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Jessica Walter

Jessica Walter
Jessica Walter
Born: Jan 31, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Occupation: Actor
Active: '60s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Mystery
Career Highlights: Play Misty for Me, Lilith, The Flamingo Kid
First Major Screen Credit: Lilith (1964)
11 Videos for Jessica Walter
Henry Poole Is Here (2008) Ghost in the Machine (1994) Dr. Strange (1978)
Unaccompanied Minors (2006) PCU (1994) Play Misty for Me (1971)
Dummy (2003) Tapeheads (1988) Grand Prix (1966)
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) The Flamingo Kid (1984)
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Biography:

Learning the ropes at the Bucks County Playhouse and New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, Jessica Walter made her Broadway debut in 1961's Advise and Consent. The raven-haired leading lady was then seen on a regular basis in several Manhattan-based TV programs, including the daytimer Love of Life and the 1965 nighttime series For the People.

In films from 1964, Jessica was one of eight young female newcomers (Candice Bergen, Elizabeth Hartman, Joanna Pettet et. al.) who went on to greater things after appearing en masse in Sidney Lumet's The Group (1966). Her flashiest screen role was as the dangerously possessive number one fan Evelyn Draper in Clint Eastwood's Play Misty for Me (1971).

Of her many weekly-TV assignments, Walter's title role in the mid-'70s cop series Amy Prentiss garnered her the most attention; that is, until recently, when Walter found late-career acclaim on the award-winning sitcom Arrested Development. As the insensitive, materialistic matriarch of the Bluth family, Walter garnered a plum comedic role, and Emmy attention to boot.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.