends
as Lizzy
1994
Movie
Little Miss Sunshine
as Nancy Jenkins
2006
Movie
Rango
as Bonnie (voice)
2011
Movie
Rain Man
as Mother at Farm House
1988
Movie
Pearl Harbor
as Motherly Secretary
2001
Movie
Speed
as Helen
1994
TV
Dexter
as Donna Randall
2006
TV
The Office
as Melvina
2005
TV
Malcolm in the Middle
as Dorene Hooper
2000
TV
Criminal Minds
as Anita Weld Roycewood
2005
TV
The X-Files
as Iris Finster
1993
Movie
The Artist
as Peppy's Maid
2011
TV
Bones
as Lizbeth Harding
2005
TV
Modern Family
as Maxine
2009
Movie
Doctor Dolittle
as Woman
1998
Movie
A Time to Kill
as Cora Mae Cobb
1996
Movie
Jackie
as Lady Bird Johnson
2016
TV
American Dad!
as (voice)
2005
Movie
Child's Play 2
as Miss Kettlewell
1990
Movie
Flags of Our Fathers
as Mother Gagnon
2006
Movie
Matchstick Men
as Laundry Lady
2003
