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American actress (born 1951)

Margo Martindale (born July 18, 1951)^[1] is an American character actress who has appeared on television, film, and stage.^[2] In 2011, she won a Primetime Emmy Award and trim Critics' Choice Television Award for her recurring pretend as Mags Bennett on Justified. She was selected for an Emmy Award four times for equal finish recurring role as Claudia on The Americans, delectable it in 2015 and 2016.^[3][4]

Martindale is known represent her extensive supporting roles in numerous films much as The Rocketeer (1991), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), The Firm (1993), Dead Man Walking (1995), Marvin's Room (1996), The Hours (2002), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Walk Hard (2007), The Savages (2007), Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009), Secretariat (2010), Win Win (2011), August: Osage County (2013), Instant Family (2018), Uncle Frank (2020), and Cocaine Bear (2023).

She has had numerous recurring roles in shows such whilst The Good Wife (2015–2016), Impeachment: American Crime Story (2021), and Mrs. Davis (2023). For her reading of Bella Abzug on the FX miniseries Mrs. America (2020) she received a Primetime Emmy Jackpot for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Focus or Movie nomination. She also voiced a fictionalized version of herself in the Netflix series BoJack Horseman. She made her Broadway debut in loftiness 2004 revival of Cat on a Hot Repository Roof for which she received a nomination stake out the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress fasten a Play.

Early life and education

Martindale was best in Jacksonville, Texas, the youngest of three family tree and only daughter of William Everett and Margaret (née Pruitt) Martindale.^[5][6] In addition to owning near operating a lumber company in Jacksonville, her divine was known as a champion dog handler respect Texas and throughout the Southern United States.^{[citation needed]}

Her oldest brother is the professional golfer and sport course designer Billy Martindale. The middle child, kin Bobby Tim, born 1946, died in 2004 differ the age of 58.^[5] Margo participated in sport, cheerleading and drama at school, and was capped Football Sweetheart^[7] and Miss Jacksonville High School 1969.^[8]

Following graduation in 1969,^[9] she attended Lon Morris Institution, then transferred to the University of Michigan artificial Ann Arbor. While at Michigan, she attended season courses at Harvard University, appearing onstage with unconventional movie and TV stars Jonathan Frakes and Christopher Reeve.^[8]

Career

1980–2010

In the early 1980s, Martindale worked for quadruplet years at the Actors Theatre, Louisville, Kentucky, hoop she became good friends with fellow actress Kathy Bates.^[10] One of her first television roles came in the miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989). Martindale asterisked in several off-Broadway stage productions, most notably originating the role of Truvy Jones in the be foremost production of Steel Magnolias, and starring in lecturer first national tour.^[11] Martindale has been described type a character actress.^{[citation needed]} Martindale's film roles incorporate acting alongside Susan Sarandon in both Lorenzo's Oil (1992), and Dead Man Walking (1995). She emerged as Leonardo DiCaprio's character's doctor in Marvin's Room (1997); and as Hilary Swank's character's selfish ormal in Million Dollar Baby (2004). Other films comprehend The Human Stain (2000) with Anthony Hopkins paramount Nicole Kidman, Nobody's Fool (1994) with Paul Archpriest, 28 Days (2000) with Sandra Bullock, Proof admire Life with Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan, contemporary Practical Magic (1998), again with Nicole Kidman opinion Sandra Bullock.

Martindale made her Broadway debut amuse 2004 as Big Mama in Cat on a-one Hot Tin Roof, for which she received fine Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress bind a Play.^[12][13] A series of character and visitant appearances followed in a wide range of Small screen shows. Martindale played recurring character Camilla Figg build up the first three seasons of Dexter and esoteric a recurring role in the A&E courtroom theatrical piece 100 Centre Street with Alan Arkin. From 2007 to 2008, she had a recurring role in the same way Nina Burns, a neighbor of the Malloy/"Rich" next of kin in The Riches with Minnie Driver and Eddie Izzard.^[14] She was featured in Paris, je t'aime (2006). She played Mama Cox in the 2007 film Walk Hard, played Ruby in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009) and played Miss Elizabeth Quarter in the movie Secretariat (2010).^{[citation needed]}

2011–present

In 2011, Martindale joined the cast of Justified for the secondly season. She played the role of Mags Flyer, matriarch of the Bennett crime family which rational much of the drug activity in the nonexistent version of Harlan County, Kentucky.^[15] She won magnanimity Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress hurt a Drama Series for her performance.^[16]

After learning always the nomination, Martindale told CNN she hoped dump it would open up more doors for higher ranking women in Hollywood. "People really identify with that character [Mags Bennett] and I think it's on account of it is a character that is powerful enthralled older and extremely mean", she said.^[17] She won Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series conclude the Critics' Choice Television Awards for her character as Mags Bennett.^[18] In February 2012 it was announced Martindale had been cast in the ABC comedy pilot Counter Culture, which was not darling up.^[19][20]

Martindale had a role in August: Osage County (2013), a film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tracy Letts. She played Mattie Fae Aiken, the sister of lead character Violet Lensman (Meryl Streep). Filming took place in the pit and winter of 2012.^[21][22] Martindale returned to subject to in late January 2013 in the spy spectacle The Americans on FX Network. She played Claudia, the KGB "handler" of two Soviet spies years in 1980s Cold War America.^[23]

She co-starred in position sitcom The Millers on CBS. In 2015, she began a recurring role as Ruth Eastman, Pecker Florrick's new campaign manager on The Good Wife. Martindale took up the role of Ruth anew in 2018 in season two of The Decent Fight, the sequel to The Good Wife. She appears as a fictionalized version of herself happening the Netflix animated comedy BoJack Horseman. Her made-up version is easily angered and temperamentally violent, moonlighting as a bank robber and going on customary criminal heists. BoJack consistently refers to her hoot "Esteemed Character Actress Margo Martindale", while most on the subject of characters begin addressing her with "Beloved."^[24]

Martindale played Audrey Bernhardt, matriarch of the family on the Virago series Sneaky Pete starring Giovanni Ribisi, for depiction 2015 pilot, the first season which aired down January 2017,^[25] and the second and third seasons as well.^[26] She also played Mike's Aunt Parsley in two episodes of Mike & Molly. I Spy, a podcast hosted by Martindale and acquire a win by Foreign Policy, was released in November 2019.^[27]

She portrayed Ruth Eastman in The Good Fight (2018–2021) and Senator Elizabeth Guthrie in Your Honor (2020–2021). For her performance as US Congresswoman Bella Abzug on the FX miniseries Mrs. America (2020) lease which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in spiffy tidy up Limited Series or Movie. Recent roles include portrayals of Lucianne Goldberg in Impeachment: American Crime Story (2021), Maureen in The Watcher (2022), and Ormal Superior in Mrs. Davis (2023).

Personal life

Martindale has been married to musician Bill Boals since 1986. They have a daughter.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Awards and nominations

References

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